PopAlongKid

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by PopAlongKid 7mo ago
Most of the time 1245 property is not real property, it is personal property, which is why I didn't mention it in this context.
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by PopAlongKid 7mo ago
>Death is a popular escape from deferred taxes. When you die, your obligations to the government vanish. Your heirs inherit assets/property at market value. Their assets depreciate from new cost bases. The article only addresses a s
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by PopAlongKid 7mo ago
>People sometimes get into trouble with this if they rapidly depreciate real estate and then sell it. Even if you sell for less than your purchase price it is possible to owe taxes. But in the U.S. you can't rapidly depreciate real
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by PopAlongKid 7mo ago
The story I read recently involved Montana (MT), not Minnesota (MN).
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by PopAlongKid 7mo ago
>an angry letter when the IRS Do you have an example? I've seen dozens of IRS letters for dozens of different taxpayers and none of them had any "angry" language in them. The myth that the IRS is trying to scare or trauma
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by PopAlongKid 7mo ago
>The belief by a juror that law enforcement personnel, >excluding these types of belief You have not stated what belief you are talking about.
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by PopAlongKid 7mo ago
>Can I use this same argument to avoid paying my taxes because I spent all my income and didn’t set anything aside? Yes, you can. It's called Offer in Compromise (OIC).
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by PopAlongKid 7mo ago
>1099-Rs from multiple inherited IRAs There is nothing complicated about these, a 1099-R is one of the more straightforward info forms and any tax software can handle the input numbers and distribution code. Whether the IRA is inherited
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by PopAlongKid 8mo ago
Similar here. I get emails almost every day that someone I know has posted something new, but if I click on the "view post" button in the email, it always opens a tab saying "we can't show you this content right now&q
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by PopAlongKid 8mo ago
Same here. I can even use an Adobe Acrobat Pro (desktop version) tool to insert it in a document in a secure way (requires a password).
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by PopAlongKid 8mo ago
>Why on earth would they need something as visible and aggressive as DOGE to extract data? To hide the true purpose behind a curtain of "aggressive and overoptimistic attempts to cut spending".
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by PopAlongKid 8mo ago
>Fifty repetitions usually gets you there. I think that's on the low side. My signature got locked in during my early twenties, when I worked at a commercial AM/FM radio station. I had to sign various transmitter logs (FCC req
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by PopAlongKid 8mo ago
From Wiktionary entry for heckin' : Etymology From heck as a euphemism for hell.
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by PopAlongKid 8mo ago
>tips are no longer taxed Tips (if reported) are always subject to 7.65% FICA tax. And there are several conditions that must be met before tips are excluded from federal (not necessarily state) income tax. (U.S. tax law). In short, man
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by PopAlongKid 8mo ago
>pay wait staff below minimum wage (like 2-3$), because it’s explicitly allowed Not in all U.S. states, for example California.
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by PopAlongKid 8mo ago
I tried unsuccessfully to find a date for this essay, it must be at least from 2018 or earlier since that is Barlow's year of death.
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by PopAlongKid 9mo ago
>In the US we don’t even test drivers over age 70 for competence We don't test non-commercial drivers at any age after initial issuance of the license, which is apparent after a few minutes of observation while walking around.
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by PopAlongKid 9mo ago
I stayed in this location as a solo tourist for four nights last year. I was in a "cocoon" not a capsule. My room looked a little different from the photo at the website for 1 person, in that there were no hooks on the wall for
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by PopAlongKid 9mo ago
Putting down "N/A" for battery life aspect of a paper book clearly shows the bias here. Further, failing to mention ownership and permanence aspects of the content is a glaring omission. And then there is durability and ris
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by PopAlongKid 9mo ago
Many years ago, in college, I used to volunteer for Recording For The Blind, reading various math texts aloud. I had to verbally describe every illustration in the textbook, including graphs, using a few concise statements. Not perfect, bu
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by PopAlongKid 10mo ago
>the US has a law that erases the tax bill for dead people That is true, but there is a theory, applied very weakly, that supports this. The idea is that a decedent's estate is subject to a wealth tax on its fair market value, ther
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by PopAlongKid 10mo ago
>create a $70-80K writeoff on a $120K asset, which often larger than the check they cut for the property in the first place They're only deferring the tax on $70-80K, correct?
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by PopAlongKid 10mo ago
Are you equating receipts with tax level? Tax is a rate applied to an income or wealth amount. Note that GDP includes government spending, which is not subject to tax but is based in part on debt. https://www.pgpf.org/art
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by PopAlongKid 10mo ago
My main used of the Tektronix terminal was to preview troff [0] output before sending the final product to the phototypesetter[1], which cost a nominal fee per page as I recall. [0] Unix program to format high quality printed documents, si
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by PopAlongKid 10mo ago
I owned an ADM3a and used it often back in the days of 300 and 1200 baud modems. My recollection is that it was just a dumb TTY.
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by PopAlongKid 10mo ago
>the standard deduction is now large enough that most people don't get to deduct the interest anymore. They don't get to itemize their interest deduction, but they still get to deduct from their taxable income an amount equ
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by PopAlongKid 10mo ago
>something I’ve been seeing a lot of lately It's not only recent, according to this quote from 300 years ago. Jonathan Swift — 'It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.'
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by PopAlongKid 11mo ago
Disagree, in the U.S. the original by Johnny Nash reached number 1 on the Billboard chart while the cover version by Cliff only reached #18. While chart position is not the ultimate determination of "better", I also personally hav
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by PopAlongKid 11mo ago
>Politics are not a value system They most definitely are. "Some of the public’s most negative judgements are reserved for values that are most squarely in the political sphere" [0] [0] https://www.pewresearch.org&#x
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by PopAlongKid 11mo ago
> simple black drip coffee drinks I visited London last year and was surprised & disappointed that the McDonalds across from the Trocadero did not have any such thing as simple black drip coffee (to which I could add half-and-half).

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