First up there was a crisis on the home stead which delayed things a little and actually threw me off my schedules... Secondly, choosing today as the day I would be filing income tax returns certainly wasn't a good idea...
When I got down to the Inland Revenue Board office, the scenario seemed somewhat similar to the last warehouse sale I attended, which was incidentally the Crocs sale held at Mines Wonderland last year.
One thing I learned from the early years when I just started earning the bacon was that you prepare your returns back home even before you even consider stepping into the taxman's office. And that I did this time and many times previously...
That said, the calculations were somewhat rushed if you ask me as I'm hoping that I actually have sufficient receipts to claim the max in the books and computer relief category... I buy lots of books every month but sometimes the receipt gets blown in the wind or eventually sucked up by the mean faceless vacuum cleaner that probes the lower reaches of the car seat...
Anyway, I have been prodigiously paying taxes since 1999 so I must have contributed quite a tidy sum to the Federal government... They should probably grant me a year's break from my tax paying responsibilities to enable me to make a trip down to the States at year end... :p
Wishful thinking...
I guess for those who are reluctantly parting with their hard earned moolah, perhaps it's best to remember what Jesus said about paying taxes...
"Show me the coin used for paying the tax." They brought him a denarius, and he asked them, "Whose portrait is this? And whose inscription?"
One thing I learned from the early years when I just started earning the bacon was that you prepare your returns back home even before you even consider stepping into the taxman's office. And that I did this time and many times previously...
That said, the calculations were somewhat rushed if you ask me as I'm hoping that I actually have sufficient receipts to claim the max in the books and computer relief category... I buy lots of books every month but sometimes the receipt gets blown in the wind or eventually sucked up by the mean faceless vacuum cleaner that probes the lower reaches of the car seat...
Anyway, I have been prodigiously paying taxes since 1999 so I must have contributed quite a tidy sum to the Federal government... They should probably grant me a year's break from my tax paying responsibilities to enable me to make a trip down to the States at year end... :p
Wishful thinking...
I guess for those who are reluctantly parting with their hard earned moolah, perhaps it's best to remember what Jesus said about paying taxes...
"Show me the coin used for paying the tax." They brought him a denarius, and he asked them, "Whose portrait is this? And whose inscription?"
"Caesar's," they replied.
Then he said to them, "Give to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's."
Nuff said, won't you agree?
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