Taxes

  • Filing Your Taxes: The Ultimate DIY Project


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    Just a heads up, this post is sponsored by the folks at TurboTax. This should go without saying, but all content and opinions are our own and came straight from our own noggins. When I was a freshman in college, I took one of those personality tests that would analyze…

  • Maximizing My Tax Return

    Boosting My Tax Refund… On Purpose


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    Back in May 2012, I quit my first ‘real’ job, and I started working at my current company on the last day of July. During those two summer months at home, we were blessed with the delivery of our first child. Once I returned to work, I was greeted with…

  • Privacy concerns at tax time

    Avoiding Identity Theft During Tax Season


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    Just a heads up, this post is sponsored by the fine folks at Block Advisors. This should go without saying, but all opinions are our own and came straight from our own noggins. A few years ago, we began exchanging emails with a Nigerian prince who wanted to bequeath us…

  • Year round tax tips

    Taking a Year-Round Approach to Taxes


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    Just a heads up, this post is sponsored by the fine folks at Block Advisors. This should go without saying, but all opinions are our own and came straight from our own noggins. Ah, taxes. Everyone’s favorite topic, right? I don’t know about you, but April 15th at our house…

  • Using a CPA: Is it worth it?


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    Once upon a time, I wrote a post about filing taxes. I’ve actually written a lot of posts about taxes, which Joanna reminds me is the reason I don’t have friends. In the comments of the aforementioned post, a reader remarked that he/she never felt confident about whether or not…

  • How Zero Exemptions Make Us Feel

    Why We Claim Zero Tax Exemptions


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    If you read last week’s post, you already know why Johnny and I do our own taxes. We also mentioned that we claim zero tax exemptions. And today we’ll explain why we’d do such an unthinkable thing. Last week, we got our final W2 in the mail, and Johnny could…

  • Making the Most of Your Refund


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    If anyone is tight with Mr. Uncle Sam, tell him to get that pen ready cause the OFB household getting paiiidddd. In other, more mundane terms, we overpaid our federal income taxes this year and the government is going to issue us a refund via direct deposit. So while we will indeed be making…

  • How We Do Taxes

    How We Do Our Taxes + TurboTax Giveaway!


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    This will sound weird. Most of you realize I’m weird, anyway, but you may still want to get your fist ready to punch an invisible me in the face. Ready? I like filing taxes. There. Phew… I feel like the weight of a small walrus has been lifted off my…

  • 7 Tips, Tricks & Thoughts on Taxes

    Government Ctrl+Alt+Del: My 7 Thoughts on Taxes


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    Welp, it looks like Congress did what it does best — which is absolutely nothing — and pressed Ctrl-Alt-Del on that whole government thing. If you’re affected, that’s lame and I’m sorry. If you’re not affected, I’d tell you to call your elected representatives and let them know how awesome…

  • Who Invited Taxes?


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    Well, we went and did it. We did our taxes. And by we, I mean Johnny. As we discussed in this post, we use TurboTax software as our tax filing weapon of choice. Normally, Johnny looks forward to doing our taxes. He even gets — dare I say — giddy…