Please Don't Judge Me
This afternoon I worked on filing our Beneficial Ownership Information Report for PJP. The federal government has given this the BOIR acronym, which is actually sort of funny because it sounds like “bore” and honestly, the whole topic is boring.
In short, BOIR is a new requirement under the Corporate Transparency Act for all businesses. The goal is to increase transparency in business ownership and help combat financial crimes. All businesses have until January 1, 2025 to file their paperwork or if they don’t, the fine can be up to $500 per day late with the filing.
Occasionally, I think about the vastness of the United States government and I want to take to my bed. Thousands of people are filing BOIR reports right now. Where does all the information go? Is there a new BOIR division that looks at all of this? If you don’t file, how do they know? What are they doing with a picture of my driver’s license? Where is BOIR based? Is it full of cubicles and every time a new report is e-filed, does some one yell “WE GOT ONE!” and then they mark you off in some security clearance database?
I digress.
The point is, I filed it and before you can click the final button, it provides a CAPTCHA that literally left me stumped. I’ll include it below. I clicked on the soccer ball, but that was wrong. Are we so advanced now in protecting against bots that we’ve outsmarted humans? I really don’t even excel at the “click all the pictures with stoplights” in them. Or “click all the pictures with bicycles in them”. Or “click all the pictures with a bus in them.” This is because I’m a chronic overthinker and so if a picture has half a stoplight in it, I’m never sure if it is a yes or a no.
But this CAPTCHA? I don’t even know. I assume that if you are smart enough to own a business, aware enough of BOIR to file the report, and organized enough to file it before the deadline, you should be smart enough to answer the CAPTCHA. APPARENTLY NOT. The BOIR people must be sitting there mocking me in the BOIR division cubicles, wherever they may be.
It was kind enough to give me a second try and it was: SELECT ALL ANIMALS EITHER SITTING OR LAYING DOWN. I’m not evening kidding. I guess easier ones like “pick the stoplights” is for non-important governmental business. I passed the second one, but I did overthink it. Trying to figure out if a sheep is laying down is harder than you might guess.
PS. I still don’t understand how it’s not the soccer ball. Please don’t judge me if the answer is obvious.
