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> After all, in business, excuses are never acceptable. This bit made me chuckle, as a big part of business is coming up with appropriate (sounding) excuses
by squigz 2y ago
> After all, in business, excuses are never acceptable.
This bit made me chuckle, as a big part of business is coming up with appropriate (sounding) excuses
- WalterBright 2y agoGuess what happens when I'm late on a mortgage payment! And it's even worse if I'm late filing a tax return, or heaven forbid, late on a tax payment. My property tax statement says if I do not file the form on time with the full amount, the check will be returned and I will be liable for late fees plus interest.
- dataflow 2y agoMissing an apostrophe on "its" isn't remotely comparable to missing a mortgage payment, come on.
- WalterBright 2y agoIt's just as easy to forget the tax due date. But I take precautions to not miss it, because it's expensive to miss it. That's the point.
- squigz 2y ago> It's just as easy to forget the tax due date It is?
- dmoy 2y ago> Guess what happens when I'm late on a mortgage payment! It depends on how late. If it's not too late, generally nothing. If it's a little late, a penalty of a few % > And it's even worse if I'm late filing a tax return, or heaven forbid, late on a tax payment. If you don't owe taxes, then you don't even need to file. If you overwithhold, there's no penalty for not filing. If you don't, the the penalty is like a few % of the owed tax, per month late. Similar with nonpayment. And it caps at like 40-50% extra of the owed tax, if you're extremely late (though there's interest too). So actually it's not that bad. But an F on a single paper also isn't that bad either.
- WalterBright 2y agoSome of the taxes I pay have a 20% penalty for being a day late.
- dmoy 2y agoI guess you'd have to clarify which taxes then. US federal tax nonpayment penalty is like 0.5% (of the owed tax) per month.
- WalterBright 2y agoWA state business tax penalty is 9% for a day late, 19% for 6 weeks late, 29% for 9 weeks late.
- gnicholas 2y agoProperty tax in San Mateo County has a 10% penalty for being a day late, even if you have a medical emergency, unless that emergency lasted for 2 months (ask me how I know).