I Filed My Taxes
Ξ February 2nd, 2008 | → 3 Comments | ∇ Taxes |
I filed my Taxes today. I normally try to break even on taxes throughout the year, such that on tax day I won’t owe anything, but I won’t get anything back. But this year was different. I made a lot of money during the first part of the year, and then hardly anything during the last part. So the taxes taken out for the first part of the year were based on if I were to make that level of income for the entire year. But of course, I didn’t. So I am expecting a refund this year.
Thirty Six Hundred Dollars!!!
I already know what you are going to say. “It’s your money that you gave the government to use for the entire year without interest. You shouldn’t get excited about it, since it is simply the government giving you your own money back.”
But to that, I have a pretty good response:
Thirty Six Hundred Dollars!!!
It was pretty bad filing this year, since I had opened up a string of checking and savings accounts for the sign-up bonuses that they offered. I got fifty dollars here and a hundred dollars there. And at tax time, they counted it all as interest and sent me a 1099. Each. So I had to file long form, with Schedule B.
Yeah. Greek to me, too.
My mother suggested that I use a certain service that is online. They e-file your taxes for you and it is pretty painless. They ask you a bunch of questions in plain English and then print up your taxes for you. The only thing is that it is not set up for accepting some sort of new “energy efficient modification to house” kind of deduction. But other than that, if you want to file online, it seemed like a wonderful tool to me.
They charged me thirty dollars, which they took a debit card. (They also will accept Credit Cards, which I WILL NOT BE USING) and they can also take the amount out of your refund, if any, but I think a fee applies if they do it that way.
It asked me if I wanted my state tax form, too, but since I live in Texas, that wasn’t necessary as Texas has no state tax.
When I was finished, they gave me some coupons that if I want to refer a friend, they will give the person five dollars off. They would also give me a referral fee, too.
So if anyone is interested, you can go to www.ezTaxReturn.com/ezcash and when you are registering, enter the coupon code:
CA0807 (That’s with a zero-eight-zero-seven)
And you can do your taxes online for twenty five dollars that way. If you use direct deposit, you can get your refund in a couple of weeks. (I did mine today and the estimate says that they would deposit the refund on the fifteenth of this month.)
And just because it felt good, I want to say it one more time:
Thirty Six Hundred Dollars!!!
