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Doin' what I can
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Filed two months ago.

I must go through my correspondence and make a checklist of the required forms and documentation. Most everything shows up around 1 February.


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Posts: 5544 | Location: Greater Nashville, TN | Registered: May 11, 2004Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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I can't file my taxes until around April. I have around 9 1099's each year that I have to wait to receive from other companies before I can file my own taxes.
 
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I pay my taxes four times a year. I file my taxes in October. So many problems seem to work out over the summer.



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Originally posted by Flashlightboy:
What's the problem with doing it on 17th?
You can't figure this out? What if you get sick? What if you have a family emergency? What if your computer fails? What if a storm comes through and knocks out your power and your internet connection?

Also, what if "IRS Systems are down!"?

...and a couple of dozen other reasons, all having to do with the unexpected.

Plain enough for you? Waiting until the last second has screwed plenty of people, and not just with filing taxes.

Did you really now know the answer to your question? Really?
Not to mention that the IRS reports that scammers may file a fake return using your name and SSN, so the IRS suggests getting your return in ASAP.

Of course if you're the type who doesn't give a damn what anyone else says, (including the IRS), proceed accordingly. Smile



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Posts: 2193 | Location: Michigan | Registered: May 24, 2009Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Filed a few weeks ago. I owed some money and paid it last Friday. As others have said you can file and pay at a later date.


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Posts: 16475 | Registered: March 27, 2004Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Originally posted by Anush - This year congress made major changes in the tax law on Feb 9 & IRS did not make the changes until Feb 23. If you filed early & had a dependent in College or had mortgage insurance, you likely missed out on substantial $.


Can you please explain? We had both PMI and dependents in college, and filed with our tax lady Jan 31st.
 
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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
Do people really wait until today to file their tax returns?

Well, it's like my sister likes to say, "if it weren't for the last minute, I'd never get anything done. "


Why give'em more of my money to squander before I absolutely have too?





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I started out with just one folder that I threw all the income tax related forms as I got them over the year.

The next improvement I made was figuring out the main categories of tax documents and I put dividers in the folder to separate the different documents. It makes it super easy to sort the documents inside each category as I do my taxes.



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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
Do people really wait until today to file their tax returns?

Well, it's like my sister likes to say, "if it weren't for the last minute, I'd never get anything done. "


Why give'em more of my money to squander before I absolutely have too?


Who said you had to?

I e-filed in the middle of March. I sent them the check today.


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I e-filed a hundred an seventy-five of them in Feb/Mar/April and all the debits got done today, maybe. But, no sooner!




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Due to the website issue, midnight tomorrow is the new deadline.
Was just reported on the local tv news.




 
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Originally posted by Sig2340:
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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
Do people really wait until today to file their tax returns?

Well, it's like my sister likes to say, "if it weren't for the last minute, I'd never get anything done. "


Why give'em more of my money to squander before I absolutely have too?


Who said you had to?

I e-filed in the middle of March. I sent them the check today.


+10,000.

File as soon as possible, be accurate, and mail the payment on the last day.
 
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When you owe you wait until the last minute.


This. Oh, so painfully this.


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Posts: 6393 | Location: Mogadishu on the Mississippi | Registered: February 26, 2009Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Amazing the number of software updates that gets pushed to TurboTax each year when one waits to file towards the end. Most of the time I do the initial run by mid-to-late February though there's sometimes a straggler 1099 that doesn't show up by then and needs to be tracked down. Afterwards, about once or twice a week I'll run the software just to see if another update needs downloading. I don't know what exactly gets downloaded and installed, but Intuit seems to have a fair number of things that need addressing every year. So I wait, particularly if I'm writing a check, which often happens. I can always hope that the size of said check gets downsized with one or more of these updates...
 
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Originally posted by Excam_Man:
Due to the website issue, midnight tomorrow is the new deadline.
Was just reported on the local tv news.


Now you just get to trust that the government won't accidentally tack interest on the money owed so you can spend hours on the phone sorting it out!

Like Balze said you can file anytime you want and don't actually have to send the check until the last minute if you don't want to. That takes the worry out of shit like this or any other issue that might arise. The government isn't going to care if you get in a car accident on the way home on the last day and don't make it home in time to file.




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Originally posted by soggy_spinout:
Amazing the number of software updates that gets pushed to TurboTax each year when one waits to file towards the end. Most of the time I do the initial run by mid-to-late February though there's sometimes a straggler 1099 that doesn't show up by then and needs to be tracked down. Afterwards, about once or twice a week I'll run the software just to see if another update needs downloading. I don't know what exactly gets downloaded and installed, but Intuit seems to have a fair number of things that need addressing every year. So I wait, particularly if I'm writing a check, which often happens. I can always hope that the size of said check gets downsized with one or more of these updates...
one of the reasons I quit using TurboTax and use a CPA. The software errors scare the hell out of me and I’m sure their audit defense is as shity as their software support.

The last year I used them, I had not received the statement for my largest charitable contribution. In February, I entered everything in Turbotax except that that missing charitable contribution. It arrived a few weeks later, I opened TurboTax, installed the updates, entered the missing charitable contribution, and mytaxes went up not down. If it weren’t for that missing statement, I would’ve filed an erroneous tax return.



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I'm still waiting for K1 paperwork. Had to send in my first extension.
 
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one of the reasons I quit using TurboTax and use a CPA. The software errors scare the hell out of me and I’m sure their audit defense is as shity as their software support.


Trust me, most CPAs have a shitty audit defense. "I filed your taxes with the information you gave me"



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Originally posted by tatortodd:
one of the reasons I quit using TurboTax and use a CPA. The software errors scare the hell out of me and I’m sure their audit defense is as shity as their software support.


Trust me, most CPAs have a shitty audit defense. "I filed your taxes with the information you gave me"
Big difference between me giving bad information causing an audit and a software programmer in India making an error causing thousands of audits. Intuit audit defense isn't likely to be in the USA either.



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