Who in their right mind would conduct business under a sole proprietorship when they are the sole distributor of a major manufacturer? They would be personally held liable for any issues if it came to court and put all their personal possessions at risk. Your presumptions on my lack of knowledge hold no water here. I asked for a tax I’d state and federal under the presumption they were not dumb enough to operate under a sole proprietorship. Also if you look at my email I asked both Scott and Yoshi about the ids.
Once again here is a very large sole proprietorship
https://www.reference.com/business-finance/famous-sole-proprietors-eb31c3cfaaf62fe3The problem is I do have an IRS background and I am certain that you do not know much about what you are saying here.
While I do. Just say Phil I might be right but I have to say you could be correct and my conversation with them does not mean for sure I am correct they are scamming.
I will say exactly this I don't think they are scamming and I will find out in Late March/ early April what is true.
There's no doubt that one could operate as a sole proprietorship legally and not want to divulge their SSN in the US, but if they were making any kind of decent profits , would they not have to pay the additional 15% self employment tax on top of income taxes (fed and state) ? Why would anyone do this and give up 15% of their profits?
well at one time there was a cap off the top of my head say 175,000 and the 15% is really 7.5 + 7.5
since you pay 7.5 with a salary. So 84 lumber was paying and extra 7.5 on say 175,000 or 13,125 extra which is partially deducted some times.
I think he feels the total control is worth it.
Also as a schedule c filer my self that is primarily doing sales you can shift tax burden forward.
Lets say it was Jan 1 2017 and I have 10,000 in ending inventory when coins went mad last fall. and I made more mining then selling for s short time Nov + Dec. I can decide to push all profits into inventory and I did purchase 40-50 k in gear in those 2 months.
So when my tax year ended in dec 2017 my ending inventory for jan 2018 was close to 60 k. vs 10 k So I shifted profits legally from last year to this year. I sold a lot of gear in January 2018 . So the tax return will not be due until april 2019 rather then april 2018.
All legal.
Yoshi is me at a bigger scale so I would imagine he could be doing this. Also he does have a Japanese connection. I do not know enough about his passport etc to say what he does about taxes and my tax work was collection for the IRS. My wife did individual returns as did my mom. My mom retired in 1987 my wife retired a few years ago.
Now does all this mean this is not a scam nope it could be.
This is why I lie in wait for late March to see if Yoshi does deliver what he promised to me.
I hope it is good gear. As bitmain has tired me out a lot.
I do more GPUS by far then asics as I get decent service. From them.
The only reason I still have any asics is Yoshi more then any other reason.