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February 19, 2004
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The Hong Kong income tax form is 3 neatly spaced pages that takes approximately 5 minutes to fill in. The Australian income tax form is actually a book that will now take the next week of my life to fill in. Due to a happy set of co-incidences and timing I will be receiving a refund from the Australian tax authorities and received a demand from the HK tax office of precisely zero dollars. Both notices are in the process of being framed to remind me of happier times. posted by Simon on 02.19.04 at 11:09 AM in the
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The US is thinking of a simplified filing and flat tax system too. It will be two lines: What did you make last year? _________________ Australia is proposing an even more advanced system. You don't need to fill in a personal tax return as they already took all your money, and they figure anything you snuck through was gobbled up by sales tax. posted by: paul on 02.20.04 at 06:35 AM [permalink]Does Australia charge non-resident citizens on their income the way the US bastards do, or were you working back home for part of the year and had to file for that? posted by: Eric on 02.20.04 at 08:48 PM [permalink] |
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