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I just did my taxes online for the first time and holy hell was it painful..

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Heartlander · 80-89, M Best Comment

You hit my button on this. Tax filings fit within my definition of "cruel and unusual" punishment inflicted on the people by the government.

I also do the taxes for a small partnership and a typical year has me filing 40 tax documents. The instructions for some documents are 100 plus pages long and practically every paragraph references another set of instructions.

Some instructions are so convoluted that even the IRS doesn't know what it says.

graphite · 61-69, M

@Heartlander 👏

SW-User

@Heartlander 😂😂 holy hell

graphite · 61-69, M

Do illegals have to pay taxes and file a report on all the free benefits they're getting (shelter, food, medical care, dental care, etc) or is this just something inflicted on taxpaying, legal residents? Seems to me that all that stuff is income.

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PatKirby · M

@ManKing
I can add no more to this lucid and important point made here.

graphite · 61-69, M

@ManKing So much for equal protection of the laws. People here illegally are clearly superior in the eyes of federal and state governments.

PatKirby · M

@graphite

akindheart · 61-69, F

I use an accountant. So worth it

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akindheart · 61-69, F

@SW-User my brother was hounded by the IRS. He was a 1099 and had to pay back a lot of taxes. even when he paid it back, they hounded him. Yes, mine is 280 but it is worth it. they find other deductions for me.

akindheart · 61-69, F

@Crazywaterspring mine too now that i have annuities etc.

SW-User

@akindheart got it

Wallflow3r

They want you to do the work for them, and give them half of your hard earned cash. 😩

SW-User

@Wallflow3r it was only $15 😂

Wallflow3r

@SW-User I know I am talking about the government and income tax.

SW-User

@Wallflow3r ahh yes

calicuz · 51-55, M

I do mine online and it takes about 10 minutes.

graphite · 61-69, M

@calicuz If you have no dependents, no property and no deductions, yes, it takes 10 minutes.

calicuz · 51-55, M

@graphite

graphite · 61-69, M

The government subjecting us to this anxiety-ridden process. DIsgraceful.

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graphite · 61-69, M

@SW-User Yes, either do them online for $80 (unless you have no family and own no property) or pay an accountant $200. How about the government pay for this crap that it forces on us?

SW-User

@graphite I think they should pay for it absolutely but this time I was hoping to save money

graphite · 61-69, M

@SW-User The desk I'm on, the room I'm in, is covered with tax junk right now. The anxiety of doing it wrong and being subjected to an audit. So much for government serving the people.

PatKirby · M

Sorry to hear that. Been doing mine online for over a dozen years and it seems a lot easier. What was so painful about it? The process, or the 1040 form itself?

SW-User

@PatKirby first time process I didn’t have my GAI from last year so I had t request a transcript from IRS now that sucked

SatyrService · M

you must have a complex situation, mulitle 10-99s? more than one w-2? own a business?

SW-User

@SatyrService I didn’t have my GAI from last year

Funlov · M

Really

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Funlov · M

@SW-User my x wife is a accountant. She looks after mine now 👍

SW-User

@Funlov as long as she is an accountant im sure its fine

Funlov · M

@SW-User yes smart lady

TurtleEclipseOfTheHeart · 22-25, F

Beautiful Black man

SW-User

@TurtleEclipseOfTheHeart 😏🙈

TurtleEclipseOfTheHeart · 22-25, F

@SW-User you sexy, lil mama

SW-User

@TurtleEclipseOfTheHeart 🙂ty

GJOFJ3 · 61-69, M

Just use Jackson Hewitt

SW-User

@GJOFJ3 I’ll look into it next year thanks

LilPrincess · 41-45, F

I use TurboTax...mine was painful when I got what I had to pay for state taxes and what I had to pay them

lumberjackslam · 41-45, M

try using the paper forms 😰

SW-User

@lumberjackslam most of them were electronic

lumberjackslam · 41-45, M

@SW-User I e-file. I mean I barely read most stuff anymore. it doesn't apply to me

SW-User

@lumberjackslam hopefully next year the process won’t take as long as it did today it took me nearly an hour for just 2 tax returns..

pianoplayingsteve · 26-30, M

At first it was overwhelming, but then it becomes easy. Just keep well organised records of everything and record them as soon after the fact as possible.

SW-User

@pianoplayingsteve I think the key for me is to remember to keep 2-3 years worth of past returns I always forget..

pianoplayingsteve · 26-30, M

@SW-User Yes, that's a good idea. And as someone mentioned, get someone else to do it :)

SW-User

@pianoplayingsteve I would but that cost way more money

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