Taxing
Got to do my tax return soon. It's already making me nervous. A couple of years ago I was sent a warning letter that I wasn't making enough profit. After that, I entered into an interesting correspondence with the Tax Office regarding the nature of my pitiful earnings. They were unrepentent, even when I pointed out that my earnings were low due to being rather ill. I wasn't happy with their attitude toward me before that. They made an extraordinary fuss about this here low earner, taking off huge amounts every time I had a new contract, which was frequently. Presumably just in case I might go into the high tax bracket (yeah, right). I guess they can't believe my lack of dosh, so perhaps I should take it as a compliment - they obviously think I'm capable of earning a packet. But I get freaked out big-time now.If they don't launch and investigation into my financial affairs sometime in the next decade, and charge me for the privilege, I shall be really surprised. But they will probably find that they actually owe me, particularly when I was changing jobs frequently. I am pretty sure that I didn't get all that emergency tax refunded, fro example. And as for the self-employment ... Pitiful and laughable - and that goes for the Tax Office too.
posted by Alex Bordessa @ Wednesday, August 02, 2006
3 Comments:
Are you serious?!? This sounds crazy. Did they think you were defrauding them or just that you weren't earning your potential? If it was the latter, did they give you a pep-talk or offer suggestions or some such?
Oh, defrauding :-) It was part of a drive apparently. They were warning people with low earnings that they were claiming too much in expenses. When I rang up the Tax Office in disbelief, the person on the other end of the phone confessed that he'd fielded a string of complaints; most of us were were earning a small amount of money from lecturing or writing academic articles. And most of the earned money was going toward books/travelling expenses as we pursued our studies and wrote more articles and books. According to the Tax Office it is impossible that people don't look to make a profit and only seek to draw even. btw, at the time I did also have a part time job. But the self-employment is counted separately (except when they set a tax allowance for the next year ...)
So much for being honest, and telling the tax office about every penny I earn.
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