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Re: What's going in your Withholding Allowance?

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Originally Posted by dlavery View Post
Kim -
You need to read each question/answer carefully and take care to not insert assumptions about information that is not there.

The referenced question asked specifically about spare batteries. It did not say anything about batteries plus leads plus connectors. There is no contradiction here (and before anyone starts yelling "hey, all batteries are used with leads and connectors, so of course that was implied!" remember that all batteries should be shipped without the leads/connectors installed; so the answer does not make any assumptions about what was implied - only what was asked).


Again, be careful to read the question/answer carefully. It discussed both a potential change to a motor, and the legality of a COTS transmission. Don't confuse the two. I don't see any place in the answer that indicates a motor with a changed pinion would not be considered a fabricated item.

-dave


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Not to be stubborn, but everyone keeps talking about the intent of the rule, and not to lawyer them... I wish the GDC could just be clear and answer questions as the TEAMS intend them. Instead of "mentoring" and "helping" the teams, they are either being deliberately vague, or just trying to keep themselves from being lawyered, and I fear that this is going to terribly confuse a lot of teams... or already has... And many of us have already posted the questions, so without answers and regionals coming up fast, we are just conjecturing as best we can. The GDC has chastised for submitting the same question over and over again before, but I have to believe that many teams right now are asking the exact same questions. It would help to at least be able to see the questions that are "in queue"...
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