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Just checked and this bloke takes damage when he crashed his bike but Phil didn't earlier. Granted he wasn't going anywhere near as fast so could be wrong still.
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Just checked and this bloke takes damage when he crashed his bike but Phil didn't earlier. Granted he wasn't going anywhere near as fast so could be wrong still.
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phil crashed the plane 3 feet away from the runway. how fucking awful can one be.
edit: remember how he said he wouldn't interrupt gameplay to give shoutouts. crashed the plane to give a shoutout again
edit 2: you know you'd think someone who's aware his 'detractors' constantly point out stream chat viewing. would try to hide it. not phil. every-time he goes above radar he's looking away from the screen at streamchat
edit: remember how he said he wouldn't interrupt gameplay to give shoutouts. crashed the plane to give a shoutout again
edit 2: you know you'd think someone who's aware his 'detractors' constantly point out stream chat viewing. would try to hide it. not phil. every-time he goes above radar he's looking away from the screen at streamchat
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the best part is the cheerer wasn't even talking about war. his cheer was for mordor
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confirmed phil has magic radar seeing senses.
oh no wait
confirmed phil hates a challenge and hates being pushed to do better
phil can say a game is the worst thing he has ever played, then two days later says it was okay and give it a 9/10, then snap and say it's horrible shit after playing it again for 5 minutes
WeeblesWobble
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No vehicle crash damage. You may or may not take damage on bike crashes depending on speed.
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Fair enough, I'm not fussed if people are in agreement that it's unlikely he was cheating. Been a good few years since I played so I could be remembering some things wrong. I was more curious than anything else. It just seemed like he was in situations where he should've took damage but didn't.
JohnnyBoi
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I'm quite curious what ends up being bought at the end of this "fundraiser". It's a trend that seems to never die as phil will buy something expensive after whining about financial woes.
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Asking other people to pay your taxes is so scummy. Especially someone as well off as DSP. I can't even imagine what his parents would think if they found out he did that.
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"Thank you all for joining a donating in this fundraiser, and unfortunately I might have to have another one soon cause... Oh... Kat is pregnant from six months ago"
It's pretty disingenuous to have a fundraiser when he doesn't know how much he needs. People are late on their taxes all the time - it's not a big deal. He keeps making it out like if he's off by $2,000 he's going to have to put his house on the market. Interest on late payments is going to be like $50 at most.
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'It's greed. Greed is massively strong.'
didn't he raise something absurd last begathon? like 5-10K. He'll keep doing it every couple months until he faces a major backlash or fails to get a significant amount. I already suspect this begathon will kinda fall flat.
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Last time he had pay whales like Vidar, Jezal, and goldencolts. And he had a bunch of people crowding his stream on the heels of the MysteryWoman drama.
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He let it slip that he had some saved still. His financial problems don't seem nearly as bad as he makes them out to be; well as evident by Kat buying a whole new fucking PS4.
Waveysauce
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yea like ive said before only the biggest of retards would still believe he has no idea the amount he needs by now..... the IRS/State gov just doesn't say "you def owe a pretty good amount, but we have to get back to you on what the total actually is, give us a month too let you know"
Nor do they say shit like "and you have to pay us the big bulk sum of what we are asking for or we are kicking down your door and taking your house! we dont accept payment plans"
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I’ve seen a number of people here doubting Phil’s state tax situation. I personally believe he got nailed with back taxes this last year. However, I believe he had no idea what he owed and assumed he owed about what he would have owed in CT. So I decided to crunch some numbers this afternoon.
I assumed he made $90,000 per year. This is going off the estimates of $80k to $100k I’ve seen around here. As an “entertainer”, he would fall under the highest tax rate of 1.5%, giving us $1,350. However he would have qualified for a small business tax break that brings his liability down to $1,015. There is a 29% penalty for being 3 months late and a 2% interest rate charge in 2015 and 2016 bringing the total around $1,300 per year. His back taxes would have come up to about $2,700 total and current taxes to $1,015. Connecticut, however, has a tax rate of 5.5% (6% if over $100k), which would have brought his entire tax bill to about $15k before penalties and interest.
I think this is why he was convinced he was going to lose the house back when he first found out he owed the state of Washington and convinced even his paypigs wouldn’t be able to bail him out. But at some point he did find out how much he owed and his mood became much better (possibly before thanksgiving when he finally decided to go public). Now here’s the real kicker, per state law, tips are NOT taxable. So his tax bill could have been considerably smaller than what I laid out here, nearly by half.
One thing that can be said about Phil is he pays his taxes. I have no doubt he set aside some of that money from the last Beg-a-Thon to pay his federal taxes. Beg-a-Thon 2: Electric Begaloo is just his attempt to finally get that 4K TV and PS4Pro he’s been drooling over.
I assumed he made $90,000 per year. This is going off the estimates of $80k to $100k I’ve seen around here. As an “entertainer”, he would fall under the highest tax rate of 1.5%, giving us $1,350. However he would have qualified for a small business tax break that brings his liability down to $1,015. There is a 29% penalty for being 3 months late and a 2% interest rate charge in 2015 and 2016 bringing the total around $1,300 per year. His back taxes would have come up to about $2,700 total and current taxes to $1,015. Connecticut, however, has a tax rate of 5.5% (6% if over $100k), which would have brought his entire tax bill to about $15k before penalties and interest.
I think this is why he was convinced he was going to lose the house back when he first found out he owed the state of Washington and convinced even his paypigs wouldn’t be able to bail him out. But at some point he did find out how much he owed and his mood became much better (possibly before thanksgiving when he finally decided to go public). Now here’s the real kicker, per state law, tips are NOT taxable. So his tax bill could have been considerably smaller than what I laid out here, nearly by half.
One thing that can be said about Phil is he pays his taxes. I have no doubt he set aside some of that money from the last Beg-a-Thon to pay his federal taxes. Beg-a-Thon 2: Electric Begaloo is just his attempt to finally get that 4K TV and PS4Pro he’s been drooling over.
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As an adult, if I was slammed with a tax penalty to the tune of $6000 or $8000+ dollars I would never cry "they're gonna take my suv and condo!" No. I would work with the IRS on a payment plan. Say what you want, but Phil suffers from hyperbole--he will exaggerate a mild arm pain to be the precursor of a stroke.
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Laws have context. The Washington laws that state tips are not taxed under retail sales tax and B&O tax are in reference to employer-employee relationships, not sole proprietorships. A sole proprietor cannot identify income they've received as a gratuity to avoid paying taxes on it. If they could, for example any performer could do gigs at bars and other establishments and live off tips and enjoy a tax-free income, which conflicts with the stated purpose of B&O which is to tax those who benefit from doing business in the state.
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Phil at one point gave a ballpark estimate of the back taxes. He said it was "thousands, but not more than $10,000". I don't have a reference for that, but I'm sure someone could find it. So he wasn't miscalculating using the wrong tax rate. He's just an exaggerating, ignorant, and/or lying sack of shit trying to get other people to fund him.
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To expand, the laws that refer to the tax status of voluntary tips are written to help define whether or not tips a customer is paying are taxable income for the business. As B&O tax is based on gross receipts a business cannot reduce its taxable income by charging mandatory service fees then paying them as wages to a server, however it can keep its taxable income from increasing by simply not being involved in the transaction- making tips truly optional and between the customer and the server.
The reason this works is because servers do not pay B&O tax on ANY of their compensation because they are not businesses, they are employees. DSP is self employed. Any gratuities he gets are still self employment income and as a consequence subject to tax.
Now, if he established a corporation and hired himself as an employee he could then consider those gratuities as transactions between himself as an employee and the customers of the business who employs him, avoiding the B&O tax because the money is not part of the gross receipts of the business. These are the kind of decisions business owners have to consider. DSP NEVER considers these type of things which is why he's in the financial situation he's in. He wants the freedom of being a business owner without any of the responsibility, long hours, or unpaid work.
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