i filed started filing my own taxes (via turbotax) in 2010…the old man offered to help but i wanted to learn the “tax code”…the previous year, he was about to get me a ~$1500 rebate…
i began to panick because i thought that i owed thousands of dollars in back taxes after collecting unemployment benefits all year…i ended up paying $882 in taxes…$467 to the federal government…$415 to new york state…$30 to “turbotax” for each state income tax return filed (i lived in new york state from january – april 2009 and new jersey state from may – december 2009 for a total of $60 owed)…
(it takes several days for the IRS to deduct the tax payment from the bank account)