aficiomaquinas

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Comment · 2 years ago
This is exactly my point. There are many patients that do require GLP-1 agonists to realistically lose weight. It's ridiculous to say that a country doesn't need it just because fewer people are obese.
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Comment · 4 years ago
In order to surrender the foreign qualification in the state of California you'll have to file your last California return, be sure to mark the return as final in the actual form and make sure it's correct. Hire a CPA. California franchise tax is paid in advance, so don't pay the 800 dollars for next year, otherwise they'll make you beg them to give it back, which they'll eventually will, after a couple of years, by the time the company will not exist and that payment will be unrecoverable. Once the final Cal return is filed, you'll have to file form SURC.

You'll have to file your final federal tax return, too. Although you might be able to do it yourself with Turbotax, I'd hire a CPA.

You'll have to legally dissolve the company with the articles of dissolution and make sure all the previous board meetings and cap table is sound. Then file the dissolution with the Delaware Secretary of State. If you don't hire a lawyer to double-check the corporation for you, you'll be exposing yourself to liability down the road, which will could be costlier than the lawyer's fees. Corporations must liquidate their assets, and that requires filing forms with the IRS, too. After that, you'll have to close the bank accounts, vendor accounts, credit cards, etc.

Comment · 4 years ago
I think it would be interesting if you could share some examples of what you believe to be real truths that never change.
Comment · 5 years ago
Switzerland is a tax-heaven for the ultra wealthy. These individuals buy passports from countries with territorial or no tax at all. This way they can open bank accounts claiming to be tax residents in such countries, and avoid tax reporting to their true tax resident country. When the OECD designed the information exchange protocol they did learn about this phenomenon. It turns out that the implementation of CRS (common reporting standards) was actually different from country to country. The OECD negotiated each deal individually with all the different countries in the world. One of the very few features of AEOI (automatic exchange of information) in the CRS that Switzerland did not sign fully with the OECD, was the "enhanced" validation of the account holder citizenship. It was marked "optional" for Swiss banks to validate. [1] Switzerland has been a tax haven for so many years now (they invented the business, we could argue), that they don't care about the small fish anymore. They are all about the UHNW (ultra high net worth) individuals and families. Now, there is some interesting things to be noted for such individuals. Many centamillionaires and billionaires are tax residents in many countries. They own properties and businesses all across the world, which often needs you to have tax IDs in those countries, either as a natural person, as a corporation or both. It doesn't matter if the corporation, in such case, is a complicated and obfuscated entity because the bank reports the tax id of the significant owners, not regarding how many layers of corporate structures there are (except for exotic "non-incorporated" entities such as trusts, which also serve the purpose of reducing tax burdens or hiding away assets). Most tax systems across the world were designed for normal people who don't own stuff all around the world and are based upon the principle of worldwide taxation based on your "true" residence. Truth is many of these billionaires are not true only-residents of any country. They might be traveling around the world for many months each year, having multiple homes across the world. So, which should be their "true" tax resident country? Apart from the USA, which taxes Americans regardless of where they reside, most of the remaining countries of the world are pretty ambiguous about this dilemma and most importantly, they are unable to enforce taxation of the worldwide income, and in the end, in practice, people with multiple citizenships and permanent residencies just choose whichever is more convenient when making their invoices or opening their bank accounts. That's why Switzerland may score so high on the list. Almost all UHNW individuals have bank accounts in Switzerland because they open them with their most convenient passports and/or permanent residence cards, and they prefer to bank in Switzerland because they have better perks, better mobile apps, better account managers, they can get an AMEX black card guaranteed by their private banking account balance, and much more.

1: https://www.oecd.org/tax/automatic-exchange/crs-implementati...

Comment · 5 years ago
Somehow this phrase has become a catch-all insult I've seen often at hacker news, yet it lacks meaning.
Comment · 5 years ago
Yes. I've bought several Zojirushi products over the years and I've found them to be super reliable. Buy a ceramic tea kettle and this water boiler. Much better than an electric tea kettle. The insulation is superb and that makes it energy efficient. You don't have to wait because it's always ready.

Also, their thermos are insanely good.

Comment · 5 years ago
I didn't mean that. Simply, pharmaceutical companies don't have incentives to invest in drugs that they won't profit from. Expired patent drugs come off first on that list.
Comment · 5 years ago
Thank you for spending the time to write so far and for wishing me good health. I really appreciate it. I could tell about your background in your writing.

> what seems to have work for you does not mean that it will work for everybody else.

I agree with you on this. I just hope there was more funding or incentives for scientists studying this which, so far, has helped me and many people I know.

Comment · 5 years ago
The results in monkeys seem to suppress thyroid function, but:

> No evidence of thyroid effects were detected in the serum of human volunteers who ingested approximately 1 mg/l. of ClO2 in drinking water as a result of routine use in the community water treatment process.

I don't acidify the ClO2 solution.

Comment · 5 years ago
Very interesting. Thank you.
Comment · 5 years ago
I think it really depends on your statistical survival rate. If you're almost guaranteed to die, there's less of a concern in using yourself as a test subject.
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