The Tax Man Cometh
I got this letter from the tax man, yes, as soon as I got a job, didn’t I hear from fucking Revenue Canada, about paying up my back taxes.
All this time without work, I never heard a peep from them. Now the week after, oh, hello Kev, nice of you to keep in touch. Yes I’d be happy to fill out a form listing all my expenses and the money I’m raking in.
Yes, I do owe taxes from last year (and perhaps the year before, who remembers? oh, Kevin remembers), but when I took a closer look at the letter it had a subject line that read “outstanding taxes 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004.
Well I had to call our little Kevvy, and say “scuze me Kev, I paid off all my outstanding taxes for every year except 2004 and maybe some 2003. What is this all about with the 2001/2002?”
“Well our records show… “. You get the gist of that conversation. And while I was explaining to good old handsome Kevvy-poo that I could see in my chequebook the last payment on those taxes because the amount was different – it was just the amount they said was outstanding when they sent their receipts each month – Mr. Kevin got quite snotty with me and said that this conversation wasn’t getting us anywhere and if I wanted to dispute the amount, I’d have to send them a letter. In fact he was so snippy and snotty that I asked him if he spoke with everyone this way.
Now I have to get ahold of my bank to see if they can send me something back to 2001, showing what I’ve paid to Revenue Canada. I don’t know how much this is going to cost me, but you know damned well it’s gonna cost me.
Then I’ll have to look through all my files to see if I kept any of the stupid Revenue Canada statements that showed “amount owing… $0″ – otherwise, Kev wants me to cough up about another $4-6000 for 2001 and 2002.
I did take back all my postdated cheques for 2004 when I was out of work, and haven’t paid a dime since May, but of course I haven’t paid a dime… I had no job! They still made sure they grabbed all my GST cheques to put on that.
And that Unemployment I paid into for 30 years? Oh no, I couldn’t qualify for any of that money. I didn’t even qualify for welfare, so WTF was all the money I’ve been giving to the government for 30 working years? Not in my pocket, cuz I owe them $12,000 (with all those late payments fees) and they want it the week after I start a job.
Fucking government.
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Yuck! I hate the government! THey gave me student loans, and when I applied to see if they would forgive any of it (I should of qualified to have $5000 forgiven) they said they OVERPAID me and that because I didn’t give it back right away I no longer qualified for the forgiveness program! Gah! I hate them. I have to do my taxes for 2004 & 2005 – I think I owe them big time!
Sure, noooow it works. Like I said, nice rant. In comparing your story with my own and others I know, I think there’s more of us than there are of them. Ummmm….comfort in numbers?
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Maria
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Female, taken, fire, Sagittarius, Monkey, Toronto, two kids, one grandson, IT.
55
is the new 30. I want the world to close their mouths when they’re eating or chewing gum. If they don’t, I want to elbow them in the face.
Commiserations. You have just made contact with the lowest form of life in the known universe (and the most disorganised). It’s the same over here, too. Work out of the country for a few years and basically you’re persona non grata pension-wise. Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I hope they fuckin’ choke on it.