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leighdvm
My golden boys!
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Michele
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We just did our taxes....OMG
This is our first tax return since we got married and we got hit hard! We owe $1,500 for state and federal combined......Holy crow! I've always gotten money back when I was single.....what's the dealio?? I guess with the combined salaries, we get penalized? (we don't have children yet). We were able to write off our mortgage interest, but it wasn't much because we only bought the house in October....Jeez.......anyone else get a wake-up call this year???
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LisaW
Time for me to FLY!
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Did I ever tell you that I hate people?
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Re: We just did our taxes....OMG
I haven't done them yet, but last year was the first year I ever got anything back!!
Every other year we have owed $$$$$$ 
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| Posted 2/14/07 6:01 PM |
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Blu-ize
Plan B is Now Plan A
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Susan
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Re: We just did our taxes....OMG
maybe it pays to re-file as single jointly?
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| Posted 2/14/07 6:09 PM |
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meganNbobby
Our Family is Complete
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Re: We just did our taxes....OMG
we paid our first year of marriage too... but we didnt have a house.....
this year... we got almost 5K back!!
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| Posted 2/14/07 6:10 PM |
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leighdvm
My golden boys!
Member since 3/06 4419 total posts
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Michele
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Re: We just did our taxes....OMG
Posted by meganNbobby
we paid our first year of marriage too... but we didnt have a house.....
this year... we got almost 5K back!!
wow! how did you swing that? do you have children???
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| Posted 2/14/07 6:11 PM |
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Blu-ize
Plan B is Now Plan A
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Susan
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Re: We just did our taxes....OMG
i've gotten back each year since we got married. In fact, I think I paid two times in my life.
It really depends on deductions and your tax bracket and of course how much has been withheld from your pay.
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| Posted 2/14/07 6:23 PM |
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shell
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Re: We just did our taxes....OMG
I hope we do not have to pay anything back!!!
I'm hoping for a decent amount back.
Message edited 2/14/2007 6:27:18 PM.
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BlueDiamonds
mommy to 3 boys
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proud mommy
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Re: We just did our taxes....OMG
Posted by Blu-ize
i've gotten back each year since we got married. In fact, I think I paid two times in my life.
It really depends on deductions and your tax bracket and of course how much has been withheld from your pay.
Same here. We got married in November and filed jointly this year. Although the combined income puts us in a higher tax bracket, we are still getting back $5K this year. We don't own and we don't have children. However, we still claim 0 and single when it comes to our paychecks (more tax taken out each week), we put $ into our 401K and we have a lot of deductions with DH's job. We also were able to claim sales tax we paid last year (we bought 2 new cars, got married and bought new furniture).
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| Posted 2/14/07 6:39 PM |
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SweetestOfPeas
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Re: We just did our taxes....OMG
yes, we got a wake up call, bigtime! we owe the state and are getting back from the federal, but by the time we're done paying the state, what we have left over is a joke! we ALWAYS get back a LOT and I am so PO'd! 
my severance in 2006 really hurt us b/c it pushed us into the next tax bracket. it sucks 
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| Posted 2/14/07 6:43 PM |
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leighdvm
My golden boys!
Member since 3/06 4419 total posts
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Michele
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Re: We just did our taxes....OMG
Posted by SweetestOfPeas
yes, we got a wake up call, bigtime! we owe the state and are getting back from the federal, but by the time we're done paying the state, what we have left over is a joke! we ALWAYS get back a LOT and I am so PO'd!
my severance in 2006 really hurt us b/c it pushed us into the next tax bracket. it sucks
Yeah, with our salaries, we are in a much higher tax bracket.....we both claim "0", but I guess we just have to deal with it......dang....
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| Posted 2/14/07 7:00 PM |
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Blu-ize
Plan B is Now Plan A
Member since 7/05 32475 total posts
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Susan
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Re: We just did our taxes....OMG
Posted by BlueDiamonds
Posted by Blu-ize
i've gotten back each year since we got married. In fact, I think I paid two times in my life.
It really depends on deductions and your tax bracket and of course how much has been withheld from your pay.
Same here. We got married in November and filed jointly this year. Although the combined income puts us in a higher tax bracket, we are still getting back $5K this year. We don't own and we don't have children. However, we still claim 0 and single when it comes to our paychecks (more tax taken out each week), we put $ into our 401K and we have a lot of deductions with DH's job. We also were able to claim sales tax we paid last year (we bought 2 new cars, got married and bought new furniture).
we have w2 income and 1099 income and we write a ton of stuff down and off. Between schedules A and C we figure it out. Owning 2 homes this year, I'm curious to find out how much better it will be.
I'm hoping for a 5 digit return. Hoping but I think it will be less.
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| Posted 2/14/07 7:08 PM |
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jerrysgirl
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Re: We just did our taxes....OMG
there is a marriage penalty. sucks. you might want to change your withholdings from your on w2.
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| Posted 2/14/07 7:26 PM |
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Moehick
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Re: We just did our taxes....OMG
Change your witholding...we actually got more back after marriage
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| Posted 2/14/07 7:28 PM |
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Beth
The Key to your new home....
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Re: We just did our taxes....OMG
we get alot of write offs b/c my DH is 1099
and we have a ton of out of pocket medical bills for this year- so we should be ok
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| Posted 2/14/07 7:30 PM |
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megsm3
Life is Good!!
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M
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Re: We just did our taxes....OMG
We got back $$ last year as singles - I really hope we do not have to pay - we would not be happy
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| Posted 2/14/07 7:37 PM |
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Re: We just did our taxes....OMG
We got back over 7,000 last year. It was our first year filing together as a married couple.
DH does a ton of write-offs for his job
I am hoping we get around the same this year.
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| Posted 2/14/07 7:41 PM |
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RobeyMuse
my little man
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Jenn
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Re: We just did our taxes....OMG
we learned our lesson last year- we ended up owing 6k. 
this year we are getting back 8k.
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| Posted 2/14/07 10:25 PM |
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Jessica
I'm a mommy :)
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Re: We just did our taxes....OMG
Posted by RobeyMuse
we learned our lesson last year- we ended up owing 6k.
this year we are getting back 8k.
wow!!!!!
thats a HUGE difference.
if you dont mind me askig, what did you do so differently?
claimed different?
filed as single or married?
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| Posted 2/14/07 10:27 PM |
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babymakes3
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Re: We just did our taxes....OMG
We owe thousands. Our first year ever that we have to pay in. We even had a child in 2006! We did save $800 by filing separately but still...
Our friend (an accountant) said that every married couple he knows has had to pay in this year.
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| Posted 2/14/07 10:36 PM |
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emilain
UNREAL!!!!!!!!
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Re: We just did our taxes....OMG
we always owe lots (thousands), but also have many write offs
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| Posted 2/14/07 10:39 PM |
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Tine73
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Re: We just did our taxes....OMG
We owe $3400 this year due to DH filling out his W2 wrong....
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nyteacher13
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Re: We just did our taxes....OMG
Ever since we've filed jointly, dh and I have been getting between 5-8k back. We then pay federal around 1k.
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| Posted 2/15/07 12:13 AM |
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princess99
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Re: We just did our taxes....OMG
We owed 8,600! I could not freaking believe it!
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ODonnell
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Re: We just did our taxes....OMG
We filed married seperately last year and got back $7K. We only had the write off on our house for half of that year.
This year, we filed married jointly and had much more to write off, but are getting less than half that back.
We did change our withholdings to from single 0 to married 0 and married 1, but I thought we would get much more back.
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| Posted 2/15/07 7:48 AM |
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MikesWife
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Re: We just did our taxes....OMG
We owe $3,800
And to think, I was hoping to get money BACK!!
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