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Hello 2023! I cannot tell you how happy I am to see you! I know, I said that about 2021 and 2022, but I really, really mean it. And I'm hoping you reciprocate, you brand spanking new year, on the personal front by letting go of COVID-19, and, on the tax side, by making this the year that taxes also get back to normal. Don't laugh. A gal can hope!
Jan. 1: Once more for the official date — Happy New Year! One way to make things more enjoyable on the tax front is to get organized this month. Early this month. It will help you keep track of the myriad tax documents — W-2 earnings statements, 1099 forms, charitable donation receipts, year-end account statements — that will soon be on their way to your email or snail mail box. You'll need those (and more) to file your 2022 tax return as soon as the Internal Revenue Service starts accepting them.
Jan. 3: It's the first official work day of 2023. It's also a deadline for employers, including those who are self-employed, who took advantage of the COVID relief option in 2021 to defer the employer's portion of the Social Security payroll tax; that's 6.2 percent of each worker's wages. If you didn't remit thr taxes before the end of December, today is the absolute final due date for paying the balance of those postponed tax collections.
Jan. 6: It's Friday, the end of the first holiday-shortened work week of 2023. Even though most of us are thinking about filing our 2022 returns when the IRS opens filing season later this month, we also need to start our 2023 tax planning. Start with the inflation adjustments that apply to a variety of tax situations. You can find this year's figures in the ol' blog's 10-part tax inflation series.
Jan. 9: Tonight, TCU's Horned Frogs and Georgia's Bulldogs face off at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles to decide the men's college football championship. Thousands of fans are rooting for their teams. Even more people with no personal connections are betting on the game, thanks to the Supreme Court's 2018 ruling to allow states to accept sports wagers. If you're one of those bettors and your pick pays off, remember that you'll owe taxes on your winnings. The good news is that you won't have to share your luck with Uncle Sam until you file your 2023 return next year. The better news is that there are ways to reduce your taxable winnings.
Jan. 10: Do you work as a server at a restaurant or at any other establishment where gratuities from customers are part of your compensation? I hope you got lots of financial thanks for doing your job well, but remember that those tips are taxable income.

Whether you're dining in or, still COVID leery and getting food delivered to your home, if a tip isn't included on your restaurant or delivery bill, click the image above to calculate how much to tip the person who brought it to you.
If you got at least $20 in gratuities in November, you must account for the tips today by using
Form 4070 to report last month's tips total to your employer.
Jan. 13: It's the first Friday the 13th of 2023. That might not worry you, but even non-superstitious folks are frightened a bit by taxes. However, on this or any other day, don't fear, or fall for, these
13 scary, but wrong, tax myths.
Jan. 16: Every
Martin Luther King Jr. Day, millions of people commit to a
day of service.

Click image to find out ways
you can volunteer on MLK Day. Taking time on the Rev. Dr. King's holiday to volunteer at a charity isn't tax deductible, but some costs associated with
volunteering could help reduce your tax bill if you itemize.
Jan. 17: Today is the due date for the final
estimated tax tax payment for the 2022 tax year. It's usually on the 15th, but that fell on Sunday. Then Monday was the federal MLK Day holiday. So the final estimated tax payment deadline was shifted to the next business day, Tuesday, Jan. 17.
Jan. 17: This date isn't firm yet, but the IRS and its Free File Alliance partners usually offer their no-cost online tax preparation and electronic filing program Free File around the middle of January. When the special
Free File website at IRS.gov is available, take advantage of it if you qualify.

Free File last year was open to taxpayers whose adjusted gross income was $73,000 or less, but that earnings limit should be bumped up a bit for the 2023 filing season. Whatever the amount, the income level applies to all
filing statuses.
Jan. 23: If you make too much to use Free File, and don't want to use its Free Forms option, you always can purchase your own tax prep software or high a tax pro to handle your taxes. If you looking to hire someone, get to it now. At this point, if you can
find a tax preparer taking new clients, you'll be at the end of the filings list. But at least you'll be on the list.
Jan. 27: It was this week last year that the IRS started accepting and, more importantly, processing tax year returns. If you plan to be among the earliest of filers, you need to make sure you have all the necessary information and documentation. Check out
this list of the statements, documents, and forms you'll need before you start work on your return.
Jan. 31: Wow! The first month of 2023 is over? Time really does fly when you're having tax fun. We'll keep it going here in this new year with new Tax Moves to Make each month, which you also can find on their monthly tax tips pages.
January already is filling up!
Small Business Tax Calendar: Important
filing, deposit and record keeping dates throughout the year that your company needs to know. You can get more tax calendar information at the IRS'
online calendar page and view the full year's important business and individual tax dates in
IRS Pub. 509.
I received the check for my kids, and I was SO happy to get it!!! Can we stop blaming obama for everything? My goodness, who do we know who would have done a better job than he did at this jncture in our history? It was the worst possible time to be president on EVERY turn. Can we give the guy a tiny break every now and then? He's just a human being, sheesh!
Posted by: Liz | Monday, November 07, 2011 at 10:38 AM
...here we go AGAIN
Posted by: Lisa | Thursday, July 28, 2011 at 03:16 PM
geeesh stop already its bothe democrats and republicans are in this for what they can get,,,, all be it if there is to be no more ssi then kindly quit taking it out of the working folks checks let them invest,, or spend as they see fit,, for the rest of us who have paid into to it all of our lives we have earned it,,,, if there is to be no more then i want mine in one lump sum please,,,maybe it will take care of me for the rest of my life,,if its a short one,,
Posted by: maggie sullivan | Sunday, July 24, 2011 at 09:36 PM
my comment is for all on social security...how can the government even think of stopping the social security benefits? there are so many disabled people like myself who are living on so little....i make less than $1000.00 permonth. I have a disablilty that will not allow me to work. because i am a caucasian woman....i cannot get even $40.00 a month to help with groceries. I will probably not get fuel assistance this year....thanks to the government. So i will either freeze, starve...or die because i cannot get extra help with my medical bills to pay for my insurance that we are required to have and have to pay the monthly premium....sure its only $110. per month but thats alot of money when you cannot by groceries, or oil....THANKS TO OUR GOVERNMENT....THE HOME OF THE FREE...FREE TO STARVE,FREEZE OR?
Posted by: Linda Bressette | Tuesday, July 19, 2011 at 08:39 AM
My fiance is 48 years old and has already worked enough to be able to get $1400 SSI if he was at the required age of 70.But Instead he receives $829 a month disability pay for the last 1 1/2 years.
He has been on oxygen therapy 24/7 for the last 1 1/2 years due to his lungs being exposed to methanol 10 years before while he was a hazmat worker checking a tank at a work site.
Now this All happened because the company's big bosses had silenced all the alarms for the leak of the methanol gas because they wanted to get back online and make their $750k every 15 minutes . But they failed to inform the 4 guys who had already went into the tank about the leak until it was too late.This company would rather pay to put off going to court than pay off the 4guys who have will have health problems which will eventually kill them. The company even acknowledged by making a offer of $150k but that wouldn't cover their ongoing medical bills. My fiances monthly medical bills are $4k a month and Now every 6 months he has to pay the first $120 for his spendown because they say he makes $20 too much a month , since Obama care went into effect.Now you wouldn't think it should be to hard to prove to medicaid that he owes $120 since his oxygen and meds are $4k a month.But it took 5 months and him going into the hospital after running out of the real expensive meds we couldn't afford. for the caseworkers to finally reinstate his medical.But now he has another hospital bill for$32k . And I provided them a bill as to proof he owed at least the $120 within 45 days after they said he no longer had insurance . but they informed us 2 months later that it wasn't a detailed enough bill, My fiance has the equivelant to about a 1/4 of a lung for each lungs Or the lungs of a 168 year old man.Luckily he's too stubborn to die like that greedy multi million dollar company is probably hoping he'll do.
But neither Obama or the republicans or some of the Wa.State DSHS caseworkers give a damn aboutb the seniors or the disabled people get the help quickly that they should have available to them. Especially the seniors Since they have paid into the system all the years they worked
Posted by: Kim | Wednesday, July 13, 2011 at 08:10 PM
Ok first of all this $250. is a drop in a very large bucket for the federal government and I dont know who said prices have not gone up, they must have been sleep for the last two years. Not to mention the price of gas and these terriable co-pays on medications. I am not a senior but I am disabled and i pay a lot of my check in medications, and such. I actually have it better then most and I have it hard. I have an underage daughter that lives with me, no support form the father, and we get a housing subsidy and we still dont have enough money to buy her cheap cloths or for her to do anything or go anywhere. im just saying give the people who raised us and took care of us a break they, we need that $250 to pay bills its not like it will be sitting in a bank collecting intrest and were living off the intrest or we will use it for a month long European vacation or anything this money is used for the raping utilitiy company or food or for our overpriced crappy apartments. Republicans need to shut up they couldnt survive ONE day in our lives.. They are batsh** crazy anyway.
Posted by: Carney | Friday, June 03, 2011 at 10:07 PM
Things are horrible and they won't get better until that fraud Obama is out of office. I rue the day I voted for him. Biggest mistake in my life.
Posted by: Tyrone Buyrger | Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 01:00 PM
amy. one day you will be on social security and you will see for yourself, i worked for 30 years and am now on disability i have medicine i have to have every month or i will die. so i do without other things, you never get what you pay into social security and you pay into ss for your future, but you know what ................we havent recieved a raise in 2 years now, and when i could work i sure didnt complain about what seniors and disabled americans recieved
Posted by: shelia | Tuesday, April 19, 2011 at 03:11 PM
This is rape plain and simple of our seniors. Two years in a row we go without a COLA and Obama following it with sorry but I will ask for a stimulus for you to shut us up knowing that there will never be one. People are still hoping that have no idea it has already been shot down for 2011 at least they did not wait until May like last year to tell us.
Now here is something no one is talking about and I urge everyone to start posting this everywhere so it gets attention and demand a answer.
Where is the money from all the Illegal's in the U.S. that is being taken out of thier checks using someone else's SS number???
There are billions of dollars (EVERY YEAR!!!) in the U.S. of unclaimed taxes, and 86 percent of that money is because it cannot be claimed by those using bogus documentation. And the goverment knows this we are not living in the dark ages, a red flag comes up especially since 911 everytime a duplicate SS number is used. But they are keeping these Billions and not telling us. Federal , State, SS, SDI, Local Taxes, FDCI, where is this money?
But we cannot get a few cents on a dollar which is usually less than 4 cents a year raise!! Congress got a $3,000 raise but tells us we do not get one?
Where is the money President Obama that you know is there from the Illegals you allow to fraud us and use our Social Security Numbers, which by the way we never get credit for the hours so that shows right there you knew all the time it was not us???
Get this out and ask why we are being targeted as seniors. Gas here in Northern California is $4.34 and rising daily, a loaf of breat $5.00, ,milk $4.99 a gallon, and the homeless over 12,000 on the streets in the freezing rain. TWELVE THOUSAND!! a quarter of them seniors. Are you next???
Posted by: BobM | Saturday, March 19, 2011 at 12:02 PM
Because prices are not the same! Don't forget the seniors of today paid into the system all their lives.
Posted by: Kathy Cann | Thursday, February 03, 2011 at 02:37 AM
Its sad that the ones on ssi and ss have to be hit they can hardly make it now they struggle and that $250.00 would help some.but it seems the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.and the elderly get left out all together.
Posted by: Shirley Douglass | Tuesday, January 11, 2011 at 05:58 PM
any young workers that complain about elderly n older ss recipients,just wait you young advantage having bastards,the pendellum is swinging,you'll be in the underappreciated demographic soon enough,its called karma you jarheads!
Posted by: Adam | Saturday, December 18, 2010 at 07:53 AM
this is sad ssi ss they dont get the 250 the rich get all the breaks some thing is not right we fight the war the rich didnt do shit so we better get the 250 more money next i vote be other perosn go help us on ssi ty
Posted by: nor_crr@yahoo.com | Friday, December 17, 2010 at 11:14 AM
republicans go away u our rude selfish self centerd people who dont help our world u our all the reason why our world hurts right now pluss makeing ssi people suffer living on bread and water while the rich kicks back and wathches us poor suffer lol republicans u will all get what is comming to u guys soon.....
Posted by: annna | Thursday, December 16, 2010 at 10:47 PM
obama is a east of time in this world ssi shoould go up we poor folks suffer why the rich get there gold fork and shrimp republicans need to dissapear they our scum of the earth all u republicans our nothing to our society.
Goverment congress who ever you our needs to riase ssi checks here in oregon 600 bucks cant get far ecsp. in rent and we have to pay alot for or medications now co-pay thanks to u guys.
Posted by: annna | Thursday, December 16, 2010 at 10:43 PM