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Some good news for you on tax reporting changes.

Good stuff. Okay. so I was all excited last, I think it's last

year when it was initially announced, we were going to have a new rule going into effect

this summer that would require that companies could no longer play you like a fiddle

when they'd have a trial period or you sign up for something and then you want to quit later

whatever it is a gym membership or a video streaming service, whatever it is, that however you were able

to sign up, you would also be able to quit the same way. Well, let me tell you, companies

large and small went berserk, wired up, and just before the new rules on canceling were going into effect,

a three judge panel in an appellate court said, nope, nope, this interferes too much with business.

So businesses are still going to be able to lure you in with an easy sign-up for something

and make it as difficult for you to cancel it as possible.

Let me tell you some of the industries that are the worst offenders of this. For years and years and years and

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