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@mountainwesttax

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tax goblin

Denver, CO
Joined December 2020
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I’m really worried about a tax on unrealized capital gains over $100M
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A babysitter allowed our 4 year old to smoke 11 packs of cigarettes today
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@lydiakauppi I love Florida
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well, that’s an optimistic rate of return
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@mountainwesttax
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imagine making partner at EY and then getting fired
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holy sh*t! I went to move money from an old (two jobs ago) 401k and after escalating an issue - it looks like my employer never put my contributions into the plan
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let’s check in on residential agents
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old friend from ski bum days likes to post on ig about her idyllic life on a failed farm in Medford, OR. One of her favorite subjects is complaining about others who live “inauthentically” in “office jobs” then she sends large text group chats asking for money to buy diapers
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Neve 🌷
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Having an outdoorsy family should be your goal. Not making partner at your law firm. Wealth is so much more than riches and a job title.
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@mountainwesttax
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that’s a cute, semi-affordable hou-
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“no one wants kids” ok well who decided $1,500 is a normal price to pay for a stroller
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@taxchic_k Exactly 🙏
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@DoughRakers Nicotine is fine, it’s the sugar that really bothers me
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@mountainwesttax
MWT
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Good morning! I’m starting my own bookkeeping and tax firm.
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zillow needs comments so that I can bully these people specifically
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Dudes will really get $200k in their brokerage account and start worrying about prenups
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@seattle_tax I think they ran sprints in between
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If bookkeeping is so easy why does everyone do it wrong
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1) I love you 2) please always send me the spreadsheet rather than a PDF export
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POV: you’re about to read the worst macroeconomic take you’ve ever seen
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I have difficulty understanding how people working 60+ hours a week get daily exercise / cook healthy food
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@JakeGosselin no it won’t
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wow who could have guessed that Huberman is a duplicitous narcissist with an unrelenting belief that his partner’s desires should be completely disregarded
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Companies will give up on financial reporting before paying accountants more money
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Dave Danna
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The accounting shortage has gotten so bad that public billion dollar companies aren't filing their required financial disclosures on time or maintaining controls 💀
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The stroller you’ve used daily since 2017 is not worth 85% of the original purchase price
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We’re two for two on our gen z tenants failing to put utilities in their name and getting their power shut off despite lease verbiage and multiple verbal reminders
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most of you should be much more worried about the potential end of a step-up in basis on inherited assets
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some personal news baby boy is due two weeks after the extended Form 1040 deadline (October)
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@mountainwesttax
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$9,100 / month
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You can cruise in software sales your whole career and end up with a couple houses in prime locations, college tuition paid, multiple foreign vacations each year and easily retire at 55
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If you're in your 20's and your main job criteria is "work-life balance" then you're setting yourself up for a miserable 30's-60's
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“Why are accountants leaving the profession?”
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@wbridgefa Words mean things
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“Managers and partners have been working 80 hours / week for the last three years to pick up slack from underperforming staff/seniors who we don’t have time to train and now we don’t understand why none of the staff/seniors are trained well” am I understanding this correctly
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@afshawnl It’s cheap because it’s not accessible by road and you’re prohibited from building anything on it
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STOP CAPITALIZING $700 LAPTOPS YOU ABSOLUTE MONSTERS
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Mountain West Tax is officially a CPA firm!
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pay them $27/hour and bill them to clients at $225/hour for 40-60 hours per week for most of the year what’s not to love
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Brenda C, CPA
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I find it so interesting that non accountants are acquiring accounting firms. It’s like they see value in our businesses, that maybe we don’t see. #TaxTwitter
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my highschool bf dumped me the second we got to UF for a girl who was on MTV’s my super sweet 16. He married her and now he’s a plastic surgeon and they’re the stars of a TLC show that’s still filming. Love that for him
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kache
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90% of highschool relationships would have made it through college instead of breaking up if the kids actually got married. they would be better for it. but you all got psyopped by how I met your mother and needed to have "fun" in college and now you are 8 children short
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/ if I didn’t look at this information for a living then I would not have identified the problem. Makes me worried for people whose eyes glaze over at financial stuff. / yes I should have looked years ago
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I fell in love with a house last week. Listed $300k over what they paid in 2021. I thought, “These people are smoking crack. In two weeks I will offer what they paid in 2021.” Reader, it’s pending sale at asking. Five days on the market.
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Buying a mortgaged home in 2024 is the equivalent of setting your retirement back 10 years
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one of my husband’s coworkers was unknowingly naked on a teams call this morning
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guy who is obsessed with telling you he worked at Deloitte
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Just got quoted with a 4 handle on a home mortgage. Four. Oh boy is the economy going to catch fire in 2025.
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I just used a PDF to excel converter for the first time and I am having an existential crisis
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rude but okay
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Husband is enthusiastically watching this basketball game. After an improbable Jokic goal (?), he turned to me and said, “I wish I was 6’11” y’all he is 6’8 the mental jump to think it was his *height* that held him back from a career in basketball hahahaa
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9NEWS Denver
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Denver Police ban food trucks in LoDo on weekend nights to curb crime
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@mountainwesttax
MWT
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My former boss is not very excited for me
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my tax planning advice is to marry the long-term girlfriend who makes 40% of what you do
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If you comment to call me professionally incompetent for failing to double check a truly insignificant 401k balance I will immediately block you
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working out in a home gym will never be as fun as literally any other gym
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@bradford_hardin We started working after the GFC and jumped at every opportunity to increase salaries from the $30k/year we started at
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@andrew_kal Marlboro reds
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Muting this and begging some of you to learn the difference between real vs nominal returns
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My husband and his work wife have been planning for the three of us to hike a 14er this weekend He just told me we might start hiking at 2 am to see sunrise at the peak I hope they aren’t planning my death
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spotify: for the low price of $20/month, you will never discover a new artist or podcast again for the rest of your life
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honestly I’m thrilled by the intrigue What a mistake!
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you guys can and should roast me for this, but I genuinely believed I would be working less as a business owner than employee
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A business so profitable and easy you pay for ads to tell people about it instead of scaling
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There are two classes of people. People who purchased and refinanced homes before 2021, and everyone else
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Shot, Chaser
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The person who called me back from the 401k company after looking at my account:
[Michael Barbaro voice] hmm
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@GayBearRes Darn, who could have known that most people can’t pay $50k for a vehicle at 9%
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Lifetime Fitness price increases are pretty crazy. This is for both my husband and me. I think we were paying $210 when we joined in 2020
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@davidsawyer1 Fair, but I would personally like to avoid neighborhoods that still have routine cancer screening studies
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I’ve been blessed by the vintage ski suit gods
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Good morning! Professional tax planning is not possible without correct bookkeeping. This account is now dedicated to reshaping people’s opinions of the value of bookkeeping.
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Anyway, did you know that if you staff one person on an engagement that was staffed by two people in the prior year, the work does not magically happen twice as fast? Who knew
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POV: you’re on a video call with clients discussing the effect of deferred tax on business valuation
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@mountainwesttax
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family member took this out of storage and just gave it to me. incredibly excited to be on the cutting edge of coffee technology from 2010
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and if my mom makes one more, “man, Christmas is really sad with only adults around” comment I’m going to jump out of a window
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has anyone ever thought that maybe a crib, bassinet, stroller bassinet, rocking chair, infant lounger, infant electric rocker is an absurd amount of items for a very short amount of time ?
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every time I open this app, I’m floored at how unbelievably stupid the far left appears to be
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We’re big on work life balance. You can take vacations in June AND November
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@indexnforgetit Wild to just make random numbers up when you could look up the actual facts in less than one minute
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sat next to someone at dinner who thinks that fire in Maui was caused by space lasers from The Government
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I thought this was from a meme page
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my high-school IB program had like, 130 kids and more than 20 in my graduating class went to Ivy League schools
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Public school is the lowest quality education you could give your child, outside of a straight up neglectful homeschool experience.
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every day they manage to release a worse proposal
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Selina Wang
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NEW: Harris will propose providing up to $25K in down payment support for 1st time homeowners, with more generous support for 1st generation homeowners, according to campaign official She'll announce tomorrow in NC, along w/ her plan to ban corporate price-gouging on groceries
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I have some bad news about passive losses
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The IRS hates this one trick
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I’m not saying I’ll never work another Saturday, but I didn’t work this Saturday
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@mountainwesttax
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jail sentence of no less than six months for flippers who paint natural brick
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payment processing fees are bullshit. why’d we ditch paper checks
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I spent ~25 minutes last night responding to a non-client who emailed me asking for tax tips for their TurboTax return, and they didn’t email me back to say thank you
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happy anniversary to my favorite person in the world!
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also I’m pretty sure OPs prefrontal cortex isn’t fully developed yet and all these trad wannabe tumblr accounts are run by childless 23 year olds
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I setup my own company’s quickbooks yesterday (and did my YTD bkk) Forever astounded 1) how bad the suggested transactions are, and 2) that Intuit successfully convinced the world bookkeeping is a DIY activity while providing what must be a confusing product to the uninitiated
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“you’re an accountant?” “yeah” [person looking for ways to exit conversation]
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“you’re an accountant?” “yeah” “I sucked at math, i could never.”
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last week I skipped all my morning run/walks in favor of answering emails sooner & it made me significantly less productive turns out sprinting into the rising sun with Levels blasting at unhealthy decibels is a v critical part of my routine
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tax staff the first time they catch anyone else’s mistake
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if we want to bring down the deficit we will need to cut spending and raise taxes
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