I hate taxes, the paperwork is just insane, and this is just for a 2 man shop.
Here's the real stimulus they need. Simplify it, 1 form and check to the feds, 1 form and check to the state. Our local stuff here is actually the easiest. We're taxed based on our federal depreciation schedule, and our $15 a year business permit.
One stupid thing we have to pay for the state, they want 4 checks, one for each quarter, but they don't want them until the end of the year, but the checks need to be dated by the quarter. So we have checks hanging off the bulletin board for damn near a year.
Why do I have to fill out forms and send a check monthly, then quarterly summarize all that crap onto another form and send it to a different address?
Here's how stupid the whole thing is. A few years back we get a letter in the mail from the IRS. In 2004 we didn't send in employee with holdings on for XXXXX. We owe 20k. Great, get on the phone, just send an amended form (a form we never had to fill out to begin with). So we get the form, fill in ALL ZERO's. Send it out. A few weeks later same thing, you owe 20k, from a different IRS office(one in Tennessee, one in Utah). File another amended form, all zero's.
Apparently zero's are hard to deal with, so we get a letter that our assets are being seized for the value of 32 cents. Math error, because they are fucking retarded and stupid. Call them up, well, that was the other office, so they made a note on our account (profile?) to fix it. They fixed it, they fixed it real good, we went from owing 20k to 32 cents to getting a $3100 refund check. All based on a form we never had to fill out to begin with.
I won't even get into the unemployment crap out here. The fricken form had 5 spaces to put a 9 digit SS# into. So get on the phone to the department of labor, the # was 1-800-IDIOT. On hold for 90 minutes, get a lady that says she can't help, and we need to call the Department of Labor.
Pleasantly remind her that she answered the phone "Department of Labor". "well then you must have called the wrong #, you needed to call 1-800-IDIOT". And then she hung up.
Much like the IRS asshole, 2 hours on hold. Get a lady that answers and then says her computer is down and can't do a damn thing. Call back. Can't transfer us, can't do shit, just call back and stay on hold til the cows come home. (and I don't have cows, and that's how long it took, eventually one cow came around, a big black bull, out front in the middle of the highway, took 1/2 hour of a Border Patrol agent and a Sheriff throwing rocks at it to get it out of the road [taxes for entertainment.. maybe] ).
Add it to your quotes, (state sticking it up my poop shoot.. 10%).
Sorry for the rant, I'm in one of "those" moods. Part of which might be, make this part, no mylar available (even from the Washington based company) no dimensioned print of course, all that is available is the microfiche. With no dimensions, and its not scaled properly. Ever get a non-dimensioned JPEG as your print????