February 03, 2008

THEY'RE NOT KEEPING IT ALL

The husband did our taxes this weekend and somehow, against all odds of us trying to contribute the bare minimum, we are still getting a refund. The husband just said, "Sweet, the government is hooking us up!" And I feigned horror and said, "Do not ever say anything of the sort again. They are not 'hooking us up'; they are merely only keeping $7000 of our money instead of $9000."

If everyone looked at taxes that way, maybe we could get some reform.

And as I was digging around for receipts on charitable contributions and my husband was trying to figure out how much state sales tax we could deduct, we kept muttering how nice the Fair Tax would be.

Posted by Sarah at February 3, 2008 11:09 AM | TrackBack
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One of my girlfriends (who loves tax season) has it down to the very penny each year of what the IRS wants from her. She adjusts her w-4s and at the end of each year, she owes $0 and gets back $0 - and she always calls me to brag! LOL

Posted by: LMT at February 5, 2008 08:28 AM