I feel like you guys will understand... so can I take a minute to say people, stop telling me I did better than you because our refund is bigger than yours! We were on track for a minimal refund as planned, except we were expecting some of DHs commissions to pay out in Nov/Dec and they didn't until Feb this year. Now instead of it being 2017/2018 similar incomes, and 2019 slightly higher, it's going to be 2018 was a decent amount lower than 2017, and 2019 is going to be crazy high. I'm really annoyed by this and I did not want $900 back! Now I have DH complaining to me because his friend is complaining that he is getting screwed over by the tax changes because he owes this year. Of course I don't have a 100% transparent view of his finances, but I can't come up with a scenario where he truly owes more, I think he just under withheld... I think really he's just hung up on thinking he was going to get a first time homebuyer credit... but that's gone, right? He just bought last year.
I just don't understand why is it so hard for people, I don't care if you want to aim for a refund or not, you don't want to do the math, whatever, but it has nothing to do with what you owed the government! It's just whether you over or underpaid during the year...
Ok I'm done. It's been a long Friday already.