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From: kocic@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Miroslav Kocic)
Date: Wed, 29-Mar-89 21:25:32 EST
Message-ID: <1989Mar29.212532.22054@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Organization: University of Toronto Computing Services
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: income tax: what's this nonsense?
References: <144@mindlink.UUCP> <1989Mar29.002321.5939@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> <1107@apss.apss.ab.ca>
Reply-To: kocic@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Miroslav Kocic)
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In article <1107@apss.apss.ab.ca> sph@apss.ab.ca (Shaun Hammond) writes:
>
>My feeling is that by going through the tax return in detail, you (sometimes)
>get an idea of how the system works. You may not agree with it, but 
>at least you get an idea of how to formulate your own personal "tax
>strategy".


Probably, but the formulation of tax strategies is what eventually enables
loopholes and all sorts of other time- and resource-wasting nonsense.  Unless
the point of knowing tax laws is to cheat, or to protect yourself from a 
corrupt or klutzy government, I'm not sure why Joe Blow needs to know the Tax
Laws at all, CONSIDERING HOW COMPLICATED THEY ARE.  I'd think differently if
they were simple.
	Please note that I'm largely a taxation ignoramus (although I help all
my close relatives with their tax returns, being the only fully literate person
among them).  Any knowledgeable person who wants to enlighten me is warmly
invited to do so.

Miki Kocic