If there’s one thing accountants are attached to, it’s their 10-key calculator*. Every once in a while you have to show them who’s boss. This particular 10-key and I had to part ways back in September, I miss the guy! My new one and I don’t fight as much. *To be completely [...]
Archive > January 2012
The Office Hypothesis
When I enter a school for the first time, I found that the biggest predictor on student’s behavior seems to be the attitude of the school’s office staff. I first noticed this pattern at my previous job at Mad Science, where I went to various school to do classroom workshops and after school classes. Schools [...]
Gaming the system with dependents
Is anyone else excited to do their taxes for 2011 or is it just me? I just got my W-2s! It cost David and I $747 to file our 2010 taxes. It’s the amount of federal refund we lost because we had to file separately. It all has to do with income tax rates and [...]
The IRS, the “payroll” tax cut, and politics
I love when politics and tax come crashing into each other. Here’s a few recent ones: A while back the IRS was facing a $2 billion dollar cut to their budget. The IRS commissioner, testifying before congress, pointed out that for every dollar of the IRS budget they collect roughly $200 in revenue. But we [...]
Do teachers get paid alot? A reddit conversation
Them: “Teaching is certainly one of the most underpaid jobs.” Median teacher’s salary in my state is 60k for working 3/4′s of a year. Me: Why the downvotes? It is a factual statement. There are a couple of things to point out though. Many states the pay schedule is done by district, not by state. [...]