Taxman? Can't stand him. Easy to see why the Israelites in Jesus' time found them unclean ('Course, Jesus didn't like Lawyers much either...). I got much more I might say on the subject. Or not. Got Court for the next fortnight, so posts might be spotty.
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Don't leave me hanging. You bring up my favorite topic and suddenly you have to work?
and great song and vid btw
"Should five per cent appear too small,
Be thankful I don't take it all."
Five percent would be right nice.
John, I'd posted a long explaination about what got my goat this time; thought better of it after a night's sleep and deleted it. Suffice it to say, I don't find all tax collectors to be honorable. And Taxman is a cool song, idnit?
The Man is always out to get you.
I had a paranoid client come to the office the other day. That's not unusual, actually, a fair number of my clients are paranoid. Anyway, she reluctantly came to the office, figuring if the State paid me and the State paid the prosecutor, we must be in league. With difficulty, I calmed her and convinced her I was on her side. She said she was concerned that she might be arrested again and would miss her daughter's graduation. I assured her that I'd find out and bade her farewell. As she was leaving, a W'boro police officer entered our building and tried to arrest her for an outstanding bench warrant. IN OUR BUILDING! I talked the officer out of it and told them never, ever, to come to our office again, but the damage was done. She was paranoid, but evidently, not paranoid enough.
Hey Ringo,
Gimme a call. Can't get through to your phone.
And the tax man can bite a fart!
Well, I've asked them to kiss my @ss, and, since they're down there anyway...
still hangin'...
Aight, John. Here's a condensed version of what I wrote Sunday.
In my doomed attempt at business, I had an office manager and an accountant whom I paid to, among other things, make sure my taxes were paid. Perhaps they didn't do all they were supposed to. Don't know yet. Anyway, I got a notice that the SCDOR was going to garnishee a huge chunk of my paycheck because my wage withholding for my employees for the quarter ending June, 2007 weren't paid. I called the SCDOR dude who sent the letter and told him I had no employees for that quarter, that my last payment to any employee was the end of March 2007, and would he be kind enough to fax me the forms that I needed to show them this, and send me info on whatever other taxes they thought I owed. "Sure", he said. 'Cept he didn't send me anything, and my next paycheck was short by 25% of GROSS. But it was worse than that. The IRS got into the action, and froze my bank account, into which my paycheck was directly deposited. I did not receive notice from the IRS action until after they'd already frozen my account. Net result: no paycheck, and the checks I'd written (with adequate, but, I'd learned after-the-fact, inaccessible funds) came back. Automatic draft for car insurance? Came back. Check written a week earlier for car repairs? Came back. Shoot, they could have gotten my attention by taking, say, 10% of gross each. I might- MIGHT- still have been able to pay my essential bills then. Right now? No cell phone (Probably didn't need it anyway). Got to figure out a way to get my auto insurance paid. Begging local businesses to bear with me while I try to find money that we'd both thought I'd already paid them.
I've long tried to heed the old axiom, "whoever represents himself has a fool for a client", and have asked my best friend, lawyer, and sometime running partner, Cathy, to help me out. Certainly I should have watched my rights more diligently, and, having changed residences I probably didn't get all the notices that they undoubtedly sent. Hey, I'm not much of a businessman. I'm a worse accountant. But folks ought not to be treated this way. Without a hearing. Without a judge. Without anything other than a couple of bitter old number crunchers making a decision that affects a long line of people.
Yikes! What does your former accountant have to say about all this?
and get yourself to a tax attorney pronto.
Yeah, fun stuff, huh? My former accountant is not a bad guy, but I obviously thought that he was doing more to protect me than he was doing. I'm meeting with a new one shortly. Once I've consulted with the accountant, I'll take stock from there.
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