Tax time!

When do you file your taxes?

Do you wait until the last possible second, and then file an extention? Be honest!

Neither.....DH does em!

We'll be trying to sort ours out ASAP. We've got Australian income and US income, and the Australian tax year is July-June so it's all a bit of a pain in the bum!

Originally Posted by sarahp

We'll be trying to sort ours out ASAP. We've got Australian income and US income, and the Australian tax year is July-June so it's all a bit of a pain in the bum!

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Do you still have to file taxes in the US?

I file right away because I usually get a refund

We normally start getting our ducks in a row at the end of the year and as soon as w-2 arrive we are ready to go.

I'm not sure, I just send my Dad all of my stuff and he does them with our accountant back home! Once I get my W-2 from my former employer, I'm all set

as soon as i get my w-2 i go online and do the state, i do the paper next day...i get the 1 page 1040ez so really a nothing...

I do nothing but sign the papers when DH gives them to me.

I file mine the minute the paperwork is in my hands. I usually get a refund.....and that means SHOPPING!!!!!

Ummm whenever the accountant does them for me, I send him everything as it comes in and he files them etc

just thought about this a little more...growing up when the last weekend before the 15 hit was the day stepdad and mom would do thier taxes brother would usually take off for friends and i was in charge of keeping sister quiet...with the "dont bother us unless your injured or theres a fire" we always had a "party night-usually or friday thing of chips candy bar and soda...now we just have that all the time lol. oh and we knew we were getting pizza that night lol

Because of a family partnership, I can't file until after April 1. I have to wait for the paperwork.

Originally Posted by ryanjay

as soon as i get my w-2 i go online and do the state, i do the paper next day...i get the 1 page 1040ez so really a nothing...

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The first January after we were married, DH came running in with his w-2 saying we can file taxes and get his refund. I had to sit him down and tell him that a) we won't be filing until after April 1 and b) there would be no refund because of the partnership. The only good news for him was that I would be doing the taxes.

We usually do not have all the needed paperwork until early march. Due to some of the stock we own the tax prep is quite complicated-adding more interest this year with my business!! Thank goodness Neil is a CPA or we would have to hire the tax work out. We (he) tries to have then paperwork done by the end of March. He also does my parents and my sister's taxes.

It depends, if I'm getting a refund I file ASAP, if I have to pay, i wait till April 15th

My accountant mother ENJOYS doing taxes, so I let her do mine last year....the year before I did them the first week of April and I filed online.

Originally Posted by katiemae1277

It depends, if I'm getting a refund I file ASAP, if I have to pay, i wait till April 15th

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Although last year I was able to get a refund and then I was AUDITED before I could get the refund. It wasn't until last month that I finally got my 2005 refund.

I hope that doesn't happen again this year.

I use TurboTax and usually the day I get the last W2, either mine or my wife's, as long as I have all our bank and loan interest statements and anything else I need, I file. Even when I could use Telefile before I was married I did it right away.

I think it's more about getting my, I mean OUR money right away than just getting it out of the way

We do it as soon as possible. I like money and I usually put it to good use and pay off credit cards.

We file ours right away so we can get the green stuff