(Americans) Have you filed your tax returns yet?

[Cloud]

me too.

[SteveDallas]

Originally Posted by Stress Puppy

Do you have kids? Everyone I know that has kids gets these thousand dollar returns.

Current tax law gives a $1,000 credit--that's a CREDIT against the tax you owe, not a deduction against your income--per child.

If it makes you feel better, "our" refund disappeared thanks to Mrs. Dallas having an unexpected bounty of freelance work with hardly any writeoffs against it. We hadn't really planned for it, so the bill's a bit of a surprise, though we're much better off having gotten the income than not (duh).

WTF moment: As a result, we should have, if we had paid more attention, paid estimated taxes to the state of PA. Not a huge amount--$33 per quarter--but nonetheless we did not pay. Therefore we are being assessed $5 extra in interest.

[Pie]

We had four jobs (between the two of us), two houses, two states... and college tuition in a third state. Investment income (about $6 -- whee!) The obsessive-compulsive husband did it about two months ago; we e-filed and got our fat checks back from both states and the feds.

S'alright.

[Shawnee123]

Phew. Done. Well, sort of.

It didn't take as long to find my W2s as I feared. My printer isn't working, so I didn't get to make copies, and Adobe wouldn't work long enough to print anyway.

I went to efile from the IRS website and the federal file was free but they wanted to charge for the state. No way. They are supposed to email me a file, which I will forward to work, print, and mail tomorrow. Along with City and SD.

To sign it, I needed either last year's PIN (yeah, right) or 2007 AGI. My 2007 taxes were, I knew, in a box I had packed from my old job. Found it almost right away, started flipping the folders: hmmm...2006, 2005...2007! Painless, for waiting for the last minute.

The best thing, I think I must have adjusted my withholding once again, and I actually owed very little to feds. I got the normal amount of state back, which is more than I owed to feds. Direct deduct to feds, direct deposit from state. It's almost perfectly balanced to zero between both: but I may be having more wh taken out of my current job so I'll see where I end up next year.

Woohoo!

[Clodfobble]

Did it back in early March. We're a typical kids+house=refund family, plus since one of those kids was brand new we were owed an extra $300 from the stimulus bill last year. (The checks were officially "for" 2008, but they guessed your amount based on your 2007 return, when we didn't have the extra kid.)

[Jill]

Well, they're done. They haven't been filed yet, as I'm waiting for the hubby to come home and review everything before I click on 'send'.

As suspected, left our refund sitting in the federal government's hands much longer than necessary (we're getting a little over $1,200 back), but we owe the state of California a whopping $3. I hope they don't go too nuts spending it all in one place!

I feel really bad for all you guys who owe so much.

Originally Posted by Alluvial

BTW Jill, I made the frikadeller last night - I don't think there are any left! Very well recieved, thanks for the recipe.

Yay - I'm glad you liked them. I am totally craving them now, but I think I'll have to wait until the weekend to talk the hubby into making them for me.

[TheMercenary]

I am just glad it is over.