Taxes...

So last year taxes were easy. 2 W-2's and that was about it.

This year after buying a house and renting it out....

2 W-2's
Home Buyer Credit Form
Mortgage Payments (1098 Form)
Real Estate Tax
Tax Record from 2009
Rental Property Income

and the list goes on and on!

Eek.

I'm doing our taxes this year but next year I'm taking them in! We'll have 2 additional babies and a house!

I soooo don't even wanna do taxes. I'm scared I'm going to have to pay in. (just have a nagging feeling in the pit of my stomach)

we are having the military do ours, 1 W2 and 1 W2 from a savings account...its so easy to just take it in and have them do it then get it back 10 days later i love it...i just wish our forms were done sooner...according to mypay...dod civilians get theres like 10 days b4 active duty marines

Yeah I've never done my taxes. We always get everything around and send them to my Mom's tax guy.

This year though we want the return ASAP so we have decided we are going to take them on base and get them done....I'm just getting anxious because its a lot of stuff to get gathered and I want to make sure I have it ALL in one trip so I don't have to go back and forth getting paper work!

Kala hopefully you don't have to pay in!

Kelly wrote:we are having the military do ours, 1 W2 and 1 W2 from a savings account...its so easy to just take it in and have them do it then get it back 10 days later i love it...i just wish our forms were done sooner...according to mypay...dod civilians get theres like 10 days b4 active duty marines

I know I saw that I was going to print Johns off so I can start getting everything around (we are doing ours on base too but I know it will take longer than 10 days for ours) and noticed that Marine W-2's aren't done until the 18th!

I loved having the military do ours last year. Fast. Easy.

I always worry that I'll have to pay...

Last year we had a nice return because the year prior, Jon was deployed.

It's odd for us. We file joint but he files in WI and I file in NC.

I'm freaking out with taxes since it's the first year I'm trying to file myself.

I will have 2 W-2's from 2 different states, so there is no way I could do them ourselves.

Kala, if you use Turbotax or something, it asks you about other states. There's options on there!

Tate wrote:

Kelly wrote:we are having the military do ours, 1 W2 and 1 W2 from a savings account...its so easy to just take it in and have them do it then get it back 10 days later i love it...i just wish our forms were done sooner...according to mypay...dod civilians get theres like 10 days b4 active duty marines

I know I saw that I was going to print Johns off so I can start getting everything around (we are doing ours on base too but I know it will take longer than 10 days for ours) and noticed that Marine W-2's aren't done until the 18th!

when you do them through the military it takes 10 business days no matter what. just make sure you have both your and DH and sons ssn card, ids and a check for your bank account so they have the routing and account numbers so you can get it...if you dont have the account and routing then they cant do it. and make sure you go right when they open in the mornings...its not very crowded at all so you wont wait that long...one time i waited for 4 hours only to have them tell me that their systems went down

Kala wrote:I loved having the military do ours last year. Fast. Easy.

Good glad to hear since this will be the first time us filing through them!

Jeannette wrote:I always worry that I'll have to pay...

Last year we had a nice return because the year prior, Jon was deployed.

It's odd for us. We file joint but he files in WI and I file in NC.

I guess Johns would be NC but mine is from AR we always file joint as well.

Kala wrote:I will have 2 W-2's from 2 different states, so there is no way I could do them ourselves.

What Jeannette said. Although I always like to take my taxes to someone that knows what they are doing that way I always get the max amount possible!

Yeah, I just don't feel comfortable doing ours ourself.

Tate - John would be AR too! He keeps his orginal state of residency throughout the service unless he chooses to change it. You guys should both be AR.

Mine changed to NC because of the income and residency.

dont worry tate they will be able to work it out...they are good

Kala wrote:Yeah, I just don't feel comfortable doing ours ourself.

I'm right there with you!

Jeannette wrote:Tate - John would be AR too! He keeps his orginal state of residency throughout the service unless he chooses to change it. You guys should both be AR.

Mine changed to NC because of the income and residency.

Yeah thats right I forgot!

Kelly wrote:

Tate wrote:

Kelly wrote:we are having the military do ours, 1 W2 and 1 W2 from a savings account...its so easy to just take it in and have them do it then get it back 10 days later i love it...i just wish our forms were done sooner...according to mypay...dod civilians get theres like 10 days b4 active duty marines

I know I saw that I was going to print Johns off so I can start getting everything around (we are doing ours on base too but I know it will take longer than 10 days for ours) and noticed that Marine W-2's aren't done until the 18th!

when you do them through the military it takes 10 business days no matter what. just make sure you have both your and DH and sons ssn card, ids and a check for your bank account so they have the routing and account numbers so you can get it...if you dont have the account and routing then they cant do it. and make sure you go right when they open in the mornings...its not very crowded at all so you wont wait that long...one time i waited for 4 hours only to have them tell me that their systems went down

Awesomeness! Yeah we will definitely get there in the mornings Thats the only time to do anything on base otherwise your waiting in line forever!

yea i know...then in the afternoons every single time we went their system always went down so we finally went in the morning last year and seriously waited like 10 minutes b4 being called

Our are going to be crazy this year too. I think we will have someone do them.

Kelly wrote:yea i know...then in the afternoons every single time we went their system always went down so we finally went in the morning last year and seriously waited like 10 minutes b4 being called

yeah I'd be pretty upset!! "Oh sorry you waited 4 hours now you can go home because our system is down!"

oh i was livid! and that wasnt the only time that happened either

Blah. So they do a good job but their computers are not reliable I'll make sure and warn DH before we go!

well if you go in the morning it should be good, it seems that every tax season in the afternoons their system goes down from so much use

Yeah I'd guess so!