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Ha, ha Maggie...She'd probably do your taxes for a small fee.

My CPA is really good but it cost me $300 bucks this year, which hurt alot...LOL! I'm not that good at keeping my receipts organized though. I felt like I should have given her more!

posted by Passionflower on October 28, 2006 at 12:16 PM | link to this | reply

Passion, get Blackcat to tell us where those writeoffs on taxes are.  I'd be interested.  I want all her secrets.

posted by MaggieMae on October 28, 2006 at 9:43 AM | link to this | reply

You're right about that, Blackcat...so many citizens

Are scared they'll be audited so they don't take certain deductions. We have a wonderful CPA. If something is at all questionable, she explains it to us. But she normally isn't afraid to include many items that the average Joe doesn't know you can take.

posted by Passionflower on October 28, 2006 at 8:59 AM | link to this | reply

Avant...Wow! How awful!

I hate that kind of thing. That happened to me at a Ross store once too. This black woman was checking out. She was purposely ignoring her son, who was jumping up and down trying to reach a skate board on the top shelf (there for a reason).

Anyway, he finally got one of them to fall off and when it fell it barely tipped him on the shoulder, so she sued the store. Some Lawyer called me a few weeks later and I told him the woman wasn't watching her kid. Also, that the kid wasn't injured.

posted by Passionflower on October 28, 2006 at 8:01 AM | link to this | reply

Lustor...WE should start a CLUB of all you

Regular "Straight Arrows"....what could we call it?

posted by Passionflower on October 28, 2006 at 7:51 AM | link to this | reply

Well said, Afzal!

How about slight distortion of the facts?

posted by Passionflower on October 28, 2006 at 7:49 AM | link to this | reply

LOL Strickgold...You sound just like Maggie.

 You guys....

posted by Passionflower on October 28, 2006 at 7:48 AM | link to this | reply

Tanga...I guess taxes and government works much

Differently in Zambia. Do you guys even pay taxes there?

posted by Passionflower on October 28, 2006 at 7:47 AM | link to this | reply

I actually think the average person is far too "honest" on their return.

It's not a matter of being honest... it's a matter of following the rules.  You may not feel you can or should deduct something, but if the rules allow for it, then you SHOULD! 

I do returns for quite a few people in my family, and they're ALWAYS surprised when I ask them for things that they never in a million years thought they could deduct.

posted by -blackcat on October 28, 2006 at 7:45 AM | link to this | reply

Shams....Many of us are angry right now with our govt.

We're all spending millions on a war that half of us don't believe in. You have NO choice in the matter. That's the way a democracy works.

posted by Passionflower on October 28, 2006 at 7:44 AM | link to this | reply

You make another good point Blackcat....

Large corporations can hire the very best, brightest people to figure their returns. They take advantage of stuff we never heard of.

posted by Passionflower on October 28, 2006 at 7:42 AM | link to this | reply

Ah-haaaaaaaaa Maggie....

You're a BIG scaredy-cat!   LOL-It's a good way to stay out of trouble.

posted by Passionflower on October 28, 2006 at 7:40 AM | link to this | reply

There are grey areas on tax returns that most people aren't savy enough

to take advantage of.  It's not cheating and would stand up in an audit.  

What kills me is that the richest people in the country make sure to get every dime back from the Govt, while the average person just doesn't know any better.  I wish they would learn. 

posted by -blackcat on October 28, 2006 at 7:40 AM | link to this | reply

Food4th....You're exactly right!

The govt has never been forthcoming or honest about how they spend our money...Countless millions have been wasted on "CRAP"...

posted by Passionflower on October 28, 2006 at 7:38 AM | link to this | reply

Of course it is Whacky...

posted by Passionflower on October 28, 2006 at 7:36 AM | link to this | reply

I don't think it's ok to lie, cheat, and/or steal from anybody, Passion.  No, I've never cheated on my taxes.  Firstly, I wouldn't cheat, Secondly, if I did, I'd worry all the time about getting caught.  It wouldn't be worth the consequences.   I've never been in a situation to have to lie to an insurance company, and I wouldn't if I had been.  I'm a great big chicken where things like that are concerned.

posted by MaggieMae on October 28, 2006 at 3:59 AM | link to this | reply

I would apply for EVERY exemption I could for taxes that my cheating

government uses to kill innocents around the world!!!!!!!

posted by Shams-i-Heartsong on October 28, 2006 at 3:35 AM | link to this | reply

Nope.

Mrs Tanga

posted by Tanga on October 28, 2006 at 3:26 AM | link to this | reply

Passionflower

People sue at the drop of a hat anymore. I made a big black lady at Wal-Mart who was asking the people around her for their names and numbers before she hit the floor. She was too heavy to pick up when I got to her. I leaned in and whispered, "You're going to have to help us, because you're too big to be picked up." She looked up at me and said, "Then you're going to have to get some help."  I walked off. "You guys get her up however you want." That pissed me off. I told them at the hospital that she was full of shit.

posted by avant-garde on October 28, 2006 at 3:19 AM | link to this | reply

If suppression of fact is cheating then I am in for it . Thanks.

posted by afzal50 on October 28, 2006 at 12:23 AM | link to this | reply

confession

I would feel so guilty I would feel so bad

posted by lustorlove on October 27, 2006 at 9:58 PM | link to this | reply

PF

I guess honesty is my middle name-- sometimes I am too honest for my own good.  I can only think of one time that I ever cheated in my life and it was on an 8th grade English test-- I felt so guilty that I went to the teacher and told her that I cheated.    

posted by StrickGold on October 27, 2006 at 9:55 PM | link to this | reply

PF...

While I would probably cheat on my taxes, my returns are never that complicated.  That and my wife is an accountant and for her to get caught cheating would be a strict no-no.  The government does lots of things it doesn't want us to know about, so what better example can I site?  After all, when they squander taxpayers money, isn't that like cheating us?

posted by food4thought on October 27, 2006 at 9:44 PM | link to this | reply

Is cheating ever 'all right?'

posted by Whacky on October 27, 2006 at 8:36 PM | link to this | reply

Lady...that's one reason many think it's okay to cheat the govt.

We've paid thousands into SS and Medicare for many years with no guarantee that we'll ever get any of it back. We have NO choice either.

posted by Passionflower on October 27, 2006 at 7:45 PM | link to this | reply

well just like in church when you give money

maybe i should just give the government $50 today because i fell "fairly safe".  they rape us with their taxes and i wonder if i will get any social security when i am 63?

posted by ladychardonnay on October 27, 2006 at 7:36 PM | link to this | reply

LOL LadyChar...I don't believe in Karma....I'm a Christian.

But I DO believe you reap what you sow. Many people think it's okay to cheat the govt though. Do you?

posted by Passionflower on October 27, 2006 at 7:32 PM | link to this | reply

only lie if you have a good memory

bad karma comes back to you when you lie - the truth is the best

posted by ladychardonnay on October 27, 2006 at 7:29 PM | link to this | reply