![]() If you filed an expense report and your employer did not fully reimburse you for costs that you paid out of pocket, you are permitted to deduct the unreimbursed expense from your tax returns. What If My Employer Didn’t Reimburse Me For Expenses? You can deduct your expenses from your taxes by using a Form 2106 or Form 2106-EZ. In this case, your employer would report your expense payments as income on your W-2. If your employer uses a nonaccountable plan, the IRS considers reimbursements, allowances, or advances as income. Your employer does not report any expense payments as income on your W-2.You must also return any excessive reimbursement. You must provide documentation to your employer of the expenses within a reasonable period of time.The reimbursement is for deductible expenses you paid while working as an employee.A plan is considered accountable under three conditions. If your employer uses an accountable plan, the United States Internal Revenue Service does not consider reimbursements, allowances, or advances as income. The type of plan your employer uses when reimbursing your expense reports determines if you will need to report expense reimbursements as income. Understanding the possibilities and how they fit into your expense reports can help you properly file your taxes.Įmployer Plans Have Different Impacts On Your Tax Returns ![]() However, these reimbursements can still factor into your returns. Obviously if your company has reimbursed you for expenses, you cannot write these expenses off. As you prepare to file your 2017 tax returns, you should know how expense reimbursements can factor into your income.
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![]() And that usually happens in fits and starts-it isn’t a clean-cut ‘V’ shape. You can only define the bottom when we’re clearly looking back in history and can pinpoint the day things began to turn around. That said, no one knows whether we’ve already reached the bottom. On average, the market reaches its trough about 4-8 months before the economic data. Historically, the stock market has bottomed out long before the worst of the economic data unfolded. ![]() Was this the bottom? Putting recent volatility in the stock market into context Which raises another key investment principle: global asset class diversification. ![]() If you miss out on the recovery, you simply can’t make that up. Over the last 20 years, 60% of the best 10 days for the S&P 500 fell within two weeks of the worst 10 days (more on that below). This leads me to another critical point: staying invested, even during a recession. Russell 3000.Īnd 2009 is a great example: despite a -27% downturn, the broad-based market rebounded to finish the year +28%. While daily declines and bouts of downward price pressure can cause investors a lot of stress, it’s important to remember that short-term swings don’t dictate how the market will do over the course of the entire year. stock market, finished 15 of the last 20 years in positive territory. That said, the Russell 3000, which represents about 98% of the U.S. How do sudden declines in the stock market during the year impact annual returns? The variance of returns effectively drains the portfolio, leading to smaller compounded returns. The more volatile an investment (measured by standard deviation), the more the arithmetic mean will vary from the geometric mean. Variance drain (or volatility drag) represents the negative impact volatility has on compounding. For example, if you started with $100,000 and lost -25%, you would need a gain of over 33% the next year to get back to $100,000. Keep in mind that because of the way returns are compounded, you will require a gain greater than your loss to break even as you have fewer dollars left to grow. If that holds this around, it would put the S&P at about 2200 some time around September.
![]() And Raven's attempts to expand the basic gameplay with a few scenes of vehicular combat, while admirable, enjoy only mild success, coming off more like chapters in an arcade rail-shooter from eight years ago than anything a modern shooter should have.īut what it may lack in challenge, Quake 4 gives back in atmosphere and looks, thanks to id's Doom 3 engine. Only when the game throws dozens of enemies at you at once does it really get challenging-and even then it doesn't come close to the challenges posed by F.E.A.R. here is slow (to be generous), and anyone with even rudimentary circle-strafing abilities can have most of the moronic strogg confused and helpless (and then dead) in seconds. Within this limited format, however, Raven gets it right, with frantic mayhem broken up by suspenseful moments of quiet and a uniformly satisfying collection of weapons-many of which get upgraded as the game proceeds-to help you get the job done. Level after level, you twist and turn through the labyrinthine strogg base-aided sometimes by NPC allies, but most oftentimes solo-gunning down hordes of monsters and encountering the occasional puzzle or two on the way to the next boss. You play as generic Marine beefcake Matthew Kane, a square-jawed hero with the magical ability to carry multiple guns at once and switch instantaneously between them even while crawling through sewer pipes. Picking up the plotline from Quake II (1999's Quake III: Arena was multiplayer only), Quake 4 puts you back on the planet Stroggos in the 21st century, where Earth wages a desperate counterattack against the evil cybernetic strogg, who-like most evil space aliens-seek to conquer our humble planet. ![]() But Quake 4-big, loud, and beautiful-does exactly what it was meant to do. Tougher and more innovative games are out there, for sure. Single player presents a back-to-basics thrill ride of a game that, in its simplicity, will appeal far beyond the hardcore shooter crowd, with well-paced levels, a good story, a few genuinely creepy moments, and-as usual-some of the best graphics in all of PC gaming. For Quake 4, id Software hired longtime companion Raven Software (Heretic, Hexen, Elite Force) to design a single-player campaign, and this move definitely paid off. So, seriously, do we really need to pick up our shotguns and trundle down dark corridors after the strogg-again? (see review, page 96), and the squad-based sophistication of Brothers in Arms. We have the deep multiplayer brilliance of Battlefield 2, the brutally wicked A.I. Now, of course, in the post-Half-Life world, with shooters taking the genre into all sorts of innovative directions, you could argue that the world doesn't really need Quake anymore. Quake was the cutting edge at the time-nothing came close-and for years "Quake killer" was the moniker applied to any game that even dared to compete. At the time, running and gunning was all we needed, especially when delivered in a 3D environment as astounding as the original game's. Quake 4 offers nothing particularly new or innovative, and yet still manages to entertain because sometimes retro and dumb and obvious is exactly what we want-especially when it's done as slickly and professionally as it is here.Ĭertainly first-person shooters have come a long way since id unleashed the first Quake on the world back in 1996. ![]() The online multiplayer modes of Quake 4 should feel much more reminiscent of Quake III, with their large weapon selection, diverse battle arenas, and intense, kill-or-be-killed gunplay. While boasting substantial graphical and audio improvements as well, significant refinements to the A.I., the single-player portion of Quake 4 holds true to the originals, and the story picks up where Quake II left off. Ultimately, Kane may be called upon to sacrifice a bit of his humanness, for the sake of humanity's ultimate victory. The fourth edition of id's popular first-person shooter returns to its roots, to offer single-players an extensive adventure in the role of a soldier named Matthew Kane. The forces of Earth take the offensive in Quake 4, in an effort to eliminate the Strogg menace at its source, once and for all. ![]() "I have 3 kids and have sat in different rows when they were passed toddler age. Lack of planning on their part does not constitute an inconvenience on yours," one person says. Folks need to plan their travel together. If it's not an upgrade it's a sacrifice," a commenter writes. Her refusal to give in to the mom's seemingly entitled request for Nelson's seat has resulted in parents and child-fee people cheering her on after she posted the details on her TikTok page, M圜ONQUERing. □♀️ #airplaneseat#seatswitching#airplanekarens It was so kind and I appreciated it so much because I was feeling really guilty. But the woman actually defended me – several times. The mom proceeded to complain for at least 15 minutes to the person next to her loud enough for me to hear. And the mom was in arms-reach of both of them from the middle seat in the row behind us. ![]() □♀️ Before anyone comes after me… the kids looked like they were about 11 and 15 years old. ![]() Carpenters, entrepreneurs building homes, painters, and even first-time homeowners can now use methods from generations past to make projects had only 90 minutes of sleep the night before and knowing I had to give a presentation to 500 people, I desperately needed some sleep, so I did not agree to switch seats. We help craftspeople teach the skills they use on the job every day, and inspire others to make a career move into skilled careers. That’s why we started MT Copeland: to capture the craftsmanship seen in the built world around us (our homes, our workplaces, our cities), and help anyone learn directly from experienced professionals. And over 40% of skilled workers will retire in the next 10 years. In construction specifically, the demand for housing-especially affordable housing-and safer roads and bridges is only increasing. Craftsmanship, the human trait that enables us to care for and love the work we produce, especially in the built environment.Įven as we make advancements and increase efficiencies in technology, the built world desperately needs more people who care about craft and want to work with their hands. As AI makes daily headlines (and robots take over), I’ve been thinking more about the future of human work and the value of craftsmanship. |
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