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TurboTax informs me that I started a business last year.

This is news to me.

Apparently working as a software consultant and getting a 1099-MISC counts as starting a business.

Somehow I expected that once the IRS started getting reports of payments to a previously unknown consultant, they'd generate a letter. Something like "Hi! We see you've started a business. Please make a point of stopping by your local tax office to fill out the appropriate forms and get fitted for the anal raping device of our choice![1]

I think I'm going to owe a lot of money to the Feds, at very least. Ouch.

[1] This is opposed to other commonly found anal raping devices[2], such as those found in prisons (large men named Earl or Bubba), police stations (broomsticks), or on the Internet (Galliano bottles in various painful configurations).

[2] Beware: none of the examples are mind-safe, though the last one (unlike all the others) is funny.

Date: 2006-04-10 03:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] catness.livejournal.com
*giggle*

Fuck me harder!!!

Date: 2006-04-10 04:37 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] mindways
Erk. I had a similar thing happen to me the first year I consulted. No fun.

On the bright side, however, I've been able to use the 'I'm a sole-proprietor' thing to good effect on occasion, when ordering from companies which don't sell to individuals:

"How large is your company?"
"Just me."
"Are you sure you're a business?"
"The IRS sure thinks so, and bills me accordingly."
"OK, then..."

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