{"id":2222,"date":"2016-02-27T09:48:50","date_gmt":"2016-02-27T14:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/modologyworld.net\/steph\/?p=2222"},"modified":"2016-02-27T09:50:56","modified_gmt":"2016-02-27T14:50:56","slug":"the-truth-about-income-tax-a-psa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/modologyworld.net\/steph\/?p=2222","title":{"rendered":"The truth about income tax. A PSA:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\\&#8217;s that time of year again!<\/p>\n<p>I keep seeing cheeky meme\\&#8217;s such as this on social media:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\\\"http:\/\/modologyworld.net\/steph\/?attachment_id=2223\\\" rel=\\\"attachment wp-att-2223\\\"><img class=\\\"size-full wp-image-2223 alignleft\\\" src=\\\"http:\/\/modologyworld.net\/steph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/12688168_10100541436868630_7354922701417933426_n.jpg\\\" alt=\\\"12688168_10100541436868630_7354922701417933426_n\\\" width=\\\"480\\\" height=\\\"480\\\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I hate to disappoint you, but that\\&#8217;s not how it works&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In order to actually get a tax return, you need to pay income tax.<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to read more about how income tax works <a href=\\\"http:\/\/www.getsmarteraboutmoney.ca\/en\/managing-your-money\/planning\/understanding-tax\/Pages\/How-income-tax-works.aspx#.Vs4AcfkrKWh\\\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I just did my taxes for 2015 and you want to know how much i\\&#8217;m getting back?<\/p>\n<p>ZERO.<\/p>\n<p>In spite of having limited income, being a student (with almost 3 grand in tuition costs), buying bus passes, donating to charity and more, I get nothing.<br \/>\nBecause I didn\\&#8217;t pay that much into income tax or anything that is considered a write off last year to generate a refund.<br \/>\nSo no being poor AF or being a student doesn\\&#8217;t automatically generate some sort of huge windfall during tax time.<br \/>\nIn fact, you get nothing.<br \/>\nJust in case you weren\\&#8217;t aware. You are now.<\/p>\n<p>You\\&#8217;re welcome.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\\&#8217;s that time of year again! I keep seeing cheeky meme\\&#8217;s such as this on social media: I hate to disappoint you, but that\\&#8217;s not how it works&#8230; In order to actually get a tax return, you need to pay income tax. Feel free to read more about how income tax works here. I just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,64,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-are-you-fing-kidding-me","category-deep-thoughts-with-steph","category-snippets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/modologyworld.net\/steph\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/modologyworld.net\/steph\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/modologyworld.net\/steph\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/modologyworld.net\/steph\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/modologyworld.net\/steph\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/modologyworld.net\/steph\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/modologyworld.net\/steph\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/modologyworld.net\/steph\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/modologyworld.net\/steph\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}