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Spring, Taxes & Changes

Spring

It’s that time of the year. It’s not determined by any schedule of ours.

The world moves in its own time and ways while we only imagine our ability to shape forces much larger than us.

I will be mostly offline for one or maybe two weeks. The seasons in North Central New Mexico do not change with slow transitions. It will be winter with a glance at spring until it’s summer. We have reached spring. It appears that the lows have stabilized and that means it’s time to get to work. The winds are mild and the thunderstorms haven’t yet begun. It’s a very limited time within which to plant and be able to water young plants before water restrictions begin.

All that is to say that if I don’t get out there now, I will miss my very tiny window until the next year.

Taxes

Taxes are due and so paperwork I must pursue and I have until the 14th of April to get it all sorted out. With the systems we have in place we really don’t need to file because the government knows it all anyway. But, and this is just my thoughts on it, the government continues to set this burden on the public for political gain. Most of us would be much less pained by our taxes if they didn’t make it a painful process. That benefits any of the anti-tax sentiment sides in the political arguments. So we suffer needless paperwork, threats and worries so they might benefit politically.

A New Venture

I am in the process of opening a small business. It is requiring quite a bit of my focus and I need to set up the structures now so it is simpler in the long run. The aforementioned taxes are part of it as well. Our system gets much more complicated once we include a personal business. While I had a minor in Marketing, that doesn’t help as much as I would like it to with Accounting. Who Knew!?

All of this is combining to keep me quite busy. Writing, while I enjoy it, must take a back seat for a bit. Being unsure of just how much work I am in for I won’t make any promises other than I will be back to writing soon.

Thank you to everyone who has read my writing. I really appreciate it.

Susan.

One response to “Spring, Taxes & Changes”

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    David

    After a career in IT designing and developing business systems in many areas, including finance and banking, I do not consider myself particular simple when it comes to earning money and paying taxes. All I have had is an income from a full-time job and a freelance writing hobby job, both with tax paid as I go, and a single rental house, as well as my own home. However, even the supposedly friendly new online tax return system here in New Zealand is nearly impossible to use. Apart from obvious defects that are really inexcusable, like the online income and expenses schedule for the rental property, that totals everything up for the schedule does NOT transfer the information into the income and expense summary – you have to go back 3 screens and enter the totals manually. Once I learnt this the hard way, I entered it in the line item ‘Schedular Expenses’ – well it was coming off the rental SCHEDULE. I got a snooty message saying it was supposed to go into ‘NON Schedular Expenses’. Get it right next time. I now pay for a tax accountant to sort things out for me.

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