# Oh my God...This cannot be true **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 12, 2001, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-this-cannot-be-true/61659 "2001-04-12T00:59:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2001, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-this-cannot-be-true/61659/1 "2001-04-12T00:59:21Z")
I broke down and did my taxes today. Well, I did my Federal taxes. The state ones, I’m still in denial about…or maybe I’m just too darn lazy to do them. For the first time since I started working… **I’m getting money back!!!**. Yeah, it’s only about $400, but that is a buncha money to a dirt broke chica like me. Maybe, if I’m lucky…I’ll get money back from the state too and manage to buy a new computer…or pay off a credit card, which would be the smart thing to do and is what I’ll probably do. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2001, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-this-cannot-be-true/61659/2 "2001-04-12T01:24:08Z")
Congrats! Haven’t done my taxes yet… for that matter I haven’t done them for last year yet, either! _Note to self: get on that soon!_ ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2001, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-this-cannot-be-true/61659/3 "2001-04-12T04:15:09Z")
I’m getting $300 (exactly) back from federal–and owe $4 to the state. I haven’t decided yet what to do with the $300. Any suggestions? ---
**Author:** ![Gozu\_Tashoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7993a0/32.png) [@Gozu\_Tashoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu_Tashoya)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2001, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-this-cannot-be-true/61659/4 "2001-04-12T04:50:53Z")
Porno. [sub]Or a DVD player…then porno.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Pammipoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/87869e/32.png) [@Pammipoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pammipoo)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2001, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-this-cannot-be-true/61659/5 "2001-04-12T07:31:14Z")
I’m getting $289 back from the federal, and around $200 for state. I had to put it towards paying my mom back for my car. I think I only owe her another $50 or so, and then my debt with her is paid… ---
**Author:** ![pluto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f08c70/32.png) [@pluto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pluto)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2001, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-this-cannot-be-true/61659/6 "2001-04-12T07:41:42Z")
For those of you with unexpected refunds or who don’t know what to do with your refund may I suggest contributing to the “How is **Pluto** ever going to pay his taxes by the 16th” Fund. That’s [http://www.giveyourmoneytome.org/theres\_one\_born\_every\_minute/index.html](http://www.giveyourmoneytome.org/theres_one_born_every_minute/index.html) There is no limit on giving. AND your contributions are tax-deductible. (I know I’m going to deduct them from the amount I pay of my own money!) Thanks in advance. ---
**Author:** ![kferr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@kferr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kferr)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2001, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-this-cannot-be-true/61659/7 "2001-04-12T07:49:26Z")
I’m getting around $13,500 back from the IRS! For 2000 I was paid in the US, but lived, worked, and paid taxes in the UK. The two countries have an agreement to prevent double taxation so when I file the US taxes I claim back ALL the taxes that got deducted. I’ve already paid slightly more than this amount to the UK taxman, so I’m not really gaining anything. ---
**Author:** ![lurkernomore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@lurkernomore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurkernomore)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2001, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-this-cannot-be-true/61659/8 "2001-04-12T12:34:42Z")
filing tomorrow. Spent it already - new p4 box. Sometimes living in an outrageously taxed area helps. Any politician with a tax plan that touches my mortgage interest and local tax deduction will soon be beseeching me for the sweet release of death. ---
**Author:** ![Tommy\_the\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@Tommy\_the\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tommy_the_Cat)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2001, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-this-cannot-be-true/61659/9 "2001-04-12T13:27:17Z")
Had to pay for the first time this year. Damnable marriage penalty. We wrote a check for $770 about a week ago. I’m still pissed. Just last year my wife, then my fiancee, and I got back around $2000. Now this. ::grumble, grumble:: ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2001, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-this-cannot-be-true/61659/10 "2001-04-12T14:25:42Z")
Put me in the **Tommy the Cat** club. Mrs. O and I got some $1500 back for 1999 (got married Oct of that year), and got socked to the tune of $860 federal, $150 state for 2000. If **pluto** hadn’t beaten me to it, I’d have done the “Help **Olentzero** Pay His Taxes” fund idea… damn clever bastards we got here these days. ---
**Author:** ![moi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@moi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moi)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2001, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-this-cannot-be-true/61659/11 "2001-04-12T14:30:24Z")
_runs sobbing from the thread_ ---
**Author:** ![muppetsoup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/aca169/32.png) [@muppetsoup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muppetsoup)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2001, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-this-cannot-be-true/61659/12 "2001-04-12T15:05:35Z")
Get this… I’m getting ELEVEN HUNDRED DOLLARS back from the federal govt. No state income tax here. ---
**Author:** ![GrizzRich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ba0ec/32.png) [@GrizzRich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrizzRich)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2001, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-this-cannot-be-true/61659/13 "2001-04-12T16:44:43Z")
That by getting money BACK from the IRS, that you’ve, in fact, been giving the government free use of YOUR money for the past year. If you had that money in your bank account, (and some self-control, which I certainly lack!!) you could’ve invested it and gained some income from it working for you! The gov’t isn’t paying you INTEREST on the LOAN you’ve given them, are they? I know, this is a thread-killer, and many of you already know this info. But, I couldn’t resist! ---
**Author:** ![mrblue92](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@mrblue92](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrblue92)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2001, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-this-cannot-be-true/61659/14 "2001-04-12T17:06:00Z")
I double checked my mental figuring last night and filled in my second copy, (done in ink, the one I send in)… No errors. Apparently I can still add, subtract and occasionally multiply–yay me! I owe $76 to the Feds, but I do get money back from the State of Michigan: **$1** And no, I’m not going to apply it to next year’s return, I want _my_ dollar back! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2001, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-this-cannot-be-true/61659/15 "2001-04-12T17:47:27Z")
**mrblue92** , if you indeed get that dollar back, I’d have it laminated, framed, and hung on your wall with some caption about getting blood from a turnip. ---
**Author:** ![AETBOND417](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/47e85d/32.png) [@AETBOND417](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AETBOND417)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2001, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-this-cannot-be-true/61659/16 "2001-04-12T19:46:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by muppetsoup \* > \*\*Get this… I’m getting ELEVEN HUNDRED DOLLARS back from the federal govt. No state income tax here. \*\* Rhode Island?