- Taxes - 6 Updates
- Making online reservations for flight and hotel - 3 Updates
- Dating? - 1 Update
| The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com>: Jan 08 02:11PM -0800 On 01/08/2019 01:58 PM, Dennis wrote: > e-file state taxes, so screw them - paper, envelope and stamps it is. > Probably costs the morons (and thus, the taxpayers) more money to > receive and process paper filing, too. California likewise. Seems really stupid. HRB generates the forms in what seem to be machine-readable form... Probably has to do with pandering to some union. >>Risk the $35! You'll be glad you did. > I got H&R Block Deluxe + State 2018 for $25 at Amazon (w/special > promotion). It was more at Amazon when I looked. BB was $35+tax-$5 GC. And I used $30 worth of my BB 'rewards'. -- Cheers, Bev A recent psychic fair was cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. |
| Dennis <dgw80@hotmail.com>: Jan 08 02:40PM -0800 >I still can't believe I was able to turn it around in a such a dramatic fashion , mainly because I still have no idea what I am doing and fear it could fall apart at any minute, but now it just seems like life is mocking me. Ah, my automated system is finally up and running! >I definitely don't mind paying taxes, I am so thankful I live in a land where I can amass a small fortune just pointing and clicking a few hours a day but am confounded by all the complications and contradictions involved in just calculating and paying the proper amount. I am so sick of dealing with this shit. IIRC, didn't you say the same thing when you were doing the phone answering service gig? Dennis (evil) -- "There is a fine line between participation and mockery" - Wally |
| The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com>: Jan 09 09:18AM -0800 On 01/08/2019 02:53 PM, ItsJoan NotJoann wrote: > No state income tax here but TurboTax would just looooove to import all my > information for $29.95. That's ok, I'm quite capable of entering my own > name, address, SS number, etc. They both suck in each other's useful stuff as well as their own. They import a lot of investment info, but not the numbers. A handy reminder if you have a number of accounts. Useful, but not really necessary. California state income tax used to end up being roughly 10% of the federal. Now it's nearly half. Bastards. -- Cheers, Bev ========================================= "Welcome to Hell, here's your accordion." |
| Dennis <dgw80@hotmail.com>: Jan 09 12:55PM -0800 On Wed, 9 Jan 2019 09:18:04 -0800, The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> wrote: >California state income tax used to end up being roughly 10% of the >federal. Now it's nearly half. Bastards. Plus you have what - 9%? - sales tax. My son just moved to the Bay area to start his first real professional job out of college. Major sticker shock. Dennis (evil) -- My output is down, my income is up, I take a short position on the long bond and my revenue stream has its own cash flow. -George Carlin |
| ItsJoan NotJoann <itsjoannotjoann@webtv.net>: Jan 09 05:03PM -0800 On Wednesday, January 9, 2019 at 2:55:36 PM UTC-6, Dennis wrote: > area to start his first real professional job out of college. Major > sticker shock. > Dennis (evil) Sales tax here is 9.25 to 9.45%. |
| Michael Black <mblack@pubnix.net>: Jan 09 08:00PM -0500 On Wed, 9 Jan 2019, Dennis wrote: > Plus you have what - 9%? - sales tax. My son just moved to the Bay > area to start his first real professional job out of college. Major > sticker shock. I gather things are far worse out there, like rent going up and making it hard for people to live. We have 9.5% provincial sales tax here, that's on top of 5% "goods and services tax" which isn't on food, but is on "luxury" items like chocolate bars. GST is on books, but this province doesn't charge PST on them. The GST has been around since 1990, replacing a tax that had been built into the price, so it's not there on some things. But at the time, not much that I bought (other than electronics, and it wasn't like I bought taht all the time) had no tax, now it's a lot more common for me, even clothes. On the other hand, if you make below a certain amount per year, you get about $88 quarterly from the federal government as a GST rebate, and $156 quarterly from the province as a rebate on provincial sales tax. So almost a thousand dollars back each year, with the advantage of it comes in decent size chunks. I don't spend enough, so it's more like found money. YOu have to file income tax, but it's not based on whether you pay income tax. I skipped a few years, not enough income, and I actually got back a few years of retro-rebates last year, the feds allow it for up to ten years, the province is stingier. Michael |
| ggggg9271@gmail.com: Jan 08 10:17PM -0800 Do buy flight insurance? When looking for a hotel, any recommendations for online sites to try out and to avoid? |
| ItsJoan NotJoann <itsjoannotjoann@webtv.net>: Jan 09 08:13AM -0800 > Do buy flight insurance? > When looking for a hotel, any recommendations for online sites to try out and to avoid? Where are you heading? |
| John Weiss <jrweiss98155@comcast.net>: Jan 09 01:04PM -0800 > Do buy flight insurance? > When looking for a hotel, any recommendations for online sites to try out and to avoid? Insurance not needed for regular domestic flights. You might consider vacation insurance if you are taking a major international trip. I usually use Expedia, then check the hotel chain to verify prices. most major chains and some airlines have a "low price guarantee" these days. |
| "catalpa" <catalpa@entertab.org>: Jan 08 08:59PM -0500 "The Real Bev" <bashley101@gmail.com> wrote in message news:q12jhb$1t0$1@dont-email.me... > newsgroups recently? Are these people message-in-a-bottle desperate or is > there some shadowy entity out there playing mean jokes on people? > Same for requests for solution manuals... Need to bring back the frugal sex guy to tell them how to get dates. |
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