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I can't pay my "greatly reduced taxes because I am a Delaware corp" in two seconds! Imagine if you had real problems.

justizin 13y ago
Right, I found this amusing: "I hope by now you’ve seen the irony here. Our government has likely forked over millions of our tax dollars (how much did Obamacare cost?) to private contractors in exchange for a site so utterly dysfunctional that it can’t even serve its purpose of collecting those very tax dollars! That’s how broken our system is." Our system is so broken that most new corporations are formed in a company with _no_ space available for your business or for you to live, only a person who sits and answers a phone for a few thousand or hundred thousand companies to prove an 'office location' or whatever wording. Delaware doesn't care because they get some taxes, what you'd really call a payoff for being a tax protector. There were pretty heinous problems with the situation at hand before OP opened his web browser.
- Frozenlock 13y ago
  And what are those problems? That I can choose at which 'location' I incorporate for something that is immaterial?
AnimalMuppet 13y ago
Way to totally miss the article's point. Yes, as I write this, people are getting stabbed, shot, raped, killed by cancer, and mangled in car wrecks. And that's way worse than having to hassle with a broken web site. But there are people reading this board who can actually build functional web sites, and who are appalled that the government managed to mess up so badly. That's the point.
- happyscrappy 13y ago
  The entitled have trouble with reading comprehension. The site was explicitly closed during certain hours, sadly probably because the data is verified by hand. He is whining that he doesn't like the hours.
  - jliptzin 13y ago
    No, that was just a side effect of digging into an issue with the site that was preventing me from paying a tax. I didn't even know about that odd schedule.
    - happyscrappy 13y ago
      If you weren't outside the operating hours you might want to edit your blog post.
      - jliptzin 13y ago
        They display that notice at all times, that's why I was able to see it.
drawkbox 13y ago
Competition among states that want business is a good thing at the core though. Delaware and Nevada want to attract business so they have better prices. Regulation and law allow it, and this is healthy to have states competing for business. If this competition did not exist state licenses and taxes would be like paying for broadband from one provider and probably thousands a year to license instead of $300 and taxes would be immense. Small business especially already pays higher taxes so really any advantage given to small business really helps the economy as a whole even if that means lower taxes by registering in another state. The only way to fight the market is with regulation or competition, the latter always means cheaper prices and will allow more small business.

Right, I found this amusing: "I hope by now you’ve seen the irony here. Our government has likely forked over millions of our tax dollars (how much did Obamacare cost?) to private contractors in exchange for a site so utterly dysfunctional that it can’t even serve its purpose of collecting those very tax dollars! That’s how broken our system is." Our system is so broken that most new corporations are formed in a company with _no_ space available for your business or for you to live, only a person who sits and answers a phone for a few thousand or hundred thousand companies to prove an 'office location' or whatever wording. Delaware doesn't care because they get some taxes, what you'd really call a payoff for being a tax protector. There were pretty heinous problems with the situation at hand before OP opened his web browser.

Frozenlock 13y ago
And what are those problems? That I can choose at which 'location' I incorporate for something that is immaterial?

AnimalMuppet 13y ago

Way to totally miss the article's point. Yes, as I write this, people are getting stabbed, shot, raped, killed by cancer, and mangled in car wrecks. And that's way worse than having to hassle with a broken web site. But there are people reading this board who can actually build functional web sites, and who are appalled that the government managed to mess up so badly. That's the point.

happyscrappy 13y ago
The entitled have trouble with reading comprehension. The site was explicitly closed during certain hours, sadly probably because the data is verified by hand. He is whining that he doesn't like the hours.
- jliptzin 13y ago
  No, that was just a side effect of digging into an issue with the site that was preventing me from paying a tax. I didn't even know about that odd schedule.
  - happyscrappy 13y ago
    If you weren't outside the operating hours you might want to edit your blog post.
    - jliptzin 13y ago
      They display that notice at all times, that's why I was able to see it.

drawkbox 13y ago

Competition among states that want business is a good thing at the core though. Delaware and Nevada want to attract business so they have better prices. Regulation and law allow it, and this is healthy to have states competing for business. If this competition did not exist state licenses and taxes would be like paying for broadband from one provider and probably thousands a year to license instead of $300 and taxes would be immense. Small business especially already pays higher taxes so really any advantage given to small business really helps the economy as a whole even if that means lower taxes by registering in another state. The only way to fight the market is with regulation or competition, the latter always means cheaper prices and will allow more small business.