02-28-2019, 12:35 PM
(02-28-2019, 12:32 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: So I did my taxes this past weekend. Nothing really changed in 2018 from 2017, except my refund being about $400 less. It'll be interesting when I do my taxes next year because of the salary change and being a homeowner. Is it sad I'm a little excited about it?
I also got irritated because I did my father-in-law's taxes. Not only is his AGI in retirement like $80k (mostly pensions and such, very little from his IRA), but he overpays his taxes way too much and is getting a $7k refund. He has also made some dumb decisions with his taxes in the past, always filing late, so I wasn't able to efile his. Hopefully me doing everything as it should be done this year will mean I can efile next year for him.
You gotta hit over $24,000 in deductions to make the itemized worth it. I had to battle turbo tax. They kept trying to get me to put in all my deductions when I knew damn well I wouldn't reach $24,000 so I ended up putting in zeroes for everything.
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