I got the Bureaucracy Blues

[Douglasmahard@AOL.COM]

Hi Rob,
Talk to your insurance agent and to your accountant. If you don't have an 
accountant, I highly recommend establishing a relationship with one. These 
are professional people that you should consider as part of your team. I 
still do my own taxes but I pepper my accountant with lots of questions and 
let him revue my return. I can see in the not to distant future I will be 
letting him do the whole shabang.  

The other members of my professional team would be a lawyer and bank manager. 
Get to know all these folks on a first name basis. The bank people all have 
name placks on their desk or counter. Try this experiment. For now on when 
you go to the bank address everyone you deal with by there first name. I bet 
you will see a noticeable difference in how you're received after awhile. 
This helps in getting some little charges eliminated occasionally. If you're 
doing this already - never mind. :)

Doug Mahard




In a message dated 04/12/2001 7:11:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
rrg@nevada.edu writes:

<<  got the "Bureaucracy Blues"... (hum us a few bars y'all).
 
 The ultimate oxymoron...  "Hi, I from the government... I'm here to
 help".   The dealer that we, (Alan Meyer and I), install PianoDisc
 systems for just went through an audit.  Although we are NOT employees
 but rather subcontractors, they say we should have been paying some sort
 of workers comp this past year to the dealer.  Unless we can prove
 otherwise they are going to stiff each of us with a $600.00 bill!  I
 have never heard of such a thing.  How does this work?  Are there any
 loop holes?  That is a huge amount of money that we are being asked to
 pay every year to satisfy a useless bureaucracy.  Help!
 
 I also need to find more right-offs for my taxes BAD.  I have really
 gotten burned this year by the IRS.   We could buy four big screen TVs
 each equipped with surround sound and a DVD player for what we are going
 to have to pay this year.  QUESTION:  I recall in the past that there
 was a half day seminar at the PTG in the past on how to find ways for
 techs to reduce their taxes.  Does anyone know if they are running that
 one again this year?  I think I need to be in it!
 
 Rob Goodale, RPT
 Lost Wages, NV
 
 
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