I did mine a week ago. Getting money back from both the state and the feds.
Interestingly, Khadaji, I’m going to southern PA tomorrow. For about a month and a half I have been telling myself to get my taxes done before I leave.
I once did mine on, I believe, the 17th. Some odd combination of a weekend and a holiday meant that they were still on time. Maybe it was Patriot’s Day.
I did ours a couple weeks ago; we’re getting money back from the Feds but we owe the State of California. But I know I missed some charitable contributions and haven’t gone back to find the receipts so I can add them in. I plan to do that this weekend, since we do have until Monday to file. I’m pretty sure I’ll still end up owing them something, so I don’t plan to pay them any earlier than I need to.
There were deductions that were gray to me and the amount of money that I would have gotten back because of them would not have greatly increased the quality of my life - so I may have left some money on the table. Maybe not.
What he said. Easy to do when you don’t have a house, kids, or any capital gains for the year. I have deductions I could work through, but they wouldn’t top the standard deduction, so why fight it?
Yeah, the W-2’s are (usually) right there in the first payday of January, but the 1099’s and 1098 typically wait right until the end of Jan. Still, my return was done in the first week of Feb, and I got my refund less than a week later.
Hey, rolling advert here, which may get my comment bounced, but a lot of people are still unaware of TaxAct Online. Quick, accurate, and FREE. And beats that piece of crap, TurboTax. Or paying other people to come up with the same calculations that I do.
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I always owe money so I wait until the last minute to deprive Uncle Sam of the float. I have most of the work done, just need to double check some things and write the check, which I’m doing tonight.
The CPA came out in late March to do ours. He just plugs the new numbers, gives us the damage and mails the return to us to send in.
This year he said it’d be $8400 or so and I said “Painful but we’ve had worse. Thank goodness for the home purchase credit.” He looked at me funny, hit his keyboard a few times, mentioned he’d been in this home before and forgot we’d postponed the credit last year and says how about $2000? Whew, okie dokey.
I did mine at the end of February. Got fairly large refunds from both the fed and the state. I know I should adjust my withholding, but my deductions and capital gain income are hard to predict. Many years I end up owing a lot.