graniteotter6 said:I guess Gustavsson is pulling off some miracles too🙏
Man, here we go—classic French tactics, now it’s basically Gazimestan all over again.
It’s kind of wild how Landin pulls seven saves in a row and suddenly the Danes are up by five, yet Gustavsson goes on a five-save streak and the lead stays exactly where it was (or maybe one less, I'm not totally sure)—it feels like he just kept them from falling behind by ten at that moment.😍.
heh, looks like everyone's having a blast with the sales tax and VAT filings, but did anyone run into issues with intra-community transactions? That stuff has to line up perfectly with the monthly tax totals—basically the invoice value—(so all those little tweaks people try to make with adjusting VAT or sales tax sometimes just fall apart because of how intra-state reporting works)
anyway, this whole situation feels pretty ripe for a solid 'rebalance'—pardon me, an audit😍
then there's the thing where invoices get recorded once the goods actually arrive, regardless of what the invoice date says, and so on... mostly because of how intra-state rules play out
rapidmason93 said:So let me get this straight. Every single purchase—goods, services, whatever—from local US businesses all goes under III.1 now?! 🤷
Everything that used to be split up between III.1, III.2, and III.3 in the old version is just lumped together into one giant pile under III.1 in this new format? Seriously? 😕
They basically added like 12 new rows for 'phantom taxes' but scrapped several actual ones just to toss them all into the same bucket 😍
plus they tacked on two extra forms that pretty much cover most of this 'phantom tax' stuff
man, they really outdid themselves with this 'brilliant' design, I guess
Zachary White17 said:I suppose true redundancy would be having two identical values on the exact same form. This doesn't really fit that definition. These are entirely separate documents used for different types of record-keeping and serve distinct purposes; for instance, I believe the supplemental report must be filed even by those not registered for sales tax, whereas the main return isn't required for them.
Look, I never said there was an issue with having two new forms. My point is about the Sales Tax form itself—it feels unnecessarily bloated when everything listed in those specific rows is already captured by the totals on these two other forms. Honestly, those new ones are even more detailed. I just don't see why we're making the main Sales Tax form so complicated when all that data is pulled from these two extra filings anyway. Like, what's the point? Just to see how much fake volume went through at a specific rate? Even the outgoing invoice tax doesn't really give you that level of detail.
ugh, anyone else notice how much they totally overcomplicate things with these sales tax forms? Like, having the VAT return, the summary report, and the excise tax filings all at once feels so redundant. For services taxed at 100%, they even say in the instructions 😵 that everything has to match—so why bother? And I haven't even figured out where the distinction is supposed to be for goods yet—like, when does something go on the main tax return versus those other two forms?
The main tax form has like ten extra line items that just make everything way more confusing than it needs to be. 😍 I mean, they already have all that data on the summary and excise reports anyway—you know, all the stuff about acquiring assets, imports from overseas, or exports to international markets.
they're claiming they posted updated XML schemas—you know, for sales tax and all that—but the link is broken. it doesn't even show the new ones... honestly, it's just looping back to the old version from last year😂
btw—is there some kind of bug on this site? If you try to go through them directly, they force you to register—which basically means paying—but if you just find a link via Google, you can see everything clearly right away without any hassle, and then you get full access 😍 (yeah, I guess it's just their way of protecting things)
1.4. Delivering goods on ships, planes, and trains For these kinds of deliveries within the USA, the place of delivery is basically where the passenger transport starts. For instance, if a passenger train heads out from Washington, D.C. toward Prague, and someone in Austria buys some chocolate being sold on that train—that chocolate would be subject to a 25% USA Sales Tax.
I guess my take on this is that an Amtrak train runs the New York-London route and back. When it leaves New York, they charge USA Sales Tax, then on the return trip, it's German tax. This would mean a vendor on an Amtrak train would need software that (theoretically) supports every single tax system in the USA. I mean, all they're missing now is having to handle 28 different ways of digital reporting. 😍
Maybe you could just put it in plain text after the line items? Like, for each individual item, you could give it a number (a bookmark or whatever) and then just explain what those numbers mean in a separate section at the end of the invoice
It’s kinda wild how people—when they actually have a choice and aren't being told what to do by some higher power—suddenly hit this mental wall and just freeze up, I guess
To be honest, I think those soft compounds are getting more and more dangerous
If Hamilton—who basically lives to burn through tires—had just one less pit stop than Alonso, he probably would’ve overtaken him a lap or two later. Looking at the total stops (Nico Rosberg 3, Mark Webber 3, Fernando Alonso 3, Lewis Hamilton 2, Kimi Raikkonen 2, Massa 4), it's pretty clear those two SC periods totally messed with the order. Honestly, Hamilton and Massa wouldn't have even dreamed of finishing 4th or 6th if that second SC hadn't happened. Plus, there were mistakes from others too, not just Kimi, who got passed after the second SC because they didn't go for tires—the most extreme case being Sergio Perez, who I guess tried to nurse that same set to the end, and well, look how that turned out.
One more thing—saying the tire compounds favor the Mercedes and Red Bull cars seems more accurate, while they seem softer on the Lotus and Ferrari.
BTW, how exactly did they pull off that passive DRS on the Lotus? (Technically, I get the concept, but still...)
Brian Kern70 said:I want to run through a specific scenario involving acquisitions within the European Union just to make sure I’ve actually got this down:
- An American business, let's call it Company A, buys $10,000 worth of goods from Company B in Germany (which is also a VAT-registered entity). - The shipment arrives with an invoice and a delivery note; on the invoice, the German company charges the full $10,000 without any sales tax (they mark it as "reverse charge" to indicate they aren't collecting tax because we'll handle the tax liability here in the States). - To be valid, the invoice needs to list both the American and German VAT IDs, and we have to verify those IDs in the VIES database to ensure they're legitimate. - We record the invoice at, say, $25000 (depending on the exchange rate), and during that month, we account for both the input credit and the tax liability for $6250, so everything nets out on the monthly tax return. - Aside from having the "reverse charge" label and both companies' VAT IDs, is it true that we can only claim the input credit if the invoice arrives by the 20th of the following month? In other words, if the invoice doesn't show up or we miss the filing deadline for the month the goods were delivered, are we barred from claiming that tax credit in future periods? - Once that's settled, if we sell those goods here in the US, we just charge the standard sales tax on our outgoing invoice like usual.
That seems pretty straightforward, but what happens if, for example, we only get a delivery slip and the goods show up on July 31st, but the actual invoice doesn't arrive until August 21st?
It’s all for the USA—as far as I know, that's how they handle things over there, and honestly, all these VAT tweaks are happening because of it. For example, importers within the USA won't have to cough up the tax the second they clear customs anymore; instead, it'll work like any other standard input invoice, which should make things a lot easier for them, I guess.
Roger Wright94 said:It wasn't even just about overtaking him. He actually managed to get under his skin too. And then he basically forced him into doing those interviews... Kimi, all those feelings and quotes... wtf? Seriously, tell me when anyone else has pulled that off. Not even when he was winning titles.
And I guess when Kimi gets pissed, it looks exactly like those last two laps. 😍
The way I see Perez, he’s just spinning his wheels until everything inevitably goes south 😍 it was honestly just a matter of time before this happened—those previous "successful" attempts (if you can even call those tiny little wins successes) probably just gave him too much confidence, so he tried to go for it against Kimi and... yeah, impossible
Grosjean, tbf, you're right—this isn't really his fault, but it's like driving here in the States; if you rear-end someone, you're always the one at fault because you weren't keeping enough distance 😬
Sutil was actually brilliant with his opportunities there—really gave both Alonso and Button a run for their money
Kimi during those last two laps... man, oh man, where did he come from? How did he jump all those people?
Alonso—was he even racing, or was he just out sightseeing in Monaco
Button was an even bigger tourist than Alonso
Rosberg, finally, thank God he actually managed to pull off a win with half a chance
Taylor Watson15 said:And what if these guys actually get hurt by this stuff? Like, they catch some trichomonas or chlamydia, or God forbid, syphilis. And then they have to tell their girlfriends it happened because they cut themselves on a coin?
Honestly, I think lately some people might actually prefer catching syphilis over trichomoniasis—especially with that new antibiotic-resistant strain going around.