#overpay on their taxes

[selfdiscoverymedia]

BB24-33.Shanan Terale, Be a Pearlfectionista

Building Your Business with Sara Troy and her guest Shanan Terale, on air from August 13th I work with first-generation professionals who struggle to make their money go the same distance as colleagues, who overpay on their taxes, and who struggle to build a secure and sustainable nest egg to create their long-term wealth vision and implement it.  Born middle-class, my family lost everything…

[strongermonster]

one of the funniest news things in canada that always tickles me is the ongoing war between magic mushroom shops and the police.

this is the absolute height of humour to me right now

[gothicprep]

Cool. I cut my hair in my bathroom for free.

[izzy-b-hands]

No talk abt birth control (they want me on Truvada first, but I can't afford the extra bloodwork rn so we're gonna wait on all of that), but they agreed to get me back on the Lamotrigine for the sake of my mental health and renewed my T rx!!! They're also going to try and get me onto Medicaid or something similar (despite my prior issues with the state saying I'd best not even THINK abt applying again for any assistance until i hit my 1 year in CT mark in May)!!!

This new doctor is even nicer and was so patient and kind!!!

The folks at PP may have their moments, but it's worth it all when things actually work out and look up like this. I am forever grateful to them for everything.

(also! Steve got promoted to IT/clinic manager!! as of what the doc told me abt that today lol!!)

[unrealcosima]

Some of the responses to the writer and actor strike has shown me that there are a lot of dumb people and very little worker solidarity

[cutmytaxes1]

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[syriaccpa]

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[coolasabowtie]

i'd like to take this opportunity to thank past me for creating three separate reminders on my phone to pay my estimated tax this quarter. after seeing the first two reminders over this past week and promptly forgetting both of them, that third one really came in clutch

[oconnor2023]

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[gleefully-macabre]

Has anyone done a fic where Moist Von Lipwig gets put in charge of the Ankh-Morpork equivalent of the IRS? The fact that he never got the chance to Big Sell the wealthy nobility out of 10 years of back taxes plus interest while rewriting the tax code in order to justify hefty rebates to the poor (they’ve been overpaying taxes for generations!) and, I dunno, killing the automobile industry in its infancy for funsies is a gourd damned travesty!

[gatheringbones]

[“How do we, today, make the poor in America poor? In at least three ways. First, we exploit them. We constrain their choice and power in the labor market, the housing market, and the financial market, driving down wages while forcing the poor to overpay for housing and access to cash and credit. Those of us who are not poor benefit from these arrangements. Corporations benefit from worker exploitation, sure, but so do consumers who buy the cheap goods and services the working poor produce, and so do those of us directly or indirectly invested in the stock market. Landlords are not the only ones who benefit from housing exploitation; many homeowners do, too, their property values propped up by the collective effort to make housing scarce and expensive. The banking and payday lending industries profit from the financial exploitation of the poor, but so do those of us with free checking accounts at Bank of America or Wells Fargo, as those accounts are subsidized by billions of dollars in overdraft fees. If we burn coal, we get electricity, but we get sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide and other airborne toxins, too. We can’t have the electricity without producing the pollution. Opulence in America works the same way. Someone bears the cost.

Second, we prioritize the subsidization of affluence over the alleviation of poverty. The United States could effectively end poverty in America tomorrow without increasing the deficit if it cracked down on corporations and families who cheat on their taxes, reallocating the newfound revenue to those most in need of it. Instead, we let the rich slide and give the most to those who have plenty already, creating a welfare state that heavily favors the upper class. And then our elected officials have the audacity—the shamelessness, really—to fabricate stories about poor people’s dependency on government aid and shoot down proposals to reduce poverty because they would cost too much. Glancing at the price tag of some program that would cut child poverty in half or give all Americans access to a doctor, they suck their teeth and ask, “But how can we afford it?” How can we afford it? What a sinful question. What a selfish, dishonest question, one asked as if the answer wasn’t staring us straight in the face. We could afford it if we allowed the IRS to do its job. We could afford it if the well-off among us took less from the government. We could afford it if we designed our welfare state to expand opportunity and not guard fortunes.

Third, we create prosperous and exclusive communities. And in doing so, we not only create neighborhoods with concentrated riches but also neighborhoods with concentrated despair—the externality of stockpiled opportunity. Wealth traps breed poverty traps. The concentration of affluence breeds more affluence, and the concentration of poverty, more poverty. To be poor is miserable, but to be poor and surrounded by poverty on all sides is a much deeper cut.Likewise, to be rich and surrounded by riches on all sides is a level of privilege of another order.

We need not be debt collectors or private prison wardens to play a role in producing poverty in America. We need only to vote yes on policies that lead to private opulence and public squalor and, with that opulence, build a life behind a wall that we tend and maintain. We may plaster our wall with Gadsden flags or rainbow flags, All Lives Matter signs or Black Lives Matter signs. The wall remains the wall, indifferent to our decorations.”]

matthew desmond, from poverty: by america, 2023

[ophilosoraptoro]

So if Mar A Lago is actually worth less than half of what it's appraised, does that mean Trump has been overpaying property taxes on it for several decades, and can reclaim everything he was overcharged?

[ihopesocomic]

Adamant's "Sorry, it's just what I've been taught. Force of habit." breaks my heart- possibly heightened by the phenomenal delivery in the dub and Hope's followed soft "It's alright, Adamant." I have a lot of thoughts but I'm terrible at putting things into words so I'll just go with saying you guys are so so so good at getting across how the abusive situation affects the siblings who are the "favorites" too.

Also, can't forget the apologising for your own abuse because it's been ingrained in you that you have to apologise for everything.

Hell, I even apologised to some dude from my tax department once for overpaying tax and he was all wtf? Like Adamant says: force of habit. oof But thank you so much, anon. I agree with you that the dub did such a great job on the delivery of that moment too. The defeat in Adamant's voice perfectly conveys the variety of emotions both she and Hopeful feel about how they treated and how much of it was not right. At all. - RJ

[steeplewack]

EDIT: THANKS EVERYONE WHO HELPED OUT, WE'RE OK NOW!

Whelp, I really didn't think I'd ever have to make this post, but here we are!

Today my office's HR department informed me that they have been overpaying me for the past three months, and are taking the difference out of my next paycheck, leaving me with rent money and nothing else until September.

Combined with climbing temperatures, increasingly costly energy costs, and my residence taxes hitting me like a ton of bricks, I'm pretty freaked out.

If (and only if) you're in a position to throw a couple dollhairs my way, i would be eternally grateful! If you are with me in dire straits land, please take care of yourself

UPDATE: my coworker threatened to quit and throw off a major business trip and lo and behold, HR suddenly has found the capability to split their fuckup over several months. I'm out of the worst of it and able to give back everything y'all helped with!

[bruinhilda]

So Dad being sick so much has thrown a lot off. Most notably, he hasn't been filing his tax returns. Now, as he's someone who overpays into the system and always gets a return, this has not been a disaster. The IRS doesn't actually give a rat's ass if you don't file when THEY owe YOU.

But this year I decided to help him start filing his taxes like a good citizen. At least this year's. I did it online, using the same service I use for mine.

And 4 days ago he got a formal letter from the IRS saying they suspect his identity has been stolen, someone filed a return for him! So he has to prove his identity to them before they'll actually process his return and give him his refund.

We tried the online one. The "fast and easy!" It took two hours of jumping through goddamn hoops and shaving his beard for the facial recognition technology to utterly fail to work. So they want to verify via video chat.

My phone does not do video chat. Dad's flip phone certainly doesn't. So that's fucked.

So today we're trying to do it via the phone number the IRS has for failing to do this shit online. If it doesn't work, they're going to drag my handicapped father into an IRS office just to verify that yes, it's him, and yes, he's filing his goddamn taxes like you supposedly WANT him to do.

It took 45 minutes of dialing in to get put on hold. Calling in, sitting through 2-3 minutes of the machine babbling at you, being told, "due to high call volume, we can't help you, call back, *click*"

Finally, it let us through to the point it put us on hold. 15-30 minute wait. We're still waiting, and I'm pretty sure it's been more than half an hour now. Fortunately, Dad is pretty chipper today and is saying he's willing to wait the 4 more hours this office is open for if need be.

I have no real hopes here. I expect one of two outcomes: they disconnect and we have to start all over again, or they make him go in person just to fucking jerk us around.

[cutmytaxes1]

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