Did you use it to get caught up on bills? Did you splurge for something you've been wanting?


We are using ours to get caught up on some bills, some toward a mini trip this summer, and the one thing we are allowing ourselves to buy (entertainment-wise) is a Wii and Wii Fit. I'm excited to get that! :)

Refund, lol. I'm hoping I have enough to cover what I have to pay. 1099...

signature banned as well

I bought a ticket to my event in LA this coming April

Ain't got no refund!!  :-\\

Our government is in a very sorry financial state at the moment so I don't expect my tax refund anytime this year.  >:(

Typically I save half and spend the other half.  I am interested in putting together another computer for myself,  so I will probably splurge on that. 

Refund? What refund?  Usually I get a couple hundred, but this year (thanks to a couple of testing companies who made me self employed--since when?) I have to pay over $400.  Luckily my state refund (which would have been nice to use on bills and to take M somewhere for break) will cover the majority, but I still have to come up with more than I've got.......

Don't expect much.  They are deducting whatever money you received last in year in the stimulus check.  After adding the fed and state returns I will get a grand total of $127.

Not a damned thing.  We don't file taxes, because on paper, Rice Cube doesn't make money.

Not a damned thing.  We don't file taxes, because on paper, Rice Cube doesn't make money.


I make money, but even if we filed taxes we wouldn't have to pay because I fall below the poverty line :D  We don't file because we have absolutely no tax liability.

I set it aside to pay my siding payments this year.  I figured it would be better to save it that way and make interest since my siding is interest free unless I pay late.  Gotta love dealing with small companies. ;D

Nothing yet.

My Daughter didn't want a class ring from HS...so I got Her one She's had Her eye on,for Her Birthday.
The rest...............casualties of life..........bills/expenses.

This year, I owed, quite a bit.  :(

I think we would pay more in taxes if we paid everything we are supposed to based on my husbands earnings, so the company pays the difference on our behalf.  If we were due a refund the company would probably keep it.  They kept the tax refund extra thing that was paid out last year.

It's more tax-efficient to have long-term gains not offset by short-term losses - and to defer the short-term losses until 2009 for use against future short-term gains, since in 2009 you won't have any long-term gains left. 

But the depressing part about dumping your winning long-term positions in 2008 (long before they got to zero) and holding your losing short-term positions until 2009 (because they're already as close to zero as makes no odds) is that you end up owing taxes in the year that took around half your wealth down the drain. 

And to add injury to insult, because I didn't donate enough to the Democratic Party to get myself a cabinet appointment, "not paying the taxes" isn't an option for me either.

Frack 'em.  I still have the right to file for an extension.  What would happen, I wonder, if everyone due a refund, were to file early... and everyone who owed taxes, were to file, on April 14th, for an extension based on nothing more but a promise to pay the owed tax (plus 2 months' interest and penalties) 60 days later?  Would it be enough to tip the whole system over?

What if taxpayers, tired of carrying the weight of bailing out the politically-connected to the tune of $700B every three months (like clockwork, no matter whether an Elephant or a Jackass is in power), decided it wasn't their problem anymore?

If I saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if I saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater his effort the
heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders-what would I tell him to do?

I can't speak for the rest of my fellow taxpayers, but I?  I would tell him to shrug.