Fri 13 Apr 2007
the taxman cometh
Posted by bon under stuff to be done
[13] Comments
…and he ain’t looking cheery.
i hate taxes. they make me sweat. they make me feel inept, and vulnerable, and sneaky, all in one…tax time for me is like a once-yearly revisitation by that power-mad seventh grade teacher who used to hiss at me and banish me to the hall for offences i could never quite identify. tax time makes me feel like i’m constantly forgetting something important, and am too hopelessly stupid to ever figure out what other people clearly know.
i learned to do my own taxes long ago, out of sheer spite. but i don’t like it.
so i decided to let Oscar try them this year instead. as you can see from his reaction, either his father and i are financial idiots about to lose the farm, or we’re on the road to kicking Revenue Canada’s ass.
i’m hoping for the latter. do you really think the word “count” in accountant means anything? does the fact that he can’t (count, that is – c’mon, he’s not even one, people!) bode poorly?
April 13th, 2007 at 7:54 pm
The look on Oscar’s face is too funny.
Good luck with the taxes.
April 13th, 2007 at 8:44 pm
That is a priceless photo. He’s looking a little fed up, I think, with his clueless parents. As if he really wants to say WTF but doesn’t quite know how to maneuver his tongue around the strangeness of the phrase. ;)
April 14th, 2007 at 12:08 am
Ooooh. So far we seem to owe $1500. So I’m not filing until I can figure out how to make this number smaller … (thanks for visiting my place! It’s nice to meet you!)
April 14th, 2007 at 1:54 am
i just love that your “accountant” is wearing, what are they?? giraffes??
where did you find him???
April 14th, 2007 at 3:00 am
I think he’s just realized that you don’t get any kind of reasonable deduction for him and that child care subsidy is taxable.
April 14th, 2007 at 3:17 am
the bitterness indeed.
i am a sicko – i like taxes. i always do it in February.
April 14th, 2007 at 4:22 am
Tax season just reminds me that we live in a country which “helps itself” to a generous portion of the money we’re trying to make to stay alive. And instead of helping people with it, they waste it on a stupid war.
April 14th, 2007 at 11:54 am
Cute! We have a young worried man do our taxes for us – much less worrisome.
April 14th, 2007 at 2:37 pm
Oscar looks how I feel when I think of doing our taxes. Like a sour little lemon all puckered up.
April 14th, 2007 at 3:45 pm
That is a pretty funny look on his face!!
April 14th, 2007 at 5:20 pm
Why shouldn’t he be able to do your taxes? They say in the US that the tax forms are designed to be easy enough for a 7th grader to complete. I heard a funny radio story once where they gave some basic tax forms to 7th graders and recorded their reactions – so funny! I think Oscar is probably smarter than that, don’t you?
April 14th, 2007 at 5:23 pm
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April 15th, 2007 at 12:01 am
I attempted to do our taxes this year. When I finished it said we owed some ridiculous amount of $, so we had them done again by the people we use. It was SOOOO worth the $75…and we are getting $ back.
Hope you didn’t stress too much & it ended with a + sign.