Posts by neongull81

ruggedmaker2 said:So, you're saying you wouldn't just claim everything, but instead move a chunk over to your social security contributions and leave the rest sitting there? Is that the plan?
Why on earth would you do that?
Look, go back and audit the whole thing. Move what needs to go toward your taxes/contributions and have them cut you a check for the rest. Send it straight to your checking account.
Once you get that refund, demand it. Get it all sorted so your books are clean.

I mean, I deal with refunds every single month. I’m constantly shifting funds to cover my payroll taxes or just having the cash sent back to my Chase account. It's no big deal.
Let those bureaucrats actually work for a living. Let them earn a paycheck for once. 😁

I mean, there are plenty of reasons for it, including needing to cover massive amounts of sales tax during the summer months, so I just let those payments come out of the subscription instead. And honestly, I quit my job six months ago, so I’m really hoping this is finally the last tax form I ever have to deal with and that I won't have to care what they do with the subscription anymore. 🤣

ruggedmaker2 said:I wanted to double-check something—was that $21,000 difference reported correctly on those sales tax forms when it first popped up?
Was it marked as a prepayment, and then later rolled into the next filing as a tax credit?

Look, if you’ve got an overpayment you're holding onto, you just flag it as a prepayment. Then, in next month's sales tax return, you slot it under Section V as a credit... and you just keep cycling it through until you finally decide to file for a refund or a straight-up offset.
That’s how it's supposed to work, anyway. Even the IRS instructions seem to back that up.

Section V.
Report any unpaid sales tax owed up to the filing date of the previous return specifically regarding any sales tax overpayments
(tax credits) from a prior filing period.

But hey, I might be totally off base here. Just a hunch.

I get what you mean, and yeah, that would probably be why they can't process the form, but honestly, my form would only go through if I listed the full $160,000 as a refund, unless the system actually lets you check two boxes so you can put $52,000 as a refund and leave the rest as a prepayment. That would probably fix it. 🙂 Man, if only they’d bother to explain things clearly for once. 🙄

I was trying to plug in the total accumulated amount under Section V—which is north of 160,000 USD—but the damn form just won't let me. It’s like the math doesn't even work because the requested refund has to be the direct result of Sections IV and V, which then dictates the figure in Section VI. I mean, I guess there's some logic to it if you think about it; basically, whatever you're asking back has to match what you're putting down. But honestly, it feels pretty nonsensical to me that I had to specify we're looking for 37 individual refunds when the actual claim is sitting at 52,000.00 USD 🙄

And then they get all rude about it, acting like everything is my fault when they’re the ones who sent over the wrong form in the first place, and then some clerk actually had the nerve to call me a walking ATM 🤦, just a total jerk 🙄, honestly, look, if I messed up something, I’ll fix it, fine, but there’s really no need for the insults 🙄 I’m actually thinking about requesting an official ruling from the IRS, just to get them to state on the record how this filing is supposed to work, because at this point, I feel like I don't have a clue what I'm doing 🕺

I've got this weird situation with sales tax and I was hoping you guys could weigh in on it:

So, we’ve been sitting on an accumulated sales tax refund since October, and I want to file a request to offset it against our payroll taxes instead. I already know my pay schedule and the specific tax ID numbers, so everything seems straightforward enough. I called the IRS just to double-check if there’s anything else I need to worry about, and they told me that since the credit dates back to October, I need to submit the books for the IRA for those months along with the request and the completed transfer forms.

Anyway, I go to file the form for February 2016, marking it as a refund request. On that specific form, the math shows a refund of 31k, but we’re actually looking for 52k total, so I fill out the section where you declare how you want to handle the credit. The problem is, the form won't validate mathematically unless I manually plug the difference—that gap between 31 and 52—into box V. Only then does the system finally let the form pass through.

A few days later, I get a call from the agent at the IRS saying he can't process a form like that. He asks where that number in box V is coming from and tells me to just enter the refund amount from the previous form. I tried doing exactly what he said, but I just kept getting the same error message. I sent him a screenshot, and he said he'd get back to me.

Then, a couple of days after that, he calls back and tells me to completely remove the section where I explain what we want to do with the refund amount. But if I do that, the form fails validation again. His last bit of advice was to just enter the 31k plus whatever was on the last form—about 6k—making it 37k total. The thing is, we're officially requesting 52k via the application. So, yeah... I guess I'm wondering what you all think about this mess.

-my breasts have been killing me for three months now, and honestly, just looking at them makes me 🙄
-there’s basically zero decent selection of bras for sensitive pregnancy breasts 🙄
-retailers are straight up ripping people off, charging insane prices for junk 🙄
-everywhere you look, there's this fake image of these glowing, happy pregnant women, when we all know deep down that pregnancy isn't exactly sunshine and rainbows 🙄
-the constant, relentless urge to just eat everything in sight 🙄
-and now suddenly some people act like I can't survive without a dryer, as if I'd ever manage without one (I guess I'll never truly understand how women used to function and dry their clothes back in the day 🙄)

There's probably more, but I'll get back to it if it hits me 😬

Grrrrrrr, I tried topping up my card yesterday at noon so I could settle a bill through PayPal, and I’m still stuck in limbo because the transaction keeps getting rejected. It just tells me the card can't be used for this payment 😠 I already called Chase twice; the first guy I talked to claimed the funds hadn't even cleared yet, and then some woman told me it might take up to 24 hours to process. Well, those 24 hours are almost up, and I have to head out into the city soon, so I'm wondering if I should just bother swinging by a local branch or whatever? Anyone else dealing with this kind of nonsense?

Maybe I should just join the club of fellow wanderers 👋, since I've basically been allergic since birth—it's one of those things I definitely inherited from my mom 😢. I feel like I've tried pretty much everything under the sun, and nothing really does the trick completely, though I did give Allegra a shot this year. It’s not half bad, I guess, but I’ve only been on it for ten days so far, and it felt like it took maybe five days before I actually started noticing a difference 🙄. Anyway, I was wondering if anyone here has messed around with Aerius? It’s some newer prescription stuff, and I’m thinking about giving it a go 🤷. Honestly, I am just so over all this testing and constantly swallowing pills; I’m pretty much done with the whole ordeal 😠, but I suppose you guys already get that 😉

So, every single spring I run into this exact same headache 🙄 constantly hunting for sheer, skin-toned tights—I need something super light because I’m incredibly pale—that aren't those flimsy, 8-denier summer things that $20 just catch every bit of sunlight and look like they'll rip if you even glance at them 😠 It seems like every year, their shade range gets darker and darker, which honestly looks terrible on me since it makes my legs look sort of muddy or unwashed 🤣 does anyone else deal with this, or maybe have some actual decent recommendations? Thanks 😉

vividranger8 said:I mean, what do you think—does the lady at the teller window actually know which specific account to dump the cash into? 🙂 In my experience, they gave me an account number for the transfer that was basically just the general bank routing info, while the number they call for the actual card is different, so then the bank has to manually move the funds over to the card sub-account. Later, when I checked my digital statement in my inbox, I saw there’s actually a dedicated card account number you can send money to directly—it looks something like 2500009-2xxxxxxxxx. Anyway, honestly, you might just want to hit up the nearest ATM and check your balance to see if the funds have actually landed yet...

Look, I get how the whole system works, but she had my physical card right there in her hands, so I figured she'd pretty much see exactly where the money needed to go. 🙂

So I just picked up my new card and tried to link it to PayPal, but the site keeps telling me it won't work because the issuing bank rejected it. 😕 Anyone have any clue what’s actually going on here?

Edit: I guess this kind of headache is just part of life here, honestly. I’m actually at the local Chase branch right now picking up the card and I just loaded some cash onto it so I could try to verify the account, but when I called customer service, the guy told me the deposit hasn't cleared yet. I don't really get it... you'd think a cash deposit at the teller would hit the account instantly, right?

I mean, you can even pick up some wooden or plastic plant stakes at Walgreens, I think they're $9.75, something like that

As far as I can tell, we're talking about a loan moratorium here, and those things aren't just handed out; you usually have to meet some pretty specific criteria, though I guess it really just depends on which bank you're dealing with. Most of the time, they’ll cut you some slack if you're expecting a baby, or maybe if you lose your job, but that's about the extent of it, more or less. 🤷