Taxes

Mrs S and I have just finished compiling our tax returns for the Canadian tax man. The file has just been fired off to our accountants who will cut and paste the figures into our online tax forms. They will send us a bill, which we have put money by to pay, and then we’ll cough up. Relatively painless, and as long as you’re honest, they don’t bother you much.

Unlike the UK where HMRC think every cash transaction is ‘cheating’ the tax man, to which my response is a curt “Who earned the fucking money in the first place, sunshine?” Now I do not mind paying a reasonable tax burden, but what HMRC and their political masters have forgotten is that it wasn’t their money to start with, and they owe the taxpayer a duty of care not to piss public funds up the wall.