I got the Bureaucracy Blues

[pianolover 88]

>From: "Z! Reinhardt" <diskladame@provide.net>
>Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org
At least you don't have STATE TAX in NV! That helps.

Terry

>To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
>Subject: Re: I got the Bureaucracy Blues
>Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 20:35:44 -0400
>
>Huh?  Perhaps I missed something here.  Why should you be paying the dealer
>some sort of workman's comp?
>
>Z! Reinhardt RPT
>Ann Arbor  MI
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Robert Goodale" <rrg@nevada.edu>
>To: "PTG" <pianotech@ptg.org>
>Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 5:56 PM
>Subject: I got the Bureaucracy Blues
>
>
>I 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
>
>
>
>

_________________________________________________________________
Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com