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all taxes are paid into the IRS, and they in turn pay the State and city taxes....that way they can link reported income to property taxes.

Link this to a National ID Card and you can be tracked and taxed based on.....

.....your working hours (say 8 AM to 5 PM for example)

.....you normally work in Champaign, Ill but flew to Dallas with a 2 hour layover in Chicago.

.....Chicago charges you for two hours you were being paid while sitting at O'Hare.

.....You have to file a return in Champaign to get your 2 hours pay back from them.

.....You have to file in Chicago and Dallas because you were reported to be earning while in the cities, even if it is only once.

.....the increased accounting costs are paid by YOU.

.....the increased accounting costs are paid by YOU.

Really the key point. Information might want to be free, but it doesn't come for free. Ergo it's a tax and a waste of productivity and ultimately a theft of our labor. It's just slavery, really.

Grr. The state franchise tax board of california recomputed our 2007 tax liability for reasons yet unknown. They did this on friday (aug 28) and then sent a withholding notice to my employer received yesterday (aug 31). The amount matches the amount of a payment we made for 2007 in Feb. 2008, said payment cashed and applied already.

We speculate this is a purposeful scheme designed to extract extra cash from us, acknowledge the error, and hold (i.e. use in cash reserves) the amount until the 2009 return is sent in, where it will be applied/refunded.

I don't think we're just paranoid. They've attempted the same trick 4 times in the last 12 years. In the second attempt the employer didn't let me know until the amount had been deducted (and they erroneously took the full amount of my check and sent it off to the state!). We didn't get the cash back for 17 months!

If the state doesn't lift the order in time we're filing new withholding forms and reserving the net estimated tax liability in escrow. We'll fix it at the end of the year.