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Tax prepayment is made, now I hold my breath

December 27th, 2017 at 09:41 pm

Well the early tax payment has been made (see my prior entry for details). Turns out the county doesn't care how much you pay early, they will just keep applying the amounts from the pre-payment until it runs out. Since the further in the future the less likely it will benefit me, I hedged my bets. I paid enough for this coming year, plus some of 2019's bill. Assuming you can use these payments (and according to everyone that reads the laws there is no reason you can't) for itemizing taxes, I will be saving $1,250 this year on my fed taxes (& maybe a hundred or two for the state). And if for some reason I can't use it for taxes, its not a major loss anyway. The money was just sitting in my savings account not doing much.

Today was a nice day financially in other ways too. I went into Paypal and requested another $150 out of the account. I checked for the year, and I pulled out over $1,500. Now some of that is sales for the SG-GF, but even so I probably netted near $1,000 for my sales. Nice to see I can make some money with this stuff, but I think I need to be more proactive on some of my sales. I may need to lower the price on some things that just aren't selling. I want the stuff outta here - soon.

Also went to the credit union to deposit my latest electric company dividend check - $144. For the year that makes $570 in dividends, and totaling up my last 12 electric bills came to only $385. Now of course I get taxed on the $570 (boooo...), and my natural gas bill for the year is probably in the $300-$400 range, but still... nice to see another year come and go where I get dividends that more than pay for my electricity. Nice.

Now I need to work up my year end numbers for 2017. They're crazy good, almost too good to be true. Hmmmmmm..... And also get ready to put my 2018 money into my Roth IRA. Yikes my checking account balance is shrinking fast.

5 Responses to “Tax prepayment is made, now I hold my breath”

  1. creditcardfree Says:
    1514417180

    Not sure if
    Text is this announcement and Link is https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-advisory-prepaid-real-property-taxes-may-be-deductible-in-2017-if-assessed-and-paid-in-2017
    this announcement by the IRS impacts your tax prepayment or not. It was announced today.

  2. Single Guy Says:
    1514421990

    CCF, thanks for the update. I figured there would be something like this coming out. But I would bet this is not the last act of this drama. I will certainly wait to see how it all plays out before filing my taxes in any case. Unless they can point to something very specifically saying this can't be done, well.... I will expect to hear some big names pipe in on this. Maybe even state attorney generals will get involved (they seem to like to do that lately).

    In any case, this amount was less than 20% of my savings, so... no problem really. I should have more than enough, and there are always options if I need money (sell stocks in my brokerage and get out money, break a CD, redeem savings bonds, ask for over payment refund) and I'm sure there are other things I can do if push comes to shove. If I didn't have ways to get cash if needed, or if CDs had seriously good rates, I probably wouldn't have tried this. But there is so little downside I may as well give it a shot.

  3. creditcardfree Says:
    1514427226

    No problem. I just came across it, so thought I'd pass it on since it seems to apply to this.

  4. Jackie Cohen Says:
    1514427492

    Hi there.

    I just posted an interpretation of today's IRS announcement. Whether prepayment makes sense depends on your jurisdiction, but it sounds like this won't be the last clarification the IRS makes.

    https://www.savingadvice.com/articles/2017/12/27/1052973_prepay-property-taxes.html

    Please, by all means, comment on the post above. Thanks.

  5. rob62521 Says:
    1514575415

    If nothing else, your taxes are paid which isn't a bad thing!

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