Taxing time
 

Well it's arrived, it's accountant day today. I refuse to go, because Steve my accountant puts me into a coma everytime I talk to him, "Compound this", "Fiscal that" The burden of this little foray into the exciting world of accounting falls squarely on the Widows shoulders, bless her cotton socks. I will be available at the end of the phone to answer exciting little questions about what my average mileage for business purposes only was. And also to instantly extract vital information from my cross referenced/cross indexed filing system otherwise known as 'Gruffs shoebox' I am the most disorganised person I know, so my hat goes off to dull Steve for saving me a few pennies and I look forward to the nice cheque courtesy of Uncle Sam.

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[QUOTE=gruffbrown]Well it's arrived, it's accountant day today. QUOTE]

Every night, after the kids are in bed, we say tonights the night (tax that is). Then we open the study door, confront the mountain of boxes unpacked since we moved house 3 months ago, knowing that somewhere in that mountain is most of the info we need for the tax return. So every night, we quietly close the door, sneak off to the fridge for a beer, and promise we'll do it tomorrow night....I figure theres 23 more"tomorrow nights" before we have to panic....at least i made the first step 5 nights ago - installed turbotax, and even so taxing, I awarded myself a beer and the rest of the night off!

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[QUOTE=Yorkieabroad]Sounds like my kind of plan :D

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I have never known, nor will I ever do, understand what drives a person to be an accountant.

My simplistic (accounting) brain works like this:

(1) Earn money
(2) Spend money
(3) Play with what you spent the money on.

Thats it. I cannot under any circumstances force myself to make financial matters more complicated. My brain wont do it.

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[QUOTE=Yorkieabroad]Not just me then! I have a hangover from drinking to avoid the paperwork that I designated to be done yesterday.

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When in Rome....

The American Way is to wait until 11.30 p.m. on April 15th, drive like a bat outta heck (live in the south can't say hell :D) down to the 24hr Post Office, and have it stamped then. :D

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You missed the 'wait in line for hours' bit out. :rolleyes:

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It has to be genetic. "When I grow up I want to be an Astronaut or a Firefighter or discover a cure for cancer, what about you Steve?

"Well I've always quite fancied working 18 hour days in March and April and discovering peoples Fiscal anomolies and the forms..... Oh how I love the forms, A5961 parts 1 and 2, 1088s, it really gets my juices flowing"

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As a student astrologer I reckon it's all down to a surfeit of Saturn and Capricorn with a hefty dose of Virgo thrown in.

My contribution to our tax return was a tatty bit of paper with two columns of figures - one headed State Pension, the other Civil Service Pension, and a PS at the bottom: interest on savings. That's it, I said. There ain't no more.
The lady from HR Block was on the phone next day....... :p

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Actually now you come to mention the A5981 Part 2....is that the one in triplicate with the pink and yellow parts.....mmmmm yeah baby.

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Well I love the tax man here he gives me everything back :D As for accounting it's not that bad three months a years work the rest of the year off sounds better than two weeks off a year.

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My simplistic (accounting) brain works like this:

(1) Earn money
(2) Wife Spends money
(3) Play with Wife

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God bless you :beer:

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Or file for an extension. ;) Wonder if there's a hitch to filing for an extension.....better find out soonish. :eek:

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Your company does your taxes, don't they? :rolleyes: