DarksydePhil / TheyCallMeDSP / Phil Burnell - General Discussion

[ReentryPhantom]

It would depend on how good of a tax guy he has. Like a really good one, would be doing that yes. But its busy work, Phil doesn't "have a guy", he at best has a number to a desk at like H&R block who really only exists to just double check his numbers and like I mentioned make sure he is following the law. Like that example I brought up where you could only take so much of an exemption.

For example some of you old hands might recall that he got behind in the first place because he had a Connecticut guy doing Washington taxes. This obviously sounds stupid. And it is stupid, because that is the reason you have a fucking tax guy in the first place. To know all the laws and shit.

To make a nerdy reference a tax guy is like a DM in D&D. A guy who referees the game play and makes sure the players are following the rules. To make a much more accurate, yet horribly nerdier, he is like a referee in the old Kriegspell games. Where he is checking all the scoring and keeping everyone following the rules while the government and the average person play the game.

If I recall, the CT tax guy was a friend of the family.

 

[MoonRocker]

Question: if he's paying a tax guy, could he not just provide his electric bills (as an example) for the year to the tax guy? Isn't the tax guy's job to process this information for Phil? Like, I could log into my electric company's website now and download a PDF of every month's bill from the time I started paying for the service. That would take me all of a few minutes to do.

Everything you're saying about digging up receipts makes some sense, but for the overwhelming majority of his stuff, he should be able to get to electronic copies pretty easily. Even stuff like his game purchases should have digital receipts available.

Maybe I'm being unfair, but it really shouldn't take him all that long, especially since he's been doing this for going on 12 years now.

I’ll illuminate how taxes work if you own a single proprietorship S Corp as a pass through for taxes. Note that this is what I’ve been doing for the last three years.

If Phil had a competent tax guy, the very first thing he would do is open a business bank account. Once that account is opened and you have business debit and credit cards as well as an account number, almost every personal purchase that you would do for yourself (restaurant, rent, car payments, water/ electricity bill, car maintenance, cars, real estate, investments, and a lot of miscellaneous purchases) need to go through your business. Not every expense can be written off but enough can so you don’t end up paying taxes on the majority of your spending at the personal state and federal tax rates and instead use that marginal 15% tax rate enjoyed by an S Corp (remember that the social class with the most benefits in the US are corporations). That’s why so many celebrities and rich people own so called shell/ holdings companies when they purchase real estate and other big assets because they can hide their identities but also write off a huge part of their spending.

I then give access to my bank account to my tax attorney (who has multiple CPAs working for him, so I really do have a tax attorney working for me, unlike Phil who’s probably having a cheap CPA) and that takes care of 90% of the work on my side. The things I have to provide additionally are access to my investment portfolio (so Fidelity, E*TRADE, and Robinhood send me tax filings at the end of year which I email to my tax attorney), any receipts related to car purchases, any real estate investments, any loans, and any gambling proceeds that may have accrued throughout the year. After minimal work, I wash my hands off any more work. By YE anyways, it’s very easy to already expect what my income is going to be so I can have an additional 4 months to save money so come April, I can pay whatever will be required of me.

As far as we’re aware and based on his bankruptcy filings, Phil does not own his own business bank account related to his business but does have an EIN for his business. He owns one bank account that mixes personal and business-related expenses (“yes I own it and it is business-related”) so it is most likely an amalgam of garbage sprinkled with debits from his PayPal account and monies from Twitch.

All he’d have to do is give access to his bank account to his accountant, produce a PayPal report of all the money that was debited into his account and credited out as well as a breakdown of all tips debited into his account (since he probably uses PayPal as a service for small business merchant partners, such reports are 100% available to him), and provide the copy of Twitch’s 1099 that they’ll send to him in December/ January (they might even have quarterly filings available through the Twitch Partner portal) and he literally doesn’t have to do anything.

A whole lot of text to basically say: Phil is fucking lying because if you have someone working for you to file your taxes, it’s really minimal work. Or he is using some H&R Block/ TurboTax service that would have him do most of the work.

Surprise, surprise... the pig is being a dishonest piece of shit once again.

 

[Mr.PiggyOinkOinkOinkOink]

I know I’m a few days late but his logic of being embarrassed by sex scenes in game is peak boomer. It’s literally not that big of a deal, I watched that shit live and the most embarrassing thing was how childish he was acting. The only time you should feel awkward or embarrassed is if you’re watching a sex scene with your grandparents or something

it’s also super disingenuous because most games don’t have sex in them...like one out of what thousands of games might have actual sex in it. This man apparently gets embarrassed by watching fictional characters say they love each other/go on a date/kiss

 

[Big Brown Schlub]

I know I’m a few days late but his logic of being embarrassed by sex scenes in game is peak boomer. It’s literally not that big of a deal, I watched that shit live and the most embarrassing thing was how childish he was acting. The only time you should feel awkward or embarrassed is if you’re watching a sex scene with your grandparents or something

it’s also super disingenuous because most games don’t have sex in them...like one out of what thousands of games might have actual sex in it. This man apparently gets embarrassed by watching fictional characters say they love each other/go on a date/kiss

It's like he saw that meme implying that handholding is the most degenerate thing you could do and then took at face value, not realizing that it's a joke.

 

[TankMelee]

it’s also super disingenuous because most games don’t have sex in them...like one out of what thousands of games might have actual sex in it. This man apparently gets embarrassed by watching fictional characters say they love each other/go on a date/kiss

Every time his chat baits him into talking about waifus or "sex in games," I think of this moment in Assassin's Creed:

DSP acting like a mature adult again during a romantic scene.

"Oh my gawd, stoopid":

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Also notice how he immediately starts talking over the scene, grabbing his not-a-children's-entertainer glasses and starts cleaning them as a distraction, just so he doesn't have to look at what's happening on screen.

You'd almost think he has a psychotic wife ready to cut off his dick the moment he would even dare to look at something remotely sexy.

He's so unnerved by this kiss. The camera pulls back, pans around because the faces probably aren't even animated, and he starts trying to distract by talking about Norse mythology. The game is so chaste that waking up after implied sex has both characters fully clothed. Unless he starts playing actual sex games, his responses will be the most embarrassing thing on the stream.

 

[Autism Spectroscopy]

Just a friendly reminder to everyone, the silver lining is, that this piece of shit won't reproduce. Doubt he even could, but what do I know, this fuckers Luck stat is out of hand.

X to doubt, Phil will live the average life span, but, before his horrible gout ridden gene pool is lost to the evolutionary nether, don't get too mad and enjoy. Phil is not even worth that.

 

[Nurse Ratchet]

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EDIT: It seems like his stream just died. He probably played this card and ran out of life points.

God damn you, dude. My wall almost wound up wearing my midnight coffee just now. And I only know what half of that stuff even means.

I've never played a card game in my life except for CAH & Cyanide & Happiness, but if these shits were real, I'd buy everything plus all expansion packs & then make someone teach me how to play MTG (because I'm so old that pokemymoms have always been gay & stupid).

Regardless, well done.

 

[tzgnilki]

I’ll illuminate how taxes work if you own a single proprietorship S Corp as a pass through for taxes. Note that this is what I’ve been doing for the last three years.

If Phil had a competent tax guy, the very first thing he would do is open a business bank account. Once that account is opened and you have business debit and credit cards as well as an account number, almost every personal purchase that you would do for yourself (restaurant, rent, car payments, water/ electricity bill, car maintenance, cars, real estate, investments, and a lot of miscellaneous purchases) need to go through your business. Not every expense can be written off but enough can so you don’t end up paying taxes on the majority of your spending at the personal state and federal tax rates and instead use that marginal 15% tax rate enjoyed by an S Corp (remember that the social class with the most benefits in the US are corporations). That’s why so many celebrities and rich people own so called shell/ holdings companies when they purchase real estate and other big assets because they can hide their identities but also write off a huge part of their spending.

I then give access to my bank account to my tax attorney (who has multiple CPAs working for him, so I really do have a tax attorney working for me, unlike Phil who’s probably having a cheap CPA) and that takes care of 90% of the work on my side. The things I have to provide additionally are access to my investment portfolio (so Fidelity, E*TRADE, and Robinhood send me tax filings at the end of year which I email to my tax attorney), any receipts related to car purchases, any real estate investments, any loans, and any gambling proceeds that may have accrued throughout the year. After minimal work, I wash my hands off any more work. By YE anyways, it’s very easy to already expect what my income is going to be so I can have an additional 4 months to save money so come April, I can pay whatever will be required of me.

As far as we’re aware and based on his bankruptcy filings, Phil does not own his own business bank account related to his business but does have an EIN for his business. He owns one bank account that mixes personal and business-related expenses (“yes I own it and it is business-related”) so it is most likely an amalgam of garbage sprinkled with debits from his PayPal account and monies from Twitch.

All he’d have to do is give access to his bank account to his accountant, produce a PayPal report of all the money that was debited into his account and credited out as well as a breakdown of all tips debited into his account (since he probably uses PayPal as a service for small business merchant partners, such reports are 100% available to him), and provide the copy of Twitch’s 1099 that they’ll send to him in December/ January (they might even have quarterly filings available through the Twitch Partner portal) and he literally doesn’t have to do anything.

A whole lot of text to basically say: Phil is fucking lying because if you have someone working for you to file your taxes, it’s really minimal work. Or he is using some H&R Block/ TurboTax service that would have him do most of the work.

Surprise, surprise... the pig is being a dishonest piece of shit once again.

why would a cpa want you to start doing "all this extra work"

does it sound like something was submitted (by him), and they (cpa) want more info?

 

[Dread Pirate Retard]

Okay. Sorry if I am making this too patronizing, lets pretend itll educate some lurkers too

Phil needs for his taxes:
His income sources, dont know if paypal and twitch give you some sort of clean number like a regular job does. But they must right

Now the hard one, all of the stuff he can claim as a business expense to write off. This would be receipts and junk. For anyone not aware, businesses can write up what it cost them to conduct business and essentially subtract it from what they made. Because while your records will show you made 10,000 this year, obviously its not fair to tax that as 10,000 of pure profit because you are buying inventory and keeping the lights on. This is also where taxes get really complicated because the government will be all over the place on how this works, as to advocate for certain businesses and industries. Not important for Phil, but if you've ever wondered because you are a NEET or a foreigner or a foreigner NEET. Now you know. This is what can take time, because he claims that office in his house. So he could be working through internet bills and power bills and gathering up receipts for game purchases.

Now I do believe this mush head does need a lot of time for this. Especially to finagle shit. Like, oh I ate that burger for DSP tries it writing that off. Obviously, not as much time as he claims. But unless you have a really good tax guy, he has to come up with numbers before taking them to the tax guy. Its the tax guys job to say, and going back to the exceptions thing, to go back and forth with Phil. Like Phil will say. 20% of the electricity I used was my office. Based on square footage. I had 1000 in electrical bills all year, so I can write off 200. Then its the tax guys job to go well actually the government only allows 150 to be written off because of some law that they passed to stop people pretending to be small businesses for tax write offs. Obviously all these numbers are just made up for simple math.

There. Hopefully some weirdo can use this info. Phil isnt being a complete charlatan. Its a lot of work, but he is still being shady af and exaggerating because he is a fucking e-thot.

The truth of the matter is that Phil has been a content creator for over a decade (as he so often loves to remind us) and an """interactive""" streamer for about half that time.

He should know by now that a proportion of his utilities and mortgage are tax deductible because he works out of a home office. He should know by now that Immortals Fenyx Rising is a tax deductible business expense, as is the burger he ate for DSP Tries It, but not the ingredients for his sugar sauce or the sack of potatoes he buys from Kroger every week. He should know by now that PlayStation+ and Nintendo Online can be written off but not WWE Network.

The amount of time Phil needs to spend working on his taxes is directly related to how much legwork he has done throughout the year and his level of organization. He has no one to blame but himself. He could set aside his utility bills every month in a special folder for tax time or he could wait until 1 week before the Tax Guy wants all his documentation to gather every utility bill he received over the past year. He could set up a checking account and a line of credit (not anymore because of the bankruptcy) that are strictly for business so all his business expenses are located in 1-2 places or he could intermingle personal and business expenses in a chaotic mess that's more tangled up than the wires coming from his entertainment center and sort through it in February. He could carefully document the receipts he receives from business expenses by saving relevant emails and scanning relevant physical receipts into a directory on his computer or he could browse through 10,000 emails on his hotmail account tracking down every purchase from the PlayStation store and digging between couch cushions for his DSP Tries It Wendy's receipts on the eve of the Tax Guy's deadline.

Phil whining about how much his taxes are just demonstrates how little work he does managing his """business""" throughout the year. Yeah tax time is fucking annoying, but moaning about it in February is akin to complaining about how much work a research paper is when you had all semester to write it but waited until the night before it's due to even pick a topic.

 

[Alxmir23]

Because this is the guy who had a technician come out because his internet wasn't working and it turned out his router (?) was unplugged.

phil is the reason tech people helping people on the phone always start with 'is it plugged in correctly?' and then 'turn it off and on'. because phil is too stupid to check these things out before screaming for help

 

[Brother Wind]

The truth of the matter is that Phil has been a content creator for over a decade (as he so often loves to remind us) and an """interactive""" streamer for about half that time.

He should know by now that a proportion of his utilities and mortgage are tax deductible because he works out of a home office. He should know by now that Immortals Fenyx Rising is a tax deductible business expense, as is the burger he ate for DSP Tries It, but not the ingredients for his sugar sauce or the sack of potatoes he buys from Kroger every week. He should know by now that PlayStation+ and Nintendo Online can be written off but not WWE Network.

The amount of time Phil needs to spend working on his taxes is directly related to how much legwork he has done throughout the year and his level of organization. He has no one to blame but himself. He could set aside his utility bills every month in a special folder for tax time or he could wait until 1 week before the Tax Guy wants all his documentation to gather every utility bill he received over the past year. He could set up a checking account and a line of credit (not anymore because of the bankruptcy) that are strictly for business so all his business expenses are located in 1-2 places or he could intermingle personal and business expenses in a chaotic mess that's more tangled up than the wires coming from his entertainment center and sort through it in February. He could carefully document the receipts he receives from business expenses by saving relevant emails and scanning relevant physical receipts into a directory on his computer or he could browse through 10,000 emails on his hotmail account tracking down every purchase from the PlayStation store and digging between couch cushions for his DSP Tries It Wendy's receipts on the eve of the Tax Guy's deadline.

Phil whining about how much his taxes are just demonstrates how little work he does managing his """business""" throughout the year. Yeah tax time is fucking annoying, but moaning about it in February is akin to complaining about how much work a research paper is when you had all semester to write it but waited until the night before it's due to even pick a topic.

I mean you are 100% correct. See I was acting as that dickhead who did his homework today an hour before it was due. So I was empathizing with Phil for some inexplicable reason.

Also thank you @MoonRocker its nice to have someone explain at a level better than Civics teacher.

 

[Quantum Diabetes]

Phil can claim "fortifying his breasts" on his taxes this year,you can really see it's one thing he worked hard on.

 

[Dizzyuntildeath]

Depends on how organized DSP has been throughout the year. Ideally, all he should have to do is just hand over documentation to the tax guy. But given what DSP's desktop looks like this is unlikely.

Also given comments he's made about his accounts and his bankruptcy filing it appears that he doesn't have separate business and personal accounts. If he had separate business and personal accounts, he could just gather his monthly and end-of-year statements for the business accounts and send them over. But if he used the same accounts for business and personal expenses, he would have to go through each statement line by line.

He has a file there called twitter banner. It's a picture of his jerking off episode paired with something else. It's right under the Salt and Sanctuary icon.

 

[gobsmackedmortician]

Going back a bit, I am a bit sad Phil didn't go on a rant about papa johns N-bomb and how it was like him and those fucking jews on blip tv or those disgusting japs in the Evo war
Never said anything racist tho..........

 

[Alxmir23]

Every time his chat baits him into talking about waifus or "sex in games," I think of this moment in Assassin's Creed:

He's so unnerved by this kiss. The camera pulls back, pans around because the faces probably aren't even animated, and he starts trying to distract by talking about Norse mythology. The game is so chaste that waking up after implied sex has both characters fully clothed. Unless he starts playing actual sex games, his responses will be the most embarrassing thing on the stream.

i can literally see him cringe do basic sex shit in games. sex is part of life.....but not phil's

2 years marriage and its already loveless/sexless

 

[Quantum Diabetes]

i can literally see him cringe do basic sex shit in games. sex is part of life.....but not phil's

2 years marriage and its already loveless/sexless

"Where does it go? I don't know what to do. Chat better help me with this!"

 

[ReentryPhantom]

He has a file there called twitter banner. It's a picture of his jerking off episode paired with something else. It's right under the Salt and Sanctuary icon.

I think it's a picture of Panda

 

[Alxmir23]

"Where does it go? I don't know what to do. Chat better help me with this!"

wouldnt be surprised with his multitude of health issues,bad shap and inactivity that he has erectile dysfunction.

 

[DeeTracktor]

BTW, DSP showed his desktop again guys (Bugged desktop mechanics much?)

Phil detests sexist degrading content in games, films or TV

Saves the Benny Hill Theme on MP3 on his desktop.

>GENEWILDERFACE<

Phil doesnt like people stealing his content and using it for the videos they make for monetary gain

Downloads a copyrighted piece of music illegally on his PC

>GENEWILDERFACE<

 

[Flavius Anthemius]

I think it's a picture of Panda

He had that there for a long time after she left as far as I know, like very close to a year.

His first women that got away was something he was pretty envious over revealing any details about, it took from December 2017 to May 2018 to actually somewhat open up with his audience and put his ego aside and say how they both ended up breaking up (Totally not his fault btw, there was no brother in law wedding and Fallout definitely wasn't part of the hardcore gaming/begging season, there was no engagement ring, it was a deep troll joke that was attempted to hack away the pignosis from brainwashed fans, it was all the detractors putting pressure onto him and forcing it upon panda and in turn making her sick and preventing her from cooking dinner since he's incapable of preparing non frozen food aside from his Americanised "Italian" sloppy pasta, and his bad back prevented him from removing soap and other junk from a room over a 6 month period, nothing he could have done dood) .