Tax chiseler MineralMan muses about paying at the last possible second

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Star Member MineralMan (67,755 posts)

Paying the IRS on the REAL Deadline.


April 15? Not me. I can't remember a year when I managed to file our 1040 and its many accessory forms on April 15. October 15 is tax day in my tiny household. We're always playing catch-up around here. Between my wife and I, we make enough money to get along OK, but just. So, the estimated payment dates sometimes go by without a check being sent. April comes and goes and we finally manage to tune our awareness to the upcoming October 15 deadline. So we manage to put away enough to pay the tax bill by October 15. Just.

And that's just fine because we're liberals, you see.


We're both self-employed, and it seems like all the other self-employed people we know operate on that same weird, extension-driven fiscal year. It's how things go for the self-employed. There's always some emergency or vehicle breakdown or health issue that demands money just when it should have gone to pay the estimated taxes. No refunds. Ever. Always a big chunk of cash due on October 15.

The government needs that money to buy birth control, MineralMan.


Every year, we plan to not do that next year. Every year, we fail. So, we pay a modest penalty for not making estimated payments and we go about our business. And so it goes. The IRS's payday is October 15. The IRS doesn't seem to mind. We don't mind. It's all good.

Except you're a chiseler. Buy TurboTax and get it done, Moonbeam. Quit earning the float on the G's money.



As the nice lady at the local Post Office said to me, "We sure get a lot of these mailings to the IRS in October." I'll bet they do.

Caught up for another year, I remain,

Taxpaying   Chiseling MineralMan

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025680166


Another float-taker chimes in:

TBF (26,258 posts)
 2. I always seem to file in Oct -
 but I do make the estimated payments.  Just can't get my act in gear to get everything collected by April for the CPA.  He is very patient. 



Of the scant few DUmmies who actually pay taxes, how many cheat the government out of at least a little cash?

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Not for nothing:

Star Member MineralMan (67,755 posts)

Plenty of dough to donate to Skinner, and plenty of time to make 68,000 posts. I guess scamming the G is just one of RockHead's skills.

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MineralMan

No refunds. Ever. Always a big chunk of cash due on October 15.

Don't believe it, he's lying. They're moochers, no doubt about that.

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[miskie]

Don't believe it, he's lying. They're moochers, no doubt about that.

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I believe it - because hes a moocher.

He is one of those who believes in taxes for everybody else, and by setting his deductions so he always owes along with paying in October, he denies the government any interest earnings on his money. - keeping that to himself instead.

Not that its wrong mind you - its just typical liberal hypocrisy. 

[USA4ME]

I believe it - because hes a moocher.

This is what he's lying about.

"Always a big chunk of cash due on October 15"

Baloney, he doesn't owe. Neither of them make enough.

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[I_B_Perky]

This is what he's lying about.

"Always a big chunk of cash due on October 15"

Baloney, he doesn't owe. Neither of them make enough.

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I saw that and was wondering when they started taxing welfare.