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> Take 30 seconds to search How about you stop being a libertarian keyboard jockey and actually try to get involved in running a business or two in Los Angeles

> Take 30 seconds to search How about you stop being a libertarian keyboard jockey and actually try to get involved in running a business or two in Los Angeles, like I am doing? Everything you have posted is bullshit. My wife happens to be a "creative artist" who does a lot of work in the film industry here. She is also the type of person who did not do basic research into starting a business and did not bother to find out what taxes she was supposed to be paying. I don't know why you think that being an airhead is the city's fault. The fine was not "thousands of dollars," it came out to $80-something for two years of unreported city taxes. It was literally a letter and a couple of phone calls to settle that.

mixmastamyk 9y ago
Yeah, I'm a former VFX developer and now freelance developer in LA. This is site mostly for programmers if you hadn't noticed. http://www.laweekly.com/news/did-you-just-get-a-500-freelance-assignment-the-city-might-bill-you-30-000-6040715 http://www.laweekly.com/news/did-you-just-get-a-500-freelanc... http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-horowitz-taxes-tax-day-freelancers-gig-economy-20170418-story.html http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-horowitz-taxes-ta... https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/LA-Freelancers-Get--Tax-Bill.html https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/LA-Freelancers-Get-... Not to mention the links from the grandparent making the case of the declining industry: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16621760 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16621760 Oh, and the recent hidden trash tax, 35 million a year: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-trash-bills-los-angeles-20170820-story.html http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-trash-bills-los-... (Rent went up $100 in an already soaring rent environment.) Paid shill from the city government? Sure sounds that way. It's obvious you've never lived in sane tax environment like New Zealand where you file in about thirty minutes a year on their website. That's what you're competing with.
- mixmastamyk 9y ago
  Forgot to mention the newly raise CA gas tax.

mixmastamyk 9y ago

Yeah, I'm a former VFX developer and now freelance developer in LA. This is site mostly for programmers if you hadn't noticed. http://www.laweekly.com/news/did-you-just-get-a-500-freelance-assignment-the-city-might-bill-you-30-000-6040715 http://www.laweekly.com/news/did-you-just-get-a-500-freelanc... http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-horowitz-taxes-tax-day-freelancers-gig-economy-20170418-story.html http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-horowitz-taxes-ta... https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/LA-Freelancers-Get--Tax-Bill.html https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/LA-Freelancers-Get-... Not to mention the links from the grandparent making the case of the declining industry: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16621760 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16621760 Oh, and the recent hidden trash tax, 35 million a year: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-trash-bills-los-angeles-20170820-story.html http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-trash-bills-los-... (Rent went up $100 in an already soaring rent environment.) Paid shill from the city government? Sure sounds that way. It's obvious you've never lived in sane tax environment like New Zealand where you file in about thirty minutes a year on their website. That's what you're competing with.

mixmastamyk 9y ago
Forgot to mention the newly raise CA gas tax.