JuJuBe Monkey! 23,705 11
01/29/2003 02:28 AM

How much did you give to the church

Father Dave Murray, all God, all the time... 622 13
01/29/2003 02:29 AM

For real or what am I saying I did?

JuJuBe Monkey! 23,705 11
01/29/2003 02:31 AM

how much can you say you did before the red flag goes up. I figure I make 50,000 a year thats 5000 in tithe plus offering so I would round off to about ten thousand

AmyPoo , 23..er...screw it 2,710 12
01/29/2003 02:45 AM

i cannot wait to get my w-2. i get about $4000 back every year.

JuJuBe Monkey! 23,705 11
01/29/2003 02:50 AM

do you get eic?

JuJuBe Monkey! 23,705 11
01/29/2003 02:52 AM

we always file as soon as we get our W-2's and then make empty promises that we will spen it wisely when we usually blow it on stuff we can't remember we bought a year from now

dinesh 24,862 16
01/29/2003 10:49 AM

i always do mine sometime around march 15. it generally takes until at least feb. 15 for me to get all the w-2's and 1099's and 1098's that i need. then about a month more for someone else in my investment club to get all cranky about wanting the partnership returns, which i finally do some weekend along with my own taxes.



i gave away a lot this year, plus lost 2 months of income, so i'm thinking i'll probably get a bunch back from the feds.

Typhoid Vex 5,948 11
01/29/2003 10:56 AM

I did my taxes Monday night. It's the first tax return I've done since I graduated to a full-time position with pay that wasn't calculated hourly.



I wept when I realized how much greedy old Uncle Sam was keeping. But I am getting some back, so that's good.

Therlin 12,200 13
01/29/2003 10:57 AM

I'm getting $1,000 back this year, and I was told that I'm $220 away from the next tax bracket.



But we are getting no raises this year because of the budget. Should I be happy?

Super Lila - Atkins Queen! 78,550 13
01/29/2003 10:57 AM

I'm getting a whopping 54 smackaroos back.

Fortunately, the boy is getting over a thousand.



New car buyers are us!

salvage: Sassy like the magazine 28,986 12
01/29/2003 11:01 AM

I can't do overtime anymore, I came real close to paying last year. Time is better than money anyway.

virnomine 79,386 11
01/29/2003 11:05 AM

do taxes suck in canada too? do you have a gestapo IRS-like agency?

salvage: Sassy like the magazine 28,986 12
01/29/2003 11:09 AM

We get taxed A LOT. 15% on pretty much everything you buy that isn't a grocery or a medicine. When your right wingnuts go on about taxes being high in Canada they are correct. But as long as you don't try anything obvious on your return you're okay. My accountant has a good feel for red flags and how to avoid them. Last year was the closest I came to owing, but being a comedian means I can write off a whole whack of stuff.



Ironically I used to wear suits on stage and I saved my dry cleaning recipts becuase the clubs were so smokey and I'd get stinky from the lights and nervous sweat. But you can't write dry cleaning off but becuase I write stuff on my computer I can write off a portion of that.

Miss Trixxie (Hard Deep Probing Drill Sgt.) LeMay 65,021 15
01/29/2003 03:54 PM

Don't claim yourself as a dependant on your W2, then when you file your taxes claim yourself, it's like a savings account you always get money back.

AmyPoo , 23..er...screw it 2,710 12
01/29/2003 04:05 PM

jujube, yes i get eic. it's pretty Frost-ing sweet.

Neal Obstat 2,492 11
01/29/2003 05:37 PM

I do not mind paying taxes. Consider the alternative.

Stinky 7,952 12
01/29/2003 05:39 PM

The alternative? Not paying taxes.

Lila's Sneezepoot 4,643 11
01/29/2003 05:39 PM

Not paying taxes?







Doesn't bother me anyway, i don't have to pay them yet. I give you permission to smack me in a year when I get hit with the tax stick.

Mr.Glass 25,340 11
01/29/2003 05:41 PM

It's 14% in British Columbia. Yipee! Ah well, I'll take my social services over lower taxes any day.

virnomine 79,386 11
01/29/2003 05:41 PM

can I smack you now?



for free?

dinesh 24,862 16
01/29/2003 05:41 PM

you have a full-time job and don't have to pay taxes? what are you, living in a tax haven?

virnomine 79,386 11
01/29/2003 05:47 PM

troy shouldn't have to pay taxes, living in England should be punishment enough.

Lila's Sneezepoot 4,643 11
01/29/2003 05:50 PM

Nope, I'm still a student, I'm not that crafty. However I do have a pension, since I couldn't be bothered to stop it when I first started working. Should be at least 10 by now.

3,203 10
01/29/2003 05:52 PM

Don't claim yourself as a dependant on your W2, then when you file your taxes claim yourself, it's like a savings account you always get money back.



Yaaay! A 0% interest savings account! You just can't beat returns like that!



You people do realize the "tax return" thing is not just the gubmint giving you free money, right?

froglord 9,243 13
01/29/2003 05:55 PM

You're better off minimizing your withholdings and investing the difference in your paychecks. Even a regular savings account would give you more interest than the IRS will pay you.

virnomine 79,386 11
01/29/2003 05:55 PM

for the most part that's true. if you do it right, you shouldn't get any money back. but when you figure in interest deductions and other Shakespeare like that, it is kind of free money, money you kissed off paying for Shakespeare, but the gov't gives you some of it back. But claiming 0 all year and paying way too much all year is stupid.

3,203 10
01/29/2003 05:58 PM

But claiming 0 all year and paying way too much all year is stupid.



But you still pay the same amount in taxes whether you get a return or have to pay!



I realize not many people have the discipline to save their money during the year and a tax return seems like a nice little year-end bonus but I'm convinced a large majority of the tax payers in this country don't quite get the concept.

Typhoid Vex 5,948 11
01/29/2003 05:59 PM

You're better off minimizing your withholdings and investing the difference in your paychecks. Even a regular savings account would give you more interest than the IRS will pay you.



If I was any good at saving, I'd claim a higher deduction than I do. But it's much easier for me (especially coming off of the lean college years) to claim a lower deduction and get an assload of money back from the IRS. Then I put it into savings.



Otherwise I'd spend the money snorting blow off of the pelvises of hookers.

Marty McFly 19,242 12
01/29/2003 06:48 PM

I think everybody but me should have to pay taxes.

virnomine 79,386 11
01/29/2003 08:46 PM

I don't think Vex should have to pay either, cause I want to see her snorting blow off of hookers.

Photo Nazi 10,666 13
01/29/2003 09:59 PM

Considering that in 2002 I got one $40 check from the store, and have had exactly 2 paychecks from the newspaper, I don't think I'm going to bother this year.. I don't even claim the baby, Mark does... HIS return, however, is Frost-ing huge.

Chickens 286,208 61
01/29/2003 10:25 PM

I know someone vaguely related to me who gets thousands back every year. His sister is a wiz at taxes. If he ever gets audited, he's screwed.



Me? We have to keep breeding cause they show up for a child every tax day to feed the frickin dragon.

Dirk Lately 14,001 13
01/29/2003 10:32 PM

The amount of money I pay in taxes is sickening.



*shakes fist at government*

Miss Trixxie (Hard Deep Probing Drill Sgt.) LeMay 65,021 15
01/30/2003 09:35 AM

Well Miss Thing, I do it because I don't have the discipline to save that kind of money durring the year, I know it's zero interest, but it works for me.

AmyPoo , 23..er...screw it 2,710 12
01/30/2003 04:04 PM

You people do realize the "tax return" thing is not just the gubmint giving you free money, right?



in my case that's exactly what happens. i paid about $900 in federal witholding this year, and i'm getting $3,744 back. i'm sure even you, mr. m, could do that kind of math.

Trae - Pixel Perfect! 156,785 17
01/30/2003 04:11 PM

I don't think Vex should have to pay either, cause I want to see her snorting blow off of hookers



Friday night, corner of Ptree and 14th between 11pm and 2am. No need to thank me, just glad to help.

Vex 5,948 11
01/30/2003 04:14 PM

Can we do it at your house this week instead, Pixel? I'll still pay you the same.

virnomine 79,386 11
01/30/2003 04:16 PM

house! ha, now they're calling their slum trailer, a house!

Vex 5,948 11
01/30/2003 04:19 PM

Vir, kiss mah grits.

virnomine 79,386 11
01/30/2003 04:21 PM

usual price?

Trae - Pixel Perfect! 156,785 17
01/30/2003 04:37 PM

We are not the same person, Virn!!

Neal Obstat 2,492 11
01/30/2003 06:11 PM

The alternative is not making any money.