Death and Taxes

I just filed my taxes for 2007 and for the first time, I couldn't just hit the submit button because I had one of those auto-inclusive employers. This time, I had to file as a working mother. I had to claim relief for having had two children. I had to claim the levy off Aunty D and I had to apply for some Parenthood rebate. All of which were foreign to me until about 20 minutes ago when I decided I wasn't going to get thrown into jail because I forgot to file my taxes.

And the exercise made me want to throw everything up in the air and yell "screw it!" and run away in fear. It's complicated, it's not intuitive and let me just say, the damn user guide is just so unfriendly .

Anyway, I think and I hope I got it done correctly because if they throw me in jail for not properly declaring my income I will just throw a girly fit and start pulling hair (not my own). Because seriously, it won't be my fault. And in the era of Big Brotherment in Singapore, why do I need to fill in all these details when they already have it on file in some big storage warehouse in some island off the west of Singapore. When we applied for a discounted rate for the maid levy because of the children, we were very curtly told that we hadn't read the instructions in the manual; that we didn't need to apply manually because the 'database' they had on me already reflected the two munchkins. So I don't see why IRAS couldn't just get the information from the same Orwellian database.

Well, I'm off to bed having had to deal with the taxman and having developed a headache from it.


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