Cycling related tax return plans?
01-24-12, 10:39 PM
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Cycling related tax return plans?
I'm hoping if I sell off my carbon Fuji and mix that with my tax return, I can hopefully get myself a nice custom steel from Majacobicycles.com 
01-24-12, 11:43 PM
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Yeah, I'm gonna ride my bike to the post office to send out my taxes. The government is not a bank, a bank is a bank, or to a lesser degree a credit union is a bank.
01-25-12, 03:00 AM
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My tax refund plan is to vote for Ron Paul, let him do away with the IRS, and spend all the money I save on cycling.
01-25-12, 04:37 AM
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Now is the time to update your W4 form so you don't loan the government so much money next year...
01-25-12, 05:29 AM
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^ this... most of those people don't realize they're just getting their money back, without a penny of interest. somehow they see it as the IRS giving them a gift. with my tax refund last year, i was able to get 2 boxes of bar tape and that was it.
01-25-12, 06:24 AM
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Tax returns are like the lottery; they appeal to the mathematically challenged.
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01-25-12, 06:39 AM
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I'm going to get my USAC license and then apply for a cat downgrade.
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01-25-12, 06:44 AM
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01-25-12, 06:51 AM
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I get a little back thanks to the fact that I pay for my schooling out of my own pocket, so I'm going to take that and donate it to the nonprofit I'm riding across the country with this summer.
01-25-12, 07:36 AM
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In before the Foo transfer.
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But who are we kidding, over half this country's eligible voters don't vote anyway. But they are the ones complaining all the time...
I plan on taking my Federal tax return and paying my state return (work won't withhold at my state's graduated level because I work in a different state)...if there is any left over, it is not going to new bike purchases...that's what selling my old stuff on ebay is for!
01-25-12, 07:51 AM
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Let's get it off the politics before it has to be moved to P&R.
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01-25-12, 07:52 AM
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01-25-12, 07:53 AM
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what's a tax return ?
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01-25-12, 08:23 AM
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It's money that you lent your goverment, so they could load up $66,000,000.00 of it in trucks, and then ship it over to IRAQ and distribute it to various Iraqi officals. Then they took the money and stole, I mean lost most of it......
However seeing as you lent the U.S. Gov't the money interest free we didn't lose as much as we might have...
However seeing as you lent the U.S. Gov't the money interest free we didn't lose as much as we might have...
01-25-12, 09:58 AM
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Being mathematically challenged, how much interest are you making say you get your $2000 spread out over twelve months and of course you're not touching this money? Is it enough to buy bar tape?
01-25-12, 10:02 AM
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I pad mine a little to ensure I didn't screw up somewhere and end up owing money at the end of the year. If interest rates were better I might worry about that small interest free loan I gave the government, but the few cents of interest I lost is worth it to insure I don't end up writing a check.
01-25-12, 10:05 AM
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exactly. Its not even $2000 spread over 12 months. Its $120 or so the first month and builds until you hit $2000 (or in my case $1100) at the end of the year.