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Usually, when I tell someone that they cannot do "what they
have been doing for five years", their response is "everyone they know is doing
it".
This little vignette plays to that.
i.e. if you were stopped for speeding, you would not say, "you can't give me a
ticket for speeding, I speed here every day". Or, "You can;t give me a
ticket for speeding, everyone I know speeds here".
However, when challenged on a deduction, the first thing the
poor taxpayer says is: "EVERYONE at the office
takes that deduction". Or, "I have been deducting that for years and they
never said anything before" and then opens up another two to eight years of
returns for audit.
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Enjoy
The Speeding Ticket
A man was speeding down the highway, feeling secure in a gaggle of cars all traveling at the same speed. However, as they passed a speed trap, he got nailed with an infrared speed detector and was pulled over. The officer handed him the citation, received his signature and was about to walk away when the man asked, "Officer, I know I was speeding, but I don't think it's fair. There were plenty of other cars around me going just as fast, so why did I get the ticket?" "Ever go fishing?" the policeman suddenly asked the man. "Ummm, yeah... so," the startled man replied. The officer grinned and added, "Ever catch ALL the fish?" ----------------------------------------------------
My advice, if you get a letter from the IRS
or CCRA, do not answer it without competent help.
If someone from the IRS or the CCRA
phones, NEVER answer a question over the phone. Tell them your house is
on fire, the cat's having kittens, you're just on the way out the door to bail
the neighbour out of jail. Get their name, contact your tax "person" and
then have your tax person call them back.
The CCRA/IRS guy is taking notes and
there is likely two of them on the line.
No matter what
you thought you said, it seems to come out differently on the notes.
NEVER, NEVER, NEVER talk to a government agent on the phone and NEVER EVER talk
to them without your tax person there to make sure that what you are saying is
what you really mean and what really happened.
Ingram
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And now that I
was super polite and said tax "person", did you hear about the fellow who told
his friend he had killed five flies, two females and three males.
When the
friend asked how he knew what sex they were, he said it was simple. Three
were on the beer fridge and two were on the phone.
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