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darn it, not eligible for free tax filing :(

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PrinceofWands said:
*shrug* Higher than ~60% of people.
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Except everyone on Anandtech has a model girlfriend, a six figure salary, a mcmansion, and a gold rimmed bimmer. *sarcasam*

The people on this board are out of touch with the reality of what wages are in this country.

Median household income is ~$52000. The median household has 2 wage earners.

The median income of recent college graduates is $44,000.
 
Wreckem said:
Except everyone on Anandtech has a model girlfriend, a six figure salary, a mcmansion, and a gold rimmed bimmer. *sarcasam*

The people on this board are out of touch with the reality of what wages are in this country.

Median household income is ~$52000. The median household has 2 wage earners.

The median income of recent college graduates is $44,000.
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*nod* Which is why I look for aggregate statistics instead. That way I know that regardless of how households are organized, or how taxes are filed, or what I see around me personally, ~52% of citizens actually earn less than $30k/yr, and ~79% make less than the $57,000 mentioned.

Sorry about the bad numbers initially...I was trying to pull from memory and was WAY off.
 
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Taxact.com for $11.98 including e-file for both Federal and State. Found on SlickDeals.net about 2 month ago and locked in for the 2013 tax filing at that time. Life is good! 🙂

Edit #1: By the way OP, all of the forms are available from the IRS. You can file them for the price of postage - i.e. nearly free if you wish. Just download them, fill them out, sign them and mail them out.

Edit #2: Damnit, Ironwing beat me by a mile!!! I didn't know that you could upload them electronically though for free? Maybe I should save my $11.98?!?! :hmm:

(Nah!)
 
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I use turbo tax and my company gives me a discount to file both federal and state taxes. I pay I think $15 bucks maybe 20 at the most.

If you upload for free do you have to manually do them by hand or can you just save your turbo tax as pdf and upload?
 
rudeguy said:
humblelie

The f****r posted that he worked at Burger King less than a year ago...in a few different threads even.

He's a lying f***k and someone needs to call him out on it.
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/sigh rudeguy

first off, that was a few years ago

and second it was my brother, he used to use my account to post things occasionally when he lived w/ me
 
Tweak155 said:
And you're deciding between a wii u or 42" screen? Splurge on yourself!
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I wish I could. Well when you're paying back 70k in student loans plus other expenses plus helping out family sometimes you don't really see any of it. I had to take a cut after one year when I went to another company and 2.5 years later to now I'm making the same as I was at the first company only now a lot more taxes get taken out since I moved locations.
 
purbeast0 said:
oh yeah, well you know what i learned this year?

that you only pay social security up to a certain amount.
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I wonder if it's the same in every state. I can't wait for that to happen here haha. Not like I'll be seeing any social security when the time comes.
 
There are plenty of free online places for all incomes. TaxACT.com for example. I use it yearly to get the federal + state printouts for free. But then I fill it out the forms by hand and mail it in to avoid TaxACT's state tax form charges. Or I just go to my state's website depending on my mood.
 
sze5003 said:
I wonder if it's the same in every state. I can't wait for that to happen here haha. Not like I'll be seeing any social security when the time comes.
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/facepalm

SSI is federal in nature and the same in all states. There is a wage base limit and a maximum out of pocket. Same like the IRA, elective 401k contributions, and others.

You top out at around an income of $120k which IMHO is too low today with a maximum out of pocket of like $7500.
 
alkemyst said:
You top out at around an income of $120k which IMHO is too low today with a maximum out of pocket of like $7500.
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agreed, the contribution cap should be doubled at least (not the benefits though, maybe the max increased %15 or so)

edit: me and alky agree on something!
 
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sze5003 said:
I wish I could. Well when you're paying back 70k in student loans plus other expenses plus helping out family sometimes you don't really see any of it. I had to take a cut after one year when I went to another company and 2.5 years later to now I'm making the same as I was at the first company only now a lot more taxes get taken out since I moved locations.
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Dang, hang in there. The debt disappears if you're smart with your money, and it sounds like you are given you don't take suggestions like mine 😉
 
Tweak155 said:
Dang, hang in there. The debt disappears if you're smart with your money, and it sounds like you are given you don't take suggestions like mine 😉
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I try haha, I rarely buy myself anything besides a game here and there and other things. Biggest thing I bought last summer was my motorcycle and I rarely get time to ride it. Which accounts for me spending more time getting it ready to ride each season :/
 
sze5003 said:
I try haha, I rarely buy myself anything besides a game here and there and other things. Biggest thing I bought last summer was my motorcycle and I rarely get time to ride it. Which accounts for me spending more time getting it ready to ride each season :/
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I took a lot of shit for having $80k in mostly school debt...the stars aligned and in one year I paid it almost entirely off and then got it down the following couple.

That said I borrowed at like 3.65 to 6% so the interest wasn't really killing me at first.
 
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