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No - still waiting on W2s! It drives me crazy. I'm always motivated to do them in January, then it's mid-February before I have everything in order and I put it off till April.

We're still waiting on everything but W2's. We never manage to get them filed until March but we always get a big return.

No. We just moved this past weekend and I don't think I got my W2s yet. I want to do it early like I did last year. I think I did them before February ended.

@locavore_mama: There's still a child credit. Of course it phases out based on income.

I've starting working on gathering my expenses in a spread sheet. Waiting on DH's T4 (which must be the Canadian version of W2?)

@HLK208: This is from the IRS website:
Ten Facts about the Child Tax Credit

IRS Tax Tip 2011-29, February 10, 2011

The Child Tax Credit is an important tax credit that may be worth as much as $1,000 per qualifying child depending upon your income. Here are 10 important facts from the IRS about this credit and how it may benefit your family.
1.
Amount - With the Child Tax Credit, you may be able to reduce your federal income tax by up to $1,000 for each qualifying child under the age of 17.

2.
Qualification - A qualifying child for this credit is someone who meets the qualifying criteria of six tests: age, relationship, support, dependent, citizenship, and residence.

3.
Age Test - To qualify, a child must have been under age 17 – age 16 or younger – at the end of 2010.

4.
Relationship Test - To claim a child for purposes of the Child Tax Credit, they must either be your son, daughter, stepchild, foster child, brother, sister, stepbrother, stepsister or a descendant of any of these individuals, which includes your grandchild, niece or nephew. An adopted child is always treated as your own child. An adopted child includes a child lawfully placed with you for legal adoption.

5.
Support Test - In order to claim a child for this credit, the child must not have provided more than half of their own support.

6.
Dependent Test - You must claim the child as a dependent on your federal tax return.

7.
Citizenship Test - To meet the citizenship test, the child must be a U.S. citizen, U.S. national, or U.S. resident alien.

8.
Residence Test - The child must have lived with you for more than half of 2010. There are some exceptions to the residence test, which can be found in IRS Publication 972, Child Tax Credit.

9.
Limitations - The credit is limited if your modified adjusted gross income is above a certain amount. The amount at which this phase-out begins varies depending on your filing status. For married taxpayers filing a joint return, the phase-out begins at $110,000. For married taxpayers filing a separate return, it begins at $55,000. For all other taxpayers, the phase-out begins at $75,000. In addition, the Child Tax Credit is generally limited by the amount of the income tax you owe as well as any alternative minimum tax you owe.

10.
Additional Child Tax Credit - If the amount of your Child Tax Credit is greater than the amount of income tax you owe, you may be able to claim the Additional Child Tax Credit.

I've started inputting stuff into TurboTax, but we're still waiting on DH's W2 and most of my 1099s.

Yep, done and submitted! Just waiting on the IRS to start processing the returns so I can get my $$!

Still waiting for all of our W-2s. Unfortunately we don't qualify for any deductions based on student loan interest This is the first full year we've paid on our mortgage so looking forward to at least getting that deduction. We tend to owe a lot so hopefully we won't owe *as much* this year with the mortgage interest deduction....still not looking forward to it though!

Haven't done them yet, but I am really looking forward to deducting the insane amount of mortgage interest we paid this year.

Submitted my taxes yesterday! Feels so good to have them done, and for the first time in years we actually get a refund. Woo! (If we had owed, I would have totally been the procrastinator)

We haven't done ours yet, but I'm still waiting on some info!

@cmomma17: Wow! We had them professionally done and it was $50.

@cmomma17: that's just ridiculous I'm sorry

I fired up turbo tax yesterday, but I'm still waiting on some forms so I'm just filling in what I can for now. The real doozie will be filing and paying my Austrian taxes, but at least I have an accountant for that.

DH is working on them as we speak...sadly I filled out my W2 in a stupid way that is making us owe a lot more than usual. Lesson learned...

only if you count piling all the tax documents in one place

already filed and waiting on my return. We dont have complicated taxes so I just used HR Block website

@cmomma17: Sheesh! I filled our taxes out online in H&R Block and Turbotax (to make sure I was getting the max refund) and ended up filing with H&R Block online.

Last year we used an accountant that was $60 since we were a referral, normally he charges $80. But I found out a few months later that he messed up our taxes and filed our payment as a payment plan instead of an installment plan which ended up costing us $100 more. So we didn't use him again!

Just had ours filed with an accountant yesterday! Woo hoo!