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Fritzo said:
Our local village apparently has a 1.5% income tax that I didn't know about, and our accountant was under-estimating our payments, meaning we now have a $1000 tax bill due in two days that we didn't know about until 2 weeks ago right before the holidays.
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Do you live in the city limits? RITA (Regional Income Tax Agency) Tax is only applicable if you live in the RITA territory, which is usually city limits.
I have a mailing address of a RITA city, but live outside the city limits.
They sent me a notice in the mail that I owed the tax.
After investigation and checking with my local tax guy, we did not have to pay it.
He said they send notices to everyone with the mailing address and don't check the actual property location.
We had already made 1 biannual payment, so we requested a refund.
They finally sent it after 6 months of letters and auditor webpage printouts showing I live in the township, not the city.
 
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edro said:
Do you live in the city limits? RITA (Regional Income Tax Agency) Tax is only applicable if you live in the RITA territory, which is usually city limits.
I have a mailing address of a RITA city, but live outside the city limits.
They sent me a notice in the mail that I owed the tax.
After investigation and checking with my local tax guy, we did not have to pay it.
He said they send notices to everyone with the mailing address and don't check the actual property location.
We had already made 1 biannual payment, so we requested a refund.
They finally sent it after 6 months of letters and auditor webpage printouts showing I live in the township, not the city.
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Yeah, I'm 1500 ft inside the village limit, so I'm definitely in there. I'm also a bit ticked they didn't send any notices earlier instead of letting it build up like that.
 
It sucks that your wife got hurt, but your problems are all monetary which means they're bullshit. Everybody could use more money... such is life. Yes you've had a string of bad luck but nothing to get all despressed about.

My buddy's dad died of cancer mere months ago, and he almost lost his job due to his lack of focus after it happened. He's still more upbeat then you.
 
Platypus said:
It's called life, find a way to enjoy your shit sandwich or just stop eating it. Those are your two options.

Not to be callous but everything you listed there sounds like first world problems. You have a roof over your head and are relatively healthy. You're complaining about the fact that you have two houses while there are a ton of people who don't even have enough to eat or a warm place to sleep right now. Things can always be 100x worse than they are. It sounds like your first problem is that you're too trusting of what people tell you. If you want more out of life then go take it and make it happen, otherwise no one is going to do it for you.
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http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=33281097&postcount=25

http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=33281100&postcount=26
 
Fritzo said:
Heh, it's a little more complicated than that. Here's a sample of my life:

We built a house back in 2005, the taxes, insurance, and payments turned out to be higher than we were originally told.
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That always happens. Projected expense x 2 is what you should've done.

Fritzo said:
By the time the final payments came up, we would have had to pay $20000 to the builder to back out, so we were locked in. The realtor for our old house assured us we were in a hot selling area and would have no problems selling the house within 6 months. Our new house would be ready in 8 months, so that would work out great! It took TWO YEARS to sell, meaning double mortgage payments.
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Happens....can't worry about things that are out of your control

Fritzo said:
My wife was severely injured at work and had to apply for early retirement. We were told it would take around 6 months to complete. It took 18 months...during which time we got 50% of her income. We were told she would get her full income and benefits as part of her pension, but because her retirement didn't complete in time, we missed the windows and they cut health benefits from pensions. She's now at 72% of her income + $250/month for insurance.
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Sorry to hear, that happens. Look at the bright side, you are LUCKY she is getting ANYTHING AT ALL!!!


Fritzo said:
Every time we get money in the bank someone comes up out of the blue and says "gimmie". Our local village apparently has a 1.5% income tax that I didn't know about, and our accountant was under-estimating our payments, meaning we now have a $1000 tax bill due in two days that we didn't know about until 2 weeks ago right before the holidays..
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Smells fishy

getting ANYTHING AT ALL!!!


Fritzo said:
I walked out to my car for work yesterday morning and had a flat tire. My daughter started driving last month and drove over a nail on the way to the mall last night. I went to fill it up to get to the tire store and my son left the inflator pin in our compressor. I went to pull it out and the "pin" part came out, but not the base. I spent a half an hour trying to MacGyver a way to get the base out, finally did, and made it to work 45 minutes late...for which I got in trouble.

And that's just the half of it...
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Give us the other half, cause this half isn't so bad.

IT could be SO much worse, trust me on that
 
Platypus said:
Not to be callous but everything you listed there sounds like first world problems.
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Indeed - if even that. I didn't see anything in there about food insecurity, serious death or illness of a child, infidelity of the wife etc. You aren't living in some war torn country where people are trying to hunt you down and cut off your head

Sure life can get you down but you have to try and keep things in perspective. There will always be people who you can look at and say "Man, they have a better life than I do." But by that token it sounds like there is a massively larger amount of the world's population that has a much worse life than you do.

Look at your wife and kids and the decent life you have and take joy in that.
 
Exterous said:
Indeed - if even that. I didn't see anything in there about food insecurity, serious death or illness of a child, infidelity of the wife etc. You aren't living in some war torn country where people are trying to hunt you down and cut off your head

Sure life can get you down but you have to try and keep things in perspective. There will always be people who you can look at and say "Man, they have a better life than I do." But by that token it sounds like there is a massively larger amount of the world's population that has a much worse life than you do.

Look at your wife and kids and the decent life you have and take joy in that.
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Yea just keep dismissing problems until it becomes one of the above. Thats the 1st world problems. If you let them go they become 3rd world problems. Thats what people with 1st world problems are afraid of happening. In general the data says we are all getting poorer, but its not so bad because we are all getting poorer equally. But still...its ppp, not first world problems.

ppp's are usually like, this wouldn't be a problem if _______. And _______ is usually out of your control and not really your fault, but because everyone has similar ppp's they just spin it into being your problem because they have too many of their own problems.
 
Fritzo said:
Heh, it's a little more complicated than that. Here's a sample of my life:

We built a house back in 2005, the taxes, insurance, and payments turned out to be higher than we were originally told. By the time the final payments came up, we would have had to pay $20000 to the builder to back out, so we were locked in. The realtor for our old house assured us we were in a hot selling area and would have no problems selling the house within 6 months. Our new house would be ready in 8 months, so that would work out great! It took TWO YEARS to sell, meaning double mortgage payments.

My wife was severely injured at work and had to apply for early retirement. We were told it would take around 6 months to complete. It took 18 months...during which time we got 50% of her income. We were told she would get her full income and benefits as part of her pension, but because her retirement didn't complete in time, we missed the windows and they cut health benefits from pensions. She's now at 72% of her income + $250/month for insurance.

Every time we get money in the bank someone comes up out of the blue and says "gimmie". Our local village apparently has a 1.5% income tax that I didn't know about, and our accountant was under-estimating our payments, meaning we now have a $1000 tax bill due in two days that we didn't know about until 2 weeks ago right before the holidays.

I walked out to my car for work yesterday morning and had a flat tire. My daughter started driving last month and drove over a nail on the way to the mall last night. I went to fill it up to get to the tire store and my son left the inflator pin in our compressor. I went to pull it out and the "pin" part came out, but not the base. I spent a half an hour trying to MacGyver a way to get the base out, finally did, and made it to work 45 minutes late...for which I got in trouble.

And that's just the half of it...
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More please!
 
^^

Yes the quoted sounds about right for poor people problems.

Especially the bad accountant, and delayed pension stuff. I'm not implying the OP is poor, its that everyone is poor. The company probably couldn't afford, or didn't allocate enough resources to processing the pension since its not a priority. The accountant probably had some problem of his own like overworked if older, or couldn't afford a good degree if younger. The village could have been more lenient on the taxes but like everyone else, needs money NOW.
 
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zinfamous said:
OP: do you love your wife and does your wife love you?
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BTW: I didn't mean for this to be some type of call-out or suggestion or anything like that.

Simply, if your answer is "yes" to this question, then I want you to know that you are already better off than most people in this world (including love of family and all that)

😉
 
Lost 2 dogs in the last year
Will have to get my 3rd knee operation soon
Been told my knees are equivalent to a 70-year old (I'm 42)
I'm 42
I'm being sued
I just lost out on a position in another department that would have been a 3 grade promotion
My teenager is failing 4 classes and doesn't seem to care
I seem to have a dress shirt ruined in the washing machine every week


Feel better?
 
CPA said:
Lost 2 dogs in the last year
Will have to get my 3rd knee operation soon
Been told my knees are equivalent to a 70-year old (I'm 42)
I'm 42
I'm being sued
I just lost out on a position in another department that would have been a 3 grade promotion
My teenager is failing 4 classes and doesn't seem to care
I seem to have a dress shirt ruined in the washing machine every week
Feel better?
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Hijacked! This thread is now about CPA.
(It just got worse for Fritzo.)

Why are you being sued?
 
CPA said:
Lost 2 dogs in the last year
Will have to get my 3rd knee operation soon
Been told my knees are equivalent to a 70-year old (I'm 42)
I'm 42
I'm being sued
I just lost out on a position in another department that would have been a 3 grade promotion
My teenager is failing 4 classes and doesn't seem to care
I seem to have a dress shirt ruined in the washing machine every week


Feel better?
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dude, this is a gold mine!
I see a platinum-selling country single in your future!
 
Alot of Gen Y males in highschool right now are extremely disenchanted. From what I hear about 50% of them just fail everything in public school with only about the top 10% of males making it into college from a public highschool.

Just from asking 20 yr/olds about thier highschool friends and whatnot. "What did most of the guys do after highschool" "nothing really, most of them didn't even go to college, one is a lifeguard, one works in retail" etc. Those are the stories I hear alot.
 
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