[Ed Dantes]

Ok, now someone enlighten me on how to best use my $1200 on my new HDTV.

Gotta love how the plan designed to stimulate our economy is going to result in a heck of a lot of people buying products made in Japan.

[jcmanson]

Ok, now someone enlighten me on how to best use my $1200 on my new HDTV.

Sony Bravia. 1080p. One of the best pictures I have seen even when the program is not in HD. You can get it for under 1200 right now. It was 2000 a few months ago. We got ours for around 1200.

What size will $1200 get me?

[LUconn]

$1500 here. Sounds like a trip to Disney for the family to me.

[WinthropEagleFan]

so i have read everything i could about this and still don't know if i'm getting one. i am eligible by all the things i have read, but i am still a dependent. would that stop me from getting one?

If you can be claimed as a dependent, you won't get one:

http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,, ... 81,00.html

Q: I know some people won’t get a stimulus payment. How do I know if I’m one of them?

A: You won’t get a stimulus payment in 2008, if any of the following apply to you:

-You don’t file a 2007 tax return.
-Your net income tax liability is zero and your qualifying income is less than $3,000. To determine your qualifying income, add together your wages, net self-employment income, nontaxable combat pay, Social Security benefits, certain Railroad Retirement benefits and certain veterans’ payments.
-You can be claimed as a dependent on someone else’s return (whether or not you actually are claimed as a dependent on someone else's return). For example, this would include a child or student who can be claimed on a parent’s return. [Updated 4/15/08]
-You do not have a valid Social Security Number.
-You are a nonresident alien.
-You file Form 1040NR or Form 1040NR-EZ, Form 1040PR or Form 1040SS for 2007.

[WinthropEagleFan]

So...if these are being sent out using SS# as the determination factor...how does it work when my wife and I have different dates for our SS#'s...when will the check for the kids come? We filed jointly, so I just assumed everything would come with my number, but now I am not sure....

It goes by whoever's SSN is listed first on the tax return.

Would you stop it already

Haha, I'm an accountant, I'm supposed to know this stuff...

[HenryGale]

So...if these are being sent out using SS# as the determination factor...how does it work when my wife and I have different dates for our SS#'s...when will the check for the kids come? We filed jointly, so I just assumed everything would come with my number, but now I am not sure....

It goes by whoever's SSN is listed first on the tax return.

Would you stop it already

WEF...will I get a check for my wife and then another check for me and the kids?

[WinthropEagleFan]

It goes by whoever's SSN is listed first on the tax return.

Would you stop it already

WEF...will I get a check for my wife and then another check for me and the kids?

If you filed on the same return, you'll get one check.

[HenryGale]

Thanks again WEF.

[TIMSCAR20]

Ok, now someone enlighten me on how to best use my $1200 on my new HDTV.

Sony Bravia. 1080p. One of the best pictures I have seen even when the program is not in HD. You can get it for under 1200 right now. It was 2000 a few months ago. We got ours for around 1200.

What size will $1200 get me?

I'm sorry I neglected to mention the size of the TV. 40 inches. Sony is phasing out the 42 and 37 inchers and pushing the 40 inch from what I was told. I like the size though. It is definitely big enough.

[jcmanson]

Thanks Scar.

[RubberMallet]

$1500 here. Sounds like a trip to Disney for the family to me.

how bout you send me the 1500 and i'll fly to your house and fit a boat oar up your rectum....its basically the same thing...


we direct deposit our returns so we should see it in the next couple weeks...

[Purple Haize]

All I know is that I got my Panasonic 50" plasma for 1399 and it has only gone UP in price. 42" is a decent size but hey GO BIG OR GO HOME.
I am debating putting another 50" in our newly finished basement aka MANLAND or putting that plus my tax return towards a new HVAC unit so that I have one controlling up stairs and one controlling MANLAND. Decisions Decisions....
OR spend it on Cheap wine and expensive hookers. Any one?

[HenryGale]

I was reading on another board that some people actually had their checks direct deposited today!

Haize...absolutely go with the cheap wine and expensive hookers...then you have no time for TV!

[LUconn]

$1500 here. Sounds like a trip to Disney for the family to me.

how bout you send me the 1500 and i'll fly to your house and fit a boat oar up your rectum....its basically the same thing...


we direct deposit our returns so we should see it in the next couple weeks...

Is that what they're doing at Disney these days? Sounds good to me. I'll send you $2500 Western Union and I'll just need you to send me back $1000 cash. Sound good?

[RubberMallet]

$1500 here. Sounds like a trip to Disney for the family to me.

how bout you send me the 1500 and i'll fly to your house and fit a boat oar up your rectum....its basically the same thing...


we direct deposit our returns so we should see it in the next couple weeks...

Is that what they're doing at Disney these days? Sounds good to me. I'll send you $2500 Western Union and I'll just need you to send me back $1000 cash. Sound good?

you have your choice....either that or i can arrange for you to stand in line for 8 hours and have land monsters run into you with their motorized carts

[mrmacphisto]

I was reading on another board that some people actually had their checks direct deposited today!

That's impressive. The deposits have probably been issued for the first round then, and the posting probably depends on each bank. Some work fast than others, and most banks only process these transactions on business days.

I'm in the first round of direct deposits, so I'm really hoping it will be there on Monday.

[mrmacphisto]

GOT IT!!!

[blwall1416]

OR spend it on Cheap wine and expensive hookers. Any one?

Haize....its all about quality. Go for expensive wine & cheap hookers. In the end....well you know how it turns out...

[thepostman]

GOT IT!!!

I have not got mine....and I got my refund this year through direct deposit....and my SS# ends in 01....lame....

[mrmacphisto]

GOT IT!!!

I have not got mine....and I got my refund this year through direct deposit....and my SS# ends in 01....lame....

I don't know that it matters, but I was a very early filer.

[JK37]

All I know is that I got my Panasonic 50" plasma for 1399 and it has only gone UP in price. 42" is a decent size but hey GO BIG OR GO HOME.
I am debating putting another 50" in our newly finished basement aka MANLAND or putting that plus my tax return towards a new HVAC unit so that I have one controlling up stairs and one controlling MANLAND. Decisions Decisions....
OR spend it on Cheap wine and expensive hookers. Any one?

Sounds like a trip to Vegas I once took...

[adam42381]

Still haven't gotten ours yet...

[RagingTireFire]

http://www.irs.gov/irs/article/0,,id=180250,00.html

DIRECT DEPOSIT

Last two SSN digits: Payments will be transmitted no later than:
00 through 20 May 2
21 through 75 May 9
76 through 99 May 16

PAPER CHECK

Last two SSN digits: Payments will be mailed no later than:
00 through 09 May 16
10 through 18 May 23
19 through 25
May 30
26 through 38 June 6
39 through 51 June 13
52 through 63 June 20
64 through 75 June 27
76 through 87 July 4
88 through 99 July 11

[thepostman]

ahhhh thanks man...i never noticed the no later then part

[Purple Haize]

JK I think you were confusing my post with the EXPENSIVE "TV's" you had in Vegas!!