Tax time

It's tax time and I guess most people are making appointments with accountants or maybe if they are feeling confident doing their tax returns on their own.

Fiona's had been done and sent off ages ago but a couple of days ago we got a letter in the mail from the tax office saying that there was an error on one of the calculation sheets to do with claiming a housekeeper as an expense so she'd need to re-submit her tax return.

So I'm thinking this is no big deal since we don't have a housekeeper but I'll call them and let them know we were sent the letter by mistake, their response was that it was automatically sent out to everyone that claimed a housekeeper as an expense last year since they assumed the same people would want to claim that expense again this year.

That's fine but we never claimed a housekeeper last year either, we've never had a housekeeper much less tired to claim one as a tax deduction - however it took nearly 4 hours and multiple phone calls to convince the taxation department that there wasn't a problem and in fact she didn't need to re-submit her return, the best part was the fact they simply didn't want to look at any of her previous returns and check if she'd tried to claim a housekeeper as a deduction - bunch of frigging idiots !