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All solitary dreamers know that they hear differently when they close their eyes.
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Notes from Notchcode


1.17.2007

Cause I'm the Taxman

I hate January. Not because it's bejeezus cold, or because all those new year's resolutioneers are out hogging my bike lane, but because of January 15th.

Or, more accurately this year, January 16th: Tax Day. The deadline to file your Q4 estimated tax payments to Uncle Sam. And only four days until you have to fork over a chunk to the city and state for sales tax revenue, too. Now I've been a good little business owner this year, and squirreled away (almost) enough dough for all three of these payments, but more than paying the taxes, it's the figuring out how much you owe in taxes that I really hate. I've got a good CPA, but even he tells me to hand over "about 18 percent" to the feds every quarter, to cover my back. And the sales tax forms require me to figure out if a particular print job originated in the same county as my client, and me, and so on...for a guy with somewhere north of 70 invoices to go through for the year, that's a lot of going-over. And it makes my eyes hurt.

And that's January: the month that makes your eyes hurt. enjoy!

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