I used to love tax time. . .it was a time when the money that I loaned the government throughout the previous year----would come back to me.
I now hate January!!
January is when Randy's contractor's license is up for renewal, along with his liability insurance, worker's compensation insurance & also personal property assessment. . .
Personal Property Assessment. . .what about double taxation---come on people!! They are going to make us pay taxes on EVERYTHING we use for the business. . .again. . .and again. . .and again. . .every year. . .they even put in an allowance for office equipment even if you don't claim any. . .so the computer I am typing this on right now---I will have to pay property tax on every year until we get a new computer. . .and then I'll have to pay tax on it. Lame.
Liability insurance--no bigee. Contractor's license--no bigee. . .the rest is a BIGEE!!
We have to pay 11% of all of our employee's wages into worker's compensation----which is worth bucks if someone gets hurt---but nothing if someone doesn't.
We also have to match of all our employee's wages for SS & medicare---that doesn't even include what we already pay ourselves!
What this amounts to. . .the bottom line is that
for each employee we have between Uncle Sam & The Worker's compensation commission. . .costs us $500 EVERY MONTH. . .plus what we pay for wages!
Not only this, but I got a letter from the IRS today saying that I owe $1577.16 in withholding tax (that's with a $500 penalty) WHAT? I called my accountant, and, believe it or not, he said that the Dept. Of finance & Administration will actually just generate a FAKE letter if they are missing a report from you for that particular month. They just make up the numbers just to get my attention. Well. . .they got it. In actuality, I owe $0 to them because I had 0 employees that month. Crazy.
I am bugged. This is the kind of stuff that truly puts small businesses out of business & never even gives them the opportunity to not be small anymore.
Just a note to do business with small businesses. They need all the money they can get.
By the way---anyone need a pool?
Too snowy for Randy to work so he had the boys out four-wheeling in the neighborhood, sledding down the neighbor's driveway, & trying to win a snowball fight against the neighbor. .who Randy says is the king of cheap shots (he's 13) & that even when Randy & the boys were walking inside, Michael (the neighbor) was hitting them from behind & even got Randy on the head. The boys were SICK, but insisted on riding what they call the "big bike." Of course they were perfect outside "riding dirty" and then came inside & whined about how sick they were the rest of the afternoon. During naptime (which wasn't exactly naptime. . .it was more like nap then cry, nap then cry, nap then cry time. . .) Randy went four-wheeling with his friend Brad & then came home & took the boys out for a little bit. Charlie came home & told me how he & "daddy" got pulled over by a "police man" when they were riding "the big bike" and he also made the noise of the siren. . .priceless. I guess the officer okayed the boys riding the four-wheeler on the side streets. We think we got about 4 inches of snow. YEAH!! Click on picture to enlarge & see just how happy Gus was. Love it. 
It's been a while since Ila starred on the blog. She's 5 months now & a quite the giggler. She loves rolling over, midnight snacks, & all the attention she can get. We are in love! Picture is kind of blurry...not your eyes.
