What You Need to Know for Your 2011 Tax Filing and What’s New for 2012

well..this is helpful. not. bookmarked the page & now the article is gone. guess i don't need to know anything about my tax return, eh yahoo?

Why not eliminate any tax on income and just pay on purchases exempting food. This would make things a whole lot more fair across the board without discouraging people from working extra.

The author here is wrong in her second pararaph. April 16 is NOT a federal holiday since if it were, it would be listed on OPM's website. It is known as Emancipation Day and is only a holiday for District of Columbia government workers, not the entire Federal government.

Why not stop income taxes for people over 65---we struggle to pay what we have to, as many others do---retired for many years and still paying .Too bad we're not young and jobless--- we could probably get by without paying every year .How about switching for awhile the ones that don't and the ones that do---let them get a taste of it.

Taxes are not legal.

THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
"That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government..."

Taxed on what we make, taxed on what we spend, and don't forget--- taxed on what we sell...

Taxation without representation was one of the reasons we broke from England. When was the last time you thought you were represented in government?

gonna miss that making work pay credit QQ

If Social Security is going to abolished before I retire then I demand that every cent that I paid into Social Security be reimbursed and put into my 401k.

You should never get back more in taxes than you paid in! How is it that if you don't work or barely work and pay little to no taxes, you get a check for thousands of dollars as a tax refund, shouldn't a tax refund be a refund of taxes you paid in!

I work, i get paid, they take taxes out... fine
but then i take that same check (that was already taxed) to the store to buy food and at the end of my order i am..... taxed again? i would really like to know how that one worked out.

I thought changing the rules in the middle of a game was called cheating.

Way to screw the WORKING, and I stress WORKING people getting screwed... If you work anymore you are penelized BUT, if you sit on your #$%$ and let the Gov. take care of you you will get a nice fat check!. My brother and his druggie wife do not work at all yet collect foodstamps, welfare, etc., yet at the end of the year they make thousands on earned income credit, child tax credit, etc. How can you make money if you did not work? Our Gov. sucks people.

As an ex-employee of the IRS, it is amazing how few taxpayers ever go the irs.gov official IRS tax website. It has all kinds of needed information before and after you file. After leaving I wrote "Don't Mess With The IRS" to help taxpayers that are already having tax problems and end up in collections. It is a "how to" resolve tax issues yourself and were to go on the official site. So many taxpayers I worked with dealt with incompetent tax preparers and paid people to represent them in collections, but those people never even called on their behalf. In the book I warn people to beware of anyone they have preparing or resolving their taxes. So many people misrepresent themselves.

I agree. Paying taxes doesn't bother me either. It's people who have been on welfare off and on for years and who have no accountability of paying the state back., They always get several thousand of dollars back each year. To me, they shouldn't be allowed a refund as long as they are benefitting from the State. GRRRRRRR

I don't mind paying taxes either, but I do think that ALL the states need to incoorperate the drug testing for Govenment assistance. I am sick of paying taxes for people who just sit on their buts and have children. My husband and I just had a baby and we can't even get help for school because we make to much. What kind of crap is that where people try to better themselves can't while people who don't want to make theirselves any better get 500 in foodstamps a month, housing paid for and WIC. Also people that do not work still seem to figure out a way to file taxes and get the child tax credit which I think is Bullmess!!

Our founding fathers would be shocked at how pointlessly complicated our tax codes are; flat tax/fair tax - something needs to change.

Tea Party Communists Pay the Tax you owe..Make Big Business pay They pay Nada Now

Earned income credit was intended for working families...who are not collecting welfare subsidies...what happened? I know a few single mothers who only worked parttime...only had a few hundred dollars in taxes paid...but got a refund check for thousands of dollars. It's just plain rediculous...they should only get back what they paid into it. And the cap for social security is rediculous as well...if you make over $110,000...you don't have to pay into social security? Does that mean they cannot collect it either? Only fair