I'll be back...
Now that the Revenue Canada monkey is off my hunched back, I'll be blogging again. I think I was paralyzed by the prospect of having to retroactively pay GST since 2002. Just spoke to a really nice guy at the GST agency and he agreed that I had been mistakenly registered. He has now deregistered me.
Phew!
Last night Michael Dennis phoned. He was on holiday for two weeks and wrote 60 poems. He read me a bunch of them; I especially liked one about Canonball Adderly. I have written one poem in the past month.
Recovery from Centauri took a while. It was a great time there, though, and they've invited me back for next year.
But this Revenue Canada thing: it's such a psychological relief, as well as a practical one. Already in the two hours since I spoke to the Good Guy, I've been incredibly productive.
Isn't there a Stephen Leacock story about a guy who's freaked out by money?
Over and out.
posted by Razovsky @ 1:22 pm
8 Comments
8 Comments:
I'm glad to see you back blogging, and very glad to hear that you're out from under the tax cloud. I have no trouble imagining how that sort of stress can stifle your productivity.
If you drive a car,
I’ll tax the street,
If you try to sit,
I’ll tax your seat,
If you get too cold,
I’ll tax the heat,
If you take a walk,
I’ll tax your feet.
Taxman.
Yeah, I'm a badman.
of course, we bitch about paying tax (waah waah poor me) but we sure do love those things tax brings us (all those who DON'T accept arts grants can sit down)
I don't normally respond to comments, as a policy, but the anonymous "Gooch" perhaps reads only what s/he wants to see.
I have no problem paying taxes, and yes, I happily accept grants. But I was mistakenly (Gooch missed this word) registered for GST internally by Revenue Canada -- I was barely halfway to the threshold at which one must collect and pay this tax.
After consulting with four different RevCan people, I finally managed to speak with a supervisor, who investigated the situation and saw that I was indeed mistakenly registered.
I found it amazing that the government admitted a mistake and fixed it.
60 poems? Get that man a medal! Or an editor.
oh come on, ya mean tha govment admitted a mistake...hot damn...now dat's cause for cellabration... new orleans style...beads n booze n music n hot damn even screwin's tha order of tha day...crongrats to yu n yr lawyer mister stew. yu deserve a medal 4 sumthing.
The (not so) anonymous "Gooch" was actually responding to the anonymous "Jeff’s" banal riffing off the anonymous "Beatles" song and did not intend to insinuate that razovsky has a problem with the concept of paying taxes
banal riffing?
gooch: think you and i need to take this outside...
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