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From: TMCLELLA@UALTAVM.BITNET (Tim Mclellan)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: Somebody inform me on the error of my ways...
Message-ID: <658@UALTAVM.BITNET>
Date: 25 Aug 89 13:44:45 GMT
References: <401@fs1.ee.ubc.ca> <1713@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP> <723@geovision.UUCP>
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In article <723@geovision.UUCP>, pt@geovision.uucp (Paul Tomblin) writes:
 
>the Income Tax Act is a social program, not an
>instrument to generate revenue.  If we could overcome that obstacle, we
>would only then have to contend with the thousands of irate tax lawyers,
>accountants, civil servants, and other assorted chiselers.
 
Aren't there hundreds of thousands of irate tax payers?  Whose running
this country anyway  8{)  ?
 
>I'm a
>computer consultant part-time.  I want to buy a 386.  Does this get
>subtracted from my net income?  What about the trips and phone calls I had
>to make to get my first contract?
 
How do you pay taxes on that now?  The definition of income won't change,
just the way you pay taxes on it.
 
--
Tim McLellan                        University of Alberta
                                    Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
"Personal shopping only"              ( I only work there )
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