Canada's tax legislation is an archaic pile of nonsense and a monumental waste of working people's time in my opinion. I just quit bothering with the whole shitting mess of it.
Like I'm going to hunt-down six years worth of god damned tax slips just to retroactively claim what won't even amount to five grand... in Canadian dollars no less. To hell with it. They can go ahead and audit me to discover I'm owed money if they want.
We live in an age where an artificially intelligent, self-learning system can dynamically generate web content catered to individual tastes, and sort through billions of list items by using powers of thirty-one, but the Canada Revenue Agency can't ascertain how little I make in a year to cut me a check? And that's a whole other pile of stupid: you fill-in the boxes and submit the forms, and, if the information is inaccurate, the CRA will correct it anyway. So why go through the motions? Is it just an honesty test or an intentional waste of resources?
The only stipulation behind lower income Albertans receiving a carbon tax (wealth transfer) rebate is that a candidate has filed their provincial tax forms. If they think someone like myself has the time to engage in a correspondence war with the CRA over $400 worth of rebates, they should think again. I'm too busy doing things like writing this article to start bothering former employers for T4 slips dating back to 2010.
As someone who completed a tax preparation course provided by H&R Block in 2000, I feel for small business owners having to jump through the hoops or hire an accountant only to realize less savings than the fees charged by the accountant! My own taxes have always been straightforward as I've always been a single guy who works crap jobs.
In the past, I've only ever needed about eight of the dozens of line items to calculate my rebates. I'm not disabled, I don't have a spouse or dependents, I don't see any capital gains or derive any income from foreign places. I don't live in Quebec and I don't earn gratuities or make charitable contributions. No I don't run a business out of my home to write-off square footage. Every year it was the same tedious dance to complete my forms: yes I'm applying for the GST credit, $13,254, dash, dash, dash, dash, dash, dash, ..., $13,254, dash, dash, dash...
I've had enough!
Like I'm going to hunt-down six years worth of god damned tax slips just to retroactively claim what won't even amount to five grand... in Canadian dollars no less. To hell with it. They can go ahead and audit me to discover I'm owed money if they want.
We live in an age where an artificially intelligent, self-learning system can dynamically generate web content catered to individual tastes, and sort through billions of list items by using powers of thirty-one, but the Canada Revenue Agency can't ascertain how little I make in a year to cut me a check? And that's a whole other pile of stupid: you fill-in the boxes and submit the forms, and, if the information is inaccurate, the CRA will correct it anyway. So why go through the motions? Is it just an honesty test or an intentional waste of resources?
The only stipulation behind lower income Albertans receiving a carbon tax (wealth transfer) rebate is that a candidate has filed their provincial tax forms. If they think someone like myself has the time to engage in a correspondence war with the CRA over $400 worth of rebates, they should think again. I'm too busy doing things like writing this article to start bothering former employers for T4 slips dating back to 2010.
As someone who completed a tax preparation course provided by H&R Block in 2000, I feel for small business owners having to jump through the hoops or hire an accountant only to realize less savings than the fees charged by the accountant! My own taxes have always been straightforward as I've always been a single guy who works crap jobs.
In the past, I've only ever needed about eight of the dozens of line items to calculate my rebates. I'm not disabled, I don't have a spouse or dependents, I don't see any capital gains or derive any income from foreign places. I don't live in Quebec and I don't earn gratuities or make charitable contributions. No I don't run a business out of my home to write-off square footage. Every year it was the same tedious dance to complete my forms: yes I'm applying for the GST credit, $13,254, dash, dash, dash, dash, dash, dash, ..., $13,254, dash, dash, dash...
I've had enough!
