It's Great To Be An Amerikan

[Facetious]

Any other questions ?


What brand of asswipe do you normally purchase ?

Do you eat red meat with regularity ?

Would you like to donate an additional $5 to the "Presidential Election Committee" ?


Internal Revenue "Service" :wtf:

:flame: :updown:

..:crying:

 

[meesterperfect]

You mean toilet paper?
I use pine-cones, they work fine as long as you wipe in the correct direction.

 

[Namreg]

tax time, huh? don't you have companies in the US that do your taxes for a small fee?

 

[sigmund1898]

2 more days (and one half hour) left! Better get them shits in!

 

[Elwood70]

I paid mine-and got my refund-six weeks ago.

 

[Facetious]

^ Meester - What about the pine tar e.g. "pitch" . . sap . . sticky stuff ?

tax time, huh? don't you have companies in the US that do your taxes for a small fee?

Sure, for about 3 - 5 hundred dollars (U.S.) That's what it costs me every year.

The whole thing could be simplified but the government insists on using the irs as a "keep the people working for the government" scheme. imo

2 more days (and one half hour) left! Better get them shits in!

When is the extension deadline ? :shy:

I paid mine-and got my refund-six weeks ago.

:booty: :goody - goody :tongue:

I must PAY ! :helpme:

 

[Elwood70]

:booty: :goody - goody :tongue:

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

The only reason I did it asap was because I needed the money....

 

[YMIHERE]

=Facetious;3121715

When is the extension deadline ? :shy:

US Income Tax extensions are good to October 15, but you must pay your taxes with the extension due April 15.

 

[No_Man]

I'd be more critical of the IRS if it weren't for the number of idiots who are overjoyed that they get a tax return in April or May every year, not realizing that every dollar they're getting back was simply a 0% interest loan to the government for the last 5+ months. We almost deserve to get raped by the IRS for being so ignorant.

 

[calpoon]

That might be a tad harsh, no man. I think that most Americans know where their money is going...and that is why they are so surprised whenever they actually get any of it back.

 

[No_Man]

That might be a tad harsh, no man. I think that most Americans know where their money is going...and that is why they are so surprised whenever they actually get any of it back.

You'd be surprised. I've actually argued with people over whether they were allowed to file their taxes before April. Most people look at me like I'm from another planet when I tell them I filed my taxes in February and have had my return in the bank accruing interest for two months.

 

[D-rock]

I have also heard that already eaten and dried corn husk can do an adequate job in place of toilet paper.




It's pretty sad that some people wouldn't realize they are just getting their own money back that the government already withheld from their wages. On the other hand for most people that get money back I can't really blame them for doing it that way. If you're somebody that makes a good income, like say 200,000 dollars a year, then yes, it would be smart to get as much money as you could upfront, make money off of interest and investments, and then give the government the taxes you owe. You would come out ahead and it would have a good chance of it being worth the effort you have to put into it with that much money potentially earning interest and other things for you.

For everybody else though it's just to much of a hassle, and the risks if you screw up somehow aren't worth it. For people to go through all that effort in investment, not to mention careful accounting to make sure they don't spend too much when they might very well be living on the edge, just to possibly make a marginal amount of dollars more and risk not having the money to pay the taxes when they come due if they missed something is not worth the hassle for most people, and I can see why.

 

[bodie54]

For everybody else though it's just to much of a hassle, and the risks if you screw up somehow aren't worth it.

My $1000 refund deposited in my regular savings account will be earning me roughly 83 cents a month in interest :lame:

If I step it up to a nine month CD I might be able to crank that monthly return all the way up to a whopping buck and a half :1orglaugh

 

[busenbust]

Looks like they got away with it...[whistling]

 

[No_Man]

My $1000 refund deposited in my regular savings account will be earning me roughly 83 cents a month in interest :lame:

If I step it up to a nine month CD I might be able to crank that monthly return all the way up to a whopping buck and a half :1orglaugh

$.83 x 3 months x 40 years = $99.60

Congratulations... at that rate, over your lifetime you'll "donate" about $100 to the government.

 

[bodie54]

$.83 x 3 months x 40 years = $99.60

Congratulations... at that rate, over your lifetime you'll "donate" about $100 to the government.

I'm not saying I'd prefer to give it to the government, I'm just pointing out what a niggling amount it actually is.

 

[calpoon]

I'm not saying I'd prefer to give it to the government, I'm just pointing out what a niggling amount it actually is.

wow, what an obscure tense of an archaic term. Did you pull that one off of a word-a-day calender or something?

 

[bodie54]

No. No cheat sheet. I'm obscure and archaic myself, so it came naturally to me

 

[Facetious]

[ . . . niggling amount it actually is.

A ha ! Remember the teacher that was reprimanded
for citing "niggardly" in her classroom about ten years ago ?

Well, this reminds me.

 

[Namreg]

"The doubts I had about the impending purchase of a new horseless carriage were set to rest by a niggling desire to obtain a conveyance with enough cachet to attract the fairer sex."