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Originally Posted by Piobaire 

IT'S FRIDAY! /Neo

And my cold is 95% gone and I have a 3pm happy hour and I pick up my huge tax return today and weather is beautiful and life is good.

Originally Posted by GreenFrog 

I'm thankful I can echo at least one of your sentiments.

The weather in Dallas is amazing right now -- absolutely GAWJUSS.

Originally Posted by otc 

I'm not done filing my taxes, but right now it looks like I have to pay the state of illinois $17*....but apparently my two trips to New Orleans counted for enough time that I had to pay and file LA taxes instead of IL...so I get like $70 back from them!

*Plus some amount of use tax for the stuff I bought online...I know a lot of people who pay zero but I feel like that is just asking for an audit.

Originally Posted by harvey_birdman 

I don't know how the big chIL treats use taxes for online purchases but is there really any fear of an audit based on that? I pay zero even though I buy a shit ton online.

Originally Posted by Neo_Version 7 

Fuck, I love a Friday!!

Originally Posted by Piobaire 

What time do you usually finish your last surgery on Friday?

Originally Posted by munchausen 

Has been for several weeks. I definitely need to get outside this weekend, we don't get much weather like this around here.

Originally Posted by GreenFrog 

I made a trip here exactly a year ago (holy shit time flies!) to hang out with my current roommate and the weather was amazing!

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Dallas weather seems to be the best from March - May.

St. Patty's day parade tomorrow on Greenville, too! I hear it's sick.

Originally Posted by otc 

They audited a bunch of people for use taxes a few years back after they introduced it and realized that everybody was just paying zero.

Basically tons of people got extortion letters that say "based on your income, we think you probably bought this much stuff without paying IL sales tax on it, so if you pay us $X, we won't audit you"

On the form they now even provide a handy calculator to tell you how much you should pay based on income. Honestly though, it is hard to tell. Amazon purchases don't get taxed, but almost every retailer has an IL location so they still charge tax for online purchases. Do you have to pay taxes on ebay purchases? Even if the goods are unused and thus "new", most of the time it is a secondhand purchase.

Originally Posted by otc 

They audited a bunch of people for use taxes a few years back after they introduced it and realized that everybody was just paying zero.

Basically tons of people got extortion letters that say "based on your income, we think you probably bought this much stuff without paying IL sales tax on it, so if you pay us $X, we won't audit you"

On the form they now even provide a handy calculator to tell you how much you should pay based on income. Honestly though, it is hard to tell. Amazon purchases don't get taxed, but almost every retailer has an IL location so they still charge tax for online purchases. Do you have to pay taxes on ebay purchases? Even if the goods are unused and thus "new", most of the time it is a secondhand purchase.