How can you support the troops if you don't want to pay your taxes?

[Deicide]

that's the exclusion of up to $87,600(2008) but to get that you have to actually file.

Statute of Limitations
If you fail to file that return for any tax year (whether a return is required or not), the statute of limitations on tax assessments for that year will never run out.  Therefore, if you live abroad for 10 years, and then return to the United States, the IRS may question your failure to file returns for those ten years and later make assessments based on their best estimate of your income.   The interest and penalties on any old tax amounts owed grows faster than you can imagine and after 4-5  years may exceed the amount of the original taxes owed.
If you do file your tax return each tax year while living abroad,  the statute of limitations in most situations for IRS audits will expire three years after you file those returns. That means the IRS cannot go back (absent fraud) and try to audit or change those returns later.  Therefore, you should file your return  even if you have no income or don't owe taxes in order to force the statute of limitations to run and eliminate future problems when you decide to return to the U.S.


ouch.

Yeah, head something like that. Haha. I'm a fucking criminal. The tax code is such bullshit; the very fact that you have to file/pay taxes for two countries is retarded. I do have this nightmare scenario though of visiting and getting stopped at the airport. I might actually never return. If this shit gets more hardcore. That's the solution. I tell you, even though taxes in Europe suck and you are taxed to the hilt, at least it is simple. Automatically deducted from your pay check...

[garebear]

How can you have your pudding if you don't eat any meat?

[Deicide]

How can you have your pudding if you don't eat any meat?

Huh?

[Hugo Chavez]

Yeah, head something like that. Haha. I'm a fucking criminal. The tax code is such bullshit; the very fact that you have to file/pay taxes for two countries is retarded. I do have this nightmare scenario though of visiting and getting stopped at the airport. I might actually never return. If this shit gets more hardcore. That's the solution. I tell you, even though taxes in Europe suck and you are taxed to the hilt, at least it is simple. Automatically deducted from your pay check...

I wouldn't call you the criminal.

[Hugo Chavez]

Huh?

I don't know but it was funny

[garebear]

Huh?

It's a line from A Brick in the Wall, Pink Floyd.

At least, I think that's right.

[Hugo Chavez]

It's a line from A Brick in the Wall, Pink Floyd.

At least, I think that's right.

oh yea lol...

[w8tlftr]

Dude, Stop arguing stupid points and get over here with that pizza already. I'm hungry.

LOLZ

Ohai, Judi! 

[Bindare_Dundat]

No it's not. It's a stupid question.

Those that have issues with the tax code are angry with how it's taken, how much is taken, and how the government pisses it away without accountability.

We have our winner.

[24KT]

It's complicated Hugo. The US is one of the few countries in the world (including North Korea, Egypt, etc.) to require of its citizens to pay income tax even when NOT living in the US. The caveat is that you have to earn OVER 85k a year which I never have. However, technically you still need to send in your 1040s, which I don't do. It's retarded. Shit might be getting more difficult though; I heard rumors the Infernal Revenue Service was going to change the policy. Fact is, at the end of the day the IRS has bigger fish to fry than some loser like me who earns chickfeed in a foreign country. They can go to hell.

Forget about 1040's, ...it's now a 1099 world from here on in, ...at least if you want to be smart about it. 

[Cap]

I would rather my tax dollars go to people who actually earn their living (killing Haji down under) rather than the illegals and welfare bums (not deserving people) who suck the system drive.  Even if we didn't have two wars to fight, Barry would still want these shits to get more of our tax dollars.

Eloquent it is not but that's how I feel.