Tax Time! (Oh joy)
One last photo from the first playtest. Lessons have been learned and progress made. Now it's time to figure out what we owe Caesar before we return to more important matters.
To be continued.....
Saturday, April 13, 2024
We Pause This Blog For
Born and raised in the suburbs of Montreal 7 decades ago. Began playing with toy soldiers at 5 years. Started painting & converting at about 12 yrs and wargaming about 15 yrs. Never really stopped.
5 years in the Black Watch of Canada Cadets, 5 years at the Collège militaire royal de Saint-Jean followed by 4 in the navy. 25 years with CPC in IT simultaneous with 23 years running a boarding kennel. Inherited my love of toy soldiers from my mother's father. Married with a pack of litle Italian Greyhounds and a cat. Prematurely retired and enjoying leisure to game, maintaining our 170 yr old farmhouse and just living.
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Tax weekend here, too. Sigh.
ReplyDeleteI say, drop all the deductions (esp for the richest) and lower the tax rate.No fuss!
DeleteThe one advantage of living in the UK - no sorting taxes out .
ReplyDeleteand milder winters?
Deleteoh and the Wargame shows are closer :)
DeleteHope it is not too taxing for you.
ReplyDeleteAlan Tradgardland
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DeleteIn the UK, the self-employed still have to do their taxes, alas. Our tax year must be structured differently, though, as our tax deadline is 31st January.
ReplyDeleteOurs is based on the calendar but they give us a couple of months to do the paper work,
DeleteThe UK tax year runs from 6th April to 5th April the following year and the return has to be in my 31/1 the next year (10 months later). Why this strange UK year? Historically the year ran from April to March, which makes sense as the crops were harvested and the year was settled. The 5th April is because of the change from the Julian to Gregorian Calendar.
ReplyDeleteThe UK system is highly automated so only about 20% of people have to make a return. The US system is very bureaucratic, inflexible and expensive for the individual to use. The US system taxes US citizens and non-citizens with the right to be residents wherever they live even if this is outside the US and has been for decades. There are people called “accidental Americans” who were born in the US, left as children and have had no benefit from living in the US but still have to pay tax. A recent British Prime Minister was caught by this when he sold his house and was pursued by the IRS for capital gains. The US introduced this system on the 1860s as too many people fled to Canada to avoid paying for the Civil War.
This is probably more than you want to know!
That's OK, its interesting but I'll forget it by the time I finish typing this!
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