Hello, is this sound getting through? Can you hear me? Excellent. So good local time, everyone. This is Audrey Tang, Taiwan's digital minister. It is my great pleasure and honor to be here virtually at the 2021 US-Taiwan consultations on democratic governance in the Indo-Pacific region and share some thoughts with you about Taiwan's digital democracy. Well, as digital minister of Taiwan, I suppose it makes perfect sense for me to travel now digitally across time zones and boundaries to be part of this very meaningful event. However, I believe many of you would also agree when I say it is a pity that the pandemic made it difficult for me to join you in person. I remember the last time I traveled to Washington, DC, it was right before the pandemic hits and I had the opportunity to have face-to-face discussions with so many top notch experts and scholars and shook hands, which is a pre-pandemic thing now, with friends from all over the world. Indeed, the COVID-19 pandemic threw the world off balance and brought drastic changes. And in many parts of the world, we've seen symptoms of democracy in backslide and also some authoritarian regimes have tried to justify measures of state control and surveillance and restrictions in the name of public health. Of course, there is never an easy way to tackle emerging challenges, but I see opportunities arise among just the biggest global crisis of our time. When we are faced with the shared challenge that confronts the global population in Taiwan, I'm happy to report that I see digital social innovations continue to accelerate democracy and deepen collaboration across sectors. Because in Taiwan, democracy is seen as an applied social technology that improves when more people work together to achieve a common goal, just like any other technologies like semiconductor design. It works as a vehicle to turn the energy spread across different agencies and sectors into a driving force for policy innovation. And the idea is to enable the concept of working with the people, not just for the people, to permeate public policy decision-making. In other words, it is important to crowdsource democracy. So how do we start to bring ourself to work with the people? Well, for me, the answer is simple. It's to trust our citizens because to give no trust is to get no trust. And the first step towards such mutual trust is always more transparency. A few days ago, I met with a delegation from the European Parliament. And one of the delegation members heard about how facial recognition was used by some nearby authoritarian regimes and he was so curious to learn about how AI and digital technologies are used in Taiwan. And my answer was that in pluralistic democracies, AI should mean assistive intelligence rather than authoritarian intelligence. While in the more authoritarian regimes, transparency means making citizens transparent to their state. In Taiwan, we're using digital technologies to make the state and the decision-making process transparent to the citizens. And that is why in Taiwan, we have dedicated ourself to bring technology into the space where peoples are rather than expecting anyone to adapt to the spaces where the technologists are. So much like how the tip of Taiwan, the Yushan Jade Mountain, raises two or three centimeters each year because of earthquakes from clashing tectonic plates. We have built resilient democratic public digital infrastructures to invite completely different ends of the spectrum of different ideas, thoughts, feelings to come to the virtual table to discuss and also to co-create. A great example is the one-stop online civic participation platform, or join the GOV, the TW, where anyone can file a petition and participate in policy-making. Face-to-face cross-ministerial collaboration meetings are held twice monthly to explore ways to incorporate ideas from those petitions with more than 5,000 signatures into policy-making. So literally anyone, not just citizens, but also residents, global citizens, people too young to vote, can and they do play a role in the decision-making process. So far we've held more than 100 collaborative meetings as of October 2021. There have been close to 30 million visits and we're just a country with population of 23 million. So we're also using digital technologies to cross-source solutions to address globally shared challenges from a presidential or country-wide scale. We have a dedicated annual event called the Presidential Hackathon that we actually co-organized with AIT, so thank you very much AIT, which invites citizens from around the world to propose open data solutions to global issues such as climate change, anti-corruption, and so on. Every year, five winning teams receive trophies from our president, Dr. Tsai Ing-wen, that carries the promise of realizing their ideas on a national scale in the following fiscal year with all the budget, personnel, and regulation support. So mutual trust and dialogue between the social sector, public sector, and private sectors are reliably discovered and amplified each year. Digital democracy also play an important role in our fight against the pandemic with no lockdowns. And I believe our efforts to counter the virus are based on the three pillars of fast, fear, and fun. Well, fast is for fast response, fear for fear access for all, and fun is for humor over rumor, turning outrage into creativity so we can laugh and overcome the conspiracy theories together. And with these key values, we can find opportunities to cultivate what I call people-public-private partnerships, and even a small idea can be augmented and amplified into a strong force for good. A good example is from last February's Face Mask Mops, initiated by social entrepreneurs working with the decentralized community of G0V or GovZero. To prevent a panic buying of medical grade masks, we instituted this national rationing scheme, but we also released Application Programming Interface, or API, to provide the public with real-time updated every 30 seconds location-specific data on mask availability. And within just a few days, more than 100 different mops, chatbots voice assistants were created so that people can look at the details of where the masks are in stock and their numbers. Within, I think, a couple of weeks, it was also adopted in South Korea. And similarly, in May this year, when we faced the real, early wave so far of COVID, the early measures to record the contact information for those entering or leaving public venue led to the quick development, again by G0V, of the SMS-based contact tracing system in, again, just three days. So it's not a government technology, it's intuitive, free of apps, no downloads required, and an easy way to check in at public places without any compromise on privacy based on well-understood principle of SMS. And anyone can look up who has accessed those records from the local contact tracing office in the past four weeks that shortened the contact tracing from 24 hours to less than 24 minutes now. And we're also using the power of crowdsourcing and people-public-private partnerships to fight against the infodemic, to relieve the anxiety that has stoked the flames of this information crisis during the pandemic. Instead of using centralized initiative, we focus more on a decentralized human-centered approach, this human-over-rumored tactic, for example, which gives public room to laugh at non-factual information which spreads faster, actually, than rumors. We also put an emphasis on media competence instead of just literacy so that people can see themselves as contributor to real-time fact-checking and journalism. Compared to censorship, takedown, top-down, lockdowns, I believe this is a longer-lasting solution or vaccination of the mind to the ongoing disinformation crisis. The word democracy comes from ancient Greek that combines demos, people, and kratos, power. It means power according to the will of the people and on behalf of the people. In Taiwan, we're making efforts to demonstrate how the use of digital platforms can strengthen democracy by giving everyone a voice and enabling a government that works with the people, not just for the people, supported by a meaningful, affordable broadband as a human rights and the administration that has worked to make our system and policy rational as transparent as possible because we believe that human rights, freedom of speech, and democracy, these are not to be traded in any shape or form. There's a crack in everything and that's how the light gets in. That's a Lenecoe, unquote. When faced with this shared challenge that confronts the global population, I think an opportunity emerged to form shared goals, bringing all hands on deck to crowdsource for idea that unlocks our collective and connective intelligence to march toward a free, open, democratic and resilient Indo-Pacific. So to conclude, I would like to quickly share with you my own job description that I wrote in 2016 when I joined the cabinet as digital minister. Goes like this. When we see the internet of things, let's make it an internet of beings. When we see virtual reality, let's make it a shared reality. When we see machine learning, let's make it collaborative learning. When we see user experience, let's make it about human experience and whenever we hear that a singularity is near, well, let's always remember the plurality is here. Thank you for listening. Live long and prosper.


employed, self-employed typically, not deducted on the Schedule C, but rather on, as we saw, the Schedule 1. Why wouldn't it be deducted on the Schedule C, you might ask? Note that the bottom line of the Schedule C will be the thing that you're going to have income tax calculations on, but also that self-employment tax calculation. So the fact that it's not deducted on the Schedule C means you might still be subject to paying the equivalent of payroll taxes, Social Security and Medicare, but you'll get the federal income tax benefit because it'll be deducted on the Schedule 1. Okay, a child includes your son, daughter, stepchild, adopted child, or foster child defined in who qualifies as your dependent and the instructions for Form 1040. So we looked at that in a prior presentation. One of the following statements must be true. You were self-employed and had a net profit for the year reported on Schedule C or F. So you're self-employed, so that would typically mean you have a Schedule C or possibly a Schedule F, and you didn't have a loss, right? If you have a loss, then you lost money. The IRS is already skeptical of people taking a loss against other incomes such as W-2 income or other income possibly. So you might not get a benefit in the case of there's a loss. In other words, the IRS in some cases will restrict the amount of deductions you're going to get to break even or have a zero on your net income and not go below in a loss situation. So you were a partner with net earnings from self-employment. So if you're in a partnership situation, then typically you have to file another return, a partnership return, but it's not actually kind of a separate legal entity because it's not like a separate corporation generally. You could have an LLC, which is kind of like an in-between world. But the idea of a partnership is that the income still flows through to your tax return possibly with a K-1 form and is still oftentimes subject to self-employment, which means you might have been basically the same situation where you might be able to take the deduction for the health insurance situation. So you used one of the optional methods to figure your net earnings from self-employment on Schedule SE. So that's going to be a calculation that we've seen summarized in the past in software. We're going to obviously have to pay our self-employment tax, which is Social Security and Medicare, the self-employed equivalent of payroll taxes in essence. You received wages in 2023 from an S-Corporation in which you were a more than 2% shareholder. So S-Corporation, another complication in this situation because these are pass-through entities, the S-Corporation typically trying to get the best of both worlds, having some separation of a separate legal entity, possibly for litigation purposes, possibly for benefits with regards to the calculation of things like payroll taxes, but it's still a flow-through entity that's going to also flow through to the individual tax return. So we're not going to dive too much deeper into the S-Corporation and partnerships here. It's a whole other world in and of itself. But as a tax preparer, that's going to be one of the questions you have once again. Do you want to take on those more complex returns because there's a whole separate return that you have to file and have a flow-through situation? And or do you just want to do the individual side of things, possibly allowing someone else to do the S-Corporation returns and the partnerships, but still be able to take the K-1s and put them into the tax return?


hey welcome back to my channel if you're new my name is the cure to name so clearly by the title you guys know that I'm gonna be giving you a room tour slash apartment tour like you guys have already saw my apartment if you watched my moving video or when I was moving into college in my first car and apartment so I'll link that below this video was supposed to bend out last didn't happen as you can see because I wanted my room to be perfect in my eyes for me and it's still nowhere close to being done because I can't find anything but I'm just gonna give you a tour of my room without further ado let's just get right into it. so walking in from our door right here we've got a coat closet clearly this is where we keep all of our boxes for like when we want to move out these are the switches for these lights laundry area that's my stuff this is the kitchen this is my side like I said I don't have anything decorated here but all of this furniture came with the apartment TV came with it so yeah I'm really going to get to and death of like my stuff if you want to see that you can go check out my last vlog grocery haul vlog and then you can see where I store all my stuff in the kitchen and I'm not going to go down there but it's three other rooms so yeah coming over here my room is the first one it's room eight and it's the biggest and then this is our little patio out here I was actually spray painting some stuff moving on it to my room when you walk in you see my little pup Coby and then where's the bin behind the door it's just um hanging rack or whatever I keep all my like v-in jackets up here that I can just throw on this is my raincoat got there actually from like Dollar General somewhere I don't know why these earrings are up here but they are here's another little handbag from Victoria's Secret and then this is my sweet sweat um waist trimmer and then coming over to the side I just keep my backpack right here and run into my trash out um before y'all say anything I know this is ghetto okay I'm going to buy four shelves for Walmart but I can't get them by myself because they're literally like five times my you know weight or my size so I'm waiting for my boyfriend to come so we can go buy my TV it's 615 and then right here just keep a candle and this Japanese cherry blossom spray and then this right here it's really for graduation but I just put there right there this actually came with the apartment of course under here I keep most of my glasses sunglasses or whatever under here that stuff right there is just like old phone cases a portable charger a oldest iPod back there and then this picture frame that I gotta put a picture in what do you want say hey my bad dog Kobe and then under here is literally where all his stuff is at so he knows what that means I keep all of his snacks treats um some of his stuffy pads his leash etc etc and then this is his spot actually his bed his pad his pool of water and then this is his crib you know showing showing what you got going showing what you got going baby that's showing your crib that's showing your crib that's showing your crib and then I literally just keep a pillow right there um it was Nikki's but she got in bedding so she gave it to Kobe and under there I keep his pads um this is just random shit and then under there's actually more winter clothes so yeah moving on to my bedding area um everything is from one more that you see um these two pillows actually bought on clearance for five dollars all this came in a set thorough blanket bought myself and then this little pillow thingy back here I actually use it when I'm I use it to sit up in the corner when I try to do homework in my bed and then that little pocket right there it's actually for um your phone but I use it from my remote because I can't keep up with my remote then going up here is my hat same thing as my college dorm room tour so well basic and I'm getting trying to get more decorations up but it just say a carer above my tv and I really hate that it's not centered but then going up here is my picture wall literally all these pictures are from like high school over here is actually another wall just some pictures that I brought back from my dorm they're looking at it now I see that it's not even so well I'm going over here is my homework station my desk area I switch out the way it's turned all the time sometimes I would have a face against that wall but I turn it this way so I could watch tv from when I'm sitting there oh good job my potty see my baby's potty train over here I just got the beer that my boyfriend gave me for valentine's day I got my diploma up there you know success and she and then with my cord and this desk and chair came with the apartment so I just got the noodles but all this stuff right here is from like Walmart this is my desk lamp I got this for Christmas so I don't know where it's from but it just turns on right there and it's really really bright this is where I come sit down to my make-up actually and then just two extra binders this is from I want to say Walmart but I might have got that from like a hobby lobby or something but yeah and then under here is just my printer from Walmart this is what I used to go to class with the other books are my backpack over there and then under here it's just random other kind of school stuff and then back there is extra pens pencils batteries and my cords and stuff back there and then I keep a blanket back here just for my back and then of course if I get cold over here and then these four little pull-out shelves under my bed this is where I keep my t-shirts and tank tops the top one is for my blue jeans and leggings all this came with the apartment too by the way this one is for socks spanks shorts and then like some more sleep clothes what are you doing and then this top one is for shirts and then under here under my bed keep another throw blanket this is like my important documents um don't talk about my emoji slippers but I keep them right there by my bedside so when I get out I can just slide them on that is actually full of extra notebooks extra school stuff I keep this um I just eat on it whatever it's called it's from hobby lobby and this is from either hobby lobby or someplace like hobby lobby so I just keep that right here by my bed so I can just reach down and get it while I eat in the bed sometimes and then this is actually a mirror that I'm going to put up I actually spray painted it today but I don't know where I want to put it so yeah and then this rug right here is actually from tj max it's kind of messed up because he likes the chew on it that's why that one was sticking out right there and then moving on this is my new ring light that I just got this is where I just keep extra pads and stuff this is my bras these two are my panties and then I keep some slides down there and then in the corner you're going to see what I'm talking about in the bathroom but actually I want this to be in my bathroom but I can't find anything like sturdy enough to hold it because it's so heavy but I got that from where I get it from hobby lobby $30 but it was like 50 percent off and then over there is another little weight but yeah this is just my clothing rack of like I guess party clothes and this stuff oh stuff these are my tank tops so I just got that right here that Malone is from my boyfriend from Valentine's Day and then I keep my keys right yeah you know and then I keep my vacuum cleaner since it's literally so little it's from Walmart and it was like $18 in the rack and everything is from Walmart it was like 10 so moving on to my bathroom my favorite part of my apartment in my room welcome to my crib you know and I just got a command hook hanging that up but yeah turn it on and I guess we can start from this side I'll just keep a scale right here because you know I like to weigh myself I'm gonna I'm on a weight gain journey and then these two rugs are from Walmart um drawers space I guess you can say the first mission is to brush your makeup white etc this one is for my hair it's like my hair wraps and these are like my flatters wands and shower caps and stuff like that and here the bottom is also for hair it's like flexi rods perm curls wool and everything goes for under here I just keep you know other bathroom stuff cleaning stuff and then blow dryer keep a sensey it has the game sense in here right now and then this is my blue tooth um toothbrush or be it goes along with that so yeah that's what they do and then of course the clear makeup organization that everybody has this is like for my eyebrows that's what I keep in here this is everything from lip gloss lipsticks lip monitors check stick this one's for eyeshadows everything for you know around your eyes this one is makeup removers primer foundation and setting spray up here's kind of a mess but these are my two brushes for my edges makeup brushes this is just lotion and then other stuff that goes up here and then right here is on my body lotion and body spray the shelf is actually supposed to go right here as you can see I have some holes in the wall from when I tried to do it but it actually fell down so I do I did post a snapchat of the shelf so if I still got that snap I'm going to insert it now so you can kind of get a visual of how it's supposed to be right there but yeah that's right there it's me and then I bought these two little tray thingies it's for valentine's day and they were three dollars at target so this one I just keep here stuff that I'll use on daily basis that's easy to get to and then this one is like rings in my jewelry that I wear on a daily basis and then this one will be down into my baguette but yeah this is a picture of me and Morgan at her wedding I keep some cups that I stole from the hotel back here just to like gobble out mouthwash and this is a hand scrub and this is for my face and then a little water pour up there it says you make my heart smile this one says it's not easy being a goddess and then going down right here I have my two robes my pink one and my black one and then this is just a full length body mirror moving on to my toilet area this is what I used to actually clean I've been cleaning up today that's why it's out and then these are for cleaning too and then this is my face towel so my toilet this is the mirror that I used to do my makeup at my desk and then just regular baby lotion and I put this right here because I got this box for Christmas but I just put like all my extra stuff like deodorant shaving cream extra razor perfume for me 21 and then just a regular candle that I got for Christmas all this is from Walmart that's actually from Target also and then this little shoe holder rack thingy was from tj max it comes very handy this is actually from tj max also just to clean your toilet and then I keep a thing of lifestyle right here and moving on to my shower curtain in shower area it literally took me like six months to have the perfect shower curtain and it's still not really what I wanted but it'll work for now moving on to right here this little rack thingy is actually from tj max also and this one I just keep extra thing to lotion this is for when I take a bubble bath my speaker and then you know this is just the bathroom this one is where I keep my pads at I keep them zipped up so they kind of look cute you know when I'm right here on the toilet and reach over whatever and then down here is just face mask or random shit that I got down here that's for the bathroom so yeah this shelf was probably like 12 dollars my shower curtain was from Target and it was 20 dollars these were actually six dollars from Walmart and then right here I just keep my towel on my closet is actually in my bathroom this is it and I keep my broom back here behind my door but going into my closet my closet is a wreck it's just like for extra random storage but this is my hamper and then if you look on the door this is the same thing that I have for my door room it's just a shoe rack got that from Dollar General the hamper is from Walmart this is what I keep my boyfriend stuff in it was actually in like a little like a little tote thing but I needed that so I just put it in this box and then this is my ring light but yeah this is his shirts that I hang up and then at the top is really just random shit like this is my couple of purses I got a lamp mannequin hair that we practice in our own extra bows all this stuff is stuff that I just bought so if you want to see a fashion try on haul or whatever it's really not a lot of stuff but I mean if you want to see it just comment below and then moving on to this side I have my orange hair still less into a wig and then I got a couple of shoes up there I keep my towels right here and then here's just the more shoe boxes down here my boyfriend one that one that for me from the fair this this right here is all the stuff that I use to dye my hair with and then this is extra bundles or whatever this is just a sack of sacks and then back there is boxes that I ship stuff out with right here it's just random stuff like bags, backpacks and here's a whole lot of bags and then this are just the boxes of my stuff so I can put it back in the boxes when I move and I keep my um luggage well my one luggage bag back there and then that's just another pink hoodie and I also have two lights for my bathroom like that one and then I have that one out for the shower okay so I just wanted to say thank you guys so much for watching this video don't forget to like comment and subscribe if you have any questions feel free to leave them be alone thank you so much for watching and see you in my next video bye guys