tax calculator

Waffles · Post by **Waffles** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 4:09 pm

GTI-Guy;212615 wrote:No disrespect to anyone, but let me fully assure you ... you're an idiot not to adjust your withholding so that your refund is close to $0. Afraid of spending the money? Set up an auto withdrawal into a separate investment account so you don't get the chance and it earns interest & dividends for YOU, not the government. A $4k refund could have earned you an extra $600 this year. We can now carry on with our regularly scheduled programming ...

i usually have mine right around 0, except last year I had flipped my state and fed withholding. I owed a little to fed, and got a bunch back from the state. I was so confused until I realized what I had done.

Clayton · Post by **Clayton** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 4:16 pm

GTI-Guy;212615 wrote:No disrespect to anyone, but let me fully assure you ... you're an idiot not to adjust your withholding so that your refund is close to $0. Afraid of spending the money? Set up an auto withdrawal into a separate investment account so you don't get the chance and it earns interest & dividends for YOU, not the government. A $4k refund could have earned you an extra $600 this year. We can now carry on with our regularly scheduled programming ...

bob how do you adjust it when the bulk of my return is coming back from my house or can i really only adjust it with my earnings to get that as close to 0 as possible?

i am gettting refied from 6.6 to 4.75 maybe that will help

GTI-Guy · Post by **GTI-Guy** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 6:23 pm

06sik20z3;212618 wrote:bob how do you adjust it when the bulk of my return is coming back from my house or can i really only adjust it with my earnings to get that as close to 0 as possible?

i am gettting refied from 6.6 to 4.75 maybe that will help

Yep, can only easily at least do with your regular paycheck via the withholding. I just add in money in the box "extra amount to withhold" and change that now and then as needed / earnings grow (hopefully!). Nice rate on the refi, that will increase your taxes a bit since less interest expense, but more than be made up with the money you'll save.

kikkinasphalt · Post by **kikkinasphalt** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 7:46 pm

i should get back close to 5k. :PDT_sndmail:

MikeL · Post by **MikeL** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 9:52 pm

JustRob;212499 wrote:It doesn't work on IE. It works on Firefox. Even then, it's waaaaaay off.

Doesn't work for me on FF. I open up the calculator but the stuff on the right doesn't change after I've entered all my info in. Maybe I'm not doing something right..

But then I used a different calculator and it said $244. lol

mybluesi · Post by **mybluesi** » Sun Dec 13, 2009 1:09 pm

id be happy if it told me rite... lil over 6k... but i highly doubt it

Shutter Speed Imaging · Wed Dec 16, 2009 1:04 am

Mine said $2300...if that's right, I'll cry.