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#4980 – HOORAY FOR BUSINESS LICENSES
HOORAY! i’ve completely wiped out the taxes due on money i made for photography by itemizing my business expenses! what makes it even more amusing is 99% of these are derby-related since i actually market those (p.s. buy my derby photos plzkthx).
mileage to bouts? covered!
hotel costs? covered!
airfare, post-derby afterparty meals, tolls, etc? all covered!
i’ve expensed my way into a $15 loss for the year for my photography — no income tax to be paid on my money made in 2007! never you mind that 99% of my photography income was non-derby related. 😛 but at least now anything i’ll have to pay will be because of my work income, and i’m fine with that.
#4979 – ROFL NEVERMIND
so i’m redoing my taxes to make sure that i didn’t miss anything and i’m claiming EVERYTHING that i can possibly find as a business expense (hey, i’ve got a business license, why not?), when i find this gem:
ROFL I’M TOTALLY CLAIMING POST-DERBY AFTERPARTIES ON MY TAXES AS A PHOTOGRAPHY BUSINESS EXPENSE ROFL ROFL I WITHDRAW MY PREVIOUS POST ABOUT TAXES BEING LAME ROFL ROFL
#4978 – sole propoprietership is balls
my W2 form arrived yesterday and so did the ability to import my W2 info. apparently my preliminary tax return says that i’ll owe a combined federal and state tax payment of $1057. what.
i say “preliminary tax return” because i think i still need a 1099 form from my retirement investments, but i’m not sure quite yet. they say most folks can import the information starting february 1, but they also say to not try to import that information until you receive the form in the mail.
i’d like to know why, when i put my info in on the IRS web page last summer, it said “hey, you’ve already paid the taxes you owe for 2007 already! go ahead and set your allotments to 10 so that you won’t have any taxes taken out for the rest of the year!”, and even when i did the return with just my work info and no income from my photography it still said i’d owe $200-something in federal. uncle sam, what gives? something doesn’t seem quite right… owe $200-something federal with just photography stuff, owe $200-something federal with just work stuff, but combined it goes up to almost $900? hm. something seems weird about that…
ha, it says here if i put $4000 into an IRA then i’ll get a refund of $31.00. nice! 😛
Push the Button, Frank
I’ve got a Firelite portable 80-gig hard drive that I use to store a bunch of episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000, thanks to the Digital Archive Project. When I want to watch one, I have to look through this list of episodes and pick one out at random to watch. The problem is that sometimes you can’t decide if a movie will be “good” to watch based on title alone, and reading the list of episodes sometimes tells you more about an episode than you wanted to know. So I put together this handy little Applescript to pick out the randomness for me! It’s quite brilliant, actually — once you’ve seen a movie then you can highlight the file with any label and it’ll skip over those until it finds one that you haven’t watched.
And yes, the name of my portable external drive is “Satellite Of Love”. I thought it was fitting.