Charitable deductions are still deductions under the AMT, unlike 95% of other deductions.

You would make Pete Burns proud

p.s. I watched that whole video.

 

-----signature-----

That changes nothing. I am still calling a bunch of you liars. I am willing to be a bunch of people that said they wouldn't try and save every penny in taxes never worked under the table too. Even for a day. You guys can lie here all you want, but you have to look in the mirror and admit I am right. You don't have to do it here. I already know.

 

-----signature-----

Legally?

Everyone should only give the bare minimum to the government. It's not the people's fault that the tax code is so complex that some people can get more breaks than others. No one should look down on anyone that legally pays the minimum they can.

If there is any angst with this, it should be against the tax laws not the people.

 

-----signature-----

I didn't bother getting my 50 buck check from the gubmint last year for overpaid taxes because it was too much trouble. If it had been 5000 I would have gone ahead and done it.


I've certainly done chores for my grandparents and been paid for it as a kid and I guess that should have been taxed but I'm not really sure what it's got to do with your point.


If your point is that people generally want to pay less I agree. But you initially said something stronger about how everyone does everything they can to minimize their tax bill, and that's just wrong.

 

-----signature-----

I didn't say that. If you didn't claim your $50 for a couple of seconds of work then you are a fool.

I'll go by my 18 years of experience against your feeling.

 

-----signature-----

Last year we were both students and under the income limit for filing. So we would have had to file just to get our 50 bucks back. I wasn't going to spend 2-3 hours doing that for 50 bucks.


If you don't believe me there's not much I can do to convince you otherwise.


You have spent 18 years seeing a bunch of people who are willing to pay you tons of money per hour to lower their taxes. Of course those people want to do anything possible to lower their taxes.


Normal people arn't as neurotic. Sure, given a choice between paying less and paying more most people choose to pay less. But they're not going to go way out of their way to do so, any more than you're going to go mucking through an open sewer to get the quarter you dropped into it.

I would be happy paying the same amount I pay now if they would just simplify the tax code so I didn't have to pay a professional to prepare them.

 

-----signature-----

Two students wouldn't be spending 2-3 hours doing their taxes unless they couldn't read. It's statements like this that are leading me to my conclusion.



I have over 800 clients. I done literally well over ten thousand returns. People that are students, to welfare moms, to doctors, etc. I have a very good handle on what people from ALL walks of life feel about taxes.



I am sorry to inform you of this and you probably already have some idea of this, but you aren't normal. You are fringe in most of your thinking as you are often at odds with everyone here.



Yes they actually are going out of their way to do so. Hence, people like Mo, Baym, and I am in business. Oh and H&R Block also.



I don't and that is true.

 

-----signature-----