{"id":26117,"date":"2019-01-02T08:00:41","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T13:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=26117"},"modified":"2018-12-19T10:02:15","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T15:02:15","slug":"the-taxman-cometh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/02\/the-taxman-cometh\/","title":{"rendered":"THE TAXMAN COMETH"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Every January<\/strong><\/span> I spend a day filling out employer tax forms. My favorite is the Federal Unemployment Tax Act (FUTA) form. I did my first FUTA Form 940 in 1978, when my dad started going to Florida for the winter. He and his high school buddies golfed in Boca Raton, and I filled out FUTAs in Cleveland.<\/p>\n

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Toby Stratton (far L) w\/ friends at Boca Lago CC, 1983<\/p><\/div>\n

The treasurer<\/strong><\/span> of Ohio likes his W-2 reconciliations promptly. The state unemployment bureau also likes its money quickly. And don’t forget workers comp.<\/p>\n

I used an IBM Selectric-style typewriter for tax forms until the machine died around 2011. The A<\/em> key wouldn\u2019t work. That was its main drawback. \u201c lbert Str tton”<\/em> didn\u2019t cut it with the government. I threw out the typewriter and several boxes of Ko-Rec-Type.\u00a0 I spent a few hours behind this typer:<\/p>\n

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\u00a0It’s an IBM knock-off, actually.<\/p><\/div>\n

Now I use IRS computer forms, except for my Yiddishe Cup 1099s, which I do by hand. I used black ink on Yiddishe Cup’s 1099s. One year I used blue, which is ill-advised. The gobierno<\/em> prefers black ink. I got with the program.<\/p>\n

What are<\/strong><\/span> you in jail for?<\/p>\n

Blue ink.<\/p>\n

No thanks.<\/p>\n

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