Posts by Timothy Torres3

casualorca5 said:America isn't subject to those reporting rules.
As for sales tax, it depends on whether you're filing based on when you get paid or when you send the invoice.😁

I'm not registered for sales tax. So, from what I can gather, it seems like nothing from the US would show up on my sales tax filings or my CIA reports at all, right?

I work as a freelance translator.
Typically, my monthly workload involves handling two separate accounts—one for the United Kingdom and one for the Czech Republic. I have to file both my sales tax returns and my FBI reports, and the totals end up being identical on both forms.

However, this month is a bit different because I have three specific invoices to account for:
1) United Kingdom
2) Czech Republic
3) America

My question is regarding the filing process: should I be submitting sales tax filings for all three of these, while limiting my FBI reporting to just the first two? Does an invoice from America fall under the scope of the FBI reporting requirements (I suspect it doesn't), and does it still require a sales tax filing?

Hello there; I’m honestly not entirely certain if I’ve landed in the right thread here. I run my own small business, and since I haven't registered for sales tax, I assume I'm just being taxed on my income, correct?
Here is my dilemma: I have spent the entire year being incredibly careful to ensure my total amount to Invoice doesn't exceed the $300,000 threshold so I can avoid being forced into the sales tax system. But now, my accountant is telling me that they don't care about what I've actually invoiced—they care about the actual cash hitting my bank account. As it stands, with a deposit that cleared this morning, my total incoming transfers for the year have officially hit $101. Does the government look at the gross revenue from the services provided (what was actually Invoiced), or are they looking at the raw cash flow (the difference between what comes in and what goes out)?

On a separate note: if I am indeed forced to register for sales tax, how much of a massive headache am I looking at? Am I going to end up with significantly less money in my pocket at the end of the day??

Dammit! This is the first time in my life I’ve felt genuinely angry that someone actually paid me ten days ahead of schedule!!! To hell with them, honestly.

Hello there!
I run my own small freelance translation business here in the States; I operate as a sole proprietor, I'm not registered for sales tax, and I work out of my own apartment.
I just recently learned that I might actually have the right to rent my own living space to myself through a formal lease agreement and then write those expenses off against my business income. How exactly does one go about this? Would I simply draft an agreement on $333, sign it as both the landlord and the tenant, and then $333 transfer the funds from my business account over to my personal checking account?
I’ve heard that this is a common practice among others in my position. Does anyone here actually do this, or could someone provide some clarity on the process I described above?

When it comes to orthotics and insoles, I have actually discovered that simply adding a bit of extra height under my heel makes a world of difference. For instance, I’ve started tucking two heel lifts into my sneakers—I usually just pick up those specific ones at CVS (they actually have a cutout designed specifically for people dealing with plantar fasciitis, but I just ignore the hole entirely). When I layer one directly on top of the other, I get this perfect little elevation that makes running or even just walking feel significantly more effortless and comfortable.

I found myself caught up in quite a heated debate last night, and it left me wondering what you all think: is it actually possible to correct flat feet once you’ve reached adulthood? I have spent my entire life operating under the firm belief that it simply isn't doable—that my foot is essentially just a limp, lifeless mass lacking any real muscle tone. Yet, here is this ballerina, trying to convince me that if I just commit to about twenty minutes of targeted exercises every single day, I could actually achieve proper foot structure and lift my arches.
Do you honestly believe that’s feasible? To my mind, it sounds a bit far-fetched; if it were truly that simple, nobody in the country would be struggling with flat feet.

In the end, I’d say we managed to salvage about half of it. The most significant hurdle was that the Restore process didn't actually reach completion; it just sort of stalled out halfway through. To make matters worse, I wasn't able to double-check everything last night because my husband decided to head to bed and performed a hard force shut down on the computer without even checking if I was finished—and since I was already fast asleep, I didn't have a say in the matter. Now, the results are incredibly inconsistent: some of the JPEGs still retain their metadata, like the date they were taken, while others are only displaying half of the image, and for about fifty percent of them, there is absolutely nothing left to see.
It doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things. Long live Facebook, I suppose; after all, the most vital pieces of our lives end up living there anyway, and they are developed so much more beautifully within those digital spaces—and even more so when you find them curated in albums.

So, here’s the situation: my brother managed to recover some files by attaching an extra hard drive, moving the lost images onto it, and then copying them back over to his C: drive,
BUT there is still a massive issue because most of them aren't displaying properly—they're just showing up with that dreaded red X icon. We are talking about roughly 42,000 images here, and to make matters worse, every single one of them is showing yesterday's date as the creation date... Is there anything at all that can be done via software to solve this? Specifically, I am looking for ways to:
a) extract the original metadata or timestamps from the photos so I can actually sort them by their true dates and delete the junk,
b) effectively "repair" the image files so they actually render and display correctly again.

Introduction: About ten days ago, I transferred a massive batch of photos from my phone to my computer. My C: drive was already hitting that critical red zone with almost no space left even before the transfer. Once I moved everything over, my computer started lagging terribly. I decided I needed to clear some space, specifically by looking through my Library folder since it’s the largest one—I tend to take a ton of photos and record videos of my kids.

So, here’s what happened: I opened my Library to see what was eating up all the storage. I noticed that inside the Videos subfolder, there were a huge number of JPEGs that also appeared to be sitting in my Pictures folder. I thought to myself, "What on earth is going on? Is everything just duplicated?" I decided to filter the view to show me every single JPEG within that Videos folder, and suddenly, tens of thousands of files popped up. I selected them all and hit Delete. It took several hours for the deletion process to finish.

Once the deletion was done, I realized with absolute horror that those images had vanished from BOTH the Videos folder AND the Pictures folder. Everything is gone—my child's birth, her first year, basically every precious photo from 2006 through roughly 2013, though a few stray ones pop up here and there, and I even have empty folders from 2015. There are hardly any images left at all (and honestly, I have no idea how those few remaining ones weren't caught in the wipe either).

The C: drive isn't red anymore; it’s back to blue and shows plenty of available space (138 GB free).

Naturally, I went straight to the Recycle Bin, where I saw those tens of thousands of photos waiting there. I selected all of them and clicked Restore. The restoration process dragged on for several hours. During that time, I stepped away, and my husband ended up shutting down the computer for the night, so I really don't know if an error message popped up or anything; the computer doesn't tell me.

When I turned the computer back on in the morning, the pictures were nowhere to be found. They didn't return to their original folders. I tried searching for them using the search function (some of them had specific filenames), but I got zero results. The C: drive is still showing plenty of blue space, which means the images definitely did not return to the C: drive.

I ended up downloading Recuva. It managed to find a bunch of Lost Files and Orphaned Files—though I honestly have no idea what those terms actually mean. It found tens of thousands of files, ranging from my friends' Facebook profiles to random news thumbnails and even some adult content my husband probably views, but there is just too much clutter for me to figure out if my lost family photos are actually in there. Plus, there aren't any options for Restore, Delete, or Search... I am genuinely unsure if I am even looking in the right place to actually DO SOMETHING about this.

Any bit of intelligent advice would be more than welcome. Is there anyone out there who can help me? I'm currently in San Diego, and I am just absolutely heartbroken.