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The Butcher posted:Why do all the MLM moms use such an excessive amount of emoticons and the exact same overly cheery tone? The emojis let you know that the entire message can be ignored.
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Corben Goble-Garbus posted:I went through all of the Wayback Machine snapshots and found these old thread titles: Here's a bunch more from my browser history: I laughed. You don't understand bitcoin. It's okay Ah, mine isn't actually a BWM; that's just the dealership I bought it from Chicken is trashy I will buy 10$ of bitcoin every day instead of my daily cigarettes ! Carry around the amount of cash you think a rich person would carry Biotruths and Anal Wine #itstimetogetoily Turn those machines back on! avocado_toast.txt [laughs in bitcoin] South Dakota v. Fifteen Impounded Cats Debbie gonna die. I have been turned down for horse loans in the past I wasn't satisfied until I had lost a thousand dollars Miscellaneous (something always comes up): $10,000 Snake House would probably be a great house for the right buyer Toilet Wine Tips and Tricks The Corvette is a completely modern, competitive sports car whose en Hargrimm fucked around with this message at 23:00 on Mar 6, 2018 |
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Barry posted:https://twitter.com/anfael_/status/970494507186728960 Wonder if you could strip the parts out of it and sell it for a profit.
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Mar 6, 2018 23:13
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Solice Kirsk posted:Wonder if you could strip the parts out of it and sell it for a profit.
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Mar 6, 2018 23:54
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Solice Kirsk posted:Wonder if you could strip the parts out of it and sell it for a profit. Here's how to tear one down and get it actuating without the drm silliness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cp-BGQfpHQ
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Hoodwinker posted:I'll give you ten bux to hit it with a baseball bat. SOLD! And I'll have more net profit than the Juicero company after everything is said and done!
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Trustworthy posted:Look at this amateur hour poo poo I had no idea who this was, and then Google turned up this for me...  I guess at this point a million people have probably heard of him?
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Solice Kirsk posted:Wonder if you could strip the parts out of it and sell it for a profit. You're not going to be able to find a buyer for anything other than the scrap value and it looks to be a complicated scrap-out. Nearly every single chunk of aluminum in the stupid thing has steel pins pressed in and every single one of them will need to be removed. https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/2000/1*BfOHbPU_V7iXkIBPIP_9KA.jpeg
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Corben Goble-Garbus posted:I went through all of the Wayback Machine snapshots and found these old thread titles: Still my fave 
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I totally forgot about toilet wine tips and tricks, which was one of the best derails
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the one that made me laugh every time i even read the title was "Looks like she's upside down on her horse mortgage" I'm literally laughing just typing it out now
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Mar 7, 2018 05:50
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I'm the regular horse.
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Mods please change my name to Strange Horse.
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Krispy Wafer posted:The problem is people who cheat on their taxes don’t just cheat a little. Once you realize you can deduct so much you’re getting $10k+ in refunds every year, you don’t stop. And the longer the IRS doesn’t catch you, the more you do it. So what you're saying is I'm safe as long as I only cheat one year
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mandatory lesbian posted:So what you're saying is I'm safe as long as I only cheat one year yeah, it's like the sims, you can just not go to your job one day as long as you go the next one
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I'm willing to go out on a limb and say that most people who file their own taxes gently caress it up in some way. Hell, I've heard of tax prep services and CPAs loving up in various ways. I think it's probably just a matter of practicality that you assume most people whose numbers fall a few hundred up or down of reasonable estimates are probably not worth pursuing over, say, upper-middle-class idiots who think its reasonable to have a zero dollar tax bill on six-digit incomes, because somehow there's an inexhaustible supply of those.
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mandatory lesbian posted:So what you're saying is I'm safe as long as I only cheat one year I was told the same about being a drug mule 20 years ago. One big move, then get out forever.
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Zachack posted:I was told the same about being a drug mule 20 years ago. One big move, then get out forever. And here you are 20 years later. How's business.
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Shady Amish Terror posted:I'm willing to go out on a limb and say that most people who file their own taxes gently caress it up in some way. Hell, I've heard of tax prep services and CPAs loving up in various ways. I think it's probably just a matter of practicality that you assume most people whose numbers fall a few hundred up or down of reasonable estimates are probably not worth pursuing over, say, upper-middle-class idiots who think its reasonable to have a zero dollar tax bill on six-digit incomes, because somehow there's an inexhaustible supply of those. Just so you're aware most tax prep services are regular idiots who have taken like a four-week course or something and do seasonal tax preparation using whatever branded company's software package. The chance that they gently caress up your taxes in one or more of the thousands of possible ways if you do any other economic activity other than work at a job and collect a paycheck or give you generally bad tax advice is pretty good if you ask me.
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Mar 7, 2018 13:41
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If you get audited, and there was a screwup, does it help you at all if someone else prepared the return?
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If you or they have audit insurance yes maybe but the ultimate responsibility for the return lies upon you
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mandatory lesbian posted:So what you're saying is I'm safe as long as I only cheat one year Yes. The IRS is so underfunded as long as you're not contradicting some kind of easily cross referenced documentation like a W-2 or 1099, you can probably get away with one year. In other words cheat on subjective stuff, not objective stuff. But that's all hypothetical because no one does it just once and now you're Wesley Snipes and the other inmates make jokes about always betting on you. smackfu posted:If you get audited, and there was a screwup, does it help you at all if someone else prepared the return? Your CPA is obligated to help you deal with the IRA in case you're audited. That generally extends just as far as, "this is what Smackfu gave me, how was I supposed to know it was false?". Best case scenario you still owe the money.
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Krispy Wafer posted:Your CPA is obligated to help you deal with the IRA in case you're audited. That generally extends just as far as, "this is what Smackfu gave me, how was I supposed to know it was false?". Best case scenario you still owe the money. If the mistake is the CPA's I assume you're still on the hook for the owed taxes, but can you recover penalties/interest or expenses associated with the audit from the CPA?
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Spokes posted:the one that made me laugh every time i even read the title was "Looks like she's upside down on her horse mortgage" I got the idea from that animated gif that had a horse rearing up and toppling over on top of the rider. Life imitates art! 
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Hargrimm posted:Here's a bunch more from my browser history: This is excellent. 'I wasn't satisfied until I had lost a thousand dollars' is another classic
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Hargrimm posted:Here's a bunch more from my browser history: Thaaat's when I joined!
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:If the mistake is the CPA's I assume you're still on the hook for the owed taxes, but can you recover penalties/interest or expenses associated with the audit from the CPA? I imagine you can sue them and get their license revoked if they made too many mistakes or acted in bad faith. After my CPA screwed up my taxes she went from super friendly to only saying things she wouldn't mind hearing in a courtroom. In my case the IRS reversed fees and paid me interest on my over-payment once everything was settled. Hargrimm posted:Here's a bunch more from my browser history: 'Debbie gonna die' made me think of Leon Trotsky and now I'm sad. It's weird how someone who got along so well with people in this thread was a raging rear end in a top hat in every other part of SA.
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There are entire sections of the CPA exam devoted to CPA liability and when they are responsible for penalties, and I can tell you it's not that often!
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Shady Amish Terror posted:I'm willing to go out on a limb and say that most people who file their own taxes gently caress it up in some way. Hell, I've heard of tax prep services and CPAs loving up in various ways. I think it's probably just a matter of practicality that you assume most people whose numbers fall a few hundred up or down of reasonable estimates are probably not worth pursuing over, say, upper-middle-class idiots who think its reasonable to have a zero dollar tax bill on six-digit incomes, because somehow there's an inexhaustible supply of those. Ehhh I don't know about that. According to this almost 70% of Americans take the standard deduction. And I bet that number goes up in 2018 with the doubling of the standard deduction. If you aren't itemizing it's really pretty hard to gently caress up your personal income taxes unless you've got some real unusual poo poo going on. I guess you could be loving up by not itemizing when you would stand to benefit from doing so, but that's just not the case for most people.
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Probably like 99% of taxpayers will take the standard deduction from here on out
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Yeah I wonder if most charities know how hosed they are.
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potatoducks posted:Yeah I wonder if most charities know how hosed they are. They know. Non-profits were among the biggest opponents of the new tax bill. I guess churches think people will keep giving 10% even if there's no tax advantage. Good luck with that and I eagerly look forward to those new Trump regrets.
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Trying not to veer too far into politics, I watched a documentary on food security and hunger in the US a couple years ago. The gist of it is that the US still has a huge problem with hunger and food insecurity (~12% of households skipping meals or modifying eating habits due to not enough food). A big swing factor here is the charities and faith based organizations picking up the slack from where the government assistance leaves off, and without things like churches and food banks a lot of the working poor who are receiving SNAP benefits would not have enough to feed their families with. So yeah, this tax plan that is removing tax incentives for donating to charity for a large part of the pool of donors is probably going to affect hunger in the US. Unless of course there's an offset in increased government spending on SNAP and other transfer programs to help the poor (there isn't). Lots of terrible externalities from this have yet to be discovered, I expect.
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Krispy Wafer posted:They know. Non-profits were among the biggest opponents of the new tax bill. Actually substantial tithing is probably one of the only ways that people will itemize going forward, for example if you have a maximum deductible mortgage plus state and local taxes to deduct, including itemized tithes what channel does donations is about the only way to meaningfully itemize. So rich people donating a lot of money to charity will benefit from itemizing, the huge majority of small dollar charitable donors will not.
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Krispy Wafer posted:They know. Non-profits were among the biggest opponents of the new tax bill. Sounds good to me, that way I don't have subsidize some dude in Georgia giving 10% of his gross to a megachurch. If you want to give money to a non-profit then go for it, but don't make everybody else subsidize it. They should have scrapped that and most other deductions entirely, but severely cutting back on who can use them is a good start. People forget that every time you give person A a break on their taxes person B has to pick up the slack.
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OctaviusBeaver posted:Sounds good to me, that way I don't have subsidize some dude in Georgia giving 10% of his gross to a megachurch. If you want to give money to a non-profit then go for it, but don't make everybody else subsidize it. They should have scrapped that and most other deductions entirely, but severely cutting back on who can use them is a good start. People forget that every time you give person A a break on their taxes person B has to pick up the slack. Doubling the standard deduction doesn't make some dude in Georgia stop having his church donations subsidized.
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Dwight Eisenhower posted:Doubling the standard deduction doesn't make some dude in Georgia stop having his church donations subsidized. For most people it does because they will no longer hit the standard deduction. For some people it doesn't which is why the deduction should be eliminated entirely instead of just being scaled back, still moving in the right direction though.
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Corben Goble-Garbus posted:Bad With Money: I feel a pang of guilt whenever I get into my pre-owned 2014 Sorrento 
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