Catch up on stories from the past week (and beyond) at the Slashdot story archive

 


Forgot your password?
Close
typodupeerror
Check out the new SourceForge HTML5 internet speed test! No Flash necessary and runs on all devices. ×

Comment Re:Look at who they appoint to the SCOTUS. (Score 3, Informative) 1576

by jaeson (#41906737) Attached to: Barack Obama Retains US Presidency

If you leave the US you won't have to pay US taxes.

Nope, the US is about the only country in the world that taxes non-residents the same as residents.

Not exactly. If you are a non-resident US citizen and you earn your income from a foreign company, then you get an exemption on this foreign-earned income up to $95K a year. So, you only pay US taxes if you make more than that amount.

http://www.irs.gov/Individuals/International-Taxpayers/Foreign-Earned-Income-Exclusion

Comment Re:Look at who they appoint to the SCOTUS. (Score 1) 1576

by jaeson (#41906085) Attached to: Barack Obama Retains US Presidency

If you leave the US you won't have to pay US taxes.

Nope, the US is about the only country in the world that taxes non-residents the same as residents.

Actually non-residents are only taxed the same way if the income was earned inside the USA. I live outside the USA but am a US citizen. I work for a company based outside the USA. I still have to file taxes in the US, but I also get an exemption for my foreign earned income. Unless you make more than $90K per year you wont pay anything in US taxes.

See http://www.irs.gov/Individuals/International-Taxpayers/Foreign-Earned-Income-Exclusion

The Courts

Use Your iPhone To Get Out of a Ticket 291

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the solid-use-of-your-time dept.
An anonymous reader writes to tell us that Parkingticket.com just announced new compatibility with the Safari web browser on Apple's iPhone, giving you new tools to immediately contest a parking ticket. The site is so confident in their service that if all steps are followed and the ticket is still not dismissed they will pay $10 towards your ticket. "The process begins by navigating the iPhone's Safari browser to the Parkingticket.com website where you'll find a straightforward means to fight a parking ticket; whether the ticket was issued in New York City, San Francisco, Boston, Philadelphia or Washington, D.C. Simply register for a free account and choose the city in which the ticket was issued. Enter your ticket and vehicle details then answer a few quick questions. The detailed process takes about ten minutes, from A-Z. To allow easy entry of your ticket, a look-a-like parking ticket is displayed — for your specific city — with interactive functionality."
Government

Streaming the Inauguration In a School? 201

Posted by timothy from the coronation-will-be-televised dept.
Anonymous Teacher writes "I work in a small school in Washington and we are trying to prepare a way to watch the inauguration in 20 classrooms over a 1.5 T1. As our bandwidth severely limits the ability to individually stream to these rooms, is there an alternative to presenting it to the students? Are there any sites that offer a downloadable copy of the video quickly after the event that can be hosted locally or is reconfiguring the computers to use a proxy server the best solution?"

Slashdot Top Deals

"Trust me. I know what I'm doing." -- Sledge Hammer

Close