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New Divorce Statistics

I keep reading new divorce statistics showing that marriage is dead. There are reasons for these new divorce statistics, but I recently read an especially bad report:

One of the largest samples of married women found that at least a third of all women in the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt and Syria married more than once, with many marrying three or more times. As many as three out of ten marriages in Cairo ended in divorce.^[43]  Some villages in western Java and the Malay peninsula had divorce rates as high as 70%.^[42]

You probably did not hear of these new divorce statistics before. The Egypt - Syria survey was before 1497 and the Java - Malay survey was for the early 1900s. Today we have fewer shotgun marriages, partly due to the increasing ability of single mothers to gualify for government benefits or otherwise support themselves. They can even increasingly do QuickBooks work from home (in case you thought this might not be the QuickBooks-Blog).

Women now have the pill, the morning after pill, better knowledge about limiting pregnancy and more reasons to fear not using condoms or having partners use them. There also are more reasons to delay marriage, since we now accept living together and adultry. New divorce statistics also may involve separations, which include the last half of a calendar year, as this saves tax money by letting both parties legally claim they are single.

In any event, my "new divorce statistics" show we are not as badly off as you may have thought.

 

New Florida Senate Poll – 98% Oppose Crist

One new Florida Senate poll shows Marco Rubio again leading Charlie Crist. A second new Florida poll shows 98% oppose Crist on a key issue.

No new Florida Senate poll reflects record Rubio fund raising efforts. No new Florida Senate Poll shows the effect of the loss contributions on Republican Crist, since Rubio made him run as an independent. No new Florida Senate Poll also shows that former Republican supporters are suing Crist to get back contributions. However, the most important factor in the new Florida Senate poll may relate to having a vocal 98% oppose Crist on a key issue.

Crist is now desperate for money, with US Sugar as his biggest contributor. Florida strongly supported a Constitutional amendment to Save our Everglades from US Sugar. Now Crist is ignoring conflict of interest to reward US Sugar with a big overpriced land buyout. The State's own financial experts say this may cost $12 billion and raise taxes by $2,400 per homeowner. The NY Times says the price uses peak 2006 land values. Experts say US Sugar will get twice what the land is now worth. US Sugar also will use and pollute the land for at least 20 years after taxpayers pay for it.

14 Tea Party groups are among those who want a "NO" vote on Charlie's Bailout of U.S. Sugar. A SugarLandDeal poll shows 98% oppose Crist (will not vote for him) if the bailout succeeds. 54% will tell others not to vote for him. The agency response: postpone and close a scheduled public hearing.
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Hiring New Employees? New HIRE Tax Benefits

Hiring New Employees? New HIRE Tax Benefits

Two new tax benefits are now available to employers hiring workers who were previously unemployed or only working part-time. These provisions are part of the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment (HIRE) Act enacted on March 18, 2010.

Employers who hire unemployed workers this year (after Feb. 3, 2010 and before Jan. 1, 2011) may qualify for a 6.2-percent payroll tax incentive, in effect exempting them from their share of Social Security taxes on wages paid to these workers after March 18, 2010.

Hiring New Employees? New HIRE Tax Benefits

This reduced tax withholding will have no effect on the employee's future Social Security benefits, and employers would still need to withhold the employee's 6.2-percent share of Social Security taxes, as well as income taxes. The employer and employee's shares of Medicare taxes would also still apply to these wages.

In addition, for each worker retained for at least a year, businesses may claim an additional general business tax credit, up to $1,000 per worker, when they file their 2011 income tax returns.

Hiring New Employees? New HIRE Tax Benefits

The two tax benefits are especially helpful to employers who are adding positions to their payrolls. New hires filling existing positions also qualify but only if the workers they are replacing left voluntarily or for cause. Family members and other relatives do not qualify.

In addition, the new law requires that the employer get a statement from each eligible new hire certifying that he or she was unemployed during the 60 days before beginning work or, alternatively, worked fewer than a total of 40 hours for someone else during the 60-day period. The IRS is currently developing a form employees can use to make the required statement.

Hiring New Employees? New HIRE Tax Benefits

Businesses, agricultural employers, tax-exempt organizations, and public colleges and universities all qualify to claim the payroll tax benefit for eligible newly hired employees. Household employers cannot claim this new tax benefit.

Employers claim the payroll tax benefit on the federal employment tax return they file, usually quarterly, with the IRS. Eligible employers will be able to claim the new tax incentive on their revised employment tax form for the second quarter of 2010.

Revised forms and further details on these two new tax provisions will be posted on IRS.gov during the next few weeks.

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New Healthcare Law Adds FOUR BILLION New 1099 Forms in 2012 #hcr

The new #$%^ Healthcare (??) law adds FOUR BILLION (170+/company) new 1099 forms in 2012. This is for All GOODS and ALL SERVICES, to ALL payees, including CORPORATIONS (except non-profits). The new Healthcare law also adds 16,500 Internal Revenue Agents to enforce it. A new law also adds even more Internal Revenue Agents, to triple the number of small business IRS exams.

This means the new Healthcare and other laws will kill most net new jobs, as even liberals like Thomas Friedman now say that small businesses, NOT GOVERNMENT, create substantially all net new jobs.

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New QuickBooks Hosting, Worst Intuit Mistake 2

I knew Fred Lake from one of my QuickBooks hosting and outsourcing companies. He is now an Intuit Advisory Council member. After only seeing the headline of one of my New QuickBooks Hosting posts he wrote, "Mike. Why do you feel so strongly?  I looked it over and it looks pretty good."

I responded:

I am shocked that you found nothing objectionable to the New QuickBooks Hosting Program. I believe there are only two reasons that most QuickBooks hosting company executives, hosting customers, and QuickBooks users are not YET as outraged as I am by this program and its use of the QuickBooks Software License Agreement. I most respectfully submit that it is because they do not know the facts I know and have not spent the time I spent analyzing the New QuickBooks Hosting documents.

Please read http://www.quickbooks-blog.com/2010/04/new-quickbooks-hosting-worst-.html and the referenced posts and documents. The New QuickBooks Hosting Request for Information (RFI) will take thousands of dollars of time to properly complete. Intuit seems to want the type of data center Internal Revenue wants for a partial exemption from its anti-foreign tax preparer outsourcing. The official government estimated cost of that application is $150,000. That is not the cost of the data center, but the estimated cost of required paperwork.

I heard Intuit planned to license about 12 more hosting companies (total 15), while putting around a thousand out of business. There were 600,000+ Google links to QuickBooks hosting, so there may be far more hosting companies. Even if there are only a thousand companies, with an average of 200 users per company, this affects 200,000+ QuickBooks hosting users. The New QuickBooks Hosting also does not allow QuickBooks hosting on internal company servers, which may far more than double the affected QuickBooks hosting users.

Intuit Commercial New QuickBooks Hosting companies will pay $18,000 in the first year (including $3,000 before knowing if they qualify, as they cannot call on the RFI), $5,000 a year in later years, and $5/client per month. Intuit will get so much hosting company financial, operational, and security information that it can always further squeeze these New QuickBooks Hosting companies. It expressly reserves the right to make the information public and compete with the New QuickBooks Hosting companies, so it can give information on New QuickBooks Hosting rejects to its favored few.

The costs of these commerical New QuickBooks Hosting companies will not be competitive with the costs of self-hosting Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisors and Enterprise ISPs, so three times as many un-certified QuickBooks ProAdvisors will be upset. The cost differential also will let anyone in the New QuickBooks Hosting self-host group expand his practice to have 10,000+ clients, as a $1 white-label generic newsletter can make you my client. That exemption is only one that CPAs

Top Intuit execs actively encouraged the growth of the QuickBooks hosting without mentioning the shared computer prohibition in the SLA. To the contrary, some agreed that the SLA would change for the apparent violation. Now some execs are letting Intuit use this SLA to ban shared computer use. However, all network file servers are banned shared computers. Most shared network servers also run the QuickBooks network client - server program. These shared computers are not technically distinguishable from SLA banned shared terminal server computers, which is hypocritical.

The Intuit approach means that all who provided or used QuickBooks hosting service violated copyrights. This criminal offense applies to licensed New QuickBooks Hosting companies before licensing. If Intuit rejects an New QuickBooks Hosting applicant, the company will have to go out of business quickly. It will otherwise face many effectively admitted copyright violation and RICO Act charges. This makes the Intuit execs that encouraged QuickBooks hosting criminal co-conspirators. Some may consider them guiltier than those who committed the copyright offenses. Intuit may contract with New QuickBooks Hosting companies to legalize this in the future, but federal and state criminal prosecutors would be derelict in their duty to not prosecute prior violations. This is beyond hypocritical.

My latest post shows that there is no reason for any of this. Intuit can and should monitor be bill for inappropriate QuickBooks hosting. QuickBooks users should not be able to use a copy of QuickBooks during the day and have an outsourced contractor use the same copy of QuickBooks at night. I suspect Intuit would get more revenue by enforcing this improper dual use than they would from the New QuickBooks Hosting program.

Some of my many future New QuickBooks Hosting posts will show that

·         QuickBooks hosting companies can easily restructure, technically or legally, to avoid the New QuickBooks Hosting Commercial charges. 

·         Not allowing the very increasingly popular shared computer use, without punitive New QuickBooks Hosting charges, will hurt QuickBooks users, hosting companies, powerful allies, national and international authorities, and Intuit.

·         Intuit is betting its very survival on this issue, for far less extra revenue than it could and should get by charging for day - night QuickBooks use, when likely damages are 1,000 times as much.

I may be wrong about many of my predictions, but it is likely that even unsuccessful copyright or anti-trust litigation will make the New QuickBooks Hosting RFI data public.

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