People who are not normally required to file taxes will have to do so this year if they want a piece of the 2008 economic stimulus rebate. This applies to low-income works, and Social Security, Veterans Affairs Recipients, and Railroad Retirement recipients. In partnership with the IRS, the following sites are offering free tax prep and electronic filing if the only reason you need to files is to receive a stimulus check:
TurboTax
Tax$imple
Online Taxes – OLT
FileYourTaxes
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@Poisonthescene: $4 billion for everyone in the world? Huh thats weird. Cuz last time I checked, and it’s been a while, there is 6 billion people in the world. Less then a dollar per person? That must be awesome health care!!!! woohoo I want that. Once again, percentage wise, the poor pay less in both percentage and dollars in income tax.
Now you take into affect property tax, sales tax, etc, then sure, they pay more. But you’re preaching to the choir. I want less taxes, for everyone. We have enough taxes to make your head spin, and its not fair, and it further represses the poor from moving up into a high class. Thats all taxes do, repress you. Some people think thats the purpose of them. I’m not all that paranoid, I just see the economics of it and it financially holds people back, and it has held me back on somethings as well. If I didnt have to pay property tax, I could get a much nicer/bigger house.
Instead of giving handouts to the people of this country, they should take some of that 12 billion a month that’s going to Iraq and stimulate our economy with that.
@snowpuff:
You said “- You must use a 1040 to declare social security income only, but again, the computer programs fill out 1040EZ forms as normally you don’t have to tell the IRS if you only have social security income.”
Where did you get that from? According to the 1040ez manual, if your social security benefits are not taxable, you can use 1040ez.
@snowpuff: Yes you can file electronically–you just don’t mention any W-2′s that state you earned $0 in income. If you do, you would have to file by mail.
People who comment here are so dumb–you don’t automatically get $600 back. You have to earn at least $3,000 to get $300 back, and the amount increases up to $600 if you meet the specific qualifications.
@MyCokesBiggerThanYours: You should be knighted as the super idiot for this thread because of your belief that all tax rebates/refunds should be progressive–that turns the tax system into a regressive one as well.
Truth is that the poor pay the least tax but spend nearly all their money to survive; the rich pay only a moderate amount of tax because of all the loopholes they can jump through, then the middle class gets screwed because they earn too much to receive assistance but too little to qualify for the loopholes.
Your griping is like going to a bakery and complaining about how the poor people are taking all the samples while caring less about the rich people that just go behind the counter and take tray after tray of the goods. Get some perspective.
btw, the ‘specific qualifications’ for getting $600 instead of $300 is that you paid $600 or more in taxes. Not a very hard one to meet, but those on disability, retirement, or the lowest of the low class will only get $300.
I have asked everyone and everyone says i dont know if you owe the government back taxes does that mean you don’t get a stimulus check?