the other day i finally got round to submitting my tax return using the government’s online facility. much to my surprise [and that of the church mice who have been shouting "pauper!" at me recently as i pass], it turns out madra.net actually made a profit of just over £1300 this year. pretty shoddy on the great global scale of things but, considering this was my first year in business and two thirds of startup companies fail in their first 12 months, i suppose i should be grateful for small mercies!
speaking of ’small mercies’, after i submitted my facts and figures and waited with fingers crossed for said website to announce how huge and crippling my tax bill would be, it actually turned out that theinland revenue owed me about £400 tax rebate, as i’d paid too much tax on my earnings from my college work. if only i’d known that was going to be the outcome, i’d have filed the feckin’ tax return months ago!
of course my joy at a forthcoming juicy rebate is tempered by the worry that i’ve probably fucked up the form somewhere along the line and will instead end up having to pay extra for being a fuckwitt. such is the way wi’ these things - if you do your tax return and find out you owe the government money, you worry because you can’t afford to pay it. converseley, if after doing your tax return you find the government owes you money, you still worry, because you think “this can’t be right. i must have filled the form in wrong!”
pah! humbug!
