Yes you are right, I don't know if he does or not. I'll find out and let you know how it "pans out".

What, you gonna call the IRS?

TOOL (you): "Excuse me, I need to find out of this old retired guy is paying taxes on some money he's getting through his personal website".

IRS: "No problem, let me just grab his personal income tax forms and send them to you".

Yeah, ok. Give it a try.

All you might accomplish is having the IRS take a mild interest in looking after this. If the money received is under $5000, which it almost certainly is, it's doubtfull they will even go to the trouble. The IRS these days isn't as old school as they used to be when they would raid granny's house because she didn't report her piggy bank.

The bigger question that is just begging to be asked is, is there something really bugging you in your life that is causing you to act like a total tool in public, or are you always this way? I'm just curious at this point, not particularly upset.

P.S. His forums have a number of your "give it to me free or suffer" brethren posting. Perhaps you can go compare dead horses.

Well, there goes a good debate down into name calling.

Good job.:rolleyes:

This is really getty silly. First off I don't know why I'm bothering to disclose this. It's really only between me and the IRS.

1. I'm a retired US federal employee (IT Systems Administrator) with 39 years, 2 months service. I do do recieve social security. My retirement is small, but I would do nothing to put my retirement in jeopardy.

2. Because I do not receive social security I am working towards that means. I need to work an additional 7 years to do so. I need to earn almost $5000 a year under social security. I am trying to do that by working out of my home. e.g. Internet work, I do computer repairs, upgrades. So I do claim everything I can.

3. I am doing everthing thru PayPal, nothing below the table. I refuse cash in the mail payments. you can ask anyone in my forums.

4. Most of the time I give free access to those that can't afford it. The only exceptions have been to those with attitude problems.

5. I also allow anyone that buys vbulletin thru my affiliate link free access.

I'm tired of typing, have to do better things, so I'll stop rambling.
All I can say is that I'm a model citizen, pay my taxes, defended my country in Vietnam, served my country for close to 40 years, I have a Presidential Citation to boot.

phpPortals is not a non-profit organization and I will pay my taxes, thats all I have to say.

Once you've achieved 40 years of un-tarnished service to your country then come talk to me.

BTW, My name is William A. Jones or wajones, I don't hide my identity. My city of residence is in the side column.

You really didn't need to do that.

Damn...because I really wanted to speak with you. heh. :rolleyes:

HeHe! I figure there aren't any IRS agents with 40 yrs. :p

Sorry for being a dink. You didn't deserve it. :(

I can see your point about name calling (although I feel "tool" is both fairly mild as insults go and somewhat accurate in this case) but there is no way I am going to agree there was any thing good about this "debate". I'm just glad it is now over.

No problem, I have encountered worse, but always endure. I believe in confronting your issues, so I respect what people think and once you hear both sides then form your opinion.

I should probably change the button from donation to ??. Contributions to "profit making organizations" are taxable but mis-understood. Thats just the button that PayPal provides, the other buttons say purchase or buy now and I want to make it clear that your not buying vbPortal. It will be made available once it's ready, it's just not ready. I am installing a cvs server tonight, well my son is for me. I have 3 or 4 people lined up to help with things. So it should go faster.