Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!egvideo!edhew
From: edhew@egvideo.UUCP (Ed Hew)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: income tax: what's this nonsense?
Keywords: tax, forms, onerous
Message-ID: <1976@egvideo.UUCP>
Date: 3 Apr 89 04:00:00 GMT
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In article <8903301453.AA07596@russell.csri.toronto.edu> clarke@csri.toronto.edu (Jim Clarke) writes:
>
>The tax return isn't *that* complicated, and working through it
>-- and reading about the deductions other people can use but you can't --
>gives you a better idea about what's costing you and how you're doing
>relative to the rest of the world.

I haven't had a problem going through the tax return myself for about
20 years now, both my own, my spouse's, my parent's ....
What I again dread is that 3 weekend dead loss when I have to make about
47 phone calls to get the missing numbers, and wade through a minimum of
2 *feet* (oops, make that .5 meters!) of old bills and misc statements
just so that I can *begin* that relatively simple 1/2 hour task of
completing and verifying my return.

Perhaps (since Revenue Canada is all powerful) they might compel all
parties involved to simply email me the info automatically by the end
of February, and I could then spend a couple of hours hacking a little
script to shuffle it all for me.	:-) [at least 'till I dig the
paleozoic paper stack out!]		--ed	{edhew@egvideo.uucp}

>Jim Clarke -- Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4
>clarke@csri.toronto.edu     or    clarke@csri.utoronto.ca

  Ed. A. Hew        Technical Marketing Director        Xeni/Con Corporation
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