Thursday, January 31, 2008

Tax Time

So after the horror of finding out last year that Russ and I owed $1300 in taxes, I rushed right into my employer and changed my filing status from one to zero so they would take more taxes out. That way this year we could hopefully get a refund instead. That did not happen. No, no, no, yet again we end up owing $1300! How the heck does that work out! I am so frustrated right now. It just seems like any time we start to get our heads above water we sink right back down. Now congress is talking about giving us back $1200 of the $1300 we paid last year. Well are they going to account for the 12.9% intrest I've been having to accrue since I had to put my taxes on my credit card? Yeah, didn't think so. Meh. Taxes suck.

4 comments:

Heather said...

Congress is giving tax money back? I haven't heard anything about that... whats the deal?

I hate it a lot. Death an taxes... :P

Lindsay said...

I can't believe you owe taxes again this year, I'm seriously shocked. Especially since you changed up your deduction. The IRS is so rude!

I'm pretty sure there's supposed to be an extra refund check sent out this year to millions of taxpayers. I think it's supposed to go out in late April or May and be $600 for singles and $1200 for married couples. I heard for singles you have to make less than $75k a year to qualify, but I don't know if you'd just double that for a married couple filing together...very confusing.

Allison said...

You should talk to Joe, he's always figured out how to get us a refund using a free program online that takes you through every possible deduction. Then again we have been having kids. LOTS of kids....

Joe said...

I use taxact.com and they always get me money back.