Taxes Questions and Answers

When can we the taxpayers expect those refund checks to be mailed out & what is the $amount going to be?




Answers: There is a Tax Rebate plan currently in the Senate that has passed the House.

Under the terms of the tax rebate bill passed by the House, if you are single, you would be eligible to receive a rebate of up to $600 if you paid that much in Federal Income Tax. If you only paid $350 in taxes (less than the $600 rebate limit), you only get back $350. Married couples are similarly eligible for a rebate up to $1200. An additional $300 would be rebated for each dependent child.

If you had over $3000 in earned income, you would qualify for at least the $300 minimum rebate.

This rebate would be available to everyone with adjusted gross income less than $75,000 for singles and $150,000 for married couples filing jointly. It will be phased out for taxpayers above those income thresholds.

Click on the link below for an automated estimate.

Nothing has passed Congress yet, so all details are subject to change. Estimates when checks will be mailed range from May to July.
Aparently, and if they get approved, they will be mailed in between May or June. The amount is still not sure, but they are starting from $500.00 and going up to $800.00 for singles and $1600.00 for married couples, plus some more moneyfor those with kids.

How do I amend my taxes to shift file status from separate to united?

My wife and I filed are taxes as married file separately. However, now I hold found that we would have have a larger refund if we file jointly, since we would know how to claim a deduction on student loan interest.

Therefore, how do I amend this? I know to database 1040X, but what do I do for the section where on earth I need to enumerate the previous amount? How can I do that when I am amending 2 returns into 1? Will I file 2 1040X forms, or 1?


Answers: Flip a coin. Pick one return to merge the two into.

That return is the source for column A on the 1040x. Use a dummy 1040 to grasp the numbers for column C.

If you both had refund, add them together for string 19.
You both sign.

When the IRS is done merging them, they will zero out the other MFS return on the system. (Thus no 1040X for the other return.)

Your total deadline for creating an MFJ return for 2007 is 4/15/2011.
Changing from separate to a joint return. If you and your spouse are shifting from separate returns to a joint return, follow these steps.
Enter contained by column A the amounts from your return as originally filed or as previously in tune (either by you or the IRS).

Combine the amounts from your spouse's return as originally filed or as previously in the swing of things with any other change you or your spouse are making to determine the amounts to enter in column B. If your spouse did not directory an original return, include your spouse's income, deduction, credits, other taxes, etc., to determine the amounts to enter in column B.

Read the instructions for column C on this page to digit the amounts to enter in that column.


Both of you must sign Form 1040X.

Does my babysitter desires my son's SS??

I give my son's aunt $ weekly for watching my son while I work. She say she wants to profile taxes for the $ I have rewarded her but I never deducted taxes because we agreed it be just something to hold on to her busy while her own child was at college. Anyhow, how can she file taxes if she doesnt draw from any taxes withheld? I didnt plan and didnt put down any deduction for child card on my taxes. I also found out from my son's father that she is not a citizen surrounded by the US (I believe she has a green card) and she told him that H & R Block told her surrounded by order for her to claim the few hundred $ I give her, she needs my son's SS#. I reflect she is lying and I am not giving my son's SS out but I am confused about the in one piece situation. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.


Answers: No, she would not involve your son's ss# to file taxes on what you recompense her for child care. If you claim a child keeping credit on your return, you would need HERS though.

She can, and is certainly required to, file a export tax return reporting what she's paid for babysitting, but wouldn't call for your son's sss# to do so.

There's another problem here though. If she is babysitting at YOUR house as your question imply, and not at hers, then you should be treating her as a household hand, withholding taxes from her pay and paying the employer taxes due for her wages.

It's possible that an H&R Block member of staff did tell her that, but if one did, they be wrong and are incompetent to be preparing taxes.
DO NOT GIVE HER THE SS#

She might be trying to use it for other reasons. If she needed a SS# for taxes it would be YOURS since you are her employer not your son.
DO NOT GIVE HIS SS OUT!
That's a BIG no-no. She does not inevitability it at all, not for anything.

If she be a daycare, then possibly yes, but she's merely a sitter, she does not need that. Fire her, find someone else.
She does not inevitability you or your's son ss to pay taxes on the money you compensated her.

You would need her ss# to claim the dependent strictness credit for the money you paid her.
She doesn't necessitate your son's SS# for this purpose, she is lying.

I can't understand why, but if she really requirements to file taxes minus a social security number than she can wallet annimously. I dont know the process since I am a U.S. citizen but I know it can be done and it definately should not require knowing your son's social security number.

This have bad latest written all over it, you may want to deduce long and hard in the order of continuing to allow her to watch your son.
NEVER GIVE OUT YOUR SONS SS#.

even more so that she is not a US citizen.

she probably desires to use it and claim its her number.

She cant file taxes for watching your son in attendance was no money taken out of what you salaried her.

But you could file taxes for childcare.

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