Himself put Laurel to bed when he got home from work a few hours ago. This is what I heard...
Himself: Bedtime for bonzo!
Laurel: [starts crying]
Himself: Baby fire engine!
Laurel: [runs down the hall wailing and fussing]
Himself: [from Laurel's room] Where's the baby fire?
Laurel: [continues fussing]
Himself: Hey, there aren't any babies on fire in here!
Laurel: [climbs into bed, decides it's not that bad with her blankets and Kitty, and stops fussing]
Himself: [after returning to the living room] Well, there weren't any babies on fire. Just one that didn't want to go to bed.
You'd think it's always this fun around here, but it's mostly because we finally got a copy of his W-2 (the original is in the Middle East with his old shop) and after filing, we're getting close to $3k back. For the interested, that makes our current tax rate around -20%. I knew there was a perk to living below the poverty line. (:
Himself: Bedtime for bonzo!
Laurel: [starts crying]
Himself: Baby fire engine!
Laurel: [runs down the hall wailing and fussing]
Himself: [from Laurel's room] Where's the baby fire?
Laurel: [continues fussing]
Himself: Hey, there aren't any babies on fire in here!
Laurel: [climbs into bed, decides it's not that bad with her blankets and Kitty, and stops fussing]
Himself: [after returning to the living room] Well, there weren't any babies on fire. Just one that didn't want to go to bed.
You'd think it's always this fun around here, but it's mostly because we finally got a copy of his W-2 (the original is in the Middle East with his old shop) and after filing, we're getting close to $3k back. For the interested, that makes our current tax rate around -20%. I knew there was a perk to living below the poverty line. (:
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As for poverty...
My tax return was $3,200 this year. I'm still not sure whether I should be happy about that.
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I'm glad we actually got a tax refund this year since last year's was all FUBAR'd -- since we were in different states at the time, he had them prepared on-base and now finance claims it was never filed (they said a whole block prepared on base were lost last year). I plan to refile last year's myself since Robert has no copy of last year's taxes to prove it did go through.
My best year income-wise was a hair over 30k, and I still got back 2k from the feds, having them take out no fed taxes all year. I got back about a grand from the state of MA that year too, though they withheld about $500 for the year in taxes.
Granted, I'm a single mom of 2, and had fun stuff like daycare expenses to reduce (eliminate) what little tax liability I did have, that and the child tax credit. The additional child tax credit and the EIC are both BEAUTIFUL programs.
Hehe baby fire engine!