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Next week I am doing a nervewracking 2 minute speech (obviously I can't be certain it will be nervewracking, however I think it is safe to assume that it won't be as relaxing as, say, a warm shower) - I love digressing, can you tell? - at Webstock. The topic is 'how the internet changed my life', and I was kind of vague about what I would talk about...
UNTIL NOW. Bless you IRD, and your award winning website (vague recollection of fellow student who was IRD employee being proud of award-winning-status-of-ird website).
My GST return was done in mere minutes, after nightmare hours of writing 400 transactions into a spreadsheet (exactly 400, weird magic 400 transactions. Maybe someone will give me 400 million. I did see Sam Morgan at the beach the other day. I'm enjoying brackets today, they give me the freedom to meander with my writing).
And I won't have to drive into town to drop my GST return into the IRD box. Maybe they don't even have one anymore. Last time I did that was in 1998 when I had my last business.
Hence (I love good filler words like 'hence', and I love that I hate people starting sentences with 'and', and yet I do it because I can, my site muahhahahhahaha) the internet has saved me having to go out into the world.
And (see?) for that I am thankful.
2 comments:
I resloved to never do my own taxes ever agian after using the award-winning IRD website. Obviously you weren' shouting things at the computer like "I don't know what you want me to put in the stupid little box!"
In the end I just kept hitting submit until the blasted thing was accepted, walked into the lounge and said "Honey, pack the things we're now on the run from the IRD"
Once upon a time I didn't do a tax return for a few years. then I became a public servant and it seemed prudent to confess. and anyway, you have to pick your battles sometime. and hey, I made a little link to you from my place. and have a nice day.
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