But, the Hulk is an alter ego, and his normal shape isn't even a secret like Clark Kent or Bruce Wayne. Everyone knows he's Bruce Banner. Does the Hulk have to pay taxes separately from Bruce Banner?
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The marvel movies did Hulk dirty. Whatever you my think of the Ed Norton movie, he was afraid of the Hulk and losing control of his emotions because bad things happen. Towards the end of Marvel Movies, Mark Ruffalo was goading him to come out, but was I guess impotent. They eventually turned a tragic character into a zen scientist dudebro meme.
corny comic panels have such an awful mouth feel. I prefer my hulk as a barely contained rage beast, not a silly goof eating his peenut butta fwom da jah.
Don't put Hulk in a box. Hulk has other needs as well.
Work is having the "who do we bring off furlough, and when" discussion because we have a backlog piling up
Which means the issue that some people who have been furloughed are/would be net negatives in productivity terms has been thrown into sharp relief
Yeah. This a prelude conversation to a layoff for hose who are "net negatives." That is a super uncomfortable convo. I've been on those calls when we a contract expires and the govt doesn't plan on putting another in its place.
It's been coming for a while
It's been a bit of a death spiral because their performance is so poor that managers avoid allocating them work, so they accumulate fewer and fewer billable hours, look less and less productive, and never actually get any better at the job
So the discussion becomes about whether anyone will actually task them on anything if they're brought back, which ... *awkward silence*
There is an exemption carved out for cafeterias in UK tax law, as well (Section 317 ITEPA 2003 / section 60 FA 2010), but:
The meal must be on a reasonable scale
All employees may obtain a free or subsidised meal
The dining area is for staff use only
The meals are not provided as part of salary sacrifice arrangements
It's the salary sacrifice that will ding The Hulk here, if he's accepting food instead of his Avengers wage, unless all Avengers are under the same arrangement and there's no opt-out available
Good old Tolley's Handbook
I still have a post it tab against this section because it came up in a mock exam
Rather than go after a few supervillains who owe taxes the Avengers could do much more good by lobbying for increased taxes on the rich but they won’t because Iron Man protects his class’s interests
I like Ruffalo's Hulk but "I'm always angry" strangled a solo project before it ever started.
I do like how they followed that into Ragnarok, him being the Hulk so long that a little bit of humanity started bleeding in.
Overall the decision that the Hulk is a comedic centerpiece is probably better than it being dramatic. There's just not that much there for a feature movie.
Ang Lee's Hulk is such an interesting time capsule. That movie could only have been made in the tiny window where CGI was accelerating but before Spider-man.
That movie was in postproduction when Spider-man released, and the producer saw Spider-man, went outside, and called Ang Lee to say they were fucked. Because Raimi had defined what a superhero movie was, and their footage was too different
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Rather than go after a few supervillains who owe taxes the Avengers could do much more good by lobbying for increased taxes on the rich but they won’t because Iron Man protects his class’s interests
But, the Hulk is an alter ego, and his normal shape isn't even a secret like Clark Kent or Bruce Wayne. Everyone knows he's Bruce Banner. Does the Hulk have to pay taxes separately from Bruce Banner?
Bruce could set up a company, claim The Hulk as an employee, and then sign him to The Avengers as an independent contractor
Bruce could then take agent fees from The Hulk's wages, and The Hulk could then claim them as business expenses. They'd be a source of income for Bruce Banner Limited, but they'd be taxed at the lower Corporation Tax rate rather than the Personal Tax rate
Bruce could then claim a wage from Bruce Banner Limited up to his tax-free allowance (which would be an expense for the company, lowering its taxable profits), and make up the rest in a post-tax dividend, again taxed at a lower rate from Banner's perspective
There is an exemption carved out for cafeterias in UK tax law, as well (Section 317 ITEPA 2003 / section 60 FA 2010), but:
The meal must be on a reasonable scale
All employees may obtain a free or subsidised meal
The dining area is for staff use only
The meals are not provided as part of salary sacrifice arrangements
It's the salary sacrifice that will ding The Hulk here, if he's accepting food instead of his Avengers wage, unless all Avengers are under the same arrangement and there's no opt-out available
Good old Tolley's Handbook
I still have a post it tab against this section because it came up in a mock exam
It came up in my first ever compliance case: investigating the entertainment expenses of a small company
tbh I always thought it was weird that other countries don't tax their expats similar to the US
I mean rich people always have plenty of ways to hide their money but certainly it seems like it would make it real easy to just buy a citizenship of some fake tax haven country and route all your income though there
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
The movies differ from the comics in that definitive endings for a character's arc are possible, because the actor doesn't want to do it any more. The tragic character doesn't have to stay tragic forever, he can reach a resolution and put tragedy behind him, because its unsolvable nature was only there because the character needed to go on indefinitely without permanently disrupting the basic premise of the setup.
There is an exemption carved out for cafeterias in UK tax law, as well (Section 317 ITEPA 2003 / section 60 FA 2010), but:
The meal must be on a reasonable scale
All employees may obtain a free or subsidised meal
The dining area is for staff use only
The meals are not provided as part of salary sacrifice arrangements
It's the salary sacrifice that will ding The Hulk here, if he's accepting food instead of his Avengers wage, unless all Avengers are under the same arrangement and there's no opt-out available
Good old Tolley's Handbook
I still have a post it tab against this section because it came up in a mock exam
It came up in my first ever compliance case: investigating the entertainment expenses of a small company
As an auditor
Step 1 of regularity testing is "obtain trial balance and transaction listing for the period"
tbh I always thought it was weird that other countries don't tax their expats similar to the US
I mean rich people always have plenty of ways to hide their money but certainly it seems like it would make it real easy to just buy a citizenship of some fake tax haven country and route all your income though there
Most other countries don't assume by default that one of their citizens moving abroad is primarily doing so to evade taxes
This isn't a dig at you, the US tax code very much seems designed with this assumption in mind, to the extent that any US citizen living abroad with a relatively small amount of assets has to make a yearly report to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
Rather than go after a few supervillains who owe taxes the Avengers could do much more good by lobbying for increased taxes on the rich but they won’t because Iron Man protects his class’s interests
we negotiated thanos down to only wiping out one-third of all life in the universe and quite frankly you should be grateful
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tbh I always thought it was weird that other countries don't tax their expats similar to the US
I mean rich people always have plenty of ways to hide their money but certainly it seems like it would make it real easy to just buy a citizenship of some fake tax haven country and route all your income though there
Most other countries don't assume by default that one of their citizens moving abroad is primarily to evade taxes
This isn't a dig at you, the US tax code very much seems designed with this assumption in mind, to the extent that any US citizen living abroad with a relatively small amount of assets has to make a yearly report to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
I mean the US could be less onerous about it.
Like you should probably just be able to submit a "I made less that 100k" form (or whatever the exclusion amount is) instead of actually filling.
But the core idea always seemed fine to me, as long as you have a generous income exclusion.
My taxes constantly go towards things I don't want and can't use.
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
Two three hour films, one entirely from the perspective of banner, the other from the perspective of the hulk and they come out at the same time and you have to decide which one to go see first.
Two three hour films, one entirely from the perspective of banner, the other from the perspective of the hulk and they come out at the same time and you have to decide which one to go see first.
Do you have Banner just black out when it's time for Hulk, only to wake up in a post Hulk setting with no idea what happened in the interim?
Or so you just do a close up on Banner's face in darkness while the Hulk sounds rage in the background?
Two three hour films, one entirely from the perspective of banner, the other from the perspective of the hulk and they come out at the same time and you have to decide which one to go see first.
Do you have Banner just black out when it's time for Hulk, only to wake up in a post Hulk setting with no idea what happened in the interim?
Or so you just do a close up on Banner's face in darkness while the Hulk sounds rage in the background?
Oh definitely the first. The Banner movie is just him waking up and having to deal with the ramifications of what just happened and figuring out what went on during the hulk periods, while the Hulk movie is just HULK WAKES UP, HULK BEING SHOT?! HULK SMASH PUNY GUN MEN
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Don't put Hulk in a box. Hulk has other needs as well.
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And since student debt isn’t discharged in a bankruptcy, Banner is even more of a liability than Hulk
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
It's been coming for a while
It's been a bit of a death spiral because their performance is so poor that managers avoid allocating them work, so they accumulate fewer and fewer billable hours, look less and less productive, and never actually get any better at the job
So the discussion becomes about whether anyone will actually task them on anything if they're brought back, which ... *awkward silence*
Good old Tolley's Handbook
I still have a post it tab against this section because it came up in a mock exam
If America could ever bother to reform this it'd be pretty cool of them
I do like how they followed that into Ragnarok, him being the Hulk so long that a little bit of humanity started bleeding in.
Overall the decision that the Hulk is a comedic centerpiece is probably better than it being dramatic. There's just not that much there for a feature movie.
Ang Lee's Hulk is such an interesting time capsule. That movie could only have been made in the tiny window where CGI was accelerating but before Spider-man.
That movie was in postproduction when Spider-man released, and the producer saw Spider-man, went outside, and called Ang Lee to say they were fucked. Because Raimi had defined what a superhero movie was, and their footage was too different
Bruce could set up a company, claim The Hulk as an employee, and then sign him to The Avengers as an independent contractor
Bruce could then take agent fees from The Hulk's wages, and The Hulk could then claim them as business expenses. They'd be a source of income for Bruce Banner Limited, but they'd be taxed at the lower Corporation Tax rate rather than the Personal Tax rate
Bruce could then claim a wage from Bruce Banner Limited up to his tax-free allowance (which would be an expense for the company, lowering its taxable profits), and make up the rest in a post-tax dividend, again taxed at a lower rate from Banner's perspective
The idea that we don't tax almost all income over a certain threshold is a relatively new one
Edit: the UK as well, apparently
It came up in my first ever compliance case: investigating the entertainment expenses of a small company
I mean rich people always have plenty of ways to hide their money but certainly it seems like it would make it real easy to just buy a citizenship of some fake tax haven country and route all your income though there
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
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As an auditor
Step 1 of regularity testing is "obtain trial balance and transaction listing for the period"
Step 2 is "Ctrl+F 'entertainment'"
Most other countries don't assume by default that one of their citizens moving abroad is primarily doing so to evade taxes
This isn't a dig at you, the US tax code very much seems designed with this assumption in mind, to the extent that any US citizen living abroad with a relatively small amount of assets has to make a yearly report to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
Rich people also spent decades rigging the system so that most of their income isn’t taxable.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
I mean the US could be less onerous about it.
Like you should probably just be able to submit a "I made less that 100k" form (or whatever the exclusion amount is) instead of actually filling.
But the core idea always seemed fine to me, as long as you have a generous income exclusion.
My taxes constantly go towards things I don't want and can't use.
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
Do you really want to watch 2 hours of Mark Ruffalo poop-face grunting trying to learn to control the Hulk though?
Theyre mostly honorary. Two are from bbq restraunt eating contests.
I think Ruffalo and Disney could manage a better man vs himself movie than that.
-We are all one and have a glowing inner light
-Let's all hold hands and sing Hare Krishna
-Waaahhh Britain taxes rich people too much waaahh
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Nothing that a few more brackets cant fix I'm sure
And also Hulk is a hot lawyer lady.
HULK SMASH
Do you have Banner just black out when it's time for Hulk, only to wake up in a post Hulk setting with no idea what happened in the interim?
Or so you just do a close up on Banner's face in darkness while the Hulk sounds rage in the background?
What if he had a big sword and leather...hotpants?
Give Hulk a magic sword Thor you greedy tool
Oh definitely the first. The Banner movie is just him waking up and having to deal with the ramifications of what just happened and figuring out what went on during the hulk periods, while the Hulk movie is just HULK WAKES UP, HULK BEING SHOT?! HULK SMASH PUNY GUN MEN