What Do We Do in the Winter?
Ron is at the winery, filtering white wine. In between reading the "Judgment of Paris" about the 1976 wine competition in which American wines bested their French equivalents in a blind competition, (highly recommended), I am generating the end of year paperwork. Here's the list:
Federal:
W-2s for 20 part-time employees of the vineyard and winery. I have to fill these out twice, because the carbons aren't efficient enough to go through to the 4th, 5th and 6th copies.
W-3s, summary of W-2s
941, Employer's Quarterly Federal Tax Return
TTB F 5000.24 Federal Excise Tax Return
TTB F 5120.17 Report of Wine Premises Operation
Ohio:
UST-1, Sales Tax report Ohio 4th Quarter
IT-3, Ohio Transmittal of Wage and Tax Statements
Workmans' Comp, July-December
IT-941, Ohio Annual Reconciliation of Income Tax Withheld
IT-501, Ohio Quarterly Withholding
SD-141, School District Employer's Annual Reconciliation of Tax Withheld
SD-101, Employer's Payment of School District Income Tax Withheld
State of Ohio Excise Tax by gallonage (which had to be computed by going back and looking at all bottle sales for the year)
I love the Wall Street Journal ads by the state of Ohio trying to encourage small business to come here (she wrote sarcastically)
Ripley:
W1 1135 9977, Quarterly Withholding, Village of Ripley
Ripley Annual Reconciliation of Income Tax Withheld
And now, for each upcoming wine release, it's time to generate:
OMB 1513-0020 Application for and Certification/Exemption of Label/Bottle Approval for each new label
Similar form for Ohio for label approval
ARE YOU GLAZED OVER YET?
On a positive note, another new vineyard/winery that we have mentored will be opening this year. See http://www.renascentvineyards.com for details. They are located in Georgetown, Ohio.
Your friendly webmistress, blog queen and form handler
Nancy Bentley
That is great to hear you are passing along your knowledge to other wineries.
Posted by: SteveP | February 05, 2008 at 01:02 PM
Oh sorry, meant to include this, I really enjoy your blog and am impressed with Ron's dedication to perfection he is focused on the vineyard and that is where it all starts! Good luck and nice job!
Posted by: Mark V Marino | January 23, 2008 at 02:14 AM
Speaking of the judgment of Paris which I realize you were not, but, just got called down by Sue Furdick who is head of sales for Stag's Leap Cellars, because they won 1976. I did not realize this however they lost the 2006 reenactment and Ridge Montibello won! http://winelimo.typepad.com/winery_times/2007/12/ridge-won-the-2.html
Posted by: Mark V Marino | January 23, 2008 at 02:10 AM
Sounds like life is busy!!!
It was great to play at your winer anniversary in DEC.... I saw the pictures of your cats, the are grand. :)
hope you have a great week:
KATHERINE :)
Posted by: Katherine Pedigo | January 17, 2008 at 09:39 AM
Nancy, yes, I'm glazed over! Bleah.
Cool on the new vineyard -- I'll add them to the Cincinnati Locavore database!
Val
Posted by: valereee | January 14, 2008 at 12:39 PM