#Legal And Tax

[dragonpyre]

Honestly, gotta respect that out of all the bats, literally Jason and Cass are the only ones who don’t have a civilian-sona. They don’t do shit as their legal identities (assuming Jason even has one). They’re job is to look pretty and that’s it.

[hajihiko]

it's watermelon 🍉

[codacheetah]

Which one will you vote for?

[bog-boyy]

psa for anyone that has been or will be affected by the ohio railroad disaster: document everything. document your symptoms, all of your plants dying, changes in the water, etc. i work admin in a government office and the more documentation we have, the better. those records could be really helpful if there’s a class action lawsuit, federal investigation, etc. in the future

[sestrahulk]

Orphan Black: Echoes showrunner Anna Fishko on bringing back Tatiana Maslany:

Fishko reveals that Maslany was approached about returning, but because of scheduling conflicts she was unable to do so. But the showrunner says: "We tried and we thought about it, we had a little episode for her to return that we were sort of holding onto for a while, but in the end it just didn't work out, which was too bad." When asked if she'd like to see Maslany return as one of her Orphan Black characters in future, Fishko adamantly says: "I'd love to see her come back." The challenge now, then, will be on viewers to make that come to be.

Source (contains major spoilers for season 1 of Orphan Black: Echoes)

[yellow-yarrow]

[fantasykiri5]

It started as a qpr Fabriz thought but y’know what it extends to the rest of the bad kids: I think it would be really funny if they had a complex web of platonic marriages just to reap the financial and governmental benefits. Like “if one got seriously stuck in a hospital the others would be able to visit because they’d be considered spouse and/or legal family” style, y’know? In a “benefits on tax returns and few(er) questions if Fabian (or the cig figs if they make more money?) decides to share a larger amount of money with the others because they’re considered extended family” way, and a “easy to put on emergency contact forms” way. Half their parents are already dating each other, it wouldn’t even need to be a very large friend-marriage-web! Idk man I just think it would be funny

[artfartt]

Guys guess what day it is…

It’s my sona appreciation day! Aka my birthday!!!!!!!!

[bogusfilth]

Before 1999, bribes were deductible as business expenses under the German tax code, and paying off a foreign official was not a criminal offense. In such an environment, Siemens officials subscribed to a straightforward rule in pursuing business abroad, according to one former executive. They played by local rules.

At Siemens, Bribery Was Just a Line Item -- Siri Schubert and T. Christian Miller, New York Times

[impossiblekittydelusion]

What if Techno sometimes lets Phil braid his feathers into his hair?

[razzle-zazzle]

betrothal au is so funny actually. jay & cole are still beefing because of the love triangle, except cole has been engaged to skylor the whole time. chen made sure that cole and skylor's rooms are next to each other so kai has to look to the balcony on the other side of cole's to make googoo eyes at skylor. skylor unintentionally cracks kai's egg. kai sees cole and skylor doing a lil waltz in the courtyard one night and immediately joins jay in giving cole the stinkeye over lunch. chen sees cole and skylor sneaking off and gets one of his underlings to play romantic music in whatever room they go to. clouse suggests just using a love potion to ensure cole turns against the ninja but chen wants that to happen organically because he thinks it's funny/more satisfying. cole and skylor make up stupid pet names that make no sense. soap opera level drama. chen going all bridezilla for what should be his daughter's special day, bc he's chen.

it's all so funny. to me <3

[ramsywasalittlelamb]

getting older is so scary D: what do you mean that I can get a job?? im literally 4 years old.

[hollowtones]

I haven’t been keeping up with rtvs stuff because of life stuff so sorry if this is old news but omg congrats on getting married!

This is a sweet message but we’re not technically married yet LOL it is a term of endearment

[disneyanddisneyships]

it cracks me up when you guys talk abt Gen z like we're all still children, which ya know most of us? Yeah okay. But the oldest out of us are 27 fucking years old. That's 3 years away from 30 y'all. Not all of us are children. (Me personally tho? Age wise am an adult, mentally I am dying inside at the fact that it's now socially unacceptable for me to buy a barbie) I have adult money now but at what cost

[odinsblog]

🗣The United States Supreme Court is a corrupt, depraved, illegitimate institution

This coming term, the Supreme Court will hear United States v. Moore, a case that could determine the constitutionality of a hypothetical wealth tax. Given his years of palling around with billionaire benefactors, one thing seems quite clear: Justice Clarence Thomas needs to recuse himself from the case. Commentators who downplay Thomas’ acceptance of massive gifts ask: Maybe it looks bad, but why does it matter? Moore tells us loud and clear.

Moore involves a provision of the 2018 Trump tax bill enacting a “mandatory repatriation tax” for any U.S. taxpayer who owns shares in a foreign corporation, even if the taxpayer never cashed out the money, but automatically reinvested it. Behind this seemingly abstruse issue is a crucial constitutional question: Does the 16th Amendment, which enables the federal government to tax “income,” allow the government to put levies on taxpayers’ assets if they didn’t actually get the money in cash?

In other words, can the federal government place a tax on wealth? This has real implications for both the budget and inequality. Indeed, most ultra-high-wealth individuals possess their assets: They make investments, and hold them. When they die, their heirs’ tax is figured not on the amount of profit earned off of the original cost, but the amount of profit earned off of its value at the time of the original purchaser’s death.

Thus, hundreds of billions of dollars go untaxed—which is just the way multibillionaires like it.

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[slowedmountains]

My toxic trait is asking US Americans to specify their country when they’re asking location-specific questions in international spaces when I know full well that the only people who would never think to state their country are US Americans