Schwab Supplementary Tax Information

It sounds like you wish to get a large tax return. In that case when filling out your W-4 form you should claim S-0 (that’s single with zero exemptions). This means that your employer will take out the maximum amount. For those people who insist upon the government having use of their money all year there is also an option to have additional funds taken out and held and then returned when your annual return is filed. For that matter you could allow the government to keep it all during the year and then when you file your return instead of taking a refund just tell them to keep it toward next years return. Seriously, I know the large tax return seems nice and for some people that is how they save for vacations and other things, but a tax return is not a gift from the USA. It is your money and receiving a large tax return means that you allowed someone else to have your money for a year without paying you interest for the privilege of keeping your money.

If your business entity is incorporated in another country by a partner accounting and consulting firm, they should be able to also deal with the tax requirements for that location. It's merely an expense to pay, sometimes monthly, sometimes yearly. I'm not here to advertise but my team here has been helping companies do this for over 10 years now. Amazon has a site specifically for compliance references. They link to partner companies around the world that assist with this kind of thing. Just google “amazon FBA compliance reference” you should be able to find their site.

If you are not sophisticated with taxes, DON'T try this form. You can get yourself in a lot of trouble.  Get a good CPA or EA.  The time and effort it will take you to figure this thing out is not worth it. If you value your time at more than the minimum wage, you will save time and money by hiring a professional.

Departments of education and school districts always have to make decisions about what to include in their curriculum.  There are a lot of life skills that people need that aren't taught in school.  The question is should those skills be taught in schools?I teach high school, so I'll talk about that.  The typical high school curriculum is supposed to give students a broad-based education that prepares them to be citizens in a democracy and to be able to think critically.  For a democracy to work, we need educated, discerning citizens with the ability to make good decisions based on evidence and objective thought.  In theory, people who are well informed about history, culture, science, mathematics, etc., and are capable of critical, unbiased thinking, will have the tools to participate in a democracy and make good decisions for themselves and for society at large.  In addition to that, they should be learning how to be learners, how to do effective, basic research, and collaborate with other people.  If that happens, figuring out how to do procedural tasks in real life should not provide much of a challenge.  We can't possibly teach every necessary life skill people need, but we can help students become better at knowing how to acquire the skills they need.  Should we teach them how to change a tire when they can easily consult a book or search the internet to find step by step instructions for that?  Should we teach them how to balance a check book or teach them how to think mathematically and make sense of problems so that the simple task of balancing a check book (which requires simple arithmetic and the ability to enter numbers and words in columns and rows in obvious ways) is easy for them to figure out.  If we teach them to be good at critical thinking and have some problem solving skills they will be able to apply those overarching skills to all sorts of every day tasks that shouldn't be difficult for someone with decent cognitive ability  to figure out.  It's analogous to asking why a culinary school didn't teach its students the steps and ingredients to a specific recipe.  The school taught them about more general food preparation and food science skills so that they can figure out how to make a lot of specific recipes without much trouble.  They're also able to create their own recipes.So, do we want citizens with very specific skill sets that they need to get through day to day life or do we want citizens with critical thinking, problem solving, and other overarching cognitive skills that will allow them to easily acquire ANY simple, procedural skill they may come to need at any point in their lives?