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    Need advice for new trading laptop

    Open up a Dell sometime. They are a joke. Asus spends more time and money researching heat dissipation than Dell does on marketing. OP's stated requirements at the opening may be more than he needs. In that case he should re-evaluate his needs. If screen resolution is truly a need and not a want...
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    Need advice for new trading laptop

    Asus. Infinitely better than Dell. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Asus-G74SX-RH71-G74SX-G74-Gaming-Notebook-Intel-i7-2670qm-17-3-1920x1080-NEW-/320776043738?pt=Laptops_Nov05&hash=item4aafbdfcda This one is more than your price ceiling, but I didn't look around too much.
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    Tax Avoidance on the Rise

    If you ask the average Joe off the street if the tax code is Democratic, Republican, or neutral I suppose he would think it neutral. I don't know, maybe I'm wrong and maybe the average Joe realizes it depends on who is in office and who needs votes. Last year I had an IRS agent tell me not to...
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    Tax Avoidance on the Rise

    It's much more political than most realize. Take the EIC for example.
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    Free Movies going mainstream. Film business is decaying in front of our eyes.

    The bitrate sucks. Flac is the way to go baby.
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    Free Movies going mainstream. Film business is decaying in front of our eyes.

    You are wrong on so many levels. It's the "party line" to say that I am depriving the talent of their just rewards. I would gladly give the talent their due. It's the RIAA that is greedy here, not me. Yes, I do deny them a dollar a song when it costs them nothing to make it. Nothing at all...
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    Free Movies going mainstream. Film business is decaying in front of our eyes.

    I disagree. I am not a kid, but I do get just about everything via file sharing. What I and most file sharers object to is the cost. You can't convince me that a song off of a cd is worth a dollar. Especially when chances are I have already purchased that song, but it's more convenient to get it...
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    Peplink Dual-Wan Router

    +1
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    Home Office Deduction

    Nutmeg's math was wrong, volente 00's was correct. [B] Look, you can call me a bullshitter all you want. I don't fucking care. If you are too ignorant to understand that there are people legitimately deducting $5k to $6k in utilities for their home office then you indeed have...
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    'Tax The Hell Out Of Wall Street And Give It To Main Street'

    MARK CUBAN: 'Tax The Hell Out Of Wall Street And Give It To Main Street' My Soapbox Advice to the OWS Movement and then some Oct 14th 2011 8:53PM I may not know much, but I know a lot of it. So I decided to share my opinions and thoughts on what I would do if the OWS movement either...
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    Home Office Deduction

    There are direct expenses and indirect expenses on the 8829. Your deduction is not limited to the percentage of the home dedicated as a home office. You can deduct 100% of the direct expenses. No, your math is not wrong, but I think $15k is too low to bother with. I see a lot of mortgage...
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    Home Office Deduction

    My God! How do you fit your head through the doorway? As your name implies you have nothing to add but hubris.
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    Home Office Deduction

    No prob. I'm not here to argue, just to help out with what little I know. If someone else wants to do it another way then by all means have at it.
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    Home Office Deduction

    Like I said originally, compared to all the experts around here, what the fuck do I know. After all, the tax laws are the same now as they were then. :D
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    Home Office Deduction

    Then you as an employee would have to pay income tax on the housing the entity provided to you. Still taxed twice. Not to put too fine a point on it, but an LLC or a corporation with all of one employee paying for that one employee's living accommodations would raise a flag. No it's...
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    Home Office Deduction

    The homeowner (you) would be required to file a schedule C to report the rental income from the entity and depreciate the part of the home being rented. So on top of being taxed twice you still deal with the depreciation aspect when you sell the house. The short answer is there is no tax...
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    Home Office Deduction

    Again, assumptions. Filing a C does not increase your chances of an audit. How you file it does. People, it's not the form(s) that trigger an audit...it's what you put on them. Why do you think box B on schedule C asks for a Principal Business or Professional Activity Code? The IRS has amassed a...
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    Home Office Deduction

    As to your first remark, perhaps you should research exactly what an Enrolled Agent is. I'm not the guy at the desk in the office. Better yet, go take the test to become one. And as for the history of litigation? No, it doesn't because you don't know howthe respondents filled out the form. I...
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    Home Office Deduction

    I am an Enrolled Agent with H&R Block. Filing an 8829 is no more audit fodder than a schedule C. How you fill it out is. The only amount you have to recapture upon the sale of the home is the depreciation, which should be small in comparison to your other deductible home office expenses...
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    Dumping hard drives in the Chicago River

    Too small of a chipper. I know because I had one. Now this on the other hand may work out: <iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/lAl28d6tbko" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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