Lied To Mom About Working Last Year. Now It’s Income Tax Time. Help?
Last year I didn’t have a job, but I lied to my mom and lead her to believe I did to get her off my back. I had just come out of a really hard personal devastation in my life, and I went into a depressed mode. I lived off of what I had saved up. I felt embarrassed and depressed about the situation, and my mom’s the type that isn’t understanding, and can really make a person feel much more depressed and stressed out, so I lied to keep her off me. I lived on my own, so it was easy.
Now it’s income tax time, and she’s been hounding me to give her the information so she can do the paper work. And I’m assuming she also gets some sort of benefit from having me listed as dependent, even though I’m really not anymore. I’m not sure what to do. I saw that she got a paper from Chase bank that looked like an account summary sheet with my name on it that said something about the income tax, listing $12 (compared to my sister’s $87 who worked about 3-4 months part time doing retail work). I don’t know where $12 came from. I now live with my boyfriend (and working + student), and I was thinking of telling her we just did our taxes together / online through turbotax.com (I have to file anyways, even if I didn’t work) … but if she gets some sort of tax rightoff, she probably needs my W2.
I know the logical answer is to tell her I didn’t work for a year, but if you knew my mom you’d know the nightmare it would bring. I wish I could just brush this embarrassing thing away and move on from it. File my taxes on my own like every other personal financial thing of mine that I handle. She’s not involved in my finances anyways. Maybe I can tell her I did a lot of freelance web design like I used to, and that’s why the bank summary / lack of W2 reflects no job?
“Thanks, Mom, but I’ve already taken care of it. I e-filed for free from the IRS home page.”
You could go through the motions and file a $0 return on paper if you wish and that way would not even be lying about filing.
In this case the $12 is no big deal as it doesn’t generate a filing requirement on your part.
Don’t tell her you did them “together” with your b/f. She’ll know that your FOS since you are not married and can’t file a joint return with him.
Telling more lies just compounds the lies you’ve already told. And eventually the truth comes out. So grow up and start being truthful now.
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If you used to do freelance web design then just say that is what you were doing, and instead of filing a w2 form you filed the self employment tax form
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Bostonian is right, with one small change. 6 years ago my son and his girlfriend did their taxes “together” one weekend. They did his taxes, filing single, and her taxes, filing single. That was 2 federal returns and 2 state returns. It was a good exercise in finance for both of them, since that way they had no financial secrets in a serious relationship. As Bostonian said, even if you have no filing requirement, file and tell your mother it has been taken care of. BTW, they got married later that year.