I Hate Minnesota

[billroper]

The Dodeka taxes are finally done, including the Minnesota S-corporation return that I have to file because we sold CDs at Minicon in 2006. We don't owe them any money; I just have to spend several hours proving it every year.

It's getting to the point where not selling CDs at Minicon looks better and better.

Edit: It's not the people of Minnesota that I hate, it's the crazy government there.

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OH spells it out for you. . .

[robin-june.livejournal.com]

Ohio is weirder. I've taken driver's license tests in 3 different states, and only Ohio says explicitly in their learner's manual that for highway speeds, the rate table for points on your license are as follows:

15 mph or greater above speed limit: 3 points
10 to 15 mph above speed limit: 2 points
5 to 10 mph above speed limit: 1 point
Less than 5 mph above speed limit: 0 points

When I first came here, the Highway patrol would preferentially stop not only those with out-of-state plates, but also those with out-of-county tags, because they would put you in the back of the cruiser and insist that you pay them with a credit card before they'd let you go (they didn't take cash or checks). That way you had to come back to their county courthouse to get your money back.

As for Ohio taxes, when I moved into the state in a January, and filed my Michigan state taxes with my federal taxes in April, Ohio came after me insisting that I obviously, simply MUST have had Ohio-earned income that I was going to go to jail for not reporting. Reciprocal agreements were ignored. I was supposed to know about this from the back pages of the OH state income tax form that I hadn't met yet.

Then again, lots of government representatives, when I said, "I just moved here, how do I do this here?" would reply, "Oh, just do it in the same way you did it last year." (As lifelong residents, they had no clue as to why anyone who wasn't born here would be here.)
If I had done it the "same as last year," I'd have had to drive back out of the state.