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If you’re unable to afford the filing fee, I’d assume you’re not submitting a very complicated form, so while taxes are due today, why should the deadline be ex

by noahjk 8y ago

If you’re unable to afford the filing fee, I’d assume you’re not submitting a very complicated form, so while taxes are due today, why should the deadline be extended? It’s not as if today was also the first day available for file. Your poor planning does not constitute an emergency on the IRS’s part, right?

djohnston 8y ago
the deadline should be extended because the valid time window for submitting has been shrunk due to the outage. they have altered the deal, so to speak.
- DoreenMichele 8y ago
  "Pray that we don't alter it further." -- Darth Vader
DoreenMichele 8y ago
It isn't poor planning. I'm medically handicapped and I fell in December and hurt myself and basically spent three months in bed, not doing paid work, though I was working on other things to try to raise my income. I'm a woman, so I am barred from the old boys network. I appear to be the only woman to have ever made the leaderboard of Hacker News. No, this does not gain me entree to the old boys club. I still have essentially no professional connections here, though that may be painfully slowly changing. I have cystic fibrosis. So does my oldest son. Both my sons are ASD. So, there's a whole lot on my plate. I also am getting well when doctor's claim that cannot be done and that gets me called a lunatic and teller of tall tales. It doesn't lead to anything good. I was gifted membership to Metafilter by a kind soul. That forum is full of people who like to imagine they are good people making the world a better place. They did nothing but crap on me. They were unwilling to help me figure out how to increase my income. I've done everything in my power to solve what are supposed to be unsolvable problems and I mostly get kicked in the teeth for it. But, hey, thanks for taking the time to make swipes at me. Really nice of you to add to my troubles while I sit here with $2 to my name trying to figure out how the hell I will eat for the rest of the month and also dealing with the IRS sword of Damocles today just to add to the fun.
- Alupis 8y ago
  I'm not trying to pile onto you, and it does sound like you have a lot to deal with, but... we've all known the deadline for a full year (give or take a couple days), and there's no real reason to wait until the very last day, hours before they're due. If they grant an extension, will you have them filed tonight anyway, or will you wait until the extension deadline? I waited until just last night... so I was in a similar boat, but if for some reason I hadn't gotten them turned it, it would be on me - nobody else. You have to own your decisions, and take charge of your life - otherwise it'll just feel like a sequence of random unfortunate events... impossible to get out from under. Upon reflection, I certainly could have spent the 3 hours it took me to file my taxes back in February if I had set aside the time. Also: > I'm broke and can't afford the filing fee This is for electronic filing, if you mailed them in (postmarked by today), it would cost you a postage stamp, unless you're referring to a tax software purchase (ie. HR Block, etc).
  - DoreenMichele 8y ago
    As stated previously, I fell and hurt myself and was incapacitated for some months. I file electronically because I am medically handicapped and papers make me ill. I don't have money to mail them either. And I do everything in my power to take responsibility for my life. That's how I am getting well when it is not supposed to be possible. That gets me nothing but grief from other people. It isn't respected. It isn't supported. I'm literally called crazy for doing that. It's seriously a no win situation here.
    - pandasun 8y ago
      You're missing the point. OP is referring to you filing taxes on the last day. Your post history shows you spent every day the last months on HackerNews, you could have filed before today. E-file went live on January 29, 2018.
      - DoreenMichele 8y ago
        I very often spend time on HN on my phone in bed. So, no. Being able to log in here is not proof I could have done my taxes any time.
mung 8y ago
It is NOT poor planning if the plan was to file on a day that the system is supposed to be up and running.

by noahjk 8y ago

djohnston 8y ago

the deadline should be extended because the valid time window for submitting has been shrunk due to the outage. they have altered the deal, so to speak.

DoreenMichele 8y ago
"Pray that we don't alter it further." -- Darth Vader

DoreenMichele 8y ago

It isn't poor planning. I'm medically handicapped and I fell in December and hurt myself and basically spent three months in bed, not doing paid work, though I was working on other things to try to raise my income. I'm a woman, so I am barred from the old boys network. I appear to be the only woman to have ever made the leaderboard of Hacker News. No, this does not gain me entree to the old boys club. I still have essentially no professional connections here, though that may be painfully slowly changing. I have cystic fibrosis. So does my oldest son. Both my sons are ASD. So, there's a whole lot on my plate. I also am getting well when doctor's claim that cannot be done and that gets me called a lunatic and teller of tall tales. It doesn't lead to anything good. I was gifted membership to Metafilter by a kind soul. That forum is full of people who like to imagine they are good people making the world a better place. They did nothing but crap on me. They were unwilling to help me figure out how to increase my income. I've done everything in my power to solve what are supposed to be unsolvable problems and I mostly get kicked in the teeth for it. But, hey, thanks for taking the time to make swipes at me. Really nice of you to add to my troubles while I sit here with $2 to my name trying to figure out how the hell I will eat for the rest of the month and also dealing with the IRS sword of Damocles today just to add to the fun.

Alupis 8y ago
I'm not trying to pile onto you, and it does sound like you have a lot to deal with, but... we've all known the deadline for a full year (give or take a couple days), and there's no real reason to wait until the very last day, hours before they're due. If they grant an extension, will you have them filed tonight anyway, or will you wait until the extension deadline? I waited until just last night... so I was in a similar boat, but if for some reason I hadn't gotten them turned it, it would be on me - nobody else. You have to own your decisions, and take charge of your life - otherwise it'll just feel like a sequence of random unfortunate events... impossible to get out from under. Upon reflection, I certainly could have spent the 3 hours it took me to file my taxes back in February if I had set aside the time. Also: > I'm broke and can't afford the filing fee This is for electronic filing, if you mailed them in (postmarked by today), it would cost you a postage stamp, unless you're referring to a tax software purchase (ie. HR Block, etc).
- DoreenMichele 8y ago
  As stated previously, I fell and hurt myself and was incapacitated for some months. I file electronically because I am medically handicapped and papers make me ill. I don't have money to mail them either. And I do everything in my power to take responsibility for my life. That's how I am getting well when it is not supposed to be possible. That gets me nothing but grief from other people. It isn't respected. It isn't supported. I'm literally called crazy for doing that. It's seriously a no win situation here.
  - pandasun 8y ago
    You're missing the point. OP is referring to you filing taxes on the last day. Your post history shows you spent every day the last months on HackerNews, you could have filed before today. E-file went live on January 29, 2018.
    - DoreenMichele 8y ago
      I very often spend time on HN on my phone in bed. So, no. Being able to log in here is not proof I could have done my taxes any time.

mung 8y ago

It is NOT poor planning if the plan was to file on a day that the system is supposed to be up and running.