Ah, the advantages of having a father who does tax preparation as a business :p

I did mine on free Web sites, state and federal. Both refunds already received.

Did mine early March and thought I was being lazy about it.

chalion wrote:Did mine early March and thought I was being lazy about it.

Depends how you define "lazy"...I deposited my refund check on March 15.

I usually do a rough estimate of my taxes as soon as I get the W2's.
If I'm getting a refund, I go ahead and fill out the final forms, and send them in right away.
If I'm going to have to pay something, then I wait until early April to finish the forms and mail them.

Our return was accepted by the IRS in mid-February, but we haven't received our refund yet. The IRS didn't know how to process payments for people who got the First Time Home Buyer's credit in 2008. You see, this is the first year we have to start paying back the "credit" (interest free loan). Like a good little boy, I tried to pay 'em back and to thank me they decide to hold my refund for over 2 months... Here's a Facebook page with others in the same boat. http://www.facebook.com/2011TaxRefundDelays
Last time I spoke to the IRS, I was told I should have my refund by the end of April. Not holding my breath.

C'mon, Woot, think of your target audience. We didn't get to be so fabulously wealthy and such incredible geeks by being late with our taxes. Some of us even helped write chunks of the tax code.....

My mother did my taxes for me, as she has for the past 17 years. I got my refund direct deposited back in February. I guess it's a good thing I missed out on that first time home buyer's tax credit *loan* by 1 month. I did not know you had to pay it back. That's messed up. But I did get a larger than normal refund because of the mortgage interest and such.

I think your poll is ridiculous and pointless... because the tax deadline hasn't passed yet... this year it's today, Monday, April 18th, not April 15th... So NO ONE is late... yet...

I was too busy shopping at Lowes in Sanford, NC to be bothered with my taxes.

Loved the Woot Podcast where Mortimer (I think) was lecturing Monty (again, I think) or vice versa about the refund and that is is much better not to overpay during the year and use that money. However, I always was afraid that I was not withholding enough and did add a bit to it.

SBCJester21 wrote:I was too busy shopping at Lowes in Sanford, NC to be bothered with my taxes.

That young man was awesome!

Yeah, I always file as soon as I get my W2s. Of course I'm always getting a refund, so I guess I can understand putting it off if you owe money...

I get a feeling most of the Woot audience files as soon as they receive all the paperwork. I just had a lot of paperwork this year and had to file paper, so it took me into February (*gasp*) to get everything put together.

Refund came about six weeks later, direct deposit. Got to love that.