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[anwiii]

yea, the irs are nasty crooks and for some reason, it's very easy them to get court orders against you without notice or without you even having to go to court.

i remember one year, i didn't file a tax return. it's a myth that it's illegal to do so if you don't owe them anything. what the irs did was look at my qualifications and estimated and assumed i made a certain amount of money that year and was ready to deduct what i owed them out of my wages including late fees etc.... i went to the irs office and explained the situation. they forced me to file a return or have my wages garnished. this is something i didn't fight and wish i had the money to do so. i didn't fight it because i needed my wages. anyway, after filing my return, the appologized and then agreed it was them who owed me money. the system is really wacked. they use fear as a tactic to control people and then force people to do what they want you to do while you're under duress. it's really a shame our government can act like this. but i've heard horror stories before that make my situation look like a walk in the park.

[buxgoddess]

anwiii, on 11 April 2011 - 11:14 AM, said:

yea, the irs are nasty crooks and for some reason, it's very easy them to get court orders against you without notice or without you even having to go to court.

i remember one year, i didn't file a tax return. it's a myth that it's illegal to do so if you don't owe them anything. what the irs did was look at my qualifications and estimated and assumed i made a certain amount of money that year and was ready to deduct what i owed them out of my wages including late fees etc.... i went to the irs office and explained the situation. they forced me to file a return or have my wages garnished. this is something i didn't fight and wish i had the money to do so. i didn't fight it because i needed my wages. anyway, after filing my return, the appologized and then agreed it was them who owed me money. the system is really wacked. they use fear as a tactic to control people and then force people to do what they want you to do while you're under duress. it's really a shame our government can act like this. but i've heard horror stories before that make my situation look like a walk in the park.

Well its a fact that there are thousands of people who do nor submit their tax returns and almost half of those who do submit actually do not give details of proper earnings like those other than the salary. If you were one of them, then I do not think it to be a surprise, as the system of earning through the myCent and paying for your website for profitable gains never ever reflect in your balance sheet nor your tax filing. Its also the same for me and I call all these people thieves and cheaters, though a milder tone. But look at your case where the irs office charged and threatened you, its the same here, if you do not pay your tax properly or do not file returns on time, you will be fined on flat rates, which are much higher than the normal tax slabs.

However there is a relief for salaried people like us as we will not require to file our tax returns from next year if we earn nothing other than our salary. Of-course, we are thieves and liers and will not post the earnings from here. The other day I had payments done from PayPal and in return I received some merchandise with some gift coupon for further purchase. It such happened that the use of the coupon required me to pass through the bank account which I had to decline, coz if I did that it will automatically add the gift amount into its database, a large sum of-course and I'll need to pay a good amount of tax after currency conversion.

As for the original post here, I have the budgeting done on daily basis purchases and payments. I keep a diary of records of all the things that the money does and at the end of the month add up for the headings like food, transport, entertainment, bills and miscellaneous heads. The total ammount spent is tallied on monthly basis to figure out if I have exceeded on any fields and if it is found to be higher, then a scrutiny is done to find the expense raiser. It is then adjusted for in the next months budget in areas where expenses can be curtailed. Not on all cases it is possible to bring the cost and expenditure down but a check and a little control is always possible.

And I never keep the payment receipts of goceries and others as the consolidated bills of credit card are always there with the daily diary list. Those products that come with warranty and service periods get a copy stored by scanning the receipts and invoices. I had the expenses of my vehicle stored in the spreadsheet in my Google account and hence never miss out on updating as it gives me results including mileage, expense over a period, expenses on petrol only and those on servicing and of-course the bribes I had to pay the traffic police department for no fault of mine.

I am no good at mathematics either, but you do not need to be Einstein to be able to do daily accounts. On daily basis or even weekly basis if you can jot down your expenses of the bills you have then you get a fair idea of your bad habits of mishandling your hard earned money or your money earned by cheating, whatever be your case.