It's been goat having you (July 2025 Scapegoat Blame Thread)
10I wasn’t late; you were late. Prove it.
Oh hey, it’s July! Half of 2025 is already gone. It somehow feels like three years since January, and at the same time, it was just yesterday. Time paradox aside, @Rowsdower held the hot seat for a full month and is now free to graze with the rest of the ex-scapegoats, burden-free. Big thanks for that.
Moving right along, it looks like @Pony has been saddled with the responsibility for July. The “victory” was narrow, but we wouldn’t have it any other way.
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Welcome, @Pony! From my experience, July is a good month to have, because Meh’s birthday gets so much attention that the goat can coast a little … although I hope you do something fun with your month if you’re up for it!
@Kyeh Thanks, and sorry in advance. I’ll try to do some stuff, but I’m pretty dull. July is probably the worst month for me, actually, because I have a houseguest for ten days or so every year to help with the farm chores while my husband attends a work function in California. This year it’s going to be two people, so I will be distracted by all that. But I’ll try.
@Kyeh @Pony Not to worry, the mere fact that you’ve responded at all puts you ahead of some recent honorees.
@ExtraMedium Thanks… I think. I escaped it for many years, so I guess it’s just my time. Sorry for everything.
@Pony That’s the spirit!
On one paw, blame:
https://forums.woot.com/t/goodbye-fitted-t-shirts-it-was-good-while-it-lasted/2094101/
On a different paw, I’ll be buying less in the future, so unblame.
@narfcake Sorry not sorry?
@Pony Yes.
Hey let start it off. I want to Blame @Pony for all this blistering Heat then follow up that with the Gully washer Downpours/ Thunderstorms!..
@mycya4me Oops… sorry!
@mycya4me @Pony And I want to blame her for having to drive 1000+ miles in that, including a gully washer where no one could see the side of the road or the tail lights of the car in front of us all while driving 23 miles in a construction zone with few and far between shoulder areas someone could pull off the road on. Oh yeah. And in the dark to top it off.
@Kidsandliz @mycya4me Sorry about that!
I blame @Pony for @ExtraMedium not anchoring this thread on top for a while…
@Kidsandliz Whoops! Sorry!
BLAME-been going over some of the tax law changes in the new law and they are a nightmare for both tax preparers and tax software companies. Not because of the tax change themselves but because each change has different implementation dates as well as sunset dates. For example the EV credit for purchasing a new or used car expires at the end of September of this year while other are retroactive to the beginning of this year and some start with the 2026 and 2027 tax year and run for a set number of years.
Still inconsequential compared to those millions who will lose Medicaid and SNAP benefits in the near future.
@Felton10 Damn. Sorry about that.
BLAME continued-Never underestimate the ability of people to jump on something to try to make as much money as soon as possible. Just got an e-mail yesterday about two new CPE (continuing professional education) courses next week about the tax law changes-one re individuals the other about business).
Hasn’t planned to sign up for my CPE 4 to 5 months from now so that the year subscription expired closer to my next CPA cert renewal date but since as I mentioned some provision of the new law apply to 2025 and already had some clients call with questions-better get up-to-date on how they apply and the whom ASAP.
@Felton10 Well I can answer one question for you. Student loan discharges and 1099-C’s. This would likely affect some of the people on meh too.
The pause ending Dec 31, 2025 on no 1099-C for student loan discharges for everyone means starting Jan 1, 2026 the “old rules” are reinstated and many will now get 1099-C’s when their student loan is discharged. The ones that didn’t get a 1099-C before the pause (public service, teach, etc. discharges) still won’t get one.
NEW There will be no 1099-C ever again for student loans if they were discharged due to death of the student or total and permanent disability of the student. This is permanently in the law and has no end date.
This only affects federal taxes. If their state requires state taxes to be paid on that (as around 10 do, and this has been the case even during the pause) they’d still have to report it to the state and pay state taxes. Now… considering there’d be no 1099-C and nothing in the bill requires reporting the write off to any state agency or any federal database outside of the student loan one… I am not sure how a state would find out this happened.
BLAME - Yesterday my 3d printer started printing spaghetti blobs every time I tried to print something. Two days before everything was printing perfectly. Worked on it yesterday and today for a bunch of hours and after far too much time adjusting temperatures, retraction and Z-axis settings, and putting in a new nozzle, finally a test print worked. Now I’ve started a 17-hour print job and so far all is well. It’s the left half of a protective cage for one of my ham radios. Assuming it works, tomorrow morning I’ll start the right half.
@ItalianScallion But spaghetti is delicious… um, I mean sorry. Yeah. Sorry.