The IRS is, ultimately, not all that picky about how you report income, as long as you *do* report it. You can, theoretically, report your income as "proceeds from an illegal enterprise." If you pay taxes on it, it'll keep you from going the way of Al Capone. You'll have to pay self-employment tax on it, though, so you're really screwed. Also, eventually the IRS will figure this out and it will be audit time again.
Sir? I think you have a problem with your brain being missing.
Zoe ,'The Train Job'
Natter 53: We could just avoid making tortured puns
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Ginger - Sep 11, 2007 11:45:04 am PDT #9768 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
erikaj - Sep 11, 2007 11:47:15 am PDT #9769 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Frank Pembleton had a stroke.(I'd actually have loved to see Braugher play impaired for that whole year, like he wanted to) If he's not a detective, my cosmology's gone all wonky now.(Although there's something to be said for the Chandler shout-out implicit in blunt-force trauma...which I almost wrote as "blunt force drama"...if I blogged about SVU, I'd have a title now.)
Scrappy - Sep 11, 2007 11:48:08 am PDT #9770 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I took today off to wait around New!House for the city inspector to make sure our new gas meter is not going to, you know, explode or something. I spent three hours pulling up 40-year-old vinyl flooring, which was covered in sticky glue from the 30-year-old vinyl flooring that we pulled up last week. Yuck. In the bright side, tonight we get to go to a screening of Stacy Peralta's [link] new film. A friend of ours is working on it and it is in final edit stage and she has very good things to say about it.
JZ - Sep 11, 2007 11:57:57 am PDT #9771 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
which I almost wrote as "blunt force drama"...if I blogged about SVU, I'd have a title now.
It's almost enough to make me insist you start blogging about SVU, but that's a harsh and cruel demand to place on anyone. Still, you really have to find some excuse to use that phrase somewhere.
erikaj - Sep 11, 2007 12:09:49 pm PDT #9772 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Oh, I don't know, if I really hate it, I can cry, draw my lips in a few hundred times and dye my hair and make people start mistaking me for Mariska Hargitay.
Jesse - Sep 11, 2007 12:27:11 pm PDT #9773 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
That is a beautiful phrase, erika.
Jesus, Steph -- that's so crazy. Definitely report the income somehow, and eff your shady employer.
So, a coworker of mine got let go today. Of course, I've know it was going to happen for WEEKS, because my boss is just that unprofessional. Another coworker floated the idea of applying for the job, and my boss brought the idea to a higher-up last week, who was all, "And why does [coworker] even know that job might be open??" Yeah.
erikaj - Sep 11, 2007 12:29:15 pm PDT #9774 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Total accident. Nice descriptor of the whole L&O pantheon, though(If I may say so)
Theodosia - Sep 11, 2007 12:37:58 pm PDT #9775 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Steph, yeah, I think pointing out to boss lady that you're going to have to report it legally and it will eventually come back to haunt the company -- you can phrase it as being concerned for the sake of the company. Besides, seriously, I would have expected that having to account for monies spent developing a book would be stuff you can deduct from the taxes owed by the company.
I got my student ID today! Now I can into movies at a reduced rate, woohoo!
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 11, 2007 1:33:00 pm PDT #9776 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
In the absence of Tom's customary relevant links, may I present Francorp founder jailed for tax fraud?
§ ita § - Sep 11, 2007 1:39:30 pm PDT #9777 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I can't get over this sentence from yesterday's vaginal reconstruction link:
Some patients say having a sleeker, thinner labia makes a tremendous difference in their lives.
I...I...I just don't get it. But perhaps I spend too much of my life wearing underwear.
If you're being a pedant about kilo- and mega- and powers of two, you're wrong. Hmmph.