jcoletax.bsky.social
In no particular order- father, former chemist, farmer’s market denizen, lawyer, and temporarily embarrassed unpublished author.
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How is Trump supposed to get any concessions out of China or the EU if he cannot get a single man out El Salvador?
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Also follow up to make sure your efiled returns are not only transmitted to the IRS and other tax agencies, but accepted. You are still in the hook for late penalties even if your accountant incorrectly tells you your return was efiled.
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Elephants are wild animals and wild animals generally dislike being around any other species of animal (or even their own species) because other species are usually predators or competition. While some wild animals are more aggressive than others, virtually all wild animals dislike people.
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VITA is a great program. A lot of students interested in becoming tax professionals volunteer with VITA and get experience. Win-win scenarios are not Trump’s forte.
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You can do it over the phone with the IRS. Low income taxpayer clinic might help free of charge.
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The IRS may allow a 72 month payment plan no questions asked. If you claim you cannot afford that plan, it will ask for a 433F form which asks questions like where you bank and how much money you have in the accounts.
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100% agree. I’ve seen understaffing issues at the IRS leading to worse outcomes and poorer “customer service” for taxpayers.
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Google Low Income Taxpayer Clinic. You may be able to find someone to help pro bono. You can also complete an IRS form 433-F (financial statement) and give that information over the phone to the IRC and request currently non-collectible status and/or a monthly payment plan you can afford.
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Are you talking about physicians or actual psychotherapists? Yes, your HMO physician is going to be dismissive of a lot of things. An actual psychotherapist that knows about ASD will not be dismissive a d can more accurately diagnose because they are disinterested.
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Self diagnosis is not as accurate as a professional diagnosis, though. Not that professionals are correct 100% of the time, but a trained, disinterested professional is more likely to correctly diagnose you than self diagnosis.
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Tax attorney here. When your math contradicts the 1099s, W-2s the IRS has on file for you- it issues you a CP2000 (automated underreported) notice. You get a bill and need to pay it or get on a payment plan for the balance owed.
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Maybe the Europeans need to stand up to America this time around and treat the GOP leadership as being just as much a threat to Europe’s well being and security as Al Qaida and ISIS.
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If I committed 37 felonies, am I someone who respects America’s laws and rules?
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I practice tax law. Can answer questions like “What happens when I don’t pay my taxes?” “Is the IRS really giving people fresh starts?” “Do I pay more taxes than Elon Musk?” Got cool war stories too.
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Not fair to cults. Cults have that “fun” phase where everybody gets to party and make love before they drink the koolaid. MAGA is sending you straight to your bunk with Nikes.
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An SAT score is kind of big deal to high school seniors (and becomes irrelevant on by first day of college), but I never heard a lawyer brag about their bar exam score. In California (where I practice) they don’t release bar exam scores. New lawyers typically brag about clerkships and job offers.
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Mar a Lago would be an amazing tour stop.
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I am a Californian and would like to welcome people all over the world to our state, but I wholly understand why people outside the US want nothing to do with us now. We hope to earn the honor of your presence soon.
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Plot twist- lady in the elevator thought Nancy Mace was transgender and out to groom children. (Nancy Mace has masculine facial features).
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I have nothing against anybody entering any profession and want barriers to entry to be more equitable, but this story seems an off. Nobody really talks or cares about their bar exam score (unless they fail the exam). If this story is real, congratulations and best of luck to the new attorney.
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So let us say a girls basketball game at a small school is about to get cancelled because a bunch of kids didn’t show up. Rather than cancel the game and send all the kids home, a trans kid or even a boy joins in so the kids can play. Does this invalidate the entire state’s funding! ?
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They played Bohemian Rhapsody and Blitzkrieg Pop (not covers, but the original recordings) before taking the stage.
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Oliver is not 100% topical. John Oliver puts months or maybe years into his segments. That segment he did on churches where he formed his own CP503 involved several months worth of correspondence with mega churches.
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You can have universal healthcare while at the same time imposing sin taxes on products like tobacco so people who make unhealthy choices like smoking shoulder more of the cost burdens.
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She does have to put aside her jealousies and reconcile. Easier said than done when Vance is spending way too much time in the living room.
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Europe has poor people and America has millions of temporarily embarrassed billionaires.
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I work in tax. Many undocumented workers pay in. They often use a a ITIN or someone else’s SSN. They also pay sales taxes. There are *some* under the table workers. But the IRS (by definition) has no data on the under the table workers. This move by the IRS deters tax compliance.
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Very true. Tariffs are complicated and it is not always clear how costs get shifted along the supply chain. It is 100% certain consumers will pay more.
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To be fair, tariffs have far ranging effects. If I have to pay a 25% tariff to import a widget, I may also be paying tariffs directly or indirectly on items such as fuel to transport the widget, packaging materials, etc. So the price just not just go up 25%.
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So I can deduct my freedom tithes from the tithes I pay the pastor and still get into heaven? Cool.
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Shouldn’t it be a meritocracy? He wants DEI for American companies.
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It’s just the lord working in mysterious ways. The child is in heaven now. Anyhoo the scoreboard says
Anti-vax nut jobs 2
Drag queens 0
Drag queens getting shut out again.
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It’s much worse than 2008. The metrics may not show it (yet), but in 2008 America was knocked down, but not knocked out. America lost its credibility, its soft power, and its allies that it built over the last 100 years.
We need more than macro-economic policy. We need institutional reform.
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It was explained to me the ram was a god of Egypt. In the story (which like anything in the Bible needs to be viewed more metaphorically) the Israelites took an Egyptian god, killed it, ate it, sprinkled its blood on their doors- then the one true God exacts judgment on the Egyptians.
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The “dispute” between Putin and Trump is less real than a pro rasslin feud.
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It’s a tax deferred retirement account. A worker contributes to it and it grows tax free (or is supposed to grow). The worker pays income tax when they withdraw the funds at retirement age.
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Not that it is any of my business, but you look more like a cis-woman than Nancy Mace. If you both walked into a woman’s bathroom, she should be questioned and arrested before you.
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Booker is not being a petty bitch. He is being responsible leader that recognizes we are all interconnected and dependent on each other (even if some foolish bigots shot themselves in the foot). Yoga teachers in Berkeley need soybean farmers in Iowa and vice versa.
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A completely unrelated band doing metal with sax
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Dude needs to chill out and listen to the @durandbernarr.bsky.social tiny desk concert.
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What is this person trying to communicate? Is he upset with Trump? Or maybe he feels distress because he thinks transgender Antifa Muslims are stealing chickens and driving up egg prices?
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Very few recovering addicts can honestly say they went X years without taking a single sip of alcohol. Most are going to have slip ups. I am not encouraging relapses, but rather accepting them as inevitable for many. The important thing is getting back on track and continuing to do the work.
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I am probably going to put my career as a tax lawyer behind so I can work in a pesticide factory. Putting the sarcasm aside, it remains to be seen whether people like me will lose their current careers. The factory jobs sure as hell aren’t coming.
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I am no rocket scientist, but you’d think the US Government (as the prison’s best customer) can ask for the prisoner back?
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Yes.