No! Not This Month! (Developing Resistance to CDCDCD)

[knight66]

Well, it's already been established that gift cards are exempt.  What are the tax implications of having salary dispensed in the form of gift cards?

Taxable as part of your reward in exchange for work. That will be $10 dollars please.

Mike

[knight66]

I'm still with you but don't think I'll last much longer. I'm not the master of my domain...........

Just as well there was no bet involved.

Mike

[karlhenning]

Well, it's already been established that gift cards are exempt.

No, those purchases were booked last year; it's only the deliveries that are this month.

[knight66]

That is a very legalistic definition of a purchase. Are you going to pop up in March to tell us you ordered some impending releases last August?

Just wonderin'

Mike

[karlhenning]

You are listening to them? What has that got to do with the need to buy them?

Mike

Judiciously managed, the act of listening can serve to retard the impulse to buy more . . . preoccupation, rather than disincentive, I mean.

[knight66]

Judiciously managed, the act of listening can serve to retard the impulse to buy more . . . preoccupation, rather than disincentive, I mean.

Oh, the classic misdirection moves. I guess they could work for a while.

Mike

[karlhenning]

That is a very legalistic definition of a purchase.

Simply practical, I thought. No monies going out. Ask a bank if that matters ; )

[karlhenning]

Oh, the classic misdirection moves. I guess they could work for a while.

Often a challenge, to manage the will, I suppose : )

[karlhenning]

.. . Ask a bank if that matters ; )

Or a freshman Republican Congressman

[knight66]

Simply practical, I thought. No monies going out. Ask a bank if that matters ; )

Oh you are hiding behind the legal niceties. How about when it is the other way round, it arrives you listened to it and sold it on, but the credit card bill has not hit the deck? When is a purchase a purchase.....somewhere between order and it dropping through the door and you paying for it....a moveable feast depending on which side of the year end what you regard as the significant leg of the transaction falls.

Mike

[karlhenning]

Oh you are hiding behind the legal niceties. How about when it is the other way round, it arrives you listened to it and sold it on, but the credit card bill has not hit the deck? When is a purchase a purchase.....somewhere between order and it dropping through the door and you paying for it....a moveable feast depending on which side of the year end what you regard as the significant leg of the transaction falls.

Mike

If you want to play, we can certainly pitch the green as you please : )  I was arbitrary, but I am yet flexible

[Scarpia]

If you want to play, we can certainly pitch the green as you please : )  I was arbitrary, but I am yet flexible

Well, I have an credit card that gives me gift certificates based on the amount charged per month.  Just the opposite incentive I need.   

[jowcol]

Well, I'm still listening to earlier purchases, some of them for the first time . . . so I don't see this project as any hardship . . . .

Does ordering mp3 downloads count?  Maybe that is the methadone for the music junkie.

[karlhenning]

Hadn't considered the question . . . 'tis not my method.  Not that there's anything wrong with it . . . .

[Scarpia]

And you're neglecting the most obvious coping mechanism.  Just boost them.   

[jowcol]

Hadn't considered the question . . . 'tis not my method.  Not that there's anything wrong with it . . . .

Come on.  Just try one...  You can stop any time you like...

[karlhenning]

Come on.  Just try one...  You can stop any time you like...

Now, you see, that's what I was saying . . . but all my buds here are arguing that I am not yet in any position of quitting . . . .

[Henk]

Just have to get that Mendelssohn Dohnanyi box. And some Boulez.

[karlhenning]

Bless you, Henk! How could you have known that Mendelssohn is the easiest composer in the world for me to resist? : )

I am renewed in strength of resolve.

[jowcol]

Bless you, Henk! How could you have known that Mendelssohn is the easiest composer in the world for me to resist? : )

I am renewed in strength of resolve.

If you bought a new Schoenberg album you could prove it!