Timeline for What could account for me owing exactly $6000 in taxes?
Current License: CC BY-SA 4.0
25 events
| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 14 at 0:42 | comment | added | jmoreno | KEVYN: Tagii, give me a little more detail on that attack. TAGII: Five corvettes entered our interdiction zone. I hailed. They destroyed a message beacon, two V.D.A. nodes, and a decoy, hypercommed "surrender or die," and then random walked into killbox four. Naturally, I killed everything in the box. That's what it's there for. KEVYN: They randomly placed themselves in a trap? TAGII: They thought they were acting randomly. That is a common problem with thinking about being random. — random doesn’t follow expectations. | |
| Feb 14 at 0:22 | comment | added | manassehkatz-Moving 2 Codidact | @Joe Correct. In the US system in theory you should withhold and/or pay estimated "just enough". In reality most people end up overwithholding and get a refund or underwithholding and owe a balance. As long as certain rules are followed, there is no interest or penalty involved. | |
| Feb 13 at 23:13 | answer | added | Joe | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 13 at 22:58 | comment | added | Joe | "owe 6000" as in underpaid by 6000? | |
| Feb 13 at 15:35 | comment | added | Peter M | @FreeMan I understood what you meant (but different accountants can give different interpretations), and I probably should have added a "/s" | |
| Feb 13 at 14:36 | comment | added | wander95 | If your'e adventurous, try using Benford's law as a test | |
| Feb 13 at 11:54 | comment | added | FreeMan | My point, @PeterM, (apparently not well made) was that having someone else double check the work will convince the OP that his work was done correctly and that owing a nice round amount was a pure coincidence and not anything nefarious. | |
| Feb 12 at 23:15 | comment | added | Spehro 'speff' Pefhany | Looks suspicious, maybe you should nudge a deduction downward by a few cents 'typo' so it doesn't do that (more than half kidding). | |
| Feb 12 at 20:42 | comment | added | Peter M | @FreeMan The final arbiter of what taxes you owe is the IRS. | |
| Feb 12 at 17:54 | comment | added | FreeMan | Go have a CPA do your taxes and see if the number comes out exactly the same. Now you've got two examples to compare. If they match great! If they don't, go hire a 3rd to figure out whether you screwed up your own taxes or the other CPA screwed up... | |
| Feb 12 at 16:15 | answer | added | Fattie | timeline score: -7 | |
| Feb 12 at 16:06 | comment | added | Fattie | There are many many "fines" (in the broad sense) the US / IRS applies, and they are all round numbers. As Nugg says, check child credit. Just another one is that bullshit that was applied for some years where in short if you didn't have health insurance you had to pay a "fine" of I believe it was $2000 per person. | |
| Feb 12 at 16:02 | comment | added | Fattie | The answers here are all BS. There would be some specific reason it is exactly $6000. | |
| Feb 12 at 6:20 | history | edited | Flux | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Fixed typo in title
|
| Feb 12 at 6:00 | comment | added | vsz | @RonJohn : and out of 330 million people, over 30000 would end up with that by chance. Even if we only include those who have to fill taxes, it would be well over 10000 people every year who end up with that by chance. | |
| Feb 11 at 19:26 | comment | added | d_b | I am reminded of this Richard Feynman quote. "You know, the most amazing thing happened to me tonight. I was coming here, on the way to the lecture, and I came in through the parking lot. And you won’t believe what happened. I saw a car with the license plate ARW 357. Can you imagine? Of all the millions of license plates in the state, what was the chance that I would see that particular one tonight? Amazing!" | |
| Feb 11 at 17:19 | answer | added | manassehkatz-Moving 2 Codidact | timeline score: 48 | |
| Feb 11 at 11:42 | comment | added | nuggethead | Double check the child tax credit | |
| Feb 11 at 9:34 | comment | added | DonQuiKong | Increase your income by 50 dollars as an experiment and see what the software gives. Or 1 dollar. | |
| Feb 11 at 8:17 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Feb 11 at 4:22 | comment | added | RonJohn | “That is such a round number.” Yeah, our pattern-matching brains don’t expect to see patterns. It’s just that a number ending with 000 has the same 0.1% chance of happening as one that ends with 001. Or 666. You’d probably notice owing $6666, too. | |
| Feb 11 at 3:35 | history | edited | Village | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added 2 characters in body
|
| Feb 11 at 3:01 | answer | added | Stan H | timeline score: 15 | |
| Feb 11 at 0:23 | history | edited | Village | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added 7 characters in body
|
| Feb 11 at 0:15 | history | asked | Village | CC BY-SA 4.0 |