Tax-Free Stone

Oh, look, a non-Hugo/WSFS/Worldcon-related post.

( Rolling Stone, One Year On )

We are now free of the potential sales tax issue with the RV, and it's one less thing I have to track. I must, however, still keep track of how many days I am in California for any reason, business or personal, because I still earn income in California and am thus subject to California non-resident income tax. (Nevada has no personal income tax.) Indeed, because of differences between how California and the federal government tax healthcare savings accounts, I ended up owing $600 in California tax beyond my withholding. I mailed my return to Sacramento on Monday.

Water Billing Mystery Solved

I finally puzzled out what the usage units on my water bill are by digging through the city of Fernley's web site: kilogallons. The billing units are per 1,000 gallons of water, but the meters apparently don't read any more finely than that. Whether than means 1,001 gallons bills me as 2 kgal, I don't know. But now I do know that I have a baseline usage (with the now-repaired leak) of 4000-5000 gallons/month. We'll see next month what fixing the leaking pipe does to consumption. I can see that it won't actually affect the bill that much, as the variable amount per kgal is trivial compared to the base charge.