Crap, you know they are going to spin that suicide note as an anti-tax tea party guy instead of the nut that he is.
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I remember software engineers with his kind of history here on the east coast — into the tax avoidance schemes. I also was pissed about that tax section 1706 — the removal of the safe harbor from being W2 employees for contracting engineers, software developers, draftsmen and tech writers. It cost me a lot of money too.
It changed the whole engineering labor market. Still a bad idea. Embedded systems are project work. Design, build, deliver, done. It’s silly to have to take he status of a permanent employee for income tax ‘employee’ status to work on such projects. It’s a burden and drag on the market.