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Participant[quote=SD Realtor]
Steve Fisher was the best hire in school history. He has a little wooden in him.[/quote]
I knew John Wooden. I worked with John Wooden. John Wooden was a friend of mine. And Steve Fisher is a whole lot more like John Wooden than Dan Quayle was ever like JFK. At he is looking more and more like Wooden every year.
And there are other similarities. Like Wooden, Fisher is a pretty mediocre game coach. He preps well, usually goes into games with a good plan, but if things go awry, he seems like he doesn’t have a clue how to adjust. Like Wooden, he doesn’t use his bench much, rarely more than 2 deep.
His players are in great shape. They gotta be to play > 30 minutes a game.
They’re more disciplined this year than they have ever been. In the past they’ve been all over the place.
He has rules. He applies them differently and appropriately for each kid. Wooden did the same thing.
One area where they are different is off the court. Wooden had a great sense of humor. If Fisher has that, I’ve never seen it.
What’s really different this year about the Aztecs, is that he has 5 athletes starting. Having watched Aztec basketball for more than 40 years, I can tell you without exception that has never happened before. They’ve had skill at every position , even more than they do now, (particularly the teams of the late 70’s/early 80’s may have been more skilled.) but they have never had 5 guys that could run with anyone.
Anyway, it’s exciting. Could break into the top 5 this weeek in the rankings. (Wouldn’t surprise me though if they stayed put and Nova moves up.) If they win out at home and pick up a couple more road wins and they should be looking at a 2 seed, giving them a decent path to the sweet 16. And they got the bodies, from there anything could happen. Awesome 🙂
Go Aztecs!
Participant[quote=SD Realtor]
Steve Fisher was the best hire in school history. He has a little wooden in him.[/quote]
I knew John Wooden. I worked with John Wooden. John Wooden was a friend of mine. And Steve Fisher is a whole lot more like John Wooden than Dan Quayle was ever like JFK. At he is looking more and more like Wooden every year.
And there are other similarities. Like Wooden, Fisher is a pretty mediocre game coach. He preps well, usually goes into games with a good plan, but if things go awry, he seems like he doesn’t have a clue how to adjust. Like Wooden, he doesn’t use his bench much, rarely more than 2 deep.
His players are in great shape. They gotta be to play > 30 minutes a game.
They’re more disciplined this year than they have ever been. In the past they’ve been all over the place.
He has rules. He applies them differently and appropriately for each kid. Wooden did the same thing.
One area where they are different is off the court. Wooden had a great sense of humor. If Fisher has that, I’ve never seen it.
What’s really different this year about the Aztecs, is that he has 5 athletes starting. Having watched Aztec basketball for more than 40 years, I can tell you without exception that has never happened before. They’ve had skill at every position , even more than they do now, (particularly the teams of the late 70’s/early 80’s may have been more skilled.) but they have never had 5 guys that could run with anyone.
Anyway, it’s exciting. Could break into the top 5 this weeek in the rankings. (Wouldn’t surprise me though if they stayed put and Nova moves up.) If they win out at home and pick up a couple more road wins and they should be looking at a 2 seed, giving them a decent path to the sweet 16. And they got the bodies, from there anything could happen. Awesome 🙂
Go Aztecs!
Participant[quote=SD Realtor]
Steve Fisher was the best hire in school history. He has a little wooden in him.[/quote]
I knew John Wooden. I worked with John Wooden. John Wooden was a friend of mine. And Steve Fisher is a whole lot more like John Wooden than Dan Quayle was ever like JFK. At he is looking more and more like Wooden every year.
And there are other similarities. Like Wooden, Fisher is a pretty mediocre game coach. He preps well, usually goes into games with a good plan, but if things go awry, he seems like he doesn’t have a clue how to adjust. Like Wooden, he doesn’t use his bench much, rarely more than 2 deep.
His players are in great shape. They gotta be to play > 30 minutes a game.
They’re more disciplined this year than they have ever been. In the past they’ve been all over the place.
He has rules. He applies them differently and appropriately for each kid. Wooden did the same thing.
One area where they are different is off the court. Wooden had a great sense of humor. If Fisher has that, I’ve never seen it.
What’s really different this year about the Aztecs, is that he has 5 athletes starting. Having watched Aztec basketball for more than 40 years, I can tell you without exception that has never happened before. They’ve had skill at every position , even more than they do now, (particularly the teams of the late 70’s/early 80’s may have been more skilled.) but they have never had 5 guys that could run with anyone.
Anyway, it’s exciting. Could break into the top 5 this weeek in the rankings. (Wouldn’t surprise me though if they stayed put and Nova moves up.) If they win out at home and pick up a couple more road wins and they should be looking at a 2 seed, giving them a decent path to the sweet 16. And they got the bodies, from there anything could happen. Awesome 🙂
Go Aztecs!
Participant[quote=Eugene][quote=SK in CV]
You can do it yourself, by hand would be a pain in the ass if you don’t know what you’re doing. If you do know what you’re doing, its gonna take maybe 1/2 hour for a few 1099’s. I just looked for low cost services online and Intuit will prepare all the forms for you for $39, $25 if done before Jan 23.[/quote]
Presumably, if you’re a business owner, you have a piece of computer software that tracks all your expenses, because $600 paid out to a handyman is $600 that you can deduct from your net income, and that lowers your tax bill, potentially by up to $200. So it’s a simple matter of adding a new feature to that software, to make it print a stack of 1099’s when you do a tax return.[/quote]
That’s all well and good for a business, even a small business. But this post was in reference to someone who owns a rental home. Maybe they use quicken or something like that to track their expenses, and even if they don’t, usually figuring out who you paid $600 to isn’t all that difficult.
But actually getting the damn things printed? Quicken doesn’t do it. (Quickbooks does, I think, but if you own a single rental house, QB is overkill and not worth the money.) Eh, not quite as easy as clicking on print. I have software that costs a couple hundred bucks. (does a whole bunch of other shit too.) Carries all the info over from one year to the next. Takes me 10 minutes to do about 10 of them. Someone who has never done it? 30 minutes. Easiest way, pay $40 to a service to do it for you. Or do it early and it’s only $25.
(And you can’t wait until you do your tax return. 1099’s are due to recipients by 1/31, to the IRS by 2/28)
Participant[quote=Eugene][quote=SK in CV]
You can do it yourself, by hand would be a pain in the ass if you don’t know what you’re doing. If you do know what you’re doing, its gonna take maybe 1/2 hour for a few 1099’s. I just looked for low cost services online and Intuit will prepare all the forms for you for $39, $25 if done before Jan 23.[/quote]
Presumably, if you’re a business owner, you have a piece of computer software that tracks all your expenses, because $600 paid out to a handyman is $600 that you can deduct from your net income, and that lowers your tax bill, potentially by up to $200. So it’s a simple matter of adding a new feature to that software, to make it print a stack of 1099’s when you do a tax return.[/quote]
That’s all well and good for a business, even a small business. But this post was in reference to someone who owns a rental home. Maybe they use quicken or something like that to track their expenses, and even if they don’t, usually figuring out who you paid $600 to isn’t all that difficult.
But actually getting the damn things printed? Quicken doesn’t do it. (Quickbooks does, I think, but if you own a single rental house, QB is overkill and not worth the money.) Eh, not quite as easy as clicking on print. I have software that costs a couple hundred bucks. (does a whole bunch of other shit too.) Carries all the info over from one year to the next. Takes me 10 minutes to do about 10 of them. Someone who has never done it? 30 minutes. Easiest way, pay $40 to a service to do it for you. Or do it early and it’s only $25.
(And you can’t wait until you do your tax return. 1099’s are due to recipients by 1/31, to the IRS by 2/28)
Participant[quote=Eugene][quote=SK in CV]
You can do it yourself, by hand would be a pain in the ass if you don’t know what you’re doing. If you do know what you’re doing, its gonna take maybe 1/2 hour for a few 1099’s. I just looked for low cost services online and Intuit will prepare all the forms for you for $39, $25 if done before Jan 23.[/quote]
Presumably, if you’re a business owner, you have a piece of computer software that tracks all your expenses, because $600 paid out to a handyman is $600 that you can deduct from your net income, and that lowers your tax bill, potentially by up to $200. So it’s a simple matter of adding a new feature to that software, to make it print a stack of 1099’s when you do a tax return.[/quote]
That’s all well and good for a business, even a small business. But this post was in reference to someone who owns a rental home. Maybe they use quicken or something like that to track their expenses, and even if they don’t, usually figuring out who you paid $600 to isn’t all that difficult.
But actually getting the damn things printed? Quicken doesn’t do it. (Quickbooks does, I think, but if you own a single rental house, QB is overkill and not worth the money.) Eh, not quite as easy as clicking on print. I have software that costs a couple hundred bucks. (does a whole bunch of other shit too.) Carries all the info over from one year to the next. Takes me 10 minutes to do about 10 of them. Someone who has never done it? 30 minutes. Easiest way, pay $40 to a service to do it for you. Or do it early and it’s only $25.
(And you can’t wait until you do your tax return. 1099’s are due to recipients by 1/31, to the IRS by 2/28)
Participant[quote=Eugene][quote=SK in CV]
You can do it yourself, by hand would be a pain in the ass if you don’t know what you’re doing. If you do know what you’re doing, its gonna take maybe 1/2 hour for a few 1099’s. I just looked for low cost services online and Intuit will prepare all the forms for you for $39, $25 if done before Jan 23.[/quote]
Presumably, if you’re a business owner, you have a piece of computer software that tracks all your expenses, because $600 paid out to a handyman is $600 that you can deduct from your net income, and that lowers your tax bill, potentially by up to $200. So it’s a simple matter of adding a new feature to that software, to make it print a stack of 1099’s when you do a tax return.[/quote]
That’s all well and good for a business, even a small business. But this post was in reference to someone who owns a rental home. Maybe they use quicken or something like that to track their expenses, and even if they don’t, usually figuring out who you paid $600 to isn’t all that difficult.
But actually getting the damn things printed? Quicken doesn’t do it. (Quickbooks does, I think, but if you own a single rental house, QB is overkill and not worth the money.) Eh, not quite as easy as clicking on print. I have software that costs a couple hundred bucks. (does a whole bunch of other shit too.) Carries all the info over from one year to the next. Takes me 10 minutes to do about 10 of them. Someone who has never done it? 30 minutes. Easiest way, pay $40 to a service to do it for you. Or do it early and it’s only $25.
(And you can’t wait until you do your tax return. 1099’s are due to recipients by 1/31, to the IRS by 2/28)
Participant[quote=Eugene][quote=SK in CV]
You can do it yourself, by hand would be a pain in the ass if you don’t know what you’re doing. If you do know what you’re doing, its gonna take maybe 1/2 hour for a few 1099’s. I just looked for low cost services online and Intuit will prepare all the forms for you for $39, $25 if done before Jan 23.[/quote]
Presumably, if you’re a business owner, you have a piece of computer software that tracks all your expenses, because $600 paid out to a handyman is $600 that you can deduct from your net income, and that lowers your tax bill, potentially by up to $200. So it’s a simple matter of adding a new feature to that software, to make it print a stack of 1099’s when you do a tax return.[/quote]
That’s all well and good for a business, even a small business. But this post was in reference to someone who owns a rental home. Maybe they use quicken or something like that to track their expenses, and even if they don’t, usually figuring out who you paid $600 to isn’t all that difficult.
But actually getting the damn things printed? Quicken doesn’t do it. (Quickbooks does, I think, but if you own a single rental house, QB is overkill and not worth the money.) Eh, not quite as easy as clicking on print. I have software that costs a couple hundred bucks. (does a whole bunch of other shit too.) Carries all the info over from one year to the next. Takes me 10 minutes to do about 10 of them. Someone who has never done it? 30 minutes. Easiest way, pay $40 to a service to do it for you. Or do it early and it’s only $25.
(And you can’t wait until you do your tax return. 1099’s are due to recipients by 1/31, to the IRS by 2/28)
Participant[quote=Hobie]I understand the no employer relationship but there is no recourse by the IRS? Just by producing a bogus 1099??
Even as a smaller government is better guy, I don’t agree that the IRS should be shorted in this manner.[/quote]
Ain’t this a role reversal. Ok, lets say I have an apartment building. I pay a pool service, a gardner, a painter, a carpet installer, and an attorney to file a few unlawful detainers every year. They all supply me with their SS number or EIN and I file 1099’s every year. I assume the information they give me is valid. All my responsibilities have been fulfilled.
Do the pool guy and the gardner and the painter, etc. all report all of their income? I have no idea. I know the pool guy and the gardner have residential accounts that don’t file 1099’s. The attorney does some DUI’s too, and I know he doesn’t get 1099’s for them. But they’re supposed to report all that income anyway.
Tax enforcement is tough. Either the IRS is given tools by congress which range from slightly burdensome to unreasonable for small and big businesses alike, or they don’t collect the taxes they’re charged with collecting. I don’t think there is a simple solution.
Participant[quote=Hobie]I understand the no employer relationship but there is no recourse by the IRS? Just by producing a bogus 1099??
Even as a smaller government is better guy, I don’t agree that the IRS should be shorted in this manner.[/quote]
Ain’t this a role reversal. Ok, lets say I have an apartment building. I pay a pool service, a gardner, a painter, a carpet installer, and an attorney to file a few unlawful detainers every year. They all supply me with their SS number or EIN and I file 1099’s every year. I assume the information they give me is valid. All my responsibilities have been fulfilled.
Do the pool guy and the gardner and the painter, etc. all report all of their income? I have no idea. I know the pool guy and the gardner have residential accounts that don’t file 1099’s. The attorney does some DUI’s too, and I know he doesn’t get 1099’s for them. But they’re supposed to report all that income anyway.
Tax enforcement is tough. Either the IRS is given tools by congress which range from slightly burdensome to unreasonable for small and big businesses alike, or they don’t collect the taxes they’re charged with collecting. I don’t think there is a simple solution.
Participant[quote=Hobie]I understand the no employer relationship but there is no recourse by the IRS? Just by producing a bogus 1099??
Even as a smaller government is better guy, I don’t agree that the IRS should be shorted in this manner.[/quote]
Ain’t this a role reversal. Ok, lets say I have an apartment building. I pay a pool service, a gardner, a painter, a carpet installer, and an attorney to file a few unlawful detainers every year. They all supply me with their SS number or EIN and I file 1099’s every year. I assume the information they give me is valid. All my responsibilities have been fulfilled.
Do the pool guy and the gardner and the painter, etc. all report all of their income? I have no idea. I know the pool guy and the gardner have residential accounts that don’t file 1099’s. The attorney does some DUI’s too, and I know he doesn’t get 1099’s for them. But they’re supposed to report all that income anyway.
Tax enforcement is tough. Either the IRS is given tools by congress which range from slightly burdensome to unreasonable for small and big businesses alike, or they don’t collect the taxes they’re charged with collecting. I don’t think there is a simple solution.
Participant[quote=Hobie]I understand the no employer relationship but there is no recourse by the IRS? Just by producing a bogus 1099??
Even as a smaller government is better guy, I don’t agree that the IRS should be shorted in this manner.[/quote]
Ain’t this a role reversal. Ok, lets say I have an apartment building. I pay a pool service, a gardner, a painter, a carpet installer, and an attorney to file a few unlawful detainers every year. They all supply me with their SS number or EIN and I file 1099’s every year. I assume the information they give me is valid. All my responsibilities have been fulfilled.
Do the pool guy and the gardner and the painter, etc. all report all of their income? I have no idea. I know the pool guy and the gardner have residential accounts that don’t file 1099’s. The attorney does some DUI’s too, and I know he doesn’t get 1099’s for them. But they’re supposed to report all that income anyway.
Tax enforcement is tough. Either the IRS is given tools by congress which range from slightly burdensome to unreasonable for small and big businesses alike, or they don’t collect the taxes they’re charged with collecting. I don’t think there is a simple solution.
Participant[quote=Hobie]I understand the no employer relationship but there is no recourse by the IRS? Just by producing a bogus 1099??
Even as a smaller government is better guy, I don’t agree that the IRS should be shorted in this manner.[/quote]
Ain’t this a role reversal. Ok, lets say I have an apartment building. I pay a pool service, a gardner, a painter, a carpet installer, and an attorney to file a few unlawful detainers every year. They all supply me with their SS number or EIN and I file 1099’s every year. I assume the information they give me is valid. All my responsibilities have been fulfilled.
Do the pool guy and the gardner and the painter, etc. all report all of their income? I have no idea. I know the pool guy and the gardner have residential accounts that don’t file 1099’s. The attorney does some DUI’s too, and I know he doesn’t get 1099’s for them. But they’re supposed to report all that income anyway.
Tax enforcement is tough. Either the IRS is given tools by congress which range from slightly burdensome to unreasonable for small and big businesses alike, or they don’t collect the taxes they’re charged with collecting. I don’t think there is a simple solution.
Participant[quote=Hobie]I know I colluded Social Security with use tax but it was to show how sales/income can be tracked.
[quote=SK in CV]
Payers are not on the hook for any SS taxes. [/quote]How does it work say if I 1099 a firm in the amount of several hundred thousand dollars. Now suppose they skip out and don’t pay. And there is an audit. Are you saying the IRS will not knock on my door asking for at least the employer half?
Or, put a different way say if I use a fly by night company and 1099 them and later it was determined they gave me a bogus TIN or SS number and disappear. Don’t I still owe the IRS if they can’t collect from them?[/quote]
There is no “employer half” for non-employees. There is no employer/employee relationship in either of those examples. You won’t owe anything.
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