Ask Wesley Snipes.

Taxes are B. HUSSEIN Obama's invention and will be used to force the sons of America to marry each other and force the daughters of America to have abortions.

Ask Willie Nelson.

I can't file. Seriously. You can not enter 0 for income.

Which is, oddly enough, exactly how much I made last year.

Had a professor in school who did a series of articles on the cost/benefit analysis of tax evasion. Interesting stuff if you're an econ nerd. Do you suppose it was coincidental that she had been audited 3 times before she was 40?

It depends on if you owe taxes or are owed a return.

The government will not be in a big hurry at all to give you a return if you don't file for it.

If you owe them enough money to make it worth their while and aren't a member of the cabinet, you'll probably find an IRS agent at your door shortly.

If they owe you. Nothing.

You get offered a position in Obama's Cabinet.

/soooo obvious

BigSnatch: Taxes are B. HUSSEIN Obama's invention and will be used to force the sons of America to marry each other and force the daughters of America to have abortions.

exactly. our pusillanimous, anti-American empty-suit islamocommunist traitor-in-chief will be the end of our great AMERICA as we know it! when will THE PEOPLE wake up!!?!?!?!!!

SpinStopper: I can't file. Seriously. You can not enter 0 for income.

Which is, oddly enough, exactly how much I made last year.

I think you can (and must) file some form that says "I made no money last year."

Lando Lincoln: I think you can (and must) file some form that says "I made no money last year."

No. You only file taxes if you make over a certain amount.

For most people, it means they won't get money back.

what_now: No. You only file taxes if you make over a certain amount.

You don't even need to file if your withholding covers your tax debt. You only need to file if you owe money.

pandabear: what_now: No. You only file taxes if you make over a certain amount.

You don't even need to file if your withholding covers your tax debt. You only need to file if you owe money.

Yes this is 100% correct. Go ahead and don't file.

Further, there is no danger in posting all of the passwords and security question/answer combos we'd need to get to your bank account here.

In fact you should, because as your fellow farkers we'll be happy to review your account and make sure everything there is in order too.

All of these statements are equally true.

/Actually you're probably safer trusting farkers with access to your banking than you are not filing

The whole stimulus check thing last year really bummed me out. You had to make at least $3000 in order to qualify. I guess that people like me who made nothing at all aren't the right kind of "poor" to need some help.

It's true, I suck at saving money so I claim zero on my w-2. Then I don't have to file my taxes until I need the cash.

SpinStopper: The whole stimulus check thing last year really bummed me out. You had to make at least $3000 in order to qualify. I guess that people like me who made nothing at all aren't the right kind of "poor" to need some help

How do you make nothing and still manage to breathe?

unlikely: pandabear: what_now: No. You only file taxes if you make over a certain amount.

You don't even need to file if your withholding covers your tax debt. You only need to file if you owe money.

Yes this is 100% correct. Go ahead and don't file.

Further, there is no danger in posting all of the passwords and security question/answer combos we'd need to get to your bank account here.

In fact you should, because as your fellow farkers we'll be happy to review your account and make sure everything there is in order too.

All of these statements are equally true.

/Actually you're probably safer trusting farkers with access to your banking than you are not filing

If you expect to file a single return, the IRS requires you to file a return for 2009 if your gross income for the year is at least: $9,350 if you are under age 65. $10,750 if you are at least age 65.

Any other questions genius?

strathcona: SpinStopper: The whole stimulus check thing last year really bummed me out. You had to make at least $3000 in order to qualify. I guess that people like me who made nothing at all aren't the right kind of "poor" to need some help

How do you make nothing and still manage to breathe?

I'm living at a friend's house.

Also, don't confuse "make nothing" with "do nothing". I keep busy looking for work, studying to keep current in my field, housework, gardening, that sort of thing ;)

SpinStopper: studying to keep current in my field

Dude, you break things for a living. How much studying could there be?

Not paying taxes? You could always work for TEAM OBAMA. Fark ya!

You go to jail or get a comfty job in Obama's cabinet.

What happens? You get the picture of the clock with all the numbers replaced with 'RAPE' and Pyramid Head saying 'Why, look at the time!'

WHat if they owe you and you don't file?
For four years?
Then you file all at once.

Came here for "You Gonna Get Raped" and was instantly satisfied. Thanks, King.

By all means, give it a whirl and find out!

strathcona: SpinStopper: studying to keep current in my field

Dude, you break things for a living. How much studying could there be?

Every once in a blue moon, somebody actually wants me to fix something. The fools ;)

SpinStopper: studying to keep current in my field

Yeah, but what do you do the 22 hours a day that Maury isn't on?

I just brought my tax return to the mailbox with my check.

No interest on MY money for you, government. Not yours.

Loves when people get excited about overpaying things, but never can convince them to just overpay their cable bill or overpay for groceries.

I owe six grand for '08 because I was laid off work last year. Makes sense, eh? You pay taxes on unemployment benefits.

I can't pay it either. I filed in time but sent in no money.

I knew someone who didn't pay taxes for something like 8 or 9 years. Nothing happened. Kept filing extensions or something or other and then finally got around to doing them one year. Paid a ridiculously tiny penalty and that was it.

I mean, it's the IRS people. It's not like they are a model of efficiency.

vudukungfu: WHat if they owe you and you don't file?
For four years?

Then you're a dumbass. I'm not sure how it works w/r/t the feds giving you your back taxes, but even if they hand you a chunk of change, you just gave them an interest free loan for an entire presidential term.

Brilliant.

Nothing more unpatriotic than people trying to get out of paying their taxes.

For the record, I owed because the sonuvabeetch who paid me for my Halloween gig wouldn't name me an employee, so I'm considered self-employed!

vudukungfu: WHat if they owe you and you don't file?
For four years?
Then you file all at once.

You get a big check

/didn't file from ages 18-21, got money back when I finally did
//'course I was in the Navy so that may have helped

Wait, Wesley Snipes is really named Monroe Hutchen?

Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.

what_now: Any other questions genius?

Calm down, Sparky.

Would it be disingenuous to point out that it's possible to get a "tax refund" even if you didn't make any money (via Earned Income Credit, etc)? So, in certain cases, if you refuse to take 5 minutes to complete a 1040, you don't get a bunch of free money. Keep stickin' it to the man!

Donald_McRonald: Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.

Sounds like one big Twinkie.

"Don't mess with Taxes" or "Don't tax me bro", you pick

what_now: vudukungfu: WHat if they owe you and you don't file?
For four years?

Then you're a dumbass. I'm not sure how it works w/r/t the feds giving you your back taxes, but even if they hand you a chunk of change, you just gave them an interest free loan for an entire presidential term.

Brilliant.

SO I'm patriotic, AND going to afford that new garage after all.
kewell.
/not a dumbass.
//just bad with money
///and good with stragedy

Actually, if you don't make any out-of-order deductions and DO pay the appropriate amount based on your income...

nothing, you've already filed your taxes!

Under the old laws that still stand, if you have paid what you owe and don't wish to contest it you're done.

If, however, you want some back you MUST file.
This is why they don't go after the people below the EIC line who either don't file or misfile short on their returns.


Vudukungfu asks a pertinent question:

If you fail to file for four years, you only get to play games with major medical deductions, you cannot actually file for EIC four years prior to the filing time.

vudukungfu: WHat if they owe you and you don't file?
For four years?
Then you file all at once.

Statute of limitations for filing a claim for refund is three years.

If it weren't for tax day, I'd have no use for my book of random numbers.



Scored me a whoppin' return this year!

Pincy: Nothing more unpatriotic than people trying to get out of paying their taxes.

I wonder what would happen if we had people like this on the home-front during WWII?

otherginger: Wait, Wesley Snipes is really named Monroe Hutchen?

Holy shiat! I had no clue either.

Now that I know that, I can...um...tell somebody!

Crap, time to play catch up.

Frank and Beans: I owe six grand for '08 because I was laid off work last year. Makes sense, eh? You pay taxes on unemployment benefits.

I can't pay it either. I filed in time but sent in no money.

Umm, you can have your taxes withheld from your unemployment benefits. Did you choose not to?