Just curious if when you filed you received the IRS standard for expenses or your actual expenses? The IRS standard for a family of 6 (with $5834 and over gross income per month) for allowable living expenses (food, housekeeping supplies, clothes, personal care products and miscellaneous) is currently $1978. Am I thinking wishfully here that I will actually get to use this number in computing disposable income?
My family has been scrimping and not getting things we need like clothes. We buy the cheapest of cheap foods and cleaning products and we try to cut corners wherever we can. If we were to use the IRS standard we'd be SOOOO in the hole it's not even funny. We never spend that much on those things b/c we just don't have that much money to spend. Granted, we could cut out TV and Internet but we choose to not buy new clothes every month so that we can have that. We have 4 growing kids though so it makes it hard NOT to buy clothes when someone outgrows or ruins something.
So - in your filing, did you use the actual IRS numbers or your own numbers?
My family has been scrimping and not getting things we need like clothes. We buy the cheapest of cheap foods and cleaning products and we try to cut corners wherever we can. If we were to use the IRS standard we'd be SOOOO in the hole it's not even funny. We never spend that much on those things b/c we just don't have that much money to spend. Granted, we could cut out TV and Internet but we choose to not buy new clothes every month so that we can have that. We have 4 growing kids though so it makes it hard NOT to buy clothes when someone outgrows or ruins something.
So - in your filing, did you use the actual IRS numbers or your own numbers?
12/04/07 -case pulled for random audit.
12/18/07 -341 held: Asset case due to engagement ring & tax return.
02/19/08 - US trustee files motion to extend.
04/02/08- changed back to NO ASSET! I get my ring back and get to keep my tax return! :clapping: 04/28/08 -DISCHARGED!!! :yahoo::yahoo: 05/07/08 - CLOSED!!!
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