• Knacht @lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    That’s called tax exempt status and all the folks I seen try it eventually got hit up for the money from the lrs.

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      Theoretically you can set that money aside in an account that gains interest and make a little money holding onto it until tax season where you pay it all at once.

      Generally it’s only really worth it if you’re fairly wealthy

      Edit: I don’t know what I’m talking about. You’ll be hit with a 7% underpayment for doing this. You can split your taxes quarterly if you really want.

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        And if you’re fairly wealthy, you’ll just spend enough to hire an accountant to move it offshore and then donate to a politician via a church and then the govt pays you taxes.

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      Very common in the trades, or at least with everyone I worked with, we’d have periods where we had a shutdown usually lasting 2weeks but upto 3 months. We’d work 12-16 hour days 7 days a week (sometimes taking the 14th day off, sometimes not). A lot of my coworkers would go tax exempt during these shutdowns then switch back to normal afterwards.