Official tax refund thread vol. for the 2015 tax year

I owe about $200. I goofed. Should have reduce my income by selling the full $3k worth of losses. I ****** up.
 
If anyone doesn't actually want a large refund, I found this wage bracket method chart rather helpful
https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p15.pdf
Page 46. All else equal, You can raise or lower your allowances to get more or less back.

Say you made a grand a week. Zero allowances would have $159 withheld. With 3 allowances, they would withhold $101. So depending on your refund amount from the year prior and everything staying the same, you can see if that $3 grand later , or $58/week is more useful to you.

There is NO free money. You may have other liabilities, so it may be safe to have more taken out. Some seem to let the government take advantage of them, and then feel like they are rewarding you. It;s called a refund for a reason.
 
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just amended my return in Turbo Tax, forgot that being in school I get a 1098-T so now they should be giving me 1k back for fed.

too bad I have to send the paperwork back via mail and they are sending a check and it says it can take 8-20 weeks
:x
 
I'm going to wait to do an amend forgot to put my new car taxes.
 
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got an appt on saturday, can't wait.

wonder how much more i'll get with the house and baby on board
 
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Just got my refund deposited into my b of a account
So I heard bush tax breaks had expired
Which is why refunds kinda went down
Not sure how much truth it is or not
 
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If anyone doesn't actually want a large refund, I found this wage bracket method chart rather helpful
https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p15.pdf
Page 46. All else equal, You can raise or lower your allowances to get more or less back.

Say you made a grand a week. Zero allowances would have $159 withheld. With 3 allowances, they would withhold $101. So depending on your refund amount from the year prior and everything staying the same, you can see if that $3 grand later , or $58/week is more useful to you.

There is NO free money. You may have other liabilities, so it may be safe to have more taken out. Some seem to let the government take advantage of them, and then feel like they are rewarding you. It;s called a refund for a reason.
Good info, I just adjusted my allowances this week to see how much it affects my check. I'll prob update em again next month so I can find that sweet spot
 
still no movement

accepted 1/22
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what did you use and what kind of refund did you choose? direct deposit?
 
E-file with TaxAct.




Didn't get nothing but $100 back, so maybe that had something to do with it :lol




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Still no movement over here on my end hell my refund hasnt moved past the accepted stage
 
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