I haven't had any "income" as I think of it since I retired 2 years ago. I've been living off what I think of as "savings". However, those savings are in a IRA and whenever I take some out to buy little things like food, gasoline, etc., it is considered by the government to be income and I have to pay federal taxes on it. Thanks to living in Florida, at least I don't have to pay state taxes.
When I first moved here, I had 2 months worth of income in North Carolina so I had to pay state taxes for that. My taxes were complicated enough that year that I had an accountant do them. Now they are so dirt simple that I did them using the new streamlined 1040 form. And with no state income taxes, I didn't have to bother with a state form.
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