Amend, Amen!!
Judging from today’s reprint in For Better or For Worse, one of these things is being indicated:
a. In 1980, the taxpayer was not allowed to amend their tax returns in Canada.
b. Dr. John Patterson is unaware that your tax return may be amended if you find an error of any type. You have three years from the date of your assessment in which to make your correction. There is also a “fairness policy” which allows you up to ten years should you find you had missed something in your favour. Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) may allow or disallow the request depending on the circumstances.
c. Dr. John Patterson is unaware that persons with self employment income or a spouse with self employment income, the filing deadline is extended to June 15..
d. I have whiplash from this strip changing the subject matter back and forth every day.
a. In 1980, the taxpayer was not allowed to amend their tax returns in Canada.
b. Dr. John Patterson is unaware that your tax return may be amended if you find an error of any type. You have three years from the date of your assessment in which to make your correction. There is also a “fairness policy” which allows you up to ten years should you find you had missed something in your favour. Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) may allow or disallow the request depending on the circumstances.
c. Dr. John Patterson is unaware that persons with self employment income or a spouse with self employment income, the filing deadline is extended to June 15..
d. I have whiplash from this strip changing the subject matter back and forth every day.
posted by howard at 10:23 PM
16 Comments:
Looks like John knows something about being a crazy emotional nutcase after all!
howard,
Dr. John Patterson is unaware that your tax return may be amended if you find an error of any type. You have three years from the date of your assessment in which to make your correction. There is also a “fairness policy” which allows you up to ten years should you find you had missed something in your favour. Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) may allow or disallow the request depending on the circumstances.
That should be amended to read "Lynn Johnston is unaware.....". After all, Lynn is probably doing her own taxes for the first time in a long time and might not be aware of something like that. I'd say I felt sorry but I don't; she allowed other people to handle a task she should have been handling on her own too damned long. Now that she's on her own. she's probably just now learning this. She'll probably be dumbstruck when she learns that she has until the middle of June to file her return.
As for the whiplash, I feel it too. Lynn seems to think that her fanbase have no attention span.
qnjones
Looks like John knows something about being a crazy emotional nutcase after all!
My running theory is that all the characters are Lynn, so everyone is a crazy, emotional nutcase, even Farley the dog.
DreadedCandiru2,
After all, Lynn is probably doing her own taxes for the first time in a long time and might not be aware of something like that.
Of the awareness, I am in complete agreement. As to the taxes, that’s the reason she kept Liuba Liamzini on staff.
[b]howard,[/b]
[i]My running theory is that all the characters are Lynn, so everyone is a crazy, emotional nutcase, even Farley the dog.[/i]
I remember reading the Sunday strips way back when and thinking Farley was a really stupid dog. I had a dog who was quite smart, and I thought Lynn didn't really "get" dogs.
And I accidentally hit publish instead of preview, and I see my experiment failed miserably. How do you quote, with the bold and italics?
You have to use "<" and ">" instead of "[" and "]", but otherwise, your tags are right
Oh yes, the characters are all Lynn at their core. Overly emotional, with hair-trigger tempers, and really judgmental.
It's not much of a knock against Lynn though. I think most authors suffer from an inability to believe that other people in the world don't think and act just like them. I just finished watching the DVDs of a television show in which every single character smokes pot and has indiscriminant casual sex. Great show, but clearly written/created by a pothead with little sexual self-control.
clio-1,
I remember reading the Sunday strips way back when and thinking Farley was a really stupid dog.
Prior to the great April rescue, I had viewed Farley the dog like other comic strip dogs, i.e. good for the occasional dog joke, but otherwise there to react to the things the humans did. I didn’t and still do not really think of Farley any higher than Barfy in Family Circus or Hotdog from Archie or Roscoe from Pickles. I do have a fondness for Daisy in Blondie, because my grandfather loved Daisy’s reactions and it would make him laugh.
qnjones,
It's not much of a knock against Lynn though. I think most authors suffer from an inability to believe that other people in the world don't think and act just like them.
Most, I would agree. Although the funniest part about latter day Lynn Johnston writing is that she used to be able to make some distinctions -- children didn’t talk like 60-year-old women, women didn’t act like they had been moms for 30 years unless they had been moms for 30 years—that sort of thing.
I just finished watching the DVDs of a television show in which every single character smokes pot and has indiscriminant casual sex.
Weeds?
I can't knock LJ for having someone else do her taxes. If I were self-employed I'd hire an expert for my taxes if there were any way I could afford it. When I first switched from the EZ form to the standard form five years ago, I went to a tax preparer for advice even though I did the actual preparation myself.
Jana C.H.
Seattle
Saith Floss Forbes: When you don't know the tune, sing tenor (but not with your taxes).
Six Feet Under.
Jana C.H.,
I can't knock LJ for having someone else do her taxes.
Neither can I. But I can knock LJ for making tax jokes, when she has someone else do her taxes. And I can especially knock her for doing tax jokes that don't work because she doesn't know you can amend your tax return.
qnones,
I just finished watching the DVDs of a television show in which every single character smokes pot and has indiscriminant casual sex. Great show, but clearly written/created by a pothead with little sexual self-control.
Or someone who went to my college and observed the way many people do actually behave. While I never smoked pot and am so over the whole casual sex thing, I could identify with that world a lot more than with Lynn's, which I find an appalling suburban hades. I think that's the secret to artistic success: find some people who "get it" and sell what you make to them.
P.S. Thanks, InsertMonikerHere.
When every single character in an artistic work shares a trait, regardless of their supposed age or background, it is a fair bet that the author shares those traits and doesn't realize that other people in the world are capable of being different in a significant way.
I'm late to this discussion--it occurs to me that when this strip originally ran (it's an old-run), I'm guessing that Rod still did the taxes. Lynn hadn't been doing the strip for very long yet, so I wouldn't be surprised if this came from an incident in which she'd been tossing all her "business" receipts in a drawer for Rod to discover later. Of course, if this did come from a real incident, it would indicate that Rod was clueless about the ability to file an amendment.
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