Open Thread Wednesday 3/18/09

By on March 18, 2009 12:50 am in Brooklyn Heights
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  • Willowtown

    Williams, hopefully not complex at all. I started working on my taxes with Turbotax, which shows that I owe the government quite a bit. I can’t see how this is right, since my salary is very low and pretty much all goes to rent and student loan payments. I’ve always gotten refunds in past years. I’d love for someone to give it another look. Any advice?

  • R

    Re Vonage – just know that it won’t solve your complaints about losing service when your modem dies (since Vonage relies on a working internet connection to function).

    If you’re having call quality issues with TWC phone I’d call them. I’ve never had problems with mine (or with my modem dying repeatedly either, maybe there is a voltage issue or something?).

    Anywho, I’ll be all over FiOS just the same if they serve my building…

  • AEB

    R, not to prolong the topic beyond interest in it, but modems seem to have a shorter lifespan than the…gastrotrich (a minute aquatic animal that lives three days–I just checked Google for this).

    In the last several years, I’ve gone through four. Just my luck? The bad part is that when one dies you’ve got to go to the Manhattan TW exchangeria to get another.

    No fun.

  • Publius

    Wow, the Dumbonyc.com blog is breaking an important story about Councilman Yassky uncovering through FOIL requests what appears to be duplicity and collusion between Two Trees Management and the School Construction Authority as it relates to Dock St/DUMBO:

    http://tinyurl.com/dyv97t

  • No One Of Consequence

    Thanks, Publius.
    This deserves its own thread here.

  • nabeguy

    Publius, these revelations are shocking but not surprising. The SCA is a rogue outfit which should be throroughly investigated by the SAG’s office not only for their bidding practices, but for the kind of collusion laid out in Yasskey’s findings.

  • williams

    willowtown, not sure about your predictament…for most people the withholdings cover their tax liability, so you generally shouldn’t owe that much when you do your tax return. if you have interest, dividends, capital gains (congrats if yes) which weren’t taxed by your broker, then that could be a reason. also, unless you have fairly significant life changes – new job, marriage, a child – your tax liability shouldn’t change significantly year to year. All else fails, call the IRS and ask what’s up…they are very helpful, but just call early in the AM.

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