re: Anyone else see a big difference in tax returns this year?

People lie on the internet and aren’t smart enough to realize it’s easy to figure out

I was able to attribute my change to a couple of things besides the obvious tax changes.

We made more in 2018 than 2017(husband got a 15% raise)
He sold more in stock options in 2018 than 2017
Past couple years I was able to deduct tuition costs from going back to school.

I try to get ours around $0 for federal. We usually get a refund from state.

I think we owed about 1k or $1500 the past 7 or 8 years.

We are getting a refund this year from both. We made more money last year but doubling the standard deduction and child tax credit helped us.

Yeah it's nice not to owe. I went back and double checked mine

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We normally get some money back from federal and state. Have owed in the past and would rather they take out more and get a small refund. This year we owe for federal and are getting a much smaller refund from our state. But at least the refund will cover our federal tax bill and still leave us $500. I was a little bummed. Was expecting our usual refund and was gonna pay off some debts with it.

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There is so much wrong with this, poor girl

So upper middle and middle class folks with kids are getting more back? Weird, nobody predicted that.

Is this where I bring up 2023

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There is so much wrong with this, poor girl

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What, you gonna tell about all the tens of dollars I could have made in interest on the refund we usually get since we’ve been married?

I’m horrible at saving money. I’ve owed $$$$ to the IRS before cause of not withholding enough and it sucked. I would just rather get the lump amount every February and stick it in our savings or pay off debts. It’s not like I go on shopping sprees with our tax refunds.

But yes....I do know I haven’t been cheated. I made more money and paid less in taxes in 2018. I’m happy about that. I have medical bills I was gonna throw that refund at, so I couldn’t help but be a little bummed when that didn’t happen.

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I normally do a midyear check of my tax situation

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We just have a lot more write offs at the state level (private school, aftercare, summer camps etc). I could change our withholdings but I just haven't bothered the past 7 or 8 years

All you faqbutts make fun of my bazillion kids. The kid credit went up. Woo bigger fed return this year! Suck it, kidless(on purpose) fricks.

Now let me go back to paying 3k a month for them shitbiscuits.

Sounds like a net negative there Mikee