I bought a company and my friend join but his wage is at 0% how can i change it so he can get money? We have been playing together for awhile and i have been getting all the cash, and i cant share it with him. Please help.
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So I've been a CEO in GTA: Online for about 2 weeks now and my brother plays on his computer as well. I invite him as an associate to my company so that we can pickup packages and make deliveries and such together. Every so often (Maybe 10-15 minutes), he receives a paycheck which started at $5,000 and is now at about $7000. Before I became a CEO, I joined a company as an associate and immediately got $10000 for my paycheck.  I was wondering if there was a setting in the SecuroServe CEO section in the menu to increase salary so I can increase my brother's salary to $10000.   I looked at all the SecuroServe menus I could find but I found nothing on it. Is salary even controlled by me or is it based off rank/level? I know it's not based off your time as an associate for the company because I was getting paid $10000 and I had just joined the company. Please let me know if you know of a way to increase the salary of an associate!
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Is there a way to subtract certain employers from the job listings? There are some positions there by companies that keep getting reposted, and I'm not interested in seeing them repeat themselves.
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As discussed here:  offering actual money as a bounty sets the wrong incentives. However I would suggest giving users the ability to pay with money for offering a bounty regardless of their reputation. The bounty would still count as reputation for the receiving user but would not be discounted from the paying user's reputation.
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A friend of mine trades Bitcoin and often asks me to pick up money for her, i.e., someone sends money to me (on my name) and I just pick it up and give it to my friend. The amounts are usually around $500.   Is this legal? Can I get into trouble doing this?   I have no idea who the senders are. Thank you.
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I sold 250 shares of a stock at a loss of (-1,000).  2 weeks later bought a single put contract (100 shares) n the same stock.  If I sell the put option for profit a few days later, is this a partial wash sale?  If so, how do I calculate it? (IRS)
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I read a lot about trading in the ingame hints, but still cannot figure this out.  When I send a merchant to a trade node, I have the option to collect money from the node or to steer the trade "uphill" to another trade node.  What advantages do I get by trade steering? If I send someone to this trade node, is it not equally good to collect the money there right away?  Does it always make sense to steer trade between two nodes I have merchants in?
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Today 4/30/20 my seemingly worthless USO call option increased in value.   Specifically: USO1 $2.5 Call 5/8  On 4/29 it was valued at $.04 and stayed there.   4/30 I checked after hours and now it’s up to $.08? Which was wasn’t even the highest it went to today.  So who is buying this contract?  Who is allowed to buy this contract? Bc I’m only able to sell and from what I understood, nobody is able to buy it.   I have screenshots and will post if requested. Thank you
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Tried my best with the title. Ok, earlier while I was on break from work (I have low level math, and want to be more fond of mathematics)  I work retail, and 20% of taxes are taken out, and I am wanting to find out how much I made before 20% is taken out.  So I did some scribbling, and this is without googling so please be gentle. but lets say I make 2000 dollars per paycheck, so to see how much money I get after taxes I do 2000 * .8 which gives me 1600. I can also do 2000 * .2 which gives me 400 and then do 2000 - 400 (imo I don't like this way since I have a extra unnecessary step)  Anyways, I was pondering how to reverse that to have the answer be 2000, and what I did was 1600 * 1.20 (120%) which gave me 1920, and I thought that is odd so I did 1600 * 1.25 and answer was 2000 exact.  My question is why did I have to add extra 5% (25%) to get my answer? I am sure I did something wrong, and I fairly confident the formula I am using is a big no no.  edit; wow thank you all for your detailed answers. I am starting to like mathematics more and more.
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In the discussion around  it was said that a loan must be at market rate, or it is not considered a loan.  Respecting the wisdom of the people who said that, I'm unclear about how this would work in the general case, since plenty of people do make interest free loans to family and friends, and the IRS would seem to be unlikely to be in the business of policing loan rates.   Ignoring the issue in the original question about later paying off the loan through a gift,  let's say I make an interest free loan to someone, with the genuine intention that they pay it back in full at some later date, and with no intention of cheating the tax system. It would seem to me that he has no income to declare (because only the loan has occurred) and I have no income from the transaction. What exactly do he and I have to declare on our tax forms? Some links to tax office docs would be nice.  EDIT: Since it's been pointed out that it's hard to distinguish between loans and gifts, let's imagine that both parties have made a written loan agreement.
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Let's say for the sake of the question you're given the following scenario:   Company BIG is trading at $10/share Company SML is trading at $40/share BIG reaches an agreement with SML for an all stock acquisition/merger whereas SML shareholders will receive 5 shares of BIG for each share they own   How would a call option in SML be affected by this deal?  Specifically, I'm unsure of the following:   How is the strike price for SML options affected by the merger? I've read that the only thing that would change is the deliverable (i.e. instead of receiving 100 shares in SML when exercising, you'd now receive 500), but this result in SML contracts having inflated strike prices due to the difference in the value per share pre-merger... What happens to out of the money SML options? I've read that they'd instantly become worthless... wouldn't this only apply to an all-cash deal? If the deal involved a transfer of shares, wouldn't the contract be adjusted based on the terms of the deal with the deliverable changing from shares of SML to shares of BIG? Assuming the deliverable for the SML options are converted to shares of BIG, how are these converted contracts traded... in other words, are they liquid or only useful if you decide to exercise them?   I just started trading options a few weeks ago and haven't been able to find answers to these questions anywhere... any help from an experienced trader would be much appreciated!
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I am wondering why some companies do not let their employee choose a fix amount per pay check as a 401K contribution. In my all jobs it has been always a % of my salary, so I will chose a percentage high enough to at least get the maximum employer contribution.   I was chatting with a colleague in my company, and in their previous jobs it was also the same way.  What is wrong with letting people chose a fix amount, so suppose some one wants to maximize they can just divide the maximum annual salary divided by pay frequency?
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This is the first time i’ve properly been involved with a sugar daddy and he wants me to pay $50 for the USD to AUD conversion rate on pay pal. is this a scam and should i just block him? i don’t want to get conned into anything
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First, my understanding is that the long-term capital gains tax rate is 0% for those whose marginal rate on ordinary income is 10% or 15%, and (ignoring the highest 39.6% bracket) the rate is 15% for everyone else. (See  and .)  My interest is in what happens at the crucial break between the 15% and 25% bracket, which is $73,800 for married/joint returns in 2013 (and presumably will be higher in 2014, though I haven't been able to find out what that is or if it has even been set yet). Let's say a household has $64,000 in wage income, and sells stock for a $10,000 profit.   Does their income for the purposes of establishing their tax bracket go to $74,000? If so, is the entire $10,000 profit subject to the 15% long-term capital gains rate? Is any part of the wage income subject to the higher marginal tax rate?   Since the amount of income subject to the higher marginal rate is, well, marginal, part 3 seems somewhat less important than part 2. The real issue is whether the capital gains rate hits the entire profit, since, in that case, it seems the household should only sell enough stock to generate a $9000 profit, and sell the remainder in a future year.
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I live in New Jersey and my son wanted to order some toys from this guy who said he makes them in his house and he could give him the best deal, but before he could send these toys he needed my 16 year old son to put $200 into his bank account. The guy then gave my son his wells Fargo bank account info and told him as soon he deposits the money he will ship his toys. Well, that never happened.  My son called the guy up and he told my son, “I’m only the middle guy, and my boss is in Nigeria and you need to put another $200 in my account because now I have to ship the toys from elsewhere.” So my son deposited another 200 dollars into this guys bank account.  My son has sent these jerks a total of $650. Is there anything I can do to these individuals? At this point even if I don’t get the money back it’s okay but I don’t want this happening to other kids and I want to teach these guys a lesson that you’re not above the law. The guy is still calling my son up saying that he is pissed off that he didn’t get more money.  What can I do now?
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From , page 209:     Dividends   Dividends are income paid by investments. Both bond funds   and stocks can  pay dividends. Bond fund dividends (the interest paid   by the individual  bonds in a fund) tend to be higher (as a percentage   of the amount you have  invested in a fund). When a dividend   distribution is made, you can receive  it as cash (which is good if   you need money to live on) or reinvest it into  more shares in the   fund. In either case, the share price of the fund drops to  offset the   payout. So if you’re hoping to strike it rich by buying into a bunch    of funds just before their dividends are paid, don’t bother. You’ll   just end up  paying more in income taxes.    It is talking about mutual funds.   I've never played with stocks.  However, I would like to know more about it.  Does the bold text imply the stock price will drop because of a company giving out a dividend?
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Suppose you buy stocks from company FOOBAR at price X. After a while, the price is Y = X * 1.25, so you decide you want to collect that 25% profit. You sell the stocks, cashing out your original X plus a 25% profit. Yay! You made money. But haven't you also put yourself out of the trading business by not having stocks anymore? If you just want to take profit but also continue investing, you collect the 25% and you are back to having just X to invest. Now stocks from FOOBAR are too expensive for you (current value is Y). What do you do? Do you select another cheaper (pontentially worse) stock just to be able to buy it? You wait until FOOBAR price is X again? (losing time and also maybe the stock is not as attractive now?). Does this mean stocks are mainly for the long-term-collect-once type of investment? How do short/middle term traders make money, without falling in a diminishing returns type of situation? Thanks!
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A stranger told me that he will give me an allowance of $ weekly. I know the saying "If it sounds too good to be true, then it is".   He told me that he would  email me his check and I would be able to deposit it via mobile banking. The only information he needs is my email, name on bank account, and bank name.   Is this too much information? Do you think this is a scam? I would definitely know if it was a scam if he asked for my log in but that is not what he wants.  Thank you for your time and answers!