Guitar Gear Forum

I'm in week 5 waiting for my refund...My biggest ever. I thought it was supposed to be within 3 weeks?

OBAMA!! GIMME MAH MONEHZ!

got mine 2 weeks after i filed

sleewell wrote:got mine 2 weeks after i filed

GOD DAMN IT!

Mine is non-existent, unfortunately.

I dont get much back, so I never really worry about it. Still havent got mein done yet

Got a whopping $300 back. I guess our politicians need it more than I do.

AdrianPOA wrote:Got a whopping $300 back. I guess our politicians need it more than I do.

What sucks, is that people who DONT work / go places long enough to get fired & draw unemployment get more back, than guys like us.

I know a dude who goes to school on the tax payer's dime, only works part time here & there & always gets $2k -$3k back.
36 years old & has been going to school the last 10 years (to be a psychologist, last time I checked) and keeps changing up what he's going to school for.

I just got my cheque from HM & Customs. £650 - get in! It is all going into my savings though. Well... maybe £100 aside for a pedal.

My customers have gotten theirs back, prolly will close at least 5-8 more than normal this month. Last month was good and my April pipeline is stocked.

100 watt wrote:

AdrianPOA wrote:Got a whopping $300 back. I guess our politicians need it more than I do.

What sucks, is that people who DONT work / go places long enough to get fired & draw unemployment get more back, than guys like us.

I know a dude who goes to school on the tax payer's dime, only works part time here & there & always gets $2k -$3k back.
36 years old & has been going to school the last 10 years (to be a psychologist, last time I checked) and keeps changing up what he's going to school for.

Nobody gets enough to "go to school on the taxpayers dime" man. He may be getting some grants but they're not covering much.

I got mine back a week after I filed.

I got mine back in 5 days.

My ex owes me several thousand dollars and is spinning moonbeams about her tax return... lol

I filed my first one last week......and I opened a bank account last week too.....I am growing up lol

diablogato22 wrote:I filed my first one last week......and I opened a bank account last week too.....I am growing up lol

welcome to the system, slave.....

this tax season has been batshit ridiculous. as if we already weren't busy enough, everything got pushed back to basically Feb. 1 to start filing, so we have to force a 3.5 mo. normal busy season into 2.5 mo's. it has been insane.
but hey, i only have like 78 returns assigned to me as of today....... easy!

RSBro wrote:

diablogato22 wrote:I filed my first one last week......and I opened a bank account last week too.....I am growing up lol

welcome to the system, slave.....

this tax season has been batshit ridiculous. as if we already weren't busy enough, everything got pushed back to basically Feb. 1 to start filing, so we have to force a 3.5 mo. normal busy season into 2.5 mo's. it has been insane.
but hey, i only have like 78 returns assigned to me as of today....... easy!

I am so glad I don't do personal taxes.

RSBro wrote:

diablogato22 wrote:I filed my first one last week......and I opened a bank account last week too.....I am growing up lol

welcome to the system, slave.....

this tax season has been batshit ridiculous. as if we already weren't busy enough, everything got pushed back to basically Feb. 1 to start filing, so we have to force a 3.5 mo. normal busy season into 2.5 mo's. it has been insane.
but hey, i only have like 78 returns assigned to me as of today....... easy!

I thought about going the financial accounting route for about 10 seconds lol... I'm horrible at accounting, although I've learned more about financial accounting from all my Finance, marketing, and various other business classes than I ever did in my intro accounting classes.

holy shit. Got ours done last night. We're getting a bit over $4k back.


but..

it all goes into the house or new furniture

madryan wrote:I thought about going the financial accounting route for about 10 seconds lol... I'm horrible at accounting, although I've learned more about financial accounting from all my Finance, marketing, and various other business classes than I ever did in my intro accounting classes.

man i actually loathe true "accounting", which is why i don't do it lol. i was looking to go the Oil&Gas route last year, til i actually talked to some folks who were in it and no damn way. i know you have to understand the accounting side of things to be a really good tax person, but still. i hate it lol.

100 watt wrote:it all goes into the house or new furniture

I hear ya. I got $1400 and most of it is going into the house.

Anderton wrote:

100 watt wrote:it all goes into the house or new furniture

I hear ya. I got $1400 and most of it is going into the house.

yeah. I got flooded in 2011 & still rebuilding and renovating. I've already spent $50k, and still got a ways to go. I just got moved back in, in October.

I've spent the last week putting down 450 square feet of laminate flooring in my living room and hallway. The stuff I got was normally $4 something a sq ft, but I ended up getting it for $1.25 a square ft. It was second quality, but the marks on it cleaned off, so there was nothing wrong with it. Just had to use a bit of elbow grease. Well worth it to save that kinda $ to get good quality stuff that'll last me.

100 watt wrote:

Anderton wrote:

100 watt wrote:it all goes into the house or new furniture

I hear ya. I got $1400 and most of it is going into the house.

yeah. I got flooded in 2011 & still rebuilding and renovating. I've already spent $50k, and still got a ways to go. I just got moved back in, in October.

I've spent the last week putting down 450 square feet of laminate flooring in my living room and hallway. The stuff I got was normally $4 something a sq ft, but I ended up getting it for $1.25 a square ft. It was second quality, but the marks on it cleaned off, so there was nothing wrong with it. Just had to use a bit of elbow grease. Well worth it to save that kinda $ to get good quality stuff that'll last me.

Flooring is also my current project. I've got a layer of linoleum in my kitchen and laundry room which appears to from the 1950s. The linoleum is covered with a thick layer of plywood subflooring which has a layer of sheet vinyl on top of that. Needless to say the floor is much taller in the kitchen and laundry room than the rest of the house and it irritates the hell out of me.


It all has to be torn out down to the original floor boards and redone because of water damage, previous owners dog damage, etc.

Yeah. I had to cut out the entire sub floor down to the Joists, so luckilly, I was putting my stuff down over new OSB. I had some ulevel areas (where the house is 30 years old & has settled), so I ended up taking some thin underlayment & putting down in the low areas, before putting down the regular underlayment. Still not perfectly level, but better than it was.

Finally got finished up with my livingroom & hallway on Saturday night.

I had orange saw dust all over the place. It looked like a scene from "Night Of The Comet: lol.

Hopefully in the coming weeks I can start putting my new interior doors in, then start putting down my baseboard trim. As for my door tim & crown mouldings, Im re-using what the house originally had in it. Just cleaning & painting it. When my old man had that house built in 83, he spent $20K just on that trim & crown moulding, so I dont want that stuff to go to waste.

A shame it got flooded. That house was a "cadillac" , in it's day. Only thing is, had it not flooded, it NEVER got updated. Before it flooded, it still had brass fixtures, flowery wall paper, carpet, etc. You coulda filmed an 80's movie in it & it woulda been period correct lol.

100 watt wrote:Yeah. I had to cut out the entire sub floor down to the Joists, so luckilly, I was putting my stuff down over new OSB. I had some ulevel areas (where the house is 30 years old & has settled), so I ended up taking some thin underlayment & putting down in the low areas, before putting down the regular underlayment. Still not perfectly level, but better than it was.

My house was built in 1947, so I know what you mean when you talk about "unlevel areas". In some ways it's even worse than my previous house which was built in 1908.

100 watt wrote:A shame it got flooded. That house was a "cadillac" , in it's day. Only thing is, had it not flooded, it NEVER got updated. Before it flooded, it still had brass fixtures, flowery wall paper, carpet, etc. You coulda filmed an 80's movie in it & it woulda been period correct lol.

Like you said, at least you are reusing the trim. 20k's worth is hard for me to visualize. I have maybe $250 in Menard's trim at my place.

RSBro wrote:

madryan wrote:I thought about going the financial accounting route for about 10 seconds lol... I'm horrible at accounting, although I've learned more about financial accounting from all my Finance, marketing, and various other business classes than I ever did in my intro accounting classes.

man i actually loathe true "accounting", which is why i don't do it lol. i was looking to go the Oil&Gas route last year, til i actually talked to some folks who were in it and no damn way. i know you have to understand the accounting side of things to be a really good tax person, but still. i hate it lol.

I actually dig real accounting, which is much more about financial planning than it is the bookkeeping aspect, but I'd never be able to learn enough to sit the CPA exam.