Ours hit today!! our bills are going to be paid in full tommorow!! I'm psyched! one step closer to building us a house!

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Congrats!
Just e-filed ours this morning....
should be 8 - 15 days....

X


Not sure what to use the money on though..
Wait..DH probably has some ideas!!

got mine this morning (and was surprised to see my state tax also in it) ,but it is pending in my bank.do not know if it will actually be availabale tomorow

Man, I'm still trying to get my last job to send me my W-2!

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God knows I need it bad... I am filing tonight...

We don't even have W-2's yet!

Lisa

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"It's not having what you want,
It's wanting what you've got"

still waiting on W2 forms~~~

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Fed gives companies until 1/31 to attempt to get the W2's mailed out. I have mine but DH doesn't have his. I cant wait to get them. We're supposed to get back $4818.

Filed last Friday got State and Fed today. not bad 7 day turn around

Waiting on a W-2...ugh! I all but tackle the mailman each day.

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waiting on DH's w2's he switched jobs this year so we need 2 for him & I need my 1099's because I work as IC so I have to have those to do mine so far I only have one & he has nothing hoping it all comes soon!!

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i'm still waiting on 1099 and stock statements where I sold some company stock.

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Lord don't let that cold wind blow til I'm too old to die young'

Waiting for DH to get home from work so we can go to HR Block and file ours. That is the money that is going to pay for our cruise and our new floors, so we're anxious to get it!

no w-2 yet

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Still waiting on 2 W2s. Dh will be gettin ghtem tonight so hopefully I can do our taxes while the baby is napping tomorrow. I am not too thrilled though. It looks like we may owe again. I hope not.

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You laugh at me because I am different,
I laugh at you because you are all the same.

Your mind is like a parachute, it only works when it is open.

Ours was in our account at midnight. I've spent around $3,000 today! I paid off our one car and put almost $2000 on one of our credit cards. This year's tax return was our BIGGEST ever. We got $3904 back this year. Of course, it helps that the baby was born this year, too!

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Mom to Lauren, Eryn, Naysa
and announcing......
Gavin Michael Chase, 9 lbs 10 ozs
and 21 3/4 inches long on 10/13/09!

We are waiting on DH's W-2 also. We paid interest on one new mortgage since Feb., our old mortgage all year and interst on a HUGE home equity line for about 8 months. We paid a FORTUNE in interest, so we should get a nice return. We usually get back about $4000 total, so this year should be AWESOME! We need that money, so I hope we get the W-2 soon so we can file next week.

We are still waiting on all our w-2's and 1099's. Not really in any hurry since we will have to pay anyway and I won't write out the check until April 15th.

Got mine yesterday. Going straight to savings. Love to get that chunck of money and turn it into a nest egg.

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My school waits until the LAST day to give us ours usually.

I have no idea how much we will even get back... last year it was barely 500. It sucks w/o dh working and with me making so little too lol.

We don't have ours yet- it's supposed to be in our account Feb. 2. We already have it planned out on spending- big chunk to mortgage escrow shortage(thanks to our lovely insurance bill being $1000 more than last year), we decided we'd rather pay the shortage off with taxes instead of paying that extra $100 a month. Another big chunk is going to remodeling our bathroom and little bedroom from termite and water damage. DH gets $1000 for a kayak and I get $1000 for me and the kids extras.

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Once I figure out for sure how to get it all filed (took a SIMPLE IRA distribution last year and they only withheld 10%, should be 25% and I don't think the online tax program is figuring it right since I didn't see the extra form listed at the end)... right now it says we're getting back almost $3k but I think it should be $400-500 less due to that. So, I tried figuring them before using the last paycheck instead of the W-2 and I *knew* I had to be doing something wrong because even after having another kid I was only seeing about $500 for a refund. Whew! Not planning on telling my husband I was wrong either so I'll be putting a few hundred in the bank account and the rest into the savings account that he doesn't want to know anything about (he's a spender).

Still waiting W-2 here to..hate that! Anyone know what the IRS deposit schedule is this year? I know someone posted it here last year.

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http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p2043.pdf


here is a link for the deposit schedule

hope this helps

jenny

Got our W2s. I used a free program to estamate what we will get back but DH wants to go see the tax man to file. Looks like we will get enough to almost pay off our tax debt from last year. This makes me very happy.

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You laugh at me because I am different,
I laugh at you because you are all the same.

Your mind is like a parachute, it only works when it is open.

Thanks jprawlings for the site. Now I know when to expect my refund.

I used turbo tax yesterday and got my confirmation three hours later saying the irs accepted it should get mine in 12 days!! I'm so excited!!

We haven't got our W2s yet either.

I'm terrible with numbers, and dh does a lot of stock trading, so dh does the taxes. It's not one of dh's favorite things to do so he'll probably put it of for months. One year he actually did the taxes in February, well it was the year before's taxes and that years taxes at the same time. LOL !

My Husband did ours online tonight with turbotax
We should get almost $900
Using that towards a nice mattress

Suzanne

We got on line Saturday to file ours...we claimed sales tax, and as we were ready to hit "SUBMIT" it informed us that the IRS was waiting to process returns that included several things, one of which was sales tax! We have to wait until the 3rd for them to process it!...oh well, it is a difference of $200.00, to me, worth the wait.

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FINALLY found a site that would let me do both of the extra forms I needed to file. I probably used 10 sites before finding this one, and they ALL had some snag or another preventing me from filing. It was http://www.express1040.com/ (linked from the IRS site) and was only $8.95 for both federal AND state tax returns. I don't have a state tax but that might be nice for some of you that don't qualify for the free filing.

Not sure what we're spending it on but I'm putting $1500 into my college fund, getting back just over $2100. Hope the "college" money stays there

We don't get enough back to be in any sort of rush. A few years ago, we lowered our withholding and itemizing doesn't help us (which is a GOOD thing!!!). We put money aside every payday so that it earns interest. Got $300 back last year... Waiting for a good deal on the tax software now.

I just finally got my W2 on Monday as well as our 1099. Still haven't received our mortgage interest statement yet, but luckily I can print out a substitute form online.

DH and I have owed every single year that we've been married (8 years) even though I have had extra money withheld from my paycheck and we both claim zero on our W4's. Everybody said that once we bought our house, that we would get a big refund. Not only did we not get a refund, we still owed money. Maybe because our interest rate is so low??? I also think DH's employer just doesn't take enough out of his paycheck because he makes just a little more than me and I always end up having more federal taxes withheld at the end of the year. I just quickly figured our taxes last night, and since we had our DD last year, we will finally be getting a refund!!! Woo Hoo!!!

Yes, we have low interest rate as well... be glad for it! It IS a good thing!!!

You can have him ask his employer to change his withholding... That should help to. We lowered our withholding a few years ago because we felt like we were getting too much back. I think that I posted this up above but in too much of a hurry to check right now.

It is not necessarily a goal to get a huge tax return unless you are unable to save during the rest of the year (as I have always heard it).

I might be wrong but we earn more interest by banking it then we do by giving too much to Uncle Sam so that he can earn interest on it???

That is what my mom always told me anyway.

I would love to change our withholding so we didn't get a refund, I wouldn't mind owing a hundred or two (but not more than that ). I can save, hubby has a bit of a spending problem, so while the savings account is in his name he doesn't know how to access it and doesn't WANT to

It sounds as though you have it figured out just fine for your situation...

We started out taxes at the beginning of the month with the last check stub and we received the W-2 today so we went and finalized everything tonight. We should receive ours in 1-3 days.

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did ours tonight with turbo tax. But nothing to jump about as all the money is already gone. We have to have our septic tank redone AGAIN ( just had it fixed with new field lines 2 years ago at the tune of 1100.00 ) and having 30 tress cut down, due to hurricanes and how high our dect is 1000.00 PLUS 1.5 wind damage. So thats the end to our refund this year .

I WANT A NEW STOVE !! , I swear mine has a demon inside it turns itself up if i even look away !!guess that will have to wait .

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Have to hunt down all the W-2's and 1099s, copies of the paid medical bills, and buy the tax program. Hopefully will begin and end the taxes by this Sunday.

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Hubby did them last night. He went through State Farm web site and did them for free. We should be getting the checks direct deposited by next week.

If you are a state farm customer, you can use turbo tax free, and efile free.
go to their site, www.statefarm.com, once you are registered, you will have to input your information into the site for home/auto/banking etc., it doesn't automatically pull up for security reasons. You have to input your policy number.

There is information on the front of SFs home page about it.

We did our taxes yesterday. Should have $5xx in the savings acct on Feb 16th.

DH wants $40 to go to the casino.

I want another key for my car (it only came with 1 key, and it is an anti-theft key = $$$) and to get the automatic lock/unlock looked at. That will be at least double the $40 that DH is going to get.

As for our son, we will probably stick a bit in his savings acct.

And whatever is leftover will go back into savings.

I just did ours as well.
We should be getting a nice refund.
I'm on hold waiting for one more 1099
But if it's what I expect it to be our refund should still be between 3k-4k
We are buying a used car.
Now that I work we really need a 2nd car in addition to my van that will hold all the kids and dh's work van only has one passenger seat. Don't even ask me where we're going to park it though! My garage is tiny (and full of crap!LOL) and the 2 vans sit in the driveway!

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SHEEEE'SSS BAAAAACK!

Got ours today! Spent a couple hundred already and DH has plans to spend some more, then paying off bills and hoping to have a few left to put in the bank to pay our state taxes in April.

My mom did ours tonight I am doing the happy dance we were within around $100 of going to another tax bracket thanks to dh cashing out his 401k for some medical expenses. When we do get it we will pay off some bills I hope

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I've got a question about withholdings. I was going to change mine, because we always get so much back at the end of the year. I would rather have the money "now" as opposed to that big check later. So, my question is......should I claim more dependants, or less dependants?? I can never figure this one out.

Remember, I want more in my weekly checks, and less at the end of the year - but of course I don't want to change it to the point where I owe. Does that make sense?

Post here, or email me at KinggyKong@charter.net. THANKS!!

By the way - we are still waiting for our 1099's, my W-2 and whatever else is coming. So, I haven't filed yet.

You want to claim more dependants on your w-4 at work to get more in each paycheck...