Thanks, ND. I understand corp-to-corp is supposed to be better taxwise, but incorporating is beyond me at this time. Plus, I can still do all my own taxes.

Yes, it is, but forming the corp and maintaining it can be a pain in the arse. I'm still a sole proprietorship but will probably need to change that soon. I use an accountant for my taxes. As soon as I had a bunch of people that I had to do 1099's on for work it got too complicated, and now I use a payroll service for the folks that do work for me.

I'm still a sole proprietorship but will probably need to change that soon

If you don't mind my nosiness, why? As a tech professional corp to corp comes up fairly often, and the most of computer people I know socially (as opposed to from work one way or another) are all their own companies. But I don't get the subtleties.

It's setting up the board and extra paperwork, and annual fees and things like that. I know I need to do it eventually, but I didn't want to do it to begin with since a SP is quick and simple to set up.

I wish they would've killed Zack NINE MILLION TIMES.

I kind of hate him. A lot.

I totally agree that logic is not where she is at. Where that plays seems to be is a deep disappointment and anger and upset and an inability to understand sometimes medical shit Just Happens and the humans don't control everything. Try as hard as we'd like.

There's also mistrust of the Medical Establishment, which I wish the Medical Establishment would, err, address better. Because when there's an established history of things getting pushed through and used that cause harm to the patient, it's hard for the layperson to know who to trust.

totally this. Even though I think Jenny McCarthy can't find her butt with both hands.

Even if she had a mirror.

Why does this hoax refuse to die?

Mars Hoax Circulates: 'Big as the Moon!'

Once again it appears that a Mars hoax that has widely circulated through the Internet since its first appearance during the summer of 2004 has begun to circulate yet again. It comes in the form of an e-mail message titled "Mars Spectacular," which originated from an unknown source.

In turn, this message has gotten passed on to others who couldn't resist forwarding it to their entire address book.

The e-mail declares that on the night of Aug. 27, the planet Mars will come closer to Earth than it has in the past 60,000 years, thereby offering spectacular views of the Red Planet. The commentary even proclaims, with liberal use of exclamation marks, that Mars will appear as bright as (or as large as) the full moon.

The problem is that "Aug. 27" is actually Aug. 27, 2003. Mars made a historically close pass by Earth that night (34.6 million miles, or 55.7 million km). The Hubble Space Telescope used the opportunity to make a great photo of Mars. But even then, to the naked eye Mars appeared as nothing more than an extremely bright yellowish-orange star, not at all like the full moon.

I remember that. Mars was bright and pretty.

True story.(/Ari Gold likes kosher carrots)

I kind of hate him. A lot.

I thought he was kinda irritating, but in no way do I think they laid the groundwork for him to kill himself for the chance of survival of a chick he wouldn't even give his phone number to. Killing him and Tinga and evilfying Brin was probably housecleaning for all the transgenics she freed in season two--it just felt rude and clunky.

a SP is quick and simple to set up

Does it cost?

SP should cost you little if anything, I would think.

We're SP for our income from the music store (1099s) but incorporated our own for the big nonprofit (W2s, but we generate them ourselves.)

It was not that difficult to incorporate, but it does require a good deal of work to maintain, as ND says primarily with the required board meetings & filing requirements.

Taxwise it's six of one, half dozen of the other. We do have to pay monthly (corporate) income taxes and are subject to penalties if late. But technically we're required to do the same for the contractor stuff, it's just that income is less enough to not require too much.

We do need to withhold a little bit more than we do, to balance out the extra contractor income. But because philosophically we'd rather invest our own funds and pay at the end of the tax year, we prefer to withhold just enough to not get hassled by the government.