The Government Said No.............and that's when the fight started.

no no no I give birth, husband does taxes.... He got the short end of the stick...

Don't know nuffink about taxes Sparky. I don't pay any! But the internet loss that's serious! Will you still have your telephone. I may have to call you!

we have been using an accountant service to do our home and my shop tax. I have tried do it myself but it was wrong and the accountant had to revise it. so for years now he has been taking care of ours and I'd rather use him again now that the tax laws changed. Not sure though which laws changed but we will talk to the accountant when he comes to file our tax and maybe he can give us tips for us to survive until end of this year. I can't believe H&R bans people and I think a carry over is a carry over, it's not your fault that you can't fully claim it last year because they limit the number you can claim anyway. and yes, march isn't my favorite month either. april to september are.

Haven't done my taxes yet but mine should be quite simple and straight forward since I have only recieved unemployment and am only getting the taxes I paid into the federal government on it. LOL!! And no I go to H&R Block usually because I hate doing my own taxes so unfortunately for you that is a no go on me doing yours. LOL!!!

I don't have taxes to do being on comp but mu husband will get a real nice break on what he owes Uncle Sam since he can claim me and my 4 kids as his dependents this year. That is, even after my oldest daughters father claimed her as a dependent on HIS tax return even after he lost primary physical custody of her in March of 2007. I would love to see the look on his face when he gets his letter from the IRS telling him he needs to pay back her portion of the child tax credit he received this year....plus interest! But so far I have already done my step brothers taxes and my grand fathers taxes. My grandfather was quite pleased with me. He cashed in $24,000 worth of his stocks and thought he was going to be paying through the nose. After doing itemized deductions for him and giving myself a migraine in the process, not only doesn't he owe any money he is going to get $68 back from the government. Which he promptly pulled out of his wallet and gave me for my time. lol H&R block would have charged him 3x that much to do the work I did for him, but it's Ok. Try TAXACT.com. Pay the extra $9.99 and do the itemized deductions. I've been using them for 4 years and having had a return rejected yet.

Yeah I filed mine already. I did it online through the IRS site. FREE!! Everyone I know goes straight to H&R Block, and I used them once until I realized that I could do what she was doing for myself and save myself the $100-200. And don't get me started on that emerald card....crap. This year I got my tax refund exactly one week from the date I filed online. Now my state is another thing entirely. Because I have no children and am single...well you know what will happen with that refund, right? I'll be lucky getting back anything. I am just going to mail that in. Which I have not done yet.....Good luck with your IRS woes.

My kids did that Turbo tax thing and already got refund back and spent!

Here's my current dilemma: 1) I owe $150 for a ticket (but don't get paid until the 13th), 2) I make JUST enough to pay my bills, 3) I'm still without my own Internet due to a glitch, 4) I owe FAR more money than I ever hope to make in a lifetime. I'm not even close to getting my taxes done--I bought the software to do them myself (I'm paying $400+ to do half the work???), and all I can think about is this tremendous financial disaster I'm in. And all because I needed to pick up my phone and find out what my kid needed! Ugh!!

Well now we have something else in common. The government takes our money too after they make changes in our income taxes that hve been prepared by anyone and everyone. I have yet to do mine and I'll be going to the same place as I have for 2 years prior to this. They have been the closest to what the government wants to take when they do our taxes. I plan to take my stuff to them this afternoon and they will call me in a week or so to come in and finalize everything. I'm so tired of paying taxes and hen them wanting eveything even more than w have paid in every year. And my husband only claims himself. Then when we do taxes we both get claimed, we still have to pay more in. It's a joke and the joke is on us since we are the ones losing money.

The system here is a lot different I am glad to say sparks so I don't have to go through all this! Are the tax officials mad? Saying no to sparks and expecting to get away with it? Somehow I think that Sparks will not be the loser! lol xxx

Why has H&R Block banned you? They can't turn away business. WTF? Or is it because you got mad when they wouldn't allow deductions you were previously allowed before? Did one of you make a scene? Handled the books? So what? That's not a full time job nor income. Not like he gives you a salary for it, does he? What do you mean carry over your son's deductions. They all should have been deducted in the year they were incurred and at the time they were incurred he was your dependant. Even if it was only half of last year. By rebate, you mean refund or the deductions against his income to reduce your total income for tax purposes? And H&R Block is not the be-all end-all either like everyone thinks they are. They just won't allow deductions that they are not 100% certain of if they are giving you a cashback. Were you doing a cashback? Or just having them file it for you? You can file your own, without them very easily, you know.

I've always done my own taxes, until this year. Because of our (my husband's) corporation, I didn't want to handle it. He's done corporate taxes before so he was the best choice. Besides, he did some totally freelance work, plus his corporate work, plus was employed by someone else. Too much paperwork for me! I don't know about the laws where you live, but here, in the U.S., we can claim anyone as a deduction as long as we have supported them for over 6 months of the tax year and they are not filing their own taxes. Not many people know about this little law. Of course, if they have made any money at all that year, you have to claim that money as your own income if you claim them as a dependent. I despise tax season! It's one time that we can all truly see where our own government stands as far as caring for it's citizens goes. If you owe them even one penny, they'll come after you with both barrels loaded, charging penalties and interest for each second you owe them but, when they owe you, they take their good ol' time getting that money to you, and we're not allowed to charge THEM penalties or interest! I also very much dislike tax season because so many people wait until the very last day to do their taxes. Guess when my birthday is? Yep, the day before taxes are due (also the anniversary of the day Lincoln was shot and when the Titanic hit the iceberg...not a good day). I never had a very good birthday celebration as an adult because all my friends were busy fretting over their taxes! Not fair!!! At least I'm old enough now to not really WANT to celebrate another birthday. You might be able to find some help by doing a search for "unusual tax deductions" or "strange but legal income tax deductions", something along those lines. It's truly amazing how some people manage to owe nothing and generally get almost every penny back that they've already paid in! We just recently learned that we were in error for 2007's taxes... by about $124,000.00! Holy Poop!!! That was the money my mother had in an IRA account that I inherited. We had totally forgotten about it by the time tax season rolled around in 2008 because all but $7,000.00 of that money went into buying this house and fixing up the old house to sell faster. As long as money you receive goes into real estate, you won't owe taxes on it. A great big, gigantic WHEW!!! Reading all you can about tax laws and legal deductions is a MUST! Don't go by what is listed on the tax forms. The government doesn't want to give you back any money they don't have to, so they leave a lot of legal deductions off of the tax forms. Nope, you've gotta do an internet search to see how other people have managed to "work" the system. Good luck to you!!!

No, we haven't done ours. My husband has been getting things together to take to our accountant/lawyer who does ours. It's just too complicated anymore to do your own with the laws the way they are, constantly changing. My daughter had hers done last Friday and she said her oldest son cost her $1,000 since he was no longer going to college and had turned 20 this past December. She did find that his and her daughter's father had filed to get her child support stopped, so she quickly sent in her daughter's form because she's claiming herself this year! I pray he didn't claim her! HE is a JERK from the word go...... He's claimed her for years and never done a thing for her but had money from his pay check sent to her Mom because it was in the divorce papers! My husband thinks we may possible get some back this year - haven't done that in YEARS! Or, hopefully we won't have to pay what we've always paid!

Why did H&R ban you? I didn't think they could do that! We've already done ours, before the new stuff went into effect. So we don't have to worry anymore this year. We've never gotten anything back anyways. Usually have to pay in. Sigh.

I can't remember if you responded to my discussion on taxes or not but I went thru quite a bit of hassle with the IRS this year as well. How about just filing without trying to get all the exemptions? I know a few people that filed the 1040 that could have filed for all the deductions and they fared better that way. H& r Block? I went to them once years ago and would never go back. My last dilema...I did call them. For a "small fee" they would investigate. I did consider it but I'm glad I put a bit more time in it myself...got it cleared up and got my rebate without their help. It sounds as if you are getting misunderstood. In my case I called a tax advocate which was listed in the front of my tax book and he was more than helpful.

Hi sparks, sorry to hear the problems you are having and hope that things sort themseves out....thanfully I don't have to deal with tax forms etc so dont have all that worry..yet I hate March and April because of the budget and never knowing what is going up or not....littleowl

HahaI'm not familiar with your taxes, hahaI still haven't done mine which I better get to it a.s.a.p, haha!~ Yeah, find those loopholes get back what rightfully belongs to you!~

Hi sparky, I do so feel for you as the law is different from ours, but I don't really understand all that business, my hubby works and he is emloyed and I am disable and on benefits so we don't have to do our tax returns, we did whe hubby was self-employed but not anymore, I wish you luck with yours, its a pain in the backside. Love and hugs. Tamara xxxxxx

I worked for H&R Block and they were very strict about any questionable returns, they needed to protect their audit ratio. The best advice I can give you is to make sure every expense has a paper trail, even if it's just a calendar with your working hours on it. These hours can only be used to delineates work time from personal time on your machines. The only way I know you can claim your hourly time is if you have a separate business from your husband and he buys a service from you. As you can imagine the IRS is not going to be very impressed with this idea. Home business are some of the most audited returns there are. Good Luck to you

uuggggghhhhh! unfortunately, i did my taxes, i screwed up on how many deductions i claimed, couldn't claim my daughter because it was my ex's turn and now i owe!! oh well just add it to the list of people i owe. what am i gonna do? i give up! lol! no sense in worrying about it, it isn't going to change anything.