Mon 19 May 2008
I got some good news in the mail today. The IRS sent me notice that I’m getting the full stimulus payment amount, $600, which means I paid a lot of taxes to qualify, BUT still didn’t make enough income to be exempted from the full amount. I’m a true middle-class-er. I’ll bet college roommie/bridesmaid Diana doesn’t even qualify for a dollar of it because of her brilliant career. Lucky girl. 🙂
Driving home after work today, I heard a caller on the radio complain that his current wife’s tax refund (maybe he meant stimulus payment) was being held hostage by the IRS. Apparently, this dude has a 9-year-old kid with his ex, and the ex lives in NorCal so she has full custody, and he’s paying $700/mo toward child support which he’ll have to pay for the next 9 years. He said that he owed some backpay for child support early on. Because of his prior debts, he and his current wife file their income taxes separately and the wife is entitled to a refund but the IRS refuses to give it to her because of his owed back support and they want to give his wife’s refund to the ex to cover the backpay. The wife is so pissed off about this that she wants to get a divorce to prevent her personal money going to pay his ex.
I never thought I’d relate to something like that. Poor current wife.
I would be steaming mad!!! Isn’t there anything she could do, other than a divorce to prevent that from happening?
I must have been one of the first to get it, cuz mine came in a couple weeks ago. I was so excited and very glad I am not that women you heard on the radio show!
this sux that ur not online anymo.
i think it’s extremely unfair that i don’t get a cent while having paid a lot of taxes, and some people who didn’t pay any taxes (or even file income tax) can get money back. it’s just ridiculous. for this reason alone, i should be anti-demoncrats.
(continue to slave away so people who don’t work can receive their economic stimulus package).
k – I don’t know. Mr. W didn’t think it sounded right to begin with that her tax refund could be used to patch her husband’s debts. But maybe it’s the stimulus check he’s talking about, which I know can be withheld if you have certain types of liens/debts.
busykitty – the checks were issued in order of the last 2 digits of your social security number. So if your last 2 #s are 02, you’d get it way before someone whose last 2 are 99.
anny – I know!!!! I still get email notifications of everyone’s comments to my work addy, but I can’t do anything about them since I can’t come on here to respond. It’s like when Andy was working on my teeth last week and said, “My sister [bridesmaid Sandy] said you totally turned into a bridezilla” and I SO had something to say about that but couldn’t and he said, “You see how I take advantage and have fun with patients can’t respond?”
diana – Oh, it doesn’t work quite that way. You’d be relieved (somewhat) to know that in order to qualify to receive a stimulus payment, you have to have filed taxes for 2007, have paid a certain minimum amount of tax, but not make over another maximum of income. If you don’t make enough to pay the minimum amount of tax, or if you didn’t file taxes, or if you’re delinquent on tax payments, or if you make over a certain amount of income, you don’t get a check. As your income approaches the maximum ceiling, your maximum of $600 gets deducted by a formula. Hence, people who don’t work or don’t file or aren’t legally registered don’t get the stimulus payment.