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To what?

― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

Uh, I think the main advantage is not getting audited because you don't report income from the band, and the club (or whoever hired you) does. Not likely but it does happen.

― Jordan, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

I meant, What is the advantage to reporting your band income (loss)?

― KitCat, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

I guess that would be alot more important if we made more money.

― KitCat, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

I doubt anyone would seek us out lookin' for mula.

― KitCat, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, that's definitely a big part of it. We started doing it basically because Ben wanted to do things really clean and official. Of course, the income loss doesn't hurt, either.

xpost Unless I'm really dense, I think I owe the government less money this way? If I was just paying taxes on my day-job income alone, with a salary of $X, then I would owe $Y in taxes (using the table in the instruction booklet). But since my adjusted gross income is $(X-366) (and also minus some other stuff the form tells you to subtract), then the tax I owe is also lower.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

Huh. I was thinking you'd submit a separate tax form for the partnership.

― KitCat, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

My memory is so bad. I just transferred a call to a coworker. Then I got a telemarketing call for toner. Then I listened to the lady talk, answered some questions I didn't need to, and then, finlly, when she asked for my email address to continue our correspondance, I finally said, "I'm sorry, but no. No." Then I hung up. I'm working on it, ok?
Anyway, right after that, coworker rings me. Who was that who just called her? I don't remember. Male or female? Don't remember. It was two seconds ago! I know. I seriously can't remember. Ay ay ay.

― KitCat, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

Huh. I was thinking you'd submit a separate tax form for the partnership.

I'm pretty sure we did. I'm assuming that form had all the expense calculations filled out. The form I got from our accountant had an "employer tax ID number" on it, presumably so that they can cross-check with the other form if need be.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

1099-MISC

― Jordan, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

Kevin let me know next time you want to go for a pointless drive to farm country, I have gas to waste.

― dan m, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

thanks dan but no, it's a solitary thing. man, machine, and nature etc.

also, new office mate just farted and now it smells like an abattoir in here. wtf you eat for lunch woman?!?

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

Right on.

http://www.cbc.ca/disclosure/archives/images/030211_access_sunset.jpg

― dan m, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

You ever smell a fart that smells like rotting fruit? Like, it's sickly sweet. Those are the worst, I think, because they almost smell ok, which somehow makes them 10x nastier.

― kenan, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

ahahahahahahahahaha god I'm immature

― dan m, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

this smells like a case of white castle cheeseburgers were left in the trunk of someone's car on fourth of july weekend and you just opened the trunk of that car on august 17th.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

You said this person was into teh Jeebus right? Maybe it's a personal form of purging.

― dan m, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

It's better for us to file jointly. Those lifetime learning and hope scholarship credits are really awesome and have helped us out immensely in the past 4 years. If you are married, you have to file jointly to get the lifetime learning one.

I was going to deal with converting an IRA to a Roth IRA this year, but I didn't want to deal with the tax implications. It would have caused another tax bracket jump. If Jenny doesn't work very much this year, we'll stay in 15%. That jump from the 15% to 25% bracket is a real bitch.

This has been the year I really pay attention to personal finance.

― Jeff, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

i'm getting some fucking vanillaroma car fresheners for this joint if this is going to be a daily thing.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

like a thousand of them.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

Also, I hate calculating withholdings. Usually I just err on the side of paying just a little too much.

― Jeff, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

This has been the year I really pay attention to personal finance.

Someday, someday...

― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:50 (nineteen years ago)

Anyone want to get drunk tonight? I just found out we're losing all the Journals I work on.

― dan m, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 21:16 (nineteen years ago)

Which means within a year or so I could not have a job anymore.

― dan m, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 21:16 (nineteen years ago)

oh no, Dan! I'm so sorry.

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

where you going dan? i can't stay out too late, i have actual work to do tomorrow.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

but all the same i wouldn't mind having a couple of pops in hopes of shaking this goddamn insomnia that is fucking killing me over here.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sorry to hear that, Dan.

― KitCat, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 21:20 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, maybe they will just keep paying you to not edit the journals?

― Jordan, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 21:20 (nineteen years ago)

or maybe they could move you to other journals?

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 21:22 (nineteen years ago)

Fuck I dunno, Small Bar in LS probably, if I go anywhere.

There is no news about what's going to happen, just that the things are going away. There may be opportunities in other departments, who knows. Everything is very grey right now.

I am sure as shit using all of my vacation this year, though!

― dan m, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

That fucking sucks, Dan.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 21:53 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse txted me to say he had a gross and smelly dentist appointment.

― Jordan, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:01 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse's the boy who cried dentist so I totally won't believe it until I see the shining white capped tooth.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:03 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, I'm sorry that you are experiencing job uncertainty. That's really frustrating! I'm going to think positively that they will give you another, better job or that you'll find something else that is way more awesome, though.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:04 (nineteen years ago)

This is a sign that it is time for you to go to school, Dan.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

I like to see everything as a sign that I should be doing something else.

This headache is a sign that I should NOT grade papers tonight!

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

PS I am sorry you are glum about job. That sucks.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

i cannot believe that you guys have talked about farts this much.

BUT, fwiw, there were some ladies at my old job with really bad diets who would do all sorts of awful things to the ladies' room. I blame the food they ate.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:19 (nineteen years ago)

I blame the chicken wings I'm going to eat tonight.

― Jordan, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:20 (nineteen years ago)

I am going to make Ethiopian food tonight! I got a craving I couldn't shake and BOY am I excited. The man at Kuku1u market talked to me about the VT shootings. He said they were "shots heard around the globe." :(

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:21 (nineteen years ago)

yum, Amanda! I'm impressed; I've never made Ethiopian food. do you make the injera?

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:22 (nineteen years ago)

Nah, that's too much trouble. I can get it for cheap at the store where I get the spices. Really it's just making a couple of stews. I'm doing lentils (mesir/misser wat) and mixed veggies.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:23 (nineteen years ago)

Now no one is impressed anymore.
I equate that to making one's own tortillas. I mean, yeah -- it sure would be great -- but who does that aside from dedicated campesinos and chefs? When it comes to tortillas, I'm happy with El Milagro. Similarly, I'm happy with injera that someone else made, as long as it's fresh. And it always is.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:35 (nineteen years ago)

No, I'm still totally impressed. I just didn't know one could get injera.

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:36 (nineteen years ago)

I "GET" INJERA

― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:38 (nineteen years ago)

haha

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:40 (nineteen years ago)

I will email you my recipe if you want! The woman at the market told me how to make the lentils and I wrote a rough recipe from her explanation. The only out-of-the-ordinary ingredients you need are berbere spice and injera, both of which are available at the store I go to on Broadway. The rest is totally pedestrian. Garlic. Ginger. Tomatoes. Onion.

There are a lot of recipes online too, but this one comes from a real person who I know, so I like it.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:41 (nineteen years ago)

I want some meaty Ethiopian food, to eat with my HANDS.

― Jordan, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:42 (nineteen years ago)

Amanda, put it on the blog!

― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:44 (nineteen years ago)

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