I thought of that as well.  Spreading the taxes across an entire year would 
be a lot nicer than getting hit all-at-once.  In fact, I wondered how I 
could afford to win without selling the computer.  That would be sad.  I 
hope that whoever wins can afford to keep it.  Plus, I'm curious as to the 
power that it would have!  :-)

-- 
Jeremy
www.beantoad.com


"Chris Holtorf" <lho### [at] nwlinkcom> wrote in message 
news:1103_1099054999@news.povray.org...
>   A coworker pointed out a very good benefit to moving the contest 
> deadline to January - taxes. If, by some stroke of extremely very good 
> luck, I should win the first
> place prize, I can delay paying my US federal and state taxes by a year. 
> This is in addition to any potential import duties on the hardware if the 
> machine comes from out
> of the country. It would also give me more time to fill out any paperwork 
> that is required for transactions involving so much money.
>   This is not a trivial amount in my case - potentialy up to 30% of the 
> amount of the winnings. That extra year would give me a lot more time to 
> save up the money.
> Aren't governments fun to deal with !
>
> Chris Holtorf
>
>
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