PoprocksDotCom, the blog of Jess Barron

August 20, 2001

Start-up and Go

You never know the true meaning of fear until you receive a fat packet from the IRS with your name on it. Last week the IRS sent me a letter saying how I owe over $4,000 in back taxes on my 1999 earnings (payable immediately). After freaking out and feeling guilty and trying to decipher why they were accusing me of lying on my taxes, I figured out it was due to an error my (also) now-gone start-up company WildWeb.com made in its payroll. In its defense, WildWeb was owned by about three different parent companies during the course of the 1999 calendar year and had about as many different names and URLs including, "Wild, Wild Web" (the now defunct TV show), Getwild.com, and One Zero Media. Two of the parent companies reported my earned income to the IRS in duplicate W-2's, so it looks like I made a humongous amount of money that year. An amount of money that a 25-year-old whose job title was writer and then editor should NEVER have been earning. But then again, now that I know how much these start-up companies were spending on our Aeron chairs... And now I hafta somehow prove that this company that no longer exists made a mistake with its payroll. I guess this is yet another negative thing about a past history filled almost completely by working at companies that no longer exist.

Labels: startup, web

posted by Jess Barron @ 12:01 AM

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