April 11/Bolt. Margin. Predator.
I am building a space shuttle in my garage. I am currently arguing about the colour of the bolts.
— from the desk, with coffee ☕Four hours on Forum-Steuer-Wahnsinn. I now have an identity crisis and a browser history I would not show to anyone.
Without VAT registration, I can't deduct the tax on equipment. With VAT registration, I add 19% to every invoice, which prices me out of the small agencies I'm targeting. Every decision in this country is a choice between two flavours of financial self-sabotage.
I tried explaining this to Anja over dinner. She put her fork down. 'You have zero clients,' she said. 'You're worrying about VAT.' She's right. She is terribly, specifically right. I know this. I also know that if I don't get the structure right now it will find me in three years and the encounter will be unpleasant.
I am building a space shuttle in my garage. I am currently arguing about the colour of the bolts.
I've also started reading Thorsten Kahl's newsletter. 'Workflow systems consultant.' 4,000 subscribers. A recurring segment called Friction Points in which he explains, with quiet confidence, things I thought I'd invented. He spoke at a conference in Hamburg last month. I found this out because Klaus mentioned it the way you mention weather.
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