The state tax refund is treated as "additional" income because it wasn't taxed to begin with. It's withheld from your net paycheck and, therefore, not taxed as income at that time. When you get it back via refund, it goes back in the "taxable income" column and is then taxed - after the fact.
The feds do the same thing, in case you haven't noticed. You're supposed to declare any state tax refunds on your federal return.
In all cases, the one-year-free-loan is accurate, though. And you can adjust your W-4 to deal with that (declare more 'dependents'). Instead of overpaying, just resign yourself to paying at the end of the year, but in which case you get to keep more of your earnings.
Ever missing the point, as most writers with no real originality (or reason for writing, for that matter) typically do, those at Suck and Salon have become political BECAUSE they've suffered exactly the demise they claim to have observed regarding Linux: succumbing to the economics of appealing to the "real world". Like Dan Blather and Pete Lemmings, they appeal to (and often create?) controversy to grab readers' attention without ever really offering anything of substance. They have become critics of success, harbingers of doom and stand lumped with the rest of the out-of-touch cretins who call crackers 'hackers'.
Fortunately for the rest (most?) of us, Suck's "real world" is neither real, nor inevitable.
'jcr' put it best: We.Still.Have.The.Source. This point is the cornerstone of open source and will always be so -- even as commercial enterprises begin to leverage that source for commercial gain.
Let's get with the program folks -- open source is pointless unless it empowers EVERYONE, including Red Hat, et al. The notion that Linux, or the development methodology it represents, is any 'less' as a result of a less-than-smooth IPO is laughable. The fact that E*Trade rejected some online credit/investment applications says volumes about Red Hat's available choices (for distribution of stock) but less than nothing about the quality and viability of open source products -- and even less about the nature of those involved in the real process. I suggest that we all begin emailing Suck ideas for future pieces, as they certainly have lost the ability to come up with relevant topics on their own.
And I admit - I missed it. The point of that 'thirty pieces of silver' analogy was...?? Exactly who plays 'Jesus' in that analogy? Oh... Uhmm... I see. You mean it didn't really MEAN anything? It was just there to provide clever hyperbole?
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The state tax refund is treated as "additional" income because it wasn't taxed to begin with. It's withheld from your net paycheck and, therefore, not taxed as income at that time. When you get it back via refund, it goes back in the "taxable income" column and is then taxed - after the fact.
The feds do the same thing, in case you haven't noticed. You're supposed to declare any state tax refunds on your federal return.
In all cases, the one-year-free-loan is accurate, though. And you can adjust your W-4 to deal with that (declare more 'dependents'). Instead of overpaying, just resign yourself to paying at the end of the year, but in which case you get to keep more of your earnings.
Once a community is assimilated (through imposed government), all innovation in that community appears to cease.
Rather Borg-like of them, no?
This post was a joke, right?
We're supposed to take propaganda from FSTC Ltd / MuslimHeritage.com at face value in this day and age?
This reminds me of Pavel Chekhov's Vee inWented it Furst line.
The Independent is not - they're kowtowing in dhimmitude.
Notice that Dawson gives no evidence to support this assertion. Probably because it's a lie.
Martin gave no evidence to support her assertion either. Can we make the same assumption there?
Sheesh.
Ever missing the point, as most writers with no real originality (or reason for writing, for that matter) typically do, those at Suck and Salon have become political BECAUSE they've suffered exactly the demise they claim to have observed regarding Linux: succumbing to the economics of appealing to the "real world". Like Dan Blather and Pete Lemmings, they appeal to (and often create?) controversy to grab readers' attention without ever really offering anything of substance. They have become critics of success, harbingers of doom and stand lumped with the rest of the out-of-touch cretins who call crackers 'hackers'.
Fortunately for the rest (most?) of us, Suck's "real world" is neither real, nor inevitable.
'jcr' put it best: We.Still.Have.The.Source. This point is the cornerstone of open source and will always be so -- even as commercial enterprises begin to leverage that source for commercial gain.
Let's get with the program folks -- open source is pointless unless it empowers EVERYONE, including Red Hat, et al. The notion that Linux, or the development methodology it represents, is any 'less' as a result of a less-than-smooth IPO is laughable. The fact that E*Trade rejected some online credit/investment applications says volumes about Red Hat's available choices (for distribution of stock) but less than nothing about the quality and viability of open source products -- and even less about the nature of those involved in the real process. I suggest that we all begin emailing Suck ideas for future pieces, as they certainly have lost the ability to come up with relevant topics on their own.
And I admit - I missed it. The point of that 'thirty pieces of silver' analogy was...?? Exactly who plays 'Jesus' in that analogy? Oh... Uhmm... I see. You mean it didn't really MEAN anything? It was just there to provide clever hyperbole?
. . . I suspected as much.