I just got the strangest letter today.<\/p>\n
In a very cordial tone, my friendly neighbourhood
\ntax-authority has decided to inform me that my private expenses for the years 2001 and 2002 are unacceptable. <\/p>\n
You heard me. unacceptable. And that’s their choice of words. <\/p>\n
According to them, after paying my taxes I’ve had only 30.000 kroner
\nin 2001 and -30.000 kroner in 2002 left to spend (that’s about USD 5000), which, of course, is completely unacceptable. <\/p>\n
Once again they confirm that being an impoverished slob is illegal in Denmark,
\nunless you don’t actually work, and hence get your money from the
\ngovernment, in which case being poor is perfectly acceptable
\nbehaviour. <\/p>\n
The tax authorities have now charged me with not having enough money,
\npunishable, I believe, by being relieved of even more of my money, and
\nmy task in that respect is to show up with shitloads of documentation
\nfor every dime I spent since early 2001 (the first 3 months of which I
\nspent in Ghana as an impoverished volunteer).
\n
\nThey don’t seem to care that before 2001 I made pretty good money in the Internet business, that my line of business has been hit with a pretty amazing slump, or for that matter, that I happen to have grandparents who’ve helped provide me a living in the past 2 years. <\/p>\n
I’ve been trying to start an NGO, working pretty hard because I believe in what I do, and have accepted from the get-go that this wasn’t likely to make me a wealthy individual. But I hadn’t really expected it to be unacceptable behaviour…. <\/p>\n
But there you are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I just got the strangest letter today. In a very cordial tone, my friendly neighbourhood tax-authority has decided to inform me that my private expenses for the years 2001 and 2002 are unacceptable. You heard me. unacceptable. And that’s their choice of words. According to them, after paying my taxes I’ve had only 30.000 kroner […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n