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shuraatax · 23 days ago
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How to Apply for Tax Registration Number (TRN) in UAE?
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Do you know the difference between VAT and TRN? And you look further to register yourself as a taxpayer? Don’t worry; Shuraa Tax has your back. Like you, many entrepreneurs in Dubai and investors have no clue about getting a Tax Registration Number or TRN in Dubai. If you are running a foreign-owned business, you must understand the importance of value-added tax, VAT, and TRN.
In Dubai, for every business, the VAT Registration process is important for them. This means getting a TRN number. It’s a 15-digit code that shows you’re registered and helps tax authorities keep track of your finances through your invoices.
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nationallawreview · 1 month ago
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Disregarded Entity Eligibility for the CTA Large Operating Company Exemption
Summary: As discussed in detail below, the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) provides an exemption to its reporting requirements for certain large operating companies (the Large Operating Company Exemption or “LOC Exemption”). In order to qualify for the LOC Exemption, a reporting company must, among other requirements, “have filed a Federal income tax or information return in the United States in…
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valend · 4 months ago
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I’ve been to two tax offices and one accountant and they’ve all told me “uhhhh idk what do you want me to do :3” MAN IDK YOUR JOB MAYBE????
The registration platform for MY university hasn’t opened but for most others in the country the deadline literally ended and I need to open a bank account just to be able to register man fuck off
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unhinged-diaries · 1 year ago
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Business Guide:
How to get started
When you have a business name in mind look up the domain name to see if it’s taken. You don’t want to spend money on an LLC just to find out that your name is taken. Thats a waste of money because you also have to pay to dissolve it.
If the name is not taken, great, don’t file an LLC yet. Go online and get a virtual business address. Why? If you’re running your business out of your home like I am, just know that it’s public information if you use your address to file your LLC. A virtual address should cost like $10-$20 a month. Use that to file your LLC.
Once you’ve filed that LLC get your Ein. That’s your Employee Identification Number. It’s your businesses tax id. It’s free to file on the IRS website. Don’t fall for the scam websites you guys.
Once you’ve gotten your EIN go to Google domains and get your website name aswell as 3-4 emails. An email for your social media accounts, an executive email for yourself, an [email protected] for things like your business bank account, Shopify account, etc; and maybe a customer support email. I use the social email as a customer support email. All of this should be like $50/month.
Once you’ve don’t that get on Canva and make that logo bookie. Personally I paid someone on Fiverr to make mine because I’m a “soft business life” kind of girl and I’d rather pay the professionals. Thats just me though.
Once you’ve got your logo go ahead and get them social media accounts going. Instagram, tiktok, Facebook.
Alright now this is where it gets specific to clothing brands because that’s what I own.
Time to find a manufacturer. Head over to alibaba and search what kind of product you want to sell. Be sure to add “oem” if you want a manufacturer that customizes. Look for the amount of orders they’ve gotten on that product. If it says zero orders that’s ok. Some styles are new and thus haven’t been ordered yet. Check any reviews they have for other products. Also check the total revenue they’ve done. It’s on the store profile. I can’t tell you what the sweet spot is yet bc I’ve only used one manufacturer so far but I’d look for mid six figures and up if you wanna be real safe.
Chat with them and order a sample. Even if you buy from a vendor list you’ll need your own sample to make content with. I suggest buying one and first. It’s worth the wait because if you buy multiple and end up not liking them you’d have wasted money that could’ve gone into testing a different manufacturer.
Do not launch with more than 2 products. Even 2 is a stretch, wallai start with one.
This is because if you’re doing the preorder, which I suggest, you’ll be depending on customer orders to pay for the bulk order. Manufacturers do their moq by color or style. If you have too many options in your website and customers order a mix of things, you better pray you have enough money to cover the bulk for all those different styles. Stay safe and give them 1-2 options to choose from.
Pre order method is great if you don’t have a lot of cash to start with because the orders pay for themselves. Bulk orders start to wrack up. Especially if it’s a custom style or material. You don’t want to break the bank for something that might not sell.
Once you’ve gotten and approved your samples choose a launch date. 2-3 weeks before that launch dates post consistently. At least once a day but remember quality over quantity. Now don’t be tricked. Quality doesn’t mean a full cinematography. It means connecting with your audience and relating with them to a point where they’re like “this business gets it”. Either that or attaching yourself to an identity they want to have. “It girl ig influencer”, “feminine soft life babe” “clean girl Pilates princess” whatever the fuck it is embody ur as best as you can. When customers attach your product with an identity that is aspirational to them they will buy it without rationalizing. It’s why the luxury market makes so much off of ppl who can’t afford to buy it twice.
Focus on the backend
If you have a goal of getting an influx of orders and making a lot of sales, be sure that your business is structured in a way that can handle it happening at any given time. You know those tiktok businesses that get one viral video and sell out over night? That could be you but if you’re not prepared ppl are going to be upset. I suggest working backwards:
A customer service platform/inbox so that you can answer them right away with frequently asked questions.
Have stock so that you have something for customers to buy once they finally land on your website.
Have a well presenting website so that ppl don’t think you’re a scam. I’m going to do a post on this bc some of these business websites drive me fuckin nuts. Color theory ppl, color theory.
A social media page with some kind of social proof ie reviews from customers in some way shape or form. Ppl are going to be looking for what others have to say about your brand. Hire UGC creators to make videos that you can post on your page. They’re cheaper than influencers but still know how to convey the message well. You’ll have to have extra samples and items on hand to send them. Also check out their usage rights. Some will allow you to use their videos in ads but you have to pay extra and it’s only for a certain amount of time. But if they do it right, you’ll get a great return. Scared money don’t make no money.
A social media page that shows the products in movement and different lighting. I need to be able to imagine myself in the item before I buy it. Where would I wear it, how will it fit on me. Even when I’ve already ordered something I stay going back to the businesses social media page just to see the clothes again. I might even search it up to see other ppl wearing it.
Packaging
No need to go crazy with the packaging in the beginning. Don’t get me wrong, branding is important but as a beginner you may not have the money for that yet. You need to focus on spending money on what will give you the best return. Just get regular poly mailers from Amazon in your brand colors. You’ll also need:
A stack of 6x4 shipping labels
A thermal printer
A scale
When your manufacturer sends you the clothes they will most likely be in their own little bags. If not you can get those from Amazon too.
Later on you can go to alibaba and find a manufacturer to print you custom poly mailers for that extra edge. Put your logo, a cute message, and your social media handles on the bag and that’s it. Good to go.
You can also design your own thank you cards as well. I won’t be doing that.
Little things to remember
Don’t feel like you have to keep up with big brands. You don’t need to launch something every two weeks. As a matter of fact I advise against emulating super fast fashion brands. I only launch a new item once the pre ordered items have been shipped out to customers.
Be nice to your customers. You’d think this was obvious but it’s not. Some ppl are rude, ghetto, and uncouth. If you hate authority and have a smart mouth I think you should either take a customer service course or hire a virtual assistant from the Philippines to do your customer service for you because no customers = no money.
I’ll update this as I learn and grow:
12/18/2023
Influencers
Not every influencer with a mass follower base is going to be your influencer. It’s possible that you pay $5000 for an influencer with 75k followers to post your product on her page but that post makes you less than $3k. That means you’ve net negative $2k. What a fuckin waste of money.
This is why it’s important to develop a persona for your brand. What is your brand identity? Who is your target audience? What are their psychographics?
Where do currently shop? What are there favorite social media apps?What is their race? Their age? Their ethnicity? Are they in college or highschool? Do they have parents that support their lifestyle or are they hustlers? Are they concerned about price or quality more? Are they married? Do they have children? Are they environmentally conscious?
You need to embody Joe Goldberg and peer at them through their window. Acquaint yourself with every part of their life.
Also, you might not be your target demographic yet and that’s ok. The girls that shop with my brand have social lives. They go out with their friends and need outfits to wear. I don’t have a social life. The only clothes I wear are my work clothes to go to work and my robe when I’m at home.Or a sweat set and a bonnet to run errands.
Don’t think to yourself “ I would never wear that.” “I would never buy something at that price point”. That’s fine cuz someone else will. A lot of people will.
Another thing is your demographic could change once you start your business. It might be that you create content that attracts a different type of person than what you originally planned and that’s cool too. We don’t live in a perfect world. As long as they’re close enough to what you had predetermined it’s ok. Sometimes our business comes out different than we hoped but it’s just as good if not better. It’s like child. Don’t destroy its greatness trying to turn it into something it doesn’t want to be.
User generated content
Love, love, love her down. She’s that sweet spot between making content yourself and having an influencer with a large following make the content for you. UGC is a form of social proof which is something you need for an e-commerce brand especially. Ppl can’t just pop into your store and try on your stuff so they need the opinions of “regular” people to sell them on it. They want to see that person try it on, do a close up of the fabric, wear it to a social setting, etc;
What I like about UGC is that I can pick someone who fits into my brand persona to represent my brand even if I don’t. Someone that appears aspirational but still relatable. Like I said previously, you yourself might not embody your brands persona but you can pay someone who does.
A little translate for yall: I do not live in a nice apartment. My room is small, and dark, and filled with boxes. My living room has mix matched decor and I myself am not the body type I’d like to be (pls don’t hit me with body positivity babe). What I can do is pay a girl with the opposite of all those things and knows how to sell a product.
I have a girl right now that I’ve inquired to make posts for me and she’s got it all. Her rate for one video is $100 with an extra $30 for 90 days of usage in ads. $100 is the new 50 and for the return I’ll get on her, THATS A STEAL.
If you need to find a UGC creator search it up on tiktok and Twitter. Most of them have a portfolio of past work they’ve done. If you feel like they match your brands vibes, keep their info for when you’re ready.
I suggest to have a roster of them because if ppl keep seeing the same person over and over, the thought that that person is just a regular degular customer leaves their mind and you lose the magic of UGC.
Update 12/21/2023
I’ve been sick but yall ain’t paying me so it’s ok. Here’s the update.
Website
Your website is your home babe and when you’re preparing for guest you can’t have your home looking any type of way. Not only does it need to be clean but it needs to be cohesive and inviting.
You know how many times I’ve opened someone’s booking page on Instagram and I click off. Not only am I not reading through all of that small ass text but my head hurts cuz you’ve got a black font on a hot pink background.
Some of yalls websites to not comply with accessibility guidelines so pay attention to that bc you can be sued. Ppl should be able to read what you have on there without getting a headache.
Good rule of thumb is to have one primary color, and then black and white. Don’t over complicate it. Your primary color will be your logo, think twitters blue, then your secondary colors should be black and white, for your text. You might have an accent color like gold or silver, this should be used sparingly for a little dazzle.
If you’re a clothing brand like me, keep the text short and sweet. Think about it, when you go shopping on your favorite website are you bombarded with a soliloquy on how the collection came to be? And even if you are do you stop and read the whole thing? I don’t bc I don’t care. That’s what your Instagram story is for.
All I want to see is the attention grabber and a short,but convincing, tagline.
Example: Ski Resort 2023-“Stun the slopes and stand out on the ski lift with best sellers spotted at St. Moritz”
Let you images tell the rest of the story.
Don’t overwhelm them with options
Guys this is so important. The more options ppl see the less they buy or the less likely they are to buy. Why? This is the thought process.
“Omg the stuff on this website is so cute! Let me go through their catalog and add to my cart as I go”
5 minutes of scrolling
“Ok I have too many things in my cart let me just save to a wishlist instead”
Another 5 minutes of scrolling
“Ok I’ll just stop here and go back to my cart and decide what I’m going to get rn”
Goes to cart
Spends 10 minutes deciding what she’s gonna get bc there’s so many good options
Takes 10 items out of her cart and only buys two basics bc she knows those are less likely to disappoint.
And scene
That is if she didn’t leave after the second five minutes of scrolling. Nowadays five minutes on a non stimulating website is a lot, don’t let it take that long.
Obviously this also depends on the customers budget. Some people have the money to just buy everything in their cart (I wish- one day), but most are just window shopper you hope to convert with your nice styles, images, and prices. Don’t make it harder for people to give you their money.
I have more but I’m tired of writing so I’ll update yall tmrw.
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reve-de-sang · 6 days ago
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Hmm…maker-fledgling dynamics but weird/kind of animalistic and sexy? X-men mutants, e.g. escaped from a testing facility? Public sex that’s mandatory? Loustat is peak but threesomes are fun!
thank you for these great prompts! i can’t believe my brain didn’t leap upon delightful mandatory public sex or sexy animalistic maker-fledgling dynamics; i was grabbed by testing facility and mutations, another favorite. here’s a futuristic dystopian au:
“I’m not wearing that,” Lestat said, staring at the worn beige coveralls in Louis’s hand like they were a garbage bag. A used one.
“We need to blend in,” Louis said gently. “Affordably.” The civilian clothing Armand had provided them at their escape had been getting kind of rank over the past few days, and money was tight.
“Where have they been. And they’re beige.”
“Kinda picky for a guy who was basically wearing a paper napkin with his butt hanging out for the past year.”
“Exactly,” Lestat said, narrowing his eyes at Louis. “Now is the time for color. Silks.”
“Lestat,” Claudia said, crouching down by him where he sat propped up against the wall, “if my tiny ass can wear one of these that’s way too big and basically makes me look like a clown, you can nut up and wear yours—it fits.” She glared at Louis. “I think he just misses flashing his ass.”
“I admit I’m going to miss you flashing your ass, Claudia,” Madeleine offered from over by the window, smirking. 
“It’s appointment-only viewing now.”
“I’ll have my people call your people.”
“Everyone else’s is black,” Lestat sniffed, taking the garment reluctantly from Louis. “I will not forget this crime.” Lestat pushed himself to standing, and a fresh trickle of blood escaped from an ear. Louis tsk’d and helped him as Lestat made his unsteady way to their meager shared apartment’s bathroom.
The first thing they’d done when they’d escaped the facility was go to the movies.
Armand had provided them fake Citizen Identification Numbers, their civilian clothes, and enough credits to last them a few months if they lived on the cheap. The CIN had been the real godsend. Well, that, and freedom from Dr. de Romanus and his superiors.
Lestat had directed them to the nearest old-school movie theater. And for the cost of four evening tickets to a sparsely-populated showing? A buffet.
Lestat had effortlessly held the audience of a dozen people in thrall as he, Louis, Claudia, and Madeleine made their way through the hypnotized people, tearing into their throats and draining them of their blood, and moving on.
“I’m so hungry,” Claudia whined as she finished her third. Louis let her have his designated third victim instead, and Lestat glared.
“She is smaller than all of us, Louis. Her hunger is imagined.”
“We don’t know anything about her metabolism. We don’t know anything about anything,” Louis sighed.
Lestat was at his side before Louis had finished his breath, arm around Louis’s shoulders, Lestat’s proximity electric. «It will be okay.» It was almost sweet. Lestat had been the most unstable of all of them as they had escaped their incarceration in the facility, but he’d taken a special interest in his fellow escapee, for all that they’d never exchanged words before. Somehow the feeling was mutual. Lestat was…magnetic.
Louis looked around the room of dead people. Claudia and Madeleine had collapsed in some empty seats up ahead and dazedly watched the movie onscreen. “You think I’ll ever be able to do…that?” Louis said, gesturing at a row of the dead. “The mind-thing?”
Lestat reached up and swiped at blood running from his own ear, showing his red palm to Louis. Louis hadn’t even noticed it in the dark of the theater. “I hope not, Louis. It is very taxing. They were very excited about that back at the lab, and the levitation, and telekinesis—”
“I’m sorry, the what and the what?” Louis guided them to a pair of seats; Lestat was slowly leaning on him more for support in standing than for offering comfort. 
“I may have been there…a year? They had a lot of time with me. But I only noticed you perhaps a month ago—is that when you arrived, Louis?” Lestat really liked saying his name. Louis wondered if he’d been very lonely.
“Uh, yeah. It’s probably been…weeks. Went into the hospital for routine gene therapy. Woke up in hell.”
Lestat nodded. “No one to miss you?”
“Naw, my family kicked me out when…well,” Louis cleared his throat uncomfortably and glanced at the screen. “That how they got you?”
Lestat regarded Louis. “I have nightmares about a home invasion. I think that must have been it.”
“Jesus.”
“We should probably split up,” Lestat said, searching Louis’s face with a terrible sadness in his eyes. Louis was having a hard time keeping eye contact: it was so intense between them. “Akasha will want me back. You three will be safer without me. Unless she was the same with you…?”
Louis felt a tug of panic in his heart at the idea of losing this stranger. “I don’t even know who that is. There was Dr. de Romanus. Armand. Various techs. Maybe I just hadn’t been there long enough.”
“I like to think it was because you were stronger, Louis,” Lestat said fondly, touching Louis’s blood-sticky jaw lightly. “Less malleable.” 
Louis frowned with amusement. “You don’t even know me?”
«And yet you, too, feel something between us, no?»
Louis let himself meet Lestat’s eyes squarely. Lestat’s eyes—they weren’t human. Not really. They had a depth and shimmer to their blue. But beyond that, there was just the endless, unconditional acceptance and affinity in them.
Louis felt the same. This man was…everything. Louis loved him with an intensity that was terrifying and joyous. He would forgive him anything. Lestat was of him. They wouldn’t withstand separation. They didn’t want to. 
Which was insane, because they’d only properly met today.
“…This cuz we’re just…how we are?”
“Oh, you’ll have to pick a descriptor, Louis,” Lestat murmured. “Queer? Horny? Beautiful? Monstrous?”
“Uh, the last one, thanks.”
“I felt you, when you arrived. I can hear lots of people, if I try. Something Akasha cultivated. But you, it was not thoughts—it was emotion. A presence? Louis, I felt at ease. It was a lifeline. I’d been breaking.”
Louis frowned. “Did you do something to me?”
Lestat held up his hands. “It was like a radio in the next room, Louis. I didn’t get inside your head. Believe it or not, I was rather preoccupied with having my brain and body turned inside out. I just,” Lestat sighed. “I promise you, Louis. You were a presence in my periphery that felt like something I’d been missing, and it helped me survive.”
Louis felt like he was losing himself in Lestat’s eyes. He felt that draw; he knew what Lestat was describing. «No. You’re right. I know. I’m not sure if I realized it then. It would’ve been there since I woke up. But I know it now.»
Louis leaned in with his blood-sticky mouth to kiss this stranger; it felt inevitable and necessary to Louis. Lestat met him with his own stained lips. Their tongues were in each other’s mouths already, and Louis strained against the hateful old-school theater armrest that wouldn’t lift up and let them fully embrace—
“I suspect you’re down with this suggestion,” Claudia called back from a couple rows up. “But I feel like we should all stick together for now. And so does Madeleine.” She laughed. “If you even care—damn, y’all.” 
Louis slipped away from Lestat’s lips, or thought he did. The world was after-images and tunnel vision. He was so dizzy, and so hard, and though their minds were still unified, the only analogy he could think of in physically separating from Lestat was that it felt as raw the cruelty of eviction from his mother’s womb must’ve been, the agonizing coldness, learning what it meant to be only one, learning to breathe, and eat, and suffer. He felt his fangs descend in fury as he surged forward to take Lestat’s mouth again, and Lestat shot a hand up to press him back. 
«Soon, mon cher. We’re in danger; you feel them?» Louis dimly registered the movie credits were rolling in the corner of his eye, and felt the soft mental presence of the human staff who were about to descend to clean up between shows.
“Let’s go,” Lestat announced to all of them. “Back exit. Time to find a home.”
They paired off into romantic relationships as if it had been inevitable.
But all together, they practiced their new abilities and explored their monstrous appetites. 
Eating flesh wasn’t wanted; it seemed to be the blood only. The grungy metropolis was teeming with the destitute and vulnerable, and the four of them picked away at the edges of the population like starving wolves. 
They honed their ability to listen in on their livestock’s thoughts, their skill at moving at shocking speed. They tested their unnatural physical strength. The others strained to cultivate Lestat’s ability to manipulate others mentally, but had very limited success. Levitation, telekinesis, pyrokinesis—these seemed out of reach for the others for now.
As Armand had admonished, they stayed out of the daylight. It hurt their eyes, and when Lestat chanced his fingers in a sunbeam, they burned hot and turned ashen (he was grateful they actually healed). 
They’d been taught murder in the lab. Killing “in the wild,” so to speak, was more horrifying (and more thrilling). Louis felt like he was the only one who wasn’t adapting well to his new murderous life. Lestat watched him with concern.
Within a month Lestat had found them a lonely, independently wealthy man with a luxurious penthouse apartment. Brainwashed into complacency, the man found himself an absentee benefactor relegated to the unused servant’s quarters as they took over the main suites.
None of them wanted to go home. None of them wanted to revisit what remained. There were reasons they’d each been easily disappeared from their lives by the facility. 
At dusk Louis and Lestat liked to sit on the penthouse balcony with its glass railing and watch the dusk immediately after the sun had sunk below the horizon. They came as early as they could, the faint pain on their skin not unlike a memory of spicy pepper on the tongue, and watched the edge of pink and lavender that remained in the sky. They affected sunglasses and smoked cigarettes Lestat lit with a thought. On very lucky days, there were high, shapely clouds whose outlines reflected one last ray of a sun beyond their view.
“Do not starve yourself, Louis.”
“I been thinking. Sometimes I see rats if I go far out enough into the city.”
“Holy fuck, Louis.”
Louis shrugged. “Better than nothing.”
“No.” Lestat stubbed his cigarette out in the ashtray, and leaned back on his hands on the marble floor. “Every evening you will feed from me until we find a solution. You will be one step removed from the killing. Not unlike the distance from killing afforded by a chicken nugget, no?” He offered a small smile with his challenge.
Louis sighed. “I can’t depend on you for that.”
«And yet I depend on you for my sanity. Tell me the difference.»
«We anchor each other.» Louis toyed with the butt of his cigarette before crushing it in the ashtray by Lestat’s. “I dunno. Feeding off you… That just seems like…cannibalism, somehow.”
Lestat scoffed. “Your mind. It is no different from when we are in bed and you bite and lick at me, or when you swallow my—”
”We are talking a whole meal,” Louis overrode him. “How do you expect to walk away from that!”
“Well, obviously don’t rip my throat out. We’ll practice. I can have a snack on standby if you’re concerned.”
There was a building erotic pull in their minds as Louis studied Lestat’s throat. “It’s just…kind of incestuous,” Louis whispered.
“Louis,” Lestat stared at him. “We are each other. It’s no more incestuous than masturbation, or—or the literal sex we have!”
Louis licked his lips and tore his eyes away. “I can’t believe you compared yourself to a Happy Meal.”
Lestat beamed at him. “Well, there is a toy included.”
“A toy. Congratulations: you just made your dick unsexy.”
“Not possible.”
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transfloridaresources · 8 months ago
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Today (05/06/24), 4:30pm, Orlando
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[Photo ID: Pink to white gradient image with various logos and info boxes. Text reads: 'Save the date: May 6th 4:30pm. Press Conference. 5205 South Orange Avenue - Orlando, FL 32809. Not one step back! Identification for all! Not one step back. Every Floridian. Every Identity. Every ID.' Logos for Orlando for Gender Equality, Free Mom Hugs, Inc., Dream Defenders, Zebra Youth, Come Out with Pride Orlando, HRC Orlando / Central Florida, Spektrum Health, The Center Orlando, GLSEN Central Florida, HOPE CC. /End ID]
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[Photo ID: White box with rainbow border. Text reads: 'Statement on DMV Policy Change. LGBTQ+ advocates from around the state organized and mobilized in great numbers this past legislative session. Through actions like protests, letter-writings, die-ins, and more, we defeated 21 out of 22 anti-LGBTQ+ bills attempting to move through the Florida legislature. One of these bills, HB 1639, sponsored by local representative Doug Bankson, was particularly egregious. It sought to redefine "sex" in a way that excludes transgender, non-binary, and intersex people, and to prohibit a person's state identification documents from reflecting their gender identity. As the bill was heading towards its downfall in the legislature, the Deputy Executive Director, Robert Kynoch, of the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FLHSMV) released a memo to county tax collectors in late January rescinding previous department policy (IR08 - Gender Requirements), which allowed for Florida residents to change the gender marker on their ID to accurately reflect their gender identity. The memo wrongly excludes gender identity from "sex" in an effort to subvert the democratic process to redefine sex - and prohibit gender marker amendments - absent legislative authority. In a similar way, the legislature continued its attacks on the rights of immigrants and people experiencing homelessness in the form of HB 1451. This bill, which passed and was signed into law by DeSantis, restricts the acceptance of community IDs issued by community organizations to immigrants and individuals experiencing homelessness. Community IDs are essential for demonstrating that a person is a resident and member of a given community. It is already tremendously difficult for these groups to acquire valid identification, and this law imposes yet another barrier to identification.' /End ID]
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[Photo ID: White box with rainbow border. Text reads: 'Statement on DMV Policy Change. Accurate identification is a human right; we must demand access to legal authenticity for all. Advocates for transgender individuals, immigrants, and people experiencing homelessness must stand together in the fight for equitable access to accurate identification. We demand that the FLHSMV restore their previous IR08-Gender Requirements policy to ensure that transgender people can obtain accurate IDs. Furthermore, we demand that legislatures take action to protect trans people's ability to obtain accurate identification as well as protect the acceptance of community IDs. Join us for a rally and press conference at SPEKTRUM Health (5205 South Orange Avenue) on May 6th at 4:30pm! WE CANNOT LET THEM TAKE US ONE STEP BACK! Signed, Orlando for Gender Equality, GLSEN Central Florida, HRC Orlando/Central Florida, SPEKTRUM Health, HOPE CC, PRISM, Zebra Youth, Youth Action Fund, Central Floridians for Social Equality, Justice Advocacy Network, Voices of Florida Fund/Women's Voices of Southwest Florida, UCF Students for a Democratic Society, Central Florida Queers for Palestine, LGBT+ Center Orlando, Inc., Come Out with Pride, Free Mom Hugs, Inc., Dream Defenders, Corey Hill, Vance Ahrens, candidate State Senate District 19, Amy Phillips, Beverly Washington, Orlando Drag Queen.' /End ID]
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darkeagleruins · 2 months ago
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Philadelphia City Commissioners' Office Tells O'Keefe Non-Citizens Can Vote as Long as They Are Philadelphia Residents
In a recent conversation with an undercover O’Keefe Media Group journalist, Milton Jamerson, Election And Voter Registration Clerk from the Philadelphia City Commissioners Office, stated that non-citizens can vote in local elections as long as they are residents of Philadelphia.
This claim is echoed by the nongovernmental organization (NGO) “Ceiba,” (@CeibaPhiladelp1) located just across the street, which asserts that individuals with an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN) are eligible to vote.
An ITIN is a 9-digit number issued by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to individuals who are required to file a tax return but do not qualify for a Social Security number. While the ITIN serves as a means for tax reporting for those who are not U.S. citizens, possessing an ITIN does not equate to legal voting rights, raising questions about Ceiba's claim that ITIN's deem individuals eligible for participation in the electoral process.
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tomorrowusa · 5 months ago
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Get your lame ass off of Twitter/X. Why would you want to ultimately help Trump on what has become a far right platform?
Elon Musk’s new super PAC is collecting scores of voters’ personal information under the guise of inviting them to register to vote, as part of his effort to boost Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. Earlier this month, Musk denied reports that he would be donating $45 million a month to Trump’s campaign during an interview with right-wing commentator Jordan Peterson. Instead, the technocrat clarified that he had created a new super PAC, called the America PAC. Musk’s America PAC is a door-to-door canvassing operation, which allows it to work in direct coordination with the Trump campaign, according to an FEC advisory from earlier this year. This allows Musk, and his fellow Silicon Valley donors, to stick their hands—and their cash—right into the presidential race on Trump’s behalf. How exactly they plan to do this is even more disturbing. The America PAC has launched a series of digital ads using the image of Trump’s assassination, to invite people browsing Google to “register to vote,” CNBC reported Friday. In states where the outcome is certain, such as California, the ads actually do direct them to a voter registration site. But in key battleground states, users are directed to a very different page, which prompts them to enter their phone number, address, and age. Once complete, users are then greeted by a “Thank You” page, with no actual link to voter registration in sight. Musk’s America PAC has poured $800,000 into digital advertisements to target voters in the key battleground states of Arizona, Michigan, Georgia, North Carolina, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, according to AdImpact. The information collected from user responses to this ad campaign will inform the PAC’s canvassing efforts in those states. Musk’s America PAC has already attracted the financial support of a few Silicon Valley billionaires. Douglas Leone and Shaun Maguire, general partners at Sequoia Capital, donated a whopping $1 million and $500,000 respectively, according to The American Prospect.
In short, Musk is using ads to harvest information from voters without actually registering them.
Musk and fellow broligarchs are motivated strictly by personal greed. They are willing to throw democracy to the jackals just so they can get even more enormous tax brakes from a second Trump administration.
They already have enough money to buy Pacific Islands and never lift a finger for the rest of their lives. But they want even more as well as the power to shape society to their un-elected whims.
We need to do more than usual this election cycle in order to defeat Trump and the Axis of Avarice. And we have to work quickly, Election Day is only three months away. This is a good time to take note of all the people we know personally in swing states; it doesn't matter if we've been out of touch for five years – as long as we are still on decent terms with them. Reach out and ask if they are registered. Remind them that voter registration is strictly geographical and based on home address – you need to register every time you move. And if someone hasn't voted in years they may have been removed from the voter rolls; those people need to register again.
Here are a couple of legit sites which will help register voters.
I Will Vote
Be a voter | Vote Save America
I have always felt that the best way to register is to do so in person. That way you can take a picture of your registration or maybe even get some sort of receipt. And when you register in person, you'll be informed immediately whether you've provided sufficient identification and have completed the forms correctly.
We can beat the wannabe planetary tech tyrants but it's necessary to put more effort into it and not take anything for granted.
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Did you know Per the American Immigration Council’s analysis of US Census Bureau data, immigrant-led households in the US paid $492 billion in federal, state, and local taxes in 2019.
Contrary to common assumptions, undocumented immigrants, or those without a valid and unexpired visa or other form of legal status, also pay federal, state, and local taxes. Because they are not eligible for Social Security numbers (SSNs), the IRS requires these individuals to comply with federal tax reporting by issuing them individual taxpayer identification numbers (ITINs).
So they pay taxes too. Huh.... strange don't you think that the soon to be administration is trying to make it sound like they just suck the money out of the country. Also, I'm just spitballing off a post I saw on x( Twitter) but who did these jobs before the scary illegal immigrants took them, before that?? Think about that please......
my source was taxpolicycenter.org
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Actually no, she can't claim Publicity stunts as work. I'm at the border of Canada, and you can't do that. USCIS would need documented proof of the work, meaning it has to be like "filming" or something to count and signed by those people. You can't legally submit "publicity stunt" to an immigration officer to get in the country. She's likely traveling on a visitor Visa, or she is just using her limited number of travel on her PT passport to get in and out in short bursts.// Sorry Just to add to this, to qualify for a work visa in the USA, you'd also need to be getting paid for that, and you'd need a legal tax ID for the united States. She's not getting paid for the PR stunt, therefore it doesn't qualify as "work". You'd need legal pay and Tax identification to be allowed a work visa.
Woop there it is
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topazadine · 2 months ago
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One of my tiny pet peeves is fellow Americans whining about having to do their taxes themselves instead of the government sending them a bill.
The reason you have to do this is because of the existence of sole proprietorships and LLCs; ie, freelancers and small business owners like myself. A sole proprietorship isn't required to have an Employee Identification Number (EIN) that fully separates its finances from that of the individual taxpayer. You can, if you have a large business with a lot of expenses, but it's not required.
Because I have an LLC, I pay my business taxes on my own, normal tax return, and this isn't that unusual. I don't have any employees other than myself, and all my income/expenses is coming from my bank accounts, not a business bank account. A business bank account/credit card requires me to sign up for an EIN, an expense and hassle I don't need because I don't have employees other than me. I have a Tax Identification Number (TIN) which is ... just my Social Security number.
I get multiple 1040s and royalty statements that I input together before taking out my deductions. The government does not keep track of how many 1040s I get, or how much I make in royalties; that's my responsibility to manage.
And businesses take out a lot of deductions for business expenses like marketing, equipment, travel, etc. Any marketing, including Facebook ads or Tumblr ads? I can deduct them. I can deduct writing guides, computers, headphones, cover artists, editors, and so on. This then lowers the amount of money I have to pay back, because I don't get tax withholding like other people.
No, it doesn't cover everything, it's not like I just get these things for free. I just don't have to pay quite so much in taxes. In a good year I can shave about $1,500 off from my bill. (Again, I'm a very small business owner. Others can deduct thousands more than this.)
The government isn't keeping track of my expenses for me, either. How could they? It would be absolutely insane. Maybe they'll create an accounting tool someday that lets businesses track expenses and transmits this to the IRS on tax day, but for fuck's sake we haven't even rolled out a tax return system for all of the US yet, it's not going to happen.
So the government doesn't know how much of my money is coming in through my LLC. They also don't know how much I've spent on my business that I can deduct. I have to tell them all of this so that they can calculate how much I need to pay them because, again, I don't get withholding from any of my clients. And because I have an LLC that is inextricably tied to my own, individual tax return, it would be impossible for the government to tell me how much I owe versus how much my business owes.
Because not everyone gets witholding, and because there are millions of LLCs that do individual tax returns like I do, the IRS just has everyone do their own taxes. It's easier for people to start businesses through LLCs, which improves business activity in the country, and in return, the everyday non business owner just needs to copy their W2 into a form.
(Which you can do for free, btw, through places likes FreeTaxUSA. They even do my weird convoluted taxes with my millions of expenses for free. Stop paying for TurboTax. I promise you don't need it if you're a wage/salary worker.)
And no, the IRS is almost certainly never going to get rid of LLCs. It's not going to force them to do one individual tax return and one LLC tax return because that would be a stupid high amount of paperwork just for the individual tax return to have absolutely nothing on it, and the LLC to have everything.
I promise that you probably pay way less taxes than I do and you likely get a refund at the end of the year instead of having to calculate how much you'll have to pay throughout the year, put that in a savings account, and manage your expenses around tax day. It takes you maybe an hour tops to do your taxes. Me? It takes me a good half of the day.
So please stop complaining about having to take one hour out of your year to send in your taxes. You have to do this because of the many small businesses that make your food, sell you cute artwork, write stuff for you, and do a million other things that you enjoy. Just be grateful that your company does almost all of it for you and you just have to input the numbers they print on your W2.
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gtsconsultantindia05 · 11 days ago
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scbhagat · 14 days ago
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trixree · 2 years ago
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i LOVe being trans omg so 2 years ago my ~identity~ got stollen and I had to jump through HOOPS with the IRS to prove that I Am Who I Say I Am, Please Let Me File My Taxes and they were like "ok! please retrieve this handy PIN number from our online portal to file your taxes electronically" and I was like "excellent, I will do this" and i log on to their silly website a few months back and I run into something called ID.Me which is a ~tool~ that the ~government~ uses to verify your identity via a 2 step process: you upload a photo of your drivers license and then take a "live selfie" and the software compares the two photos
DO WE SEE THE PROBLEM YET FOLKS???
I got my DL photo taken when I was freshly 16. My mother had me put on mascara and lipstick for it. I had very long, dyed blonde hair that I wore down and around my face. I cannot stress enough that I look nothing like that person anymore: I look like a misplaced Make A Wish boy. So the identification verification FAILS because the algorithm is CONFUSED by my BOYISH, SICKLY CHARM but don't worry! There's a second option! :):):):):) Just jump on a video call with three original copies of state identification! You can mix and match with your social security card, birth certificate, drivers license, or passport! I don't have a passport, nor do I have my original birth certificate. So I had to paper file my taxes this year. Again.
I didn't change my name when I transitioned, I didn't change my sex marker, I did not even medically transition. I shaved my head, changed my wardrobe, and stopped basically doing drag for my mothers' or anyones approval. I told my parents about the Trouble I was having and my mom tried to say "well, it's because you don't select F when you do those forms" and I laughed because yeah I do, I've never selected anything else (what would I even select? "I dissent"? Is there an NB option on all gov forms now? Cause I missed that memo) because I'm not fucking stupid and then she followed up, "well, when you give your pronouns..." WHAT PART OF THIS PROCESS ASKED FOR PRONOUNS? NONE OF IT. LITERALLY NONE OF IT. All the information I entered into the forms matches verbatim what is on my license down to literally every detail: name, sex marker, etc.
Now I'm trying to apply for unemployment benefits and GUESS WHAT MY STATE UNEMPLOYMENT WEBSITE USES TO VERIFY YOUR IDENTITY??? ID. motherfucking ME. GUESS WHO'S STILL TRANS? ME. FUCK.
Yeah so I gotta go in-person to get my DL photo changed and to file for unemployment. Both places are on opposite sides of the city and it will be over 100 degrees tomorrow. FUCK my life.
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politicallyestranged · 3 months ago
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I know the hot button items are hard to ignore because they will impact either your own lives or those you know but I promise if we take care of 5 things you will see an impact.
1. Food - we need good food for our entire country. I dont care if they are jobless they need the same quality food.
2. Water - our drinking water needs to be filtered a different way and our country needs to invest in that for every single citizen. You will die without drinking water. If you do not have a populace then you do not have a country. You have no one to work for you.
3. Health insurance - theres many things we can do. A lot say we don't want to give it to the government because they will mess it up. Giving it back to the doctors wouldn't save the people from price gouging either. So we could make it a subscription thing. Different tiers covers different things and emergencies are covered by the taxes you pay to the government. If you don't have your health what life do you really have?
4. Taxes - refinanced all the way through. Stop with foreign aid. Thin the IRS by like 75% because its a set amount already calculated by what your job pays you. If you make 75,000 -125,000 then it is x% of that is already taken out and there is no other paperwork needed. Simple. You dont need to know every dollar in and out. You need to know what I made on the wages I exchange for social security. Anything else shouldn't matter. Vehicle taxes are a joke I shouldnt have to "register" my car every year you need to know how many vehicles I have that touch the road to know my contribution for upkeep you can mail me that. You can email me that. I can scan a QR code with my phone for direct payment. Quit playing. And for stolen purposes keep your paperwork on that vehicle until you sell it. The title would still work it just wouldnt go through the state it could be returned to the car makers. Who would probably turn it into a photo and a number identification for car and owner/owners that the police could scan from the owners device. Like its 2024 people! Or something else could be arranged to.
5. Economy - work = reward. We need a complete restructuring on currency. If you are working you should NOT have to ask the government for food. If you are raising your family there is no reason why it should take 2 people working all day everyday to pay for that household.
All of this is just thoughts on what I would do if I had the power to change things here in the US. These are the real core issues. Most of our other problems are rooted back to this. We should want all of our citizens to thrive and not just survive.
Once we took care of these things we could start to work on all the problems that resulted because of them. We aren't broken we have just grown. Our government isn't keeping up and I mean how could they when most of them should be enjoying time with their grandchildren at the lake. Our world has changed so much and they still want us to do things like its 1995.
Then everyone wonders why we feel so lost. We have outgrown our society construction. Its time to make major renevations but to better our country. Why would we not want better for ourselves, the people who live here with us, as well as whoever wants to peacefully visit our country?
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appendingfic · 11 months ago
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obsessed with the idea of the wachowskis agonizing over how the fuck to list sonic on their taxes
The answer is - without a court-designated adoption/guardianship, the best they can list him as is a "qualified person" (instead of "qualified child"), but even that requires them getting some sort of vital records that the IRS would accept in issuing an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (the number used by other non-citizens to file taxes).
This is vital if they want the ability to claim medical-related deductions for his care, but even that could cause problems if, like most people headcanon, most of his medical care is provided through the vet clinic
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