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[Isla Guapa]

[notamiss]

It is a little cross-lingual joke, referring to the way �Miss� has been borrowed and mutated into Spanish as a synonym for maestra, e.g. �la miss de tercer a�o.� Pues yo no soy la miss de ning�n a�o, porque no soy maestra.

[Tretyakovskii]

And I had always understood your user name in a different sense, "not(hing) amiss". It seemed appropriate in light of your often spot on posts, and the kindness you extended to a visitor to Mexico City who had been worried about her safety, here. (This time, I guessed "female": hope I wasn't wrong a third time!)
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Guy, going a little further regarding your question about taxes being paid by a self-employed person in the U.S., all they get is a deduction, in most cases, which results in nothing more than not having to pay self-employment taxes (15.3%) and income taxes (variable) on the sums they paid in taxes. This is in contrast with IVA, in which they get a credit for IVA they've paid, themselves, against whatever sums they would otherwise have had to forward to the SAT (without commenting on how broadly this may apply, as we've got a difference, here, on that point).

What's more, and this is where my understanding may be faulty, because it gets more bizarre, IF you take that credit, you get to keep the IVA you collected from your students, to that extent, and it never ends up in the hands of the government, at all. This is where the logic of the system, as a tax collection system, breaks down, to my mind. (Posters, please correct me here, if I've gone off the rails, on this point.)
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notamiss, if you'd not mind, would you please tell us what it is that your accountant has you do: from the numbers, can you tell how the IVA is being handled, and whether the deductions he's OKd are off the total IVA you've collected, or off the "retencion IVA"?

With tax matters, I understand there will be things we can discuss, and others we prefer not to, on a forum so, if you have something to add, please do, otherwise I'll not ask again.
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As I understand it, the online declaration process, which I've not done, except for the first ones, which were in ceros, works like this: you input the numbers, and the computer does the calculation of the taxes for you; then, provides a printout which is taken to the bank- and required by the bank- if you want to pay the taxes due for that month.