Today, I found out that my tax filing status was never changed after my divorce. This means I haven't been paying enough and now the government wants its money. FML
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Today, I found out that I owe the IRS money due to my previous job not taking enough taxes out. I am broke, unemployed, and was counting on a big refund so I could pay for my divorce. FML
Today, I filed my taxes. As a divorcée with children, I was supposed to get $3,500 back from the IRS. Alas, my ex's new wife already filed with my children, who don't live with her. I now owe the IRS $250. FML
Today, I found out that I owe the government money and that the amount will increase if I miss the deadline two months ago. FML
Today, I found out that my employers apparently haven't been taking enough money out of my paychecks, and now I owe thousands of dollars in taxes. I already live paycheck to paycheck despite doing nothing but work. FML
Today, I sat down to do my taxes. As I was going over my forms, I found my employer only took $1.72 out the entire year for my Federal Income Taxes. I now owe the IRS over $500 that I don't have. FML
Today, I got a letter from the IRS informing me that I owed a debt of $80 dollars from 4 years ago, and that it has now grown to over $800 dollars, and it's due this month. FML
Today, I filed my taxes and I normally claim my parents as dependants. My taxes got rejected because my parents filed their taxes without informing me, and they don't have income. They believe if they file taxes, they get $5000 back, per Trump. It ended up costing me over $3,500 extra. FML
Today, when I checked on my last payroll, I realized that I pay more in taxes than I do in house bills. FML
Today, getting home from a long day at work, I checked the mail and saw three envelopes from the IRS. Apparently I now owe over $4,000. I only have $2 in my bank account. FML
Today, I found out that they won't hold my stimulus for child support, only to find out that they withheld it to give it to me when I file my taxes. Which child support will take. FML
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iiTzNeeNerz 26
*IRS singing* BITCH BETTER HAVE MY MONEY
PoopholeSurprise 2
"Was never updated"? Shouldn't you be updating it?
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Comments (64)
sushisushichick 8
Same thing happened to me!
yayhoo16 12
Death and taxes are the only two things that are certain
vb68_fml 28
How can you have not noticed that you were paying less....
ttubear 17
They weren't paying less. They never updated their W4 with HR and so the same exact amount of taxes was still being taken out, and so they were still receiving the exact same amount of pay. Then they filed their taxes and saw that they owed a lot of money because withholdings were never adjusted.
WreckeRalph36 18
Greedy ass government. Before WW1 there weren't taxes. Cheap bastards.
isuckwithnames 22
You realize taxes are necessary right? Without taxes we wouldn't have highways, which were made after ww2
Shade1982 21
It's also incredibly incorrect. Tax systems have been known to exist even in Ancient Egypt as far back as 3000BC.
gracehi 33
I'll give #32 the benefit of the doubt and assume he meant that income tax did not exist in the US before WWI.
crackfetus420 12
**** taxes
cloudyface 23
You generally pay more taxes if you're filing "married filing separately" than you would as single so I don't know how you owe them money.
revolvearoundme 15
Look on the bright side, at least it wasn't an annulment. Then you'd owe back taxes for all the years you filled as married.
m_pike123 17
That's not your fault OP that's the states fault. It was their mistake not yours.
Shade1982 21
I'm not 100% sure how taxes work in the US, but over here you yourself are personally responsible for your own tax status and documents. If they make a mistake and you don't see it because you never bothered to double-check your tax forms, it is your own fault.
ftloosenfanzfree 7
Uh, no.
leogachi 15
@45 It works that way in the U.S., too.
ttubear 17
Sooo far from accurate.
lmbachman 23
That really sucks, but unfortunately, you are responsible for changing your exemptions and withholdings.
kathylove007 4
This happened to me last year with my old job. They put I had a dependent, sadly when I contacted payroll they told me there was a glitch and couldn't do anything about it. I was so pissed