Oh Joy, Ain't this a Great Country

reible · Post by **reible** » Wed Jan 22, 2014 5:52 pm

I've done some preliminary work on my taxes but can't really do them until I receive all the tax information. It is trickling in but I must be missing at least 6 1099's. Got one yesterday, another today and still missing the 6.

I've tried to make thing simpler and I have seen an improvement but still not as simple as I wished it was. I use the on-line forms but do my own taxes, always have and at least for now I plan to keep doing so. I download the 1040 booklet and use that as my guide along with last years forms to see if I'm missing any entries sch B. No longer have itemized deduction.......

My goal this year is to file by Feb. 10, both state and fed. If I can beat that date it would be great.

Ed

joshh · Post by **joshh** » Wed Jan 22, 2014 5:55 pm

reible wrote: My goal this year is to file by Feb. 10, both state and fed.

I forgot some states have an income tax.

I only had to deal with that for the 2 years I lived in Ohio.

dusty · Post by **dusty** » Wed Jan 22, 2014 6:17 pm

reible wrote:I've done some preliminary work on my taxes but can't really do them until I receive all the tax information. It is trickling in but I must be missing at least 6 1099's. Got one yesterday, another today and still missing the 6.

I've tried to make thing simpler and I have seen an improvement but still not as simple as I wished it was. I use the on-line forms but do my own taxes, always have and at least for now I plan to keep doing so. I download the 1040 booklet and use that as my guide along with last years forms to see if I'm missing any entries sch B. No longer have itemized deduction.......

My goal this year is to file by Feb. 10, both state and fed. If I can beat that date it would be great.

Ed

I may have hit that point now. I ended up, after collecting all of the data for itemizing deductions, using the Standard Deduction. Must be the mortgage (lack thereof).

anmius · Post by **anmius** » Thu Jan 23, 2014 3:10 pm

joshh wrote:I forgot some states have an income tax.

I only had to deal with that for the 2 years I lived in Ohio.

Income Tax? Not in NH
Sales Tax? Not in NH

dusty · Post by **dusty** » Thu Jan 23, 2014 5:52 pm

anmius wrote:Income Tax? Not in NH
Sales Tax? Not in NH

But then there is Federal Income Tax.

What are the property tax and sales tax rates like in NH.

keakap · Post by **keakap** » Sat Jan 25, 2014 4:40 pm

joshh wrote:I forgot some states have an income tax. ...

Ah, so, that brings back memories--

lived in New Jersey, worked in New York City- paid federal income tax, New Jersey state income tax, New York state income tax, New York City income tax. Thank goodness I didn't then "own" a home or a car or I wooda been paying property taxes in addition to all the state and local non-income taxes in both states, and that would've brought me to the point of not having enough after taxes to afford to go to work.

Aint Big Gummint wonderful!?

reible · Post by **reible** » Sat Jan 25, 2014 5:31 pm

Here is a nice table of why I love living here in IL.

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Ed

keakap · Post by **keakap** » Mon Jan 27, 2014 4:53 pm

reible wrote:Here is a nice table of why I love living here in IL.

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Ed

Halleluiah, brothers and seestahs! Finally- something that Hawaii gummint does right.
Sorta. Our house here on Oahu, prop tax up the whazoo, as usual.
But my wife's 'family home' in Keaau, near Hilo, Beeg Island, which she has inherited, has been paid off so long now that the property tax bill on that is $5. Per year. Period. (and that's 'period' like normal honest sane people mean 'period', not 'period/ snicker/ guffaw, middle finger to ya like King Hussein, ya know).

reible · Post by **reible** » Mon Jan 27, 2014 9:46 pm

I'm not sure if you are reading this table correctly. Hawaii has 9 states worse then them and 40 states better.... My comments were in jest about IL.

Ed

keakap wrote:Halleluiah, brothers and seestahs! Finally- something that Hawaii gummint does right.
Sorta. Our house here on Oahu, prop tax up the whazoo, as usual.
But my wife's 'family home' in Keaau, near Hilo, Beeg Island, which she has inherited, has been paid off so long now that the property tax bill on that is $5. Per year. Period. (and that's 'period' like normal honest sane people mean 'period', not 'period/ snicker/ guffaw, middle finger to ya like King Hussein, ya know).

keakap · Post by **keakap** » Tue Jan 28, 2014 2:19 pm

reible wrote:I'm not sure if you are reading this table correctly. Hawaii has 9 states worse then them and 40 states better.... My comments were in jest about IL.Ed

I guess I'm not reading the table correctly. Must be my browser. I don't see Hawaii on that table at all.

I was just pointing out that Hi got the property tax thing 1/2 "right", which is remarkable in a Democrat state, which means everything else they got wrong.