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Originally Posted by montsnmags
My sister, so keen to remind all of us how she has been "lumbered with" doing everything for mum (which basically means Annual Tax Return) has just phoned me tonight, asking me if I can help her with it (by which she means do it). In Oz we can submit our Tax Returns to the government from the 1st July. I have always offered, so that's no problem.
However, tonight is Saturday. Guess when the Tax Return has to be in to avoid mum getting penalties? Go on, guess. What's that? "End of December", you say? Ho, ho, ho, you jest of course. Pardon? "November 30"? Haha, you are indeed the comic wit, aren't you? Your lightheartedness does indeed lift my morale.
No, I'll give you a hint: [Marc clears tomorrow, Sunday, in his diary].
Of course, that was a few hours ago, and my sister is at least sending the necessary documentation over by email straight away. [Marc spends several hours checking email waiting for necessary attachments to come through. Still checking...]
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Finally finished doing Mum's tax return. She gets a very small bill from them this year...smaller than she has in most any year since Dad died...which theoretically means she will
credit me with being responsible for the small amount, in the same way she
blamed me for the 2005 and 2006 bills she got from the tax returns I did those years.
Yeah, that'll happen.
(Mother is convinced that she pays more tax since the Labor Party got in, and was better off under the previous Coalition government. Even when you tell her that every tax return - all of which
we have done, so we know - shows she has paid
less tax and received
much smaller bills under the Labor government, she insists that
"that's not right. I definitely pay more".).
Cheers,
Marc