Self-Esteem & Fulfilling Your Tax Obligations

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I am not sure what category this would fit in, so I will put in in general discussion. I work technically as an independent contractor not as an employee which means I am responsible for my own tax decuctions and payments. I managed to pay my 2007 federal tax obligations off early for this year.

When you earn a paycheck and you have handled your finances to pay your share of taxes and contribute towards society does it make you "feel like a man" "feel like an adult" because you have "fulfilled your obligations towards society just like everyone else?"

No. I actually pay someone else to do my taxes because otherwise I would do them too late and/or incorrectly. I'm just not good with financial stuff, so I work around it. If I were to dwell on it, it would probably make me feel pathetic. But I don't dwell on it.

No

First off, in the U.S., I have no say where my tax money is spent, so I see too much of it being wasted.

Second, money doesn't mean as much to me as it seems to for other people.
I have never measured myself by the amount of money I have or could earn.

I currently 'owe' the IRS almost $6,000 because my divorce wasn't finalized soon enough and my accountant hadn't set me up to pay quarterlies last year.

This year I have been paying quarterlies and my divorce was finalized Sept. 01, so I hope my situation is better next April!

I haven't even filed mine yet for 06, but they owe me money every year so there isnt anything to feel bad about. Ill get around to it one of these days.

omfg i can tell you the worst tax story that happend to me, it all went down back in 2004, i get a certified letter from the irs. the letter was intimidating to say the least, it was all big and must have weighed 5 pounds, anyways i have always done my taxes myself and have used the EZ form. well they were all for the years 2002 you have been doing your taxes wrong, aparently i made a math error wich made me get a refund. and now two years later they wanted all my base. i am serious! they said they would take everything i owned exept canned food and my childrens schoolbooks. (i dont have any kids) but still, i origionally owed them $800 and now they said i had to pay them $1500, because two yars went by. i cant tell you how depressed and sucidal i was. it was terrible, eventually i paid them off but it took me a year and a half

now i dont do my taxes anymore and take them to the block son, H&R block

I work hard and generate a paycheck and I contribute towards society by paying taxes, and even tho I let my dad do my tax, I still feel like an adult, a man because I contributed thousands of $$$$ towards the government, which will help build schools, roads, pay for defence but will also alot of my money go to rich naitions like Japan for aid, Israel, towards wars I dont support and in the pockets of others who dont deserve it.

also i'd like to add this little bit of usefull information. if you are 25 but under 65 you can claim the earned income credit, wich means it will lower your taxes. i didnt know about that untill i was 26/

i m shure we only give them forein aid because its gods land