Not to disagree with the main point of your post, but I've lost
about 6.5% of my principal since I bought into VWEHX almost
exactly a year ago. Of course I've made probably slightly more
in dividends during that year ...
Haven't read the whole thread, so maybe this has been mentioned ...
Buy blood meal at the garden supply store and sprinkle it around the
perimeter. Repeat after significant rain.
Called Vanguard and they gave a disappointing vague answer ...
Anyone know if the Vgd "managed payout" funds will pay QDI
(qualified dividend income that gets favorable tax treatment)
or is it all ordinary income ?
I think what he meant to say was "as excited as a little French
schoolgirl on Bastille Day".
French schoolgirls are a useful rhetorical device. For example,
after reading the description of Coast Guard parachute rescue
swimmers in "A Perfect Storm" (great book, do not confuse with
the...
Good arbitrage (is that the right word) now ! ISM and OSM
are about a dollar apart. Even with bid/ask spreads, a person
ought to be a able to make 50- cents a share or so by
swapping 'em.
So is it just me, or do these guys figure they're above the law and
don't have to send out a 1099 ? I sure haven't gotten one.
At the website, you can go to "Manage Direct" and then down into
"taxes" and it kinda gives you the info, but without really dividing
it into "line" amounts. I guess...
Never mind. I was not computing the fraction of a year's
interest carefully enough; I thought a day plus-or-minus would
not really matter, but it's actually one-part-in-30, which is
about 0.1% for the numbers we're talking. Oddly, Excel,
(at least the several years old OSX version I'm...
Has anyone recently tried to reproduce the interest calculation
for ISM/OSM ?
For ISM for 2007, I show the following per-share dividends
(in reverse order, last one is Jan 07):
$0.09057
$0.09359
$0.09734
$0.10067
$0.09818
$0.09923
$0.09480
$0.08478
$0.09748
$0.07717
$0.07124...
Good point, thanks.
Main thing is, I thought I could only deduct half of my meals if
doing it this way, but maybe I'm wrong.
Also, I may not have all the receipts (since I sent them to client for
the reimbursement), but I guess that only matters if audited.
Maybe so, but I read the relevant IRS document differently.
The talked about the expenses being "accountable" or some such,
meaning if I justfified them tomy client (with receipts and such)
then the client should not report them on the 1099.