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by cascom 7y ago
While the increase is alarming the scale of this program seems pretty limited ~30,000. This seems like another program where only the stupid “criminals” are affected but the harm to all the innocent people caught up in it is massive
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by cascom 7y ago
Emotionally loaded example: woman buys a modest home in the 1970’s in a poor neighborhood from her savings working at the local packaging plant, fast forward to today she is living on a fixed income in a neighborhood that has gentrified aro
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by cascom 7y ago
This is a good article on the subject https://hbr.org/2009/08/expensing-stock-options-the-co
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by cascom 7y ago
Perhaps you could pencil out this well known tax avoidance strategy (unless you are really talking about time value of money, jurisdictional arbitrage, or some dodgy maneuver that wouldn’t stand up to an audit)
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by cascom 7y ago
Who would then make an even bigger profit, for no tax savings
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by cascom 7y ago
The problem is that the NYT ignored the why almost entirely to generate outrage because they are creating an issue. Most people wouldn’t be outraged if you said “this company didn’t pay tax this year on its $2B in profits because it lost $1
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by cascom 7y ago
1. There is a practical aspect - every person would have to have a balance sheet/financial statements 2. Those expenses are in the furtherance of generating profits rather than for personal consumption are we really going to give peopl
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by cascom 7y ago
Sorry that is not how it works - basic tenets of accounting (matching revenues and costs) those widgets would sit on the balance sheet and no loss would be recognized in year 1 and just profit in year 2
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by cascom 7y ago
You can carry forward capital losses. Theoretically, this is appealing - practically, I see a lot of problems
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by cascom 7y ago
1. I think it’s generally sort of amusing to see a bunch of STEM oriented people (who generally are less than sympathetic to people who are math or computer illiterate) take the position that the art subjects they probably struggled with ar
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by cascom 7y ago
Do they have editors at the NYT anymore? How do you write an article like this and not answer the question “why did these companies not pay taxes in 2018”?
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by cascom 7y ago
100%, I live this all the time! I'm just saying why even bother trying when you know that its not an option...
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by cascom 7y ago
Seems to me that people tend to get anchored by their high-water marks rather than average... for example I will definitely have 110hr weeks and have the occasional 35hr weeks, my "generic" week is probably 55hrs, but not sure whe
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by cascom 7y ago
you mean not interrupting yourself is better than constantly interrupting?! I would say pretty much everyone knows this, however until expectations change around responsiveness, nothing will happen.
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by cascom 7y ago
honestly the baking steel in the regular oven works pretty well as long as you make an effort with the dough (make a few days ahead/doing a cold ferment + using OO flour)
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by cascom 8y ago
my guess is there response would be that if you see a refund each year you should adjust your withholding amount...
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by cascom 8y ago
Not saying I don’t commiserate - but it kind of makes sense - you underpaid us during the course of the year by $4,600, assuming you make the same again next year, we need you to pay us quarterly to make up the estimated shortfall - if it t
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by cascom 8y ago
It’s worth it to me to pay a couple hundred dollars not to deal with it it and have someone else's signature on my return - that being said I have a back of the envelope spreadsheet that estimates my tax liability using about 5 inputs
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by cascom 8y ago
I think it’s actualy both
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by cascom 8y ago
I think that rules out all mainstream politicians
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by cascom 8y ago
Poor phrasing on my part - I’m not implying they would insert new taxes on the sly, but rather that in areas where tax payers have some discretion, the government software would default to the least favorable treatment for the tax payer, th
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by cascom 8y ago
What propublica left out: To be clear the Intuit’s of the world are not acting altruistically, however they’ve created an odd alliance with anti-tax advocates who 1. Think that any government provided system will favor the government over t
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by cascom 8y ago
From a purely cynical point of view - how else do you expect to keep the spigot of alumni cash flowing if alumni kids are not going to be able to attend?
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by cascom 8y ago
You’re completely right and wrong at the same time. Since Medicare reimbursements are so much lower than private insurance - the consequence of moving to all Medicare would have immense consequences, and the dollars removed would Largely ne
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by cascom 8y ago
most of the complexity around this issues is due to the fact that most private insurers follow the incredibly complex medicare billing system/codes
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by cascom 8y ago
They have little paid leave because they have summers and other holidays off, and as for answering emails - welcome to having a job in America. When you factor that they only work 2/3 of the year, the value of their pension and healthc
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by cascom 8y ago
I don’t think so - but you used to have to separate the screen from the base of the computer which while very doable was much more involved than popping open a case and inserting an additional stick of of ram
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by cascom 8y ago
On the one hand this is appalling. However, if I A. wanted to obscure the the size shape and scale of covert programs, and B. Had little faith in the ability to secure such a spralling inventory system for adversaries, this might be the sol
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by cascom 8y ago
The implications of a cashless society on privacy are terrifying
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by cascom 8y ago
These companies want it both ways - they hide behind their terms of service etc. saying consumers should actually read this stuff and be inforned, and then when they get busted for failing to disclose something it’s “oops, our bad, we didn’

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