[ale] OT: Taxing issues

[Tony Ucedavelez]

Relax, even if you would have filed a hard copy of your taxes (the old 
fashion way, he,he) the auditors stuck to review yours and thousands of 
other tax forms would have done exactly what your TaxAct (or whatever other 
tax prep software did) and ignored those annoying cents, even if it's 0.99 
cents.  It makes life easier not to have to deal in decimals and they would 
round up or down - I forget the rules on exactly how they do it.  They 
don't really adhere to rounding up or rounding down (where applicable) and 
just give you the extra cents.





Antonio O. UcedaVelez
Programmer
DATAMATX
3146 Northeast Expressway
Atlanta, GA  30341-5345
(o) 770.936.5600 Ext. 277
(f) 770.936.5614
tucedavelez at datamatx.com

-----Original Message-----
From:	Joseph A Knapka [SMTP:jknapka at earthlink.net]
Sent:	Tuesday, April 23, 2002 11:29 AM
To:	ale at ale.org
Subject:	[ale] OT: Taxing issues

Hi folks,

Weird 1040 issue: I got a W-2 from my employer that
reported I had $0.46 of income in Georgia last year.
The bulk of my income was on my Texas W-2; I don't
even know how I managed to make forty-six cents in
Georgia.

Anyway, I submitted my tax return via ezTaxReturn.com,
which really was "EZ". But the IRS rejected it.
I noticed that the W-2 with the $0.46 income was
being rounded down to $0, so I deleted it from
my on-line return, and the IRS then accepted the
return.

So the question is, is it acceptable to not report
income of under $1? If I had sent a paper 1040A
to the IRS with both of those physical W-2's
stapled to it, would they have rejected *that*
and insisted I take back the GA W-2??? Am I
setting myself up for a lifetime of IRS harrassment
by not reporting that income?

Wouldn't it be nice if we just had a nationwide
20% sales tax, and ditch the IRS?

Bleah.

-- Joe
  Using open-source software: free.
  Pissing Bill Gates off: priceless.

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