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Question by VerdeOjos: How likely is it to get audited by the IRS?
I ask because I am self employed and have to keep receipts for EVERYTHING. My mom is always ragging on me because you “never know when you could get audited” because I haven’t been the greatest at saving every single receipt… But I’ve never heard of it happening. How likely is it? Thank you
TIM… not likely, what’s that supposed to mean? I’ve had the same accountant for six years and we write everything down, go over everything, and guess what I PAY 1,840 IN TAXES EVERY THREE MONTHS!!! I’m asking a serious question…
shikikbeek… did i say i was trying to fuck with the IRS? My simple question was how likely is it? Because i have to save EVERY single receipt, so when I dispose of one, it freaks me out, and my question was, should i just calm down… geez.

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NOW,I’d say it’s very likely

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William Berney


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William Berney, President of the Berney National Bank, is a striking character among the young financiers or the South. He was born May 27, 1846, in Montgomery, Ala., and is a son of Dr. James and Jane E. (Saffold) Berney. His father, a native of Charleston, S. C, was a prominent physician of Montgomery for more than forty years, where he resided until his death in July, 1880. His mother was a native of Dallas County, Alabama, and died in Montgomery in October, 1874.

The subject of this sketch was the fourth of a family of eleven children, six of whom are now living, all residents of the South. He was reared in Montgomery, where he received his preliminary education, which was supplemented by a course of study at Baltimore, Md., and continued subsequently in Montgomery. In the spring of 1864, when he was eighteen years of age, he entered the army of the Confederate States at Dalton, Georgia, in Hallonquist’s Reserve Regiment of Artillery, and served as ordnance sergeant until the close of the war. His regiment was in the active service of the Army of the Tennessee, and participated in the severe battles of Dalton, Resaca, Atlanta, Jonesboro, and the many other severe engagements of the great retreat of General Joseph E. Johnston. After the close of the war he was appointed deputy collector of Internal Revenue of the Second District of Alabama, and before twenty-one years of age had handled over two millions of dollars of Government funds. He was next appointed cashier for the large cotton commission house of Lehman, Durr & Co., which situation he held for a short period, when he removed to Birmingham, in 1871, as the agent of the South & North Alabama R. R., and after one year’s service resigned. For one year he was engaged in farming, and subsequently appointed bookkeeper in the National Bank of Birmingham, which position he ably filled until 1875, when he became cashier of that institution. Upon the death of Charles Linn he was elected president of the bank, and continued until the consolidation with the City Bank, forming the First National Bank, of which he was also elected president. This important position he ably filled until February, 1885, when he resigned and organized the Central Bank of Birmingham, with which he was connected as the master spirit until in February, 1886, when it was reorganized and named in honor of its founder, the Berney National Bank, with William Berney as president, its capital stock being 0,000, which was subsequently increased to 0,000. This institution is a model of its kind, and ranks among the leading monied corporations of the South.

In all of the responsible positions which he has occupied, Mr. Berney has displayed wise and judicious management, and proven himself worthy of any trust. With the reputation of a safe financier, of honest integrity and sterling merit, he is destined to play an important part in the commercial life of Alabama.

Mr. Berney is a stockholder in the Iron and Oak and the Royal Insurance Companies of Birmingham, and in all enterprises tending to promote the healthy growth of Alabama takes great interest. A Christian gentleman, his hand is ever ready to promote the cause of religion ; he is also a firm believer in the public schools, and keeps well abreast with the advancement of the age.

In 1868, April 29, Mr. Berney was united in marriage with Miss Lizzie Taylor, of Montgomery, a daughter of Dr. W. P. Taylor, of that city. This union has been blessed with six children, two of whom are now living, Rebecca D. and Lizzie W. Mr. and Mrs. Berney are consistent members of the First Presbyterian Church of Birmingham.

- from Jefferson County and Birmingham Alabama: History and Biographical, edited by John Witherspoon Dubose and published in 1887 by Teeple & Smith / Caldwell Printing Works, Birmingham, Alabama

Chinese Friendship Arch and Gallery Place Building 02 – Chinatown – DC


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Looking east down H Street NW at the Friendship Archway in Washington, D.C.’s Chinatown. The building with the faux-Chinese rotunda, video screens, and beige and green towers is the Gallery Place building. The building to the left is Galley Tower, being renovated as of early 2012.

D.C.’s Chinatown was established in 1884. But it wasn’t where it is now.

The original Chinatown existed along the south side of Pennsylvania Avenue between 4th and 7th Streets, with the heaviest concentration of residences and businesses near where 4th Street, C Street, and Pennsylvania Avenue met. This was the site of Center Market. Back in the days before refrigeration and corporate ownership of food distribution, people around the United States shopped at privately or publicly owned farmer’s markets. D.C.’s food markets were almost all privately owned, and suffered from poor hygiene. Shopping for food meant hoping you didn’t come down with the hershey-squirts from the diseases your food would be infected with. The city itself decided to act by building a state-of-the-art market, complete with running water, ice house, and mechanical refrigeration. This was Center Market, and it was so immensely popular that nearly all the downtown trolley lines converged there.

Chinese and other Asian immigrants began moving into the area around Center Market in noticeable numbers as early as 1880. By 1884, the area was known as "Chinatown." As many as 15,000 people lived there. That’s an astonishing number, considering that most buildings were only two or three stories high. People were just jammed into Chinatown.

D.C.’s original Chinatown existed as a vibrant community until 1935. Interestingly, throughout the 1800s, the federal government was so small that it could be housed in just five or six three-story office buildings. By 1900, however, it was clear that the federal government needed to grow. In 1926, Congress finally approved construction of six new massive federal office buildings. After two years of discussion, it was decided that the area south of Pennsylvania Avenue had to be totally torn down and these new office buildings constructed there. That was the beginning of Federal Triangle — the largest conglomeration of federal office buildings anywhere in the country. The first buildings constructed were the Department of Commerce, the Internal Revenue Service building, and the Labor/ICC building (now the headquarters of the EPA). At first these buildings just uprooted the brothels, criminal hideouts, and gambling dens that formed D.C.’s infamous Murder Bay. But as Federal Triangle construction moved eastward, Chinatown had to go. Construction of the National Archives and the Apex Building (which houses the Federal Trade Commission) forced Chinatown to move.

Chinatown had a very well-organized community, however, composed of business leaders, religious leaders, politicians, and well-respected citizens. They quite literally looked for a place in the city where everyone could move together — lock, stock, and barrel. They chose the current location on H Street NW.

At its peak, the "new" Chinatown extended from G Street NW north to Massachusetts Avenue NW, and from 9th Street NW east to 5th Street NW. But this only lasted for about 50 years. The 1968 riots which came after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. caused many businesses to flee downtown D.C. Chinatown’s businesses, too, fell on hard times and many of them closed. Wealthy and middle-class Asian citizens fled for the suburbs, leaving many houses and apartments unoccupied. A mainstay of the community was the OCA Bank, but when it closed Chinatown emptied even further.

Chinatown was saved when the Gallery Place Metro station (Blue and Orange lines) opened in 1976. Determined to save Chinatown as a tourist attraction, in 1986 the city authorized the construction of the Friendship Archway, a million traditional Chinese gate designed by local architect Alfred H. Liu. Symoblizing not only Chinatown but D.C.’s "sister city" status with Beijing, the Friendship Arch is the largest freestanding traditionally constructed Chinese-style arch anywhere in the world.

But Chinatown now is in serious decline. In 1993, Abe Pollin built the MCI Center on two whole city blocks bounded by 6th and 7th Streets NW and F and H Streets NW. The arena opened in 1997, and was renamed the Verizon Center after Verizon purchased the near-bankrupt MCI communications company.

In 1999, wealthy regional real estate investors built a vast new 13-story mixed-use shopping and housing complex over the Gallery Place-Chinatown Metro station. Gallery Place (the building) opened in the fall of 2004. It not only revitalized Chinatown, but revitalized the entire East End. Extensive construction began throughout the area as consumers, tourists, and young people flooded the area. Huge swaths of Chinatown were renovated and turned into restaurants, trendy bars, and up-scale shops.

Unfortunately, this caused rents to skyrocket, and pushed most of the Chinese population of D.C’s Chinatown into Maryland and Northern Virginia. The Da Hua market, the last full-service Chinese grocery, closed in 2005. The D.C. Office of Planning created a "cultural redevelopment plan" aimed at bringing Chinese food street vendors back to the area and building an Asian-American international business center. But that was in 2008, and nothing has been implemented as of 2012.

The building with the scaffolding is 675 H Street NW. In February 2011, it was purchased by local developer Douglas Jemal, who owns most of the western side of 7th Street NW. Called "Gallery Tower," the mixed-use development is asking a whopping 0 p.s.f. fo retail tenants — a third higher than Union Station and more than 200 percent higher than in Georgetown (which rents are generally 0 to 0 p.s.f.) Jemal has said that he intends to alter the facade of the building so that it looks like his storefronts on 7th Street NW.

The huge video screens, bright neon lights, trendy stores, and fast-food restaurants (like Chopt, Fuddruckers, TGI Friday’s, Chipotle, etc.) draw hundreds of rowdy teenagers to Chinatown. The area is now rife with crime, and D.C. Police, D.C. Housing Police, and anti-gang detectives constantly work and patrol the area to stop street brawls between rival gangs. The Gallery Place metro station is the worst in the system for crime (largely stolen iPods, wallets, and cell phones). Many teens hang out on the steps of the National Portrait Gallery, a block south of this intersection — taunting one another, eating food from McDonald’s, and planning thefts.

I kid you not.

Chinatown has been called "D.C.’s Times Square." It has become a terrible problem.

Question by : Where can I get a lawyer re: hospital Bill?
I was hospitalized for 2 days (Bowel obstruction) .I have a discount policy from a private company, not much help. I do qualify for the hospitals “discount policy” which reduced the bill from $ 17,070.00 to $ 7,000.00 if I pay $ 200.00/monthly.I can’t pay that much due to other current and passed medical bills. I am uninsured and live on my husband’s retirement, $ 56,000.00 yearly (2009) with 4 dependents.In 2010 retirement was $ 53,000.00 and it won;’t go up until I have a Total knee done and be retrained for other employment and I ‘rn 65 yrs old ,2011 and get Medicare, I’ve even written the CFO, no reply. I”m told they can attach my husbands retirement but then have to give it back, that will take about 60 days.We will have no money for rent, we lease or anything else plus we are raising our 16 year old granddaughter. My husband is 76 yrs old he can’t find a job and I can’t work, due to my knee and narcotics I take and they are necessary. We really have no money for a lawyer maybe some from income tax this year (2010). It will take 2 months to transfer our money to a credit union, I’ve been told most likely they wouldn’t give the hospital any money. I’ve been doing everything in “good faith”, should I get my congressman or Senator involved or what? What do I tell the hospital…I’m afraid particularly for my granddaughter…please help! Sorry for the punctuation errors.

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Answer by Artemis Gwen
I’m sorry but if you can’t afford to pay the hospital bill, it doesn’t seem as though you can afford to hire an attorney to deal with this bill.

Have you considered speaking with a bankruptcy attorney? A medical bill is an unsecured debt that can be discharged in bankruptcy – along with any other unsecured debt you might have.

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Protest in Mexico City


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LETTER FROM MEXICO CITY
The naked truth behind protest

Villager movement vents more than its anger, writes the Tribune’s Oscar Avila
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Oscar Avila is a Tribune foreign correspondent based in Mexico City. oavila@tribune.com

June 3, 2007

MEXICO CITY — As hundreds of naked and almost-naked protesters descend on one of Mexico City’s busiest intersections, the first impulse is to avert your eyes. But they are screaming and beating large oil drums. So you turn and look.

They want you to look.

The members of the "400 Villages" movement aren’t ashamed. They are proud that they are fighting, 15 years after they say corrupt state authorities took away their people’s land in Veracruz state.

They are following the tradition of a city where people take to the streets to get results. One day, thousands of teachers with bullhorns and placards might flood the avenues. The next, it might be indigenous residents or liberal activists angry over pension reform.

In this environment, the Veracruz protesters said they felt like their voices were being drowned out. Since they started protesting, they had tried blockades, pickets, hunger strikes and marches. Then one day, five years ago, their frustration took over.

Nereo Cruz, a member of the group’s governing council, said protesters started taking their clothes off, down to their underwear. They liked the metaphor: a community stripped of justice. The stunt got them in the papers and on the news.

"We realized we had gotten their attention," said Cruz, 52. "The only thing we can’t do now is stop protesting. If we stop, they will win."

Cruz said the group got its name from a coalition of 400 villages that fought for farmers’ rights decades ago. Their complaints come from the seizure of about 2,000 acres from about 14 villages, a dispute that started under former Gov. Dante Delgado.

Delgado is now a federal senator, and he unwittingly takes center stage at the group’s protests. Most of the men wear a thong with a strategically-placed photo of Delgado on the front.

Other male protesters march in unflattering and ill-fitting briefs, and all the men generally have at least a few stitches of clothing. Most of the women — only a dozen or so — march naked.

Every year, the 500 or so protesters come to Mexico City for a few months before returning to Veracruz, along the Caribbean coast. They sleep under tattered tarps at an abandoned parking lot, subsisting on donations from residents.

Their goal is the return of their land, or at least to be properly compensated. They are also calling on Mexican lawmakers to establish an investigative commission to look into the matter and decide whether they deserve restitution.

Group leaders say Delgado and another senator promised to establish the commission but have ignored demands to follow up. The protesters have placed a banner that reads "The Senate doesn’t see us, doesn’t hear us."

The two lawmakers did not respond to several requests for comment.

But the protesters don’t lack feedback from the people of Mexico City.

Tourists hoot, whistle and snap pictures from the top of a double-decker bus that cruises the capital’s streets. Some motorists flash thumbs-up signs. Many laugh, point or shake their heads.

"Here is the beautiful of Mexico," protester Judith Romero, 40, mused as she scanned a thoroughfare lined with trees and sculptures. "Here we are, the ugly of Mexico."

As he stood on a narrow median along Paseo de la Reforma, the city’s equivalent to the Champs Elysees in Paris, Miguel Aguilar recalled how terrified he was when he first took his clothes off five years ago. On this day, the 67-year-old man looked totally at ease in his Delgado thong, black work shoes and a denim baseball cap.

Aguilar proudly pointed to his leathery skin, proof of the countless days spent without clothes under Mexico City’s sun. The city’s prosperous residents are the ones who heckle, he said, while "the ones who have also suffered, they understand."

He has no plans to stop. "With clothes, no one paid attention. Without clothes, maybe they will," Aguilar said.

Across the street, a housewife was waiting to board a bus and trying her best to keep Aguilar and his comrades out of sight. Lorena Perez, 29, said she regularly takes this route home and often comes across the 400 Villages group in the flesh. She doesn’t know why the group is protesting and doesn’t seem to care.

"How reckless," Perez said, half grimacing. "It’s a lack of respect. As an adult, you can comprehend it, but, for children, it looks bad. There are other ways to protest."

Romero has heard these complaints before. A resident approached her once and called her "a gross old woman." But Romero said her own four children support her activism, and are proud that she has gone "from a housewife to a warrior."

The most common complaint Romero receives is from fellow mothers who don’t want their children seeing naked people on busy city streets. But she would tell those families that they shouldn’t view her nudity as something shameful.

She wants them to look.

"I am not ashamed. On the contrary, ours is a dignified struggle," Romero said. "The parents shouldn’t see this as something obscene. Instead of judging us, they should tell their children, ‘Look at them, look how far those women have to go for justice.’ "

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More Canadians are living in common-law unions than ever before. There are almost three million Canadians in these relationships, a 19-per-cent jump since 2001. Common-law unions now account for 15.5 per cent of all families in Canada.

This means that more Canadians are now unmarried than married. But they’re not just delaying marriage. Living in common-law unions is a choice, a choice that includes having children. A growing proportion of children younger than 14 live with common-law parents. Of the 5.6 million children in that age group, 14.6 per cent live with parents in a common-law union. That’s three times as many as 20 years ago.

This trend continues to grow.

What does the unpopularity of marriage mean for federal policy-makers? From a current court challenge of the definition of marriage, to the Divorce Act and issues of alimony, child support and property rights, to health and education policy, the changing Canadian family will have profound effects on today’s decision-makers.

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Bonded warehouses, 200+ years in the making, eliminate doubts in transit of merchandise – Business – Business Ideas

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Those who suffer from anxiety at the mere thought of sending raw materials or components abroad to do value-added or assembly can channel that nervous energy elsewhere. The bonded warehouse has emerged as one of the industry’s solutions.

The bonded warehouse, 200 years in the making, is defined by the U.S. government as “a building or other secured area in which imported dutiable merchandise may be stored, manipulated, or undergo manufacturing operations without payment of duty for up to 5 years from the date of importation.” The facilities are considered outside of the customs territory of the United States and duties are not paid until they enter U.S. customs territory, or upon arrival at their overseas final destination.

Authorization to operate bonded warehouses at any of 300 official ports of entry in the United States, Puerto Rico, and Virgin Islands, is derived from Title 19, United States Code (U.S.C.), section 1555. When goods enter the facilities, bonded warehouse proprietors incur liability for them under a warehouse bond. That liability is canceled when merchandise is exported, sent to sea or placed aboard an international flight; destroyed under CBP supervision; or withdrawn for consumption within the United States after payment of duty.

CBP classifies bonded warehouses into 11 categories. Among them:

- Premises owned or leased by the Government, used for the storage of merchandise undergoing examination by CBP, under seizure, or pending final release from CBP custody.

- Private warehouse used exclusively for the storage of merchandise belong to or consigned to the proprietor.

- Public bonded warehouse used exclusively for the storage of imported merchandise.

- Bonded yards or sheds for the storage of heavy and bulky imported merchandise; stables, feeding pens, corrals, other similar buildings or limited enclosures for the storage of imported animals; and tanks for storage of imported liquid merchandise in bulk.

- Bonded bins or parts of buildings or elevators to be used for the storage of grain.

- Bonded warehouses established for the manufacture in bond, solely for exportation, of articles made in whole or in part of imported materials or of materials subject to internal revenue tax; and for the manufacture for domestic consumption or exportation of cigars made in whole of tobacco imported from one country.

Review the full list of bonded warehouse categories.

Many people in the US have contact with bonded warehouses but do not realize it. Those warehouses are the duty-free stores along borders and in international airport departure terminals.

That is, the duty-free store may have its physical location in the United States, either in the airport or along a Canadian or Mexican border, but these outlets are merely showcases. A sale may be taking place in the United States, but delivery of goods does not take place until the consumer is abroad. (In the case of duty-free stores, CBP limits the quantity and frequency of duty-free entries on return. Americans entering the US, for example, are limited to a quart of liquor every 30 days for example.)

International trade has not always been this easy.

The bonded warehouse has its origins in 18th Century England when payment of duties on imported goods had to be made at the time of importation or, later, with a security for future payment to tax authorities. This was an awkward scenario, however, because cash was not always on hand; large capital was required for the importation heavily taxed articles; and it was not always possible for the importer to find sureties, In 1733, Sir Robert Walpole devised a method to overcome these difficulties, proposing an “excise scheme” for approved warehouses receiving tobacco and wine. The policy was implemented until 1803.

Some 50 years later, the Customs Consolidation Act 1853 eliminated many bond procedures. A succession of three revenue bills — the Customs Consolidation Act of 1876, the Customs and Inland Revenue Act 1880 and the Revenue Act 1883 — set up revenue collecting processes and the legal infrastructure for what were called “king’s warehouses.” These facilities were defined as “any place provided by the crown or approved by the commissioners of customs, for the deposit of goods for security thereof, and the duties due thereon.” A new legal paradigm included rules for the unloading, landing, examining, storing, determining custody of goods — and fines for breaching.

The underpinnings of the bonded warehouse are, in and of themselves, a crash-course in the history of trade. What is important today is that the company interested in manufacturing in Mexico know just how simple this once-complex process has become.

There are many bonded warehouses that now provide this conduit to trade in Mexico. The Offshore Group’s 3PL service provider, International Logistic Solutions (ILS), offers bonded warehouse service at its Tucson, Arizona transportation hub.

The use of ILS’ bonded warehouse will enable importers and exporters to benefit from:

• reduced exposure to import duties;• improved overall processing and transit time;• greater supply chain visibility and security;• on-site presence of licensed U.S. customs brokers

About the Author

Steven is the director of corporate marketing for the Tucson, Arizona-based Offshore Group. The Offshore Group has enabled businesses to establish and start-up low-cost and low-risk operations since 1986 Steve has been working in the area of U.S. -Mexico manufacturing and trade for the past twenty years, and is fluent in both Spanish and Portuguese Manufacturing in Mexico , Mexico Shelter Companies

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Question by : many people (mostly liberals) are saying that “lowering taxes has not helped” How is keeping taxrates the same?
and promising to raise them in two years the same thing as lowering taxes?

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Answer by Mr. Timed
Ask Reagan, he did the same thing.

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