[patriciaruth]

Just filed for an Automatic Extension by visiting www.irs.gov and using their phone service.

This will be the last year they have the phone extension filing service.

Hopefully next year, I'll know today is April 15, not the 14th as I thought.

However, now that our taxable income is exceeded by our standard deduction and exemptions, I won't bother to add up all the other deductions, and should be able to file easily from now on.

[ilovew]

My mom did that too. (Except, I think she said she doesn't qualify but by the time they figure that out, she'll have the money to pay for it.) I heard on the news that Treasury Secretary Snow waited till the last minute too. (Must've been slow for news at the time. Or they thought that was really important.)

[MJY1288]

This year I found out that we could claim my mother-in-law as a dependent, since she lives with us. We decided to submit amended tax returns for the past three years, and we are getting back an additional $2,600.00 -)

We will use it to put a new roof on our home, it needs it bad. For the past year or so, I pick up pieces of shingles from our yard after every storm that blows through this windy hill we live on. It's time for a new roof :-)

[snugs]

Your tax filing confuses me. In the UK normally the only people that have to do tax returns are self employed or people that own a business. The number of people though I keep hearing about filing their tax returns I keep thinking surely they don't all own their own businesses or do self employed jobs.

In the UK I do know some people who do fill in a return if they believe there is something they should have claimed for in the year but didn't but then unless their circumstances changes they would not need to file another one the following year because their tax code would be altered and the correct deductions would be made from their pay.

Is your system the same or is it different? I get the impression rightly or wrongly that some of your tax is deducted/paid as you go but some is collected at the end of the year can someone explain to a confused English person? Thanks.