oldprogrammer2

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by oldprogrammer2 9y ago
On second look, I think I am incorrect. Altering Section 132(j)(8) doesn't yield a substantial change. Before: Amounts paid or expenses incurred by the employer for education or training provided to the employee which are not excluda
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This seemed so bizarre, I had to research it. Best I can tell, it originates on Page 97 of the proposed bill: https://waysandmeansforms.house.gov/uploadedfiles/bill_text.... . (2) Section 132(j)(8) is amended by striki
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Given that the US is large and varied, what you describe doesn't sound like where I live (Texas). Oddly enough I had that same reaction when I first visited London: life seemed worse than where I was from. I don't know anyone who
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I can't speak for Trump's motivations, but I've noticed something similar in the corporate world. If a capable executive is particularly critical of an aspect of the business, he may (inadvertently) find himself put in charg
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From my personal experience, and observations of friends and family, paid time off for the holidays in the US is typically a couple days for Thanksgiving, a couple days for Christmas, and New Years Day. So it's not a complete lack of
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Let's not ignore the providers themselves. Excluding the middlemen, my wife had a bill for a lithrotripsy procedure (she was there for approximately 4 hours) of nearly $10,000, and most of that went to the hospital. That was before i
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I completely commiserate with you. It is hard to have a good idea and not be able to get it attention. However, after trying to actually pitch an idea in person, I learned that I wasn't nearly as prepared as I thought I was. Seeing
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I think baldfat's point might be that "non-profit" doesn't necessarily imply that those organizations are not designed to allow profits to be paid out as compensation. Excessive compensation to non-profit leadership can
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As a counterpoint, we have a 2008 R2 instance that cost us about $13K back in 2011. Granted, it's a two processor, standard edition license, so we recently upgraded to SSD's and upgraded to higher core processors. Also, the Wind
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I couldn't agree more, and I've shaped our hiring policy around the same ideas. I try to be very respectful of the time of both the interviewers and the interviewees, while still providing enough data to make a good decision. I&
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When we moved our dev team to a new area, I chose this style of layout. Each developer has their own small office, which forms an outer perimeter. Each office also has a 4x4 window next to the door to keep the atmosphere open. In the midd
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This is very much the perspective I have taken over the years. When I'm hiring a senior developer, I'm looking for someone who will step in and own the project they're given. If I had to pick a single expression, especially
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The IRS, according to FS-2008-25, requires the salary to be "reasonable", and they list factors that would be considered by the courts if a dispute arose. The IRS also has the authority to reassign dividends or distributions as c
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Not the OP, but we have opportunities at our company for people who can operate in both worlds. We run a settlement/clearing system for payment processing, which is a zOS/UniKix/COBOL/JCL kind of system. I've been