I live in Madison, WI and last year they were $2600.  We put $225 in savings every month to pay for taxes.\n\nCurious if this is normal.
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Our property taxes are $5100 a year.  We have three taxes - school, village and county.  If we lived in the country our taxes would be less because there would be no village tax.  I live in Central NY
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If this is the first time you're filing your taxes on your own, I'm guessing they're not that complicated. I would use Turbo Tax for the web (for free) if your AGI is under $28.5k. I used it for the past two years (prior to this year) and I find it to be excellent.
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No debate here, happens every day. In some cases the taxes owed on a property exceed the original mortgage amount, some deal huh. If you live in a liberal state like California or New York its even worse. The taxes are so high you need a mortgage just to pay them. An interesting result of such high costs is people are moving out of the high cost states and to places like Nevada and Arizona. There goes the neighborhood!
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Wow everyone seems to do exact. I however round up to the nearest dollar. I've been able to put away a few hundred extra dollars a year by doing this.\n\nAlso, if you ever go over, you'll know you have a little extra in there to protect you. To me, doing exact is not good. It only takes a small mistake and your check book is off.
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I would suggest setting up a flat rate for each service within a certain mileage limit of your home. If you make more than $400 in a "hobby" then you must file Schedule C- Business profit or loss. If you run this like a business, you are eligible to deduct milage regardless of what you charge your clients. \n\nHourly rates of $15-30 are not unreasonable because if these affluent people's time is spent making the big money, they wouldn't second guess your prices.
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You'd most likely bring home a lil over $700...$714 ish depending on how much they take out foe state tax...its about 100 for fed taxes, 55 for fica, and $13 for medicare
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Hell! They barely pay any taxes now. It's right at 15%, while everybody else pays close to 30%. With the standard deductions that's what it all works out to be. Average people don't qualify for those deductions for a reason, and the reason is you pay most of the taxes.
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I used H&R Block in Chicago (Lincoln Park).  I had complicated tax issues because I had recently changed jobs, sold a mutual fund, and moved from one city to another.  My original try at using TurboTax returned a strange result--it suggested that I owed several thousand dollars, despite my expectation that I should be getting a refund.  The tax professional I worked with at H&R Block was very helpful and when he finished my taxes, it turned out that I was entitled to a significant refund after all.  Well worth the $250 it cost to have my taxes prepared.
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They usually take 27(regular)-33% (overtime) out in taxes. So it would be between $279.44-$341.54.\n\nJust looked at my paystub and 26% was taken out last time. So 26% for you would be $269.09.
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First, it depends on which state you live in.\n\nThere are a variety of taxes that phone (and other utilities) like to pass down, especially excise taxes.  I would plan to pay anywhere from 10% to 15% in taxes.
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Maybe it SEEMS so, but you probably don't spend more than 1/3rd of your income on taxes.  Sales taxes are only 5 or 6%; and you get tax deductions for mortgage interest, etc.  The USA has one of the lowest overall tax rates of any modernized country, especially compared to Europe.
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Well considering you are "rich" guess you didn't pay your fair share.\nJust playing wit cha.\n\nYour tax rate will be determined after your deductions...real estate, educational loans, medical bills, capitol losses and gains etc, but it should be about 25% over the base rate 29K.\n\nhttp://www.savewealth.com/taxes/rates/single/\n\nGood luck and pray we can get a flat tax bill passed through congress ( you'd be downto 17%)
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I think I got $1,187 federal and $59 state. I wish I'd gotten more but that's life and yes it does annoy me that it's interest free.
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Well, here is personal experience.  in 1978 I was 31 years old.  I was an R.N. and I earned $3.75 an hour.  ( When I retired last year I was making $28.00 an hour.)   Our house payment on a modest 3 bedroom house was $109.00 a month.  Gasoline was 58 cents a gallon.  I believe milk was about $1.50 a gallon.  A very nice Ford station wagon was less than $10,000.  It be great if you could check in old newspapers for ads with food and clothing prices...maybe at the library or local newspaper they could help with this.  I just can't remember any other prices, but they were proportionate to incomes of the time.  In other words, by the time I retired my income was over 12 times what it was in 1978, but prices were too.  Hope others have more info to give you.  Update:  in 1968 we bought a brand new Karman Ghia  ( little German spors car) for $3000.00.  Our landlord was rich...he bought a brand new Cadillac for $9000.00
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If there was no increase, then there is a 0% increase. I do not know what motts is trying to say ...\nsince 24,900% times 6 is 1494 and if the additional 6 cents is included, trust me, you are going to pay it...\n\nyour increase went from 6 cents to 1500 cents...not 6 cents to 1494 cents...\n\nNote: 3 cents is 50% of 6 cents and \n      6 cents is 100% of 6 cents and\n      9 cents is 150% of 6 cents and\n      12 cents is 200% of 6 cents and ... So, if there was a 100% increase in your munincipal telephone tax, your charges would have gone to 12 cents per month. \n\nNow,\n\nSince $15 = 1500 cents, your tax was raised from 6 cents per month to 1500 cents per month. The question is :\n\n1500 is what percent of 6...\n\n1500 = x% (6)\n\n1500 = x/100 (6)\n\n1500 = 6 x / 100\n\nso, (cross multiplication) (1500/1) = (6x/100)\n\n6x = 150000\n\nx = 25000. \n\nSo (YES!), \n\nyour munincipal telephone tax was raised 25,000%.\n\nThere should be some kind of law or rule that allows the increase only a certain amount. Nothing close to 25000 percent. If it was raised this much, you have a bunch of crooks working on your local munincipal board, or whatever...\n\nWith this much more money going in, guess where it is going...\n\nI don't need the ten points, but I hope you are complaining to the right authority...this is rediculous...\n\nAlso, although your tax increased 25000%, you had an increase of 250 times what you were paying. In other words, for every dollar you were paying before, you are now paying $250 or for every cent ($.01) you were paying before, you are now paying 250 cents which is also $2.50.\n\nif the increase is 25000% or 24900%, forget about it, both are a huge increases...\n\nWhen was the increase...from 1940 until last month or from last month to this month...
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I have added a link below to the IRS 2005 Tax Rate Schedules page. This will help you identify how much federal tax you'll pay. In addition, you'll find Income Tax Rates for New York and Illinois at links below.\n\nTake care.
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There is no state income nor any state sales tax in Alaska (some localities have a sales tax though).  We put a royality on pumped oil instead.  Some of that money goes into a "Permenant Fund" and dividends ("PFD"s) go out to state residents.  \n\nYou have to have been here for the previous calendar year (or been born in the last calender year) to receive it in October.  This year it was $1106.96 to every man, woman and child.  Just for taking up space.  Not surprisingly, when getting paid to just take up space, that is what some people do.\n\nI'd rather it was used for education and infrastructure, but free money is such a popular concept, it is political sacred and will never go away.\n\nThere was homesteading in Alaska decades ago and it really took off after WWII.  Guys who found it too crowded in North Dakota passed through during the war and wanted to come back.  No longer the case, for many years.  But it lives on in the popular imagination and in various internet /marketting scams.\n\nI do know people who bought 5 forested acres far back on a dirt road for $3,000 or so.  So I suppose there is some truth in the combined concept: Take the free money and use it buy cheap land.  And, if you don't mind a snowy 500-foot dirt-road driveway, shitting in an outhouse at -30F, and heating with wood you cut and split all by yourself, you can live on that land pretty cheapily.  I know people who do that to, but they usually stop when they 1) grow up around age 35 or 2) get/want a girlfriend.  But some keep at it.\n\nHope that helps.