# April 15th looms: Are your taxes done? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 14, 2011, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-15th-looms-are-your-taxes-done/578389 "2011-04-14T17:56:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-15th-looms-are-your-taxes-done/578389/1 "2011-04-14T17:56:45Z")
Here in the states our taxes are due tomorrow. Are yours done? I got mine done last Saturday - the latest I remember ever doing them. I will get some back from the feds, paid only 21 to the State of PA, and will have to pay several hundred to the locals. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-15th-looms-are-your-taxes-done/578389/2 "2011-04-14T18:01:16Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-15th-looms-are-your-taxes-done/578389/3 "2011-04-14T18:02:29Z")
Hell no. I’ll do them on April 15 like I’ve done every other year. ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-15th-looms-are-your-taxes-done/578389/4 "2011-04-14T18:04:05Z")
Suckers. I did my taxes over a year ago. [/Stolen Simpsons quote] ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-15th-looms-are-your-taxes-done/578389/5 "2011-04-14T18:05:03Z")
Federal taxes are due on the 18th this year. The 15th may still apply to state taxes, however. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-15th-looms-are-your-taxes-done/578389/6 "2011-04-14T18:06:40Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-15th-looms-are-your-taxes-done/578389/7 "2011-04-14T18:09:04Z")
The fed taxes are due on the 18th so you can relax until Monday now and then try to do them on time.😛 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-15th-looms-are-your-taxes-done/578389/8 "2011-04-14T18:10:15Z")
I finally did mine yesterday. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-15th-looms-are-your-taxes-done/578389/9 "2011-04-14T18:19:20Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-15th-looms-are-your-taxes-done/578389/10 "2011-04-14T18:47:33Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-15th-looms-are-your-taxes-done/578389/11 "2011-04-14T18:48:44Z")
I got mine done in late January and got both refunds shortly thereafter. ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-15th-looms-are-your-taxes-done/578389/12 "2011-04-14T18:51:38Z")
> [@vivalostwages](#): > > I got mine done in late January and got both refunds shortly thereafter. 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? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-15th-looms-are-your-taxes-done/578389/13 "2011-04-14T18:53:32Z")
I did ours online two weeks ago and got my federal refund a couple of days ago. ---
**Author:** ![Marc\_Xenos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Marc\_Xenos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marc_Xenos)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-15th-looms-are-your-taxes-done/578389/14 "2011-04-14T19:04:30Z")
> [@StusBlues](#): > > 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. (Hey, wanna have some fun? Write down “CALCULATOR” on a piece of paper and ask a Korean to pronounce it.) ---
**Author:** ![shiftless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@shiftless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shiftless)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-15th-looms-are-your-taxes-done/578389/15 "2011-04-14T19:09:36Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-15th-looms-are-your-taxes-done/578389/16 "2011-04-14T19:16:03Z")
Had my taxes done in February. Received Fed and state refunds the following week. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-15th-looms-are-your-taxes-done/578389/17 "2011-04-14T19:16:26Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-15th-looms-are-your-taxes-done/578389/18 "2011-04-14T19:16:29Z")
Hah! ---
**Author:** ![CT\_Damsel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CT\_Damsel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CT_Damsel)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-15th-looms-are-your-taxes-done/578389/19 "2011-04-14T20:00:01Z")
Did them the end of February and already spent the Fed and State refunds. I am doing what I can to keep the economy going.😃 ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-15th-looms-are-your-taxes-done/578389/20 "2011-04-14T20:29:06Z")
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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-15th-looms-are-your-taxes-done/578389.md?page=2)