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karion
03/03/09

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There is a reason Pareene didn't write this post, one about his usual beat.

Owen, I am trying to be cool, but this sucks out loud. This is vintage Valleywag - publish something that smells like horseshit and hope it gets picked up as a thing.

I don't slam the Gawker writers and am generally your biggest supporters, but this horseshit is bothersome.
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Master Billy
03/03/09

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Nowhere in this post did she speak up about anything. A more accurate headline might be, "Unrelated people speak up about confusing possible tax mistake maybe made by wife of Obama's vetter."
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Owen Thomas
03/03/09

@Master Billy: Stephen Cohen is a longtime friend of the Craigs, and claims to have spoken to Noyes. Up to you whether to believe him.
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Carol Gardens
03/03/09

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In your original post you wrote "By not registering Craig may have avoided local business taxes." You offer no proof at all of this and simply imply tax evasion.
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Carol Gardens
03/03/09

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Good gosh. Plenty of freelance graphic designers in New York City are sole proprietors and simply fill out a Schedule C. I don't know if it is different in DC but is this really a big deal? And is it not possible that a government bureaucracy just can't locate the occupancy permit?
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Grim Reaper of the Forest
03/03/09

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I don't normally give the benefit of the doubt, the D.C. harassed me for a year about unpaid taxes until I showed them a copy of my cashed tax check they were claiming they never got. I wouldn't put it past the government to have lost the records.
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BadUncle
03/03/09

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Freelancers need a license? wtf??
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HeathVerres
03/01/09

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colonelpanic, clearly you have never owned a business. I started one last year. If you google "starting a new business" you can't help but be aware from any of the 67 million page returns that filing for a business license in your city is one of the very first steps. Anyone in business for more than year would certainly discover this even if it was missed at first. Even if one is a total idiot, most businesses (in California at least) display their business license in a conspicuous place. If you ever walk into a restaurant or any small business, it's nearly impossible to not know that you need a business license from the city. As the fees are usually quite low, the main reason for not having one is because the city denied permission for your home based business (and coincidentally, “customers visiting your residence/business” is cited as the main reason for denying a home based business license.) I beg to differ regarding the ethics of the self employed. I know quite a few self employed people and a quick poll shows that ALL have their business licenses, even the ones working out of their home.
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Carol Gardens
03/03/09

@HeathVerres: Absolutely not true. There are plenty of graphic designers, illustrators, writers, and other professionals who are sole proprietors and do not have a business license. Most of the ones I know do not have customers come to them, however.
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Uncle_Billy_Slumming
02/28/09

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You guys duplicated a webofdeception.com error.

"Noyes Graphics operates out of the home she shares with her husband and invites walk-in traffic into the home."

They link, and you link to a site which displays an ad on the left, and the location mapped on the right. If they would have clicked on one of the other graphic designers, they would have seen the same merged boilerplate: "Stop by our location in charming Washington..."

She probably didn't even know the ad existed. Many companies aggregate business listing info and create these sorts of ads automatically to create a base for their directories, without requiring advertisers initially.

Noyes graphics does not "invite walk-in traffic into the home," only the ad does that.
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Uncle_Billy_Slumming
02/27/09

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It must be said:

We need a better vetter.
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ninety_nine
02/27/09

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Unless someone has definite proof she is not operating as a sole-proprietor, this is worse than gotcha. Bandying about 'Dun & Bradstreet' as it if meant something to anyone is proof positive you don't know shit about being a small business operator.

While we're on the topic, did all the Gawker contractors file their NYC-202 last year?
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Schm
02/27/09

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Yep. She looks like someone who would design stamps for a living.
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pufflehuff
02/27/09

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I really, really, seriously need glasses. No joke.
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