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| Monday, June 11, 2007 |
| Proposition 301 |
Summer school in the computer lab at Eastpointe High School is winding down to our few, last students. Craig (the self-describe curmudgeonly English teacher) and I are finishing up the day, and my boss comes up with the kind of envelope normally associated with a paycheck.
Payday isn't until Friday.
He tells me that it's my Prop 301 money, and smiles. He's always a good boss, but he's showing up with random, unplanned income. That makes him a great boss.
Anyway, unbeknown to me, Proposition 301 passed in 2000 in Arizona. It called for a pool fund for teachers, drawn from a 0.06% increase in sales tax. It's distributed annually, based on the population and performance of Arizona schools.
Now, Eastpointe is a relatively small school which caters to "at-risk" kids - kids that need help with everything in life, not to mention school. Fortunately for the number-crunching, there were very few teachers at the school - 8, including myself.
Also, it helps that I have a good boss. Apparently, Tucson Unified School District promised a 3-year raise plan for their teachers. The first two went ahead as planned, but the district very illegally used the 301 money to fund the third raise. Of course, it was supposed to be distributed in addition to the raise, but through some seriously questionably conspiratorial lobbying, they got away with it. As for the previous two years' 301 checks, I hear that $400 was unusually good.
I knew nothing of any of this, of course, but I was still elated to find this on the check: $1,925.24
So. Two grand in unplanned income. I'm spending roughly half on Rachel's truck - which went unsurprisingly over-budget with its new carburetor install and a new camera. After months of deliberation and surfing the web (especially dpreview), I decided on the Ricoh GX100. I'll be ordering from PopFlash.
Words fail to describe how awesome this is. The other half of the check will act as a buffer for the bank account while I figure out how to do my taxes for my newly-official business, but hopefully will go into my first stock purchase...
Labels: 301, Eastpointe, impulse designs, photography, Ricoh GX100, school, taxes, work |
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| Sunday, April 22, 2007 |
| Impulse? Impulse Media? |
I have started looking into making my sole proprietorship business a reality - after freelancing for a half decade.
What? I was busy.
The main reason is so that I can deduct a lot of my business-related expenses. While I do (often) question what is being done with my money, I don't plan on weaseling my way out of taxes completely. Strikes me as un-patriotic and, well, weasel-y.
So that means I will be reading government forms in my spare time. Oh, the joy! But it will be worth it. After all, I'm putting all the music, design, and art into one business. That means that a new computer, guitar, and paint are deductible. I just hope that the IRS understand that the design will be funding the other two - the music and art are a rather long shot at ever becoming profitable, but I think the odds are good enough to merit the business' money...Labels: design, government, impulse designs, Impulse Nine, irs, sole proprietor, taxes |
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