The joys of working in taxation

It's been relatively quiet so far this week as it's still too early for tax season to commence.

Nevertheless, I've found that there are some keen beans who are on the ball, and simply want to get this "certainty" out of the way as soon as possible. It does help reduce the grief that is meant to come shortly when the season begins.

Anyway, the point of this is really on false teeth.

False teeth you say?

The story is that I had a one of these keen bean clients send in their information to us this week. His tax affairs are probably the most simple as you could get, so since most of us in the office are sitting in our cubicles, twiddling our thumbs and doing nothing productive, why not get this simple tax return out of the way.

This client then decided to try and maximise his chances of getting a bigger refund, by asking whether he could claim the cost of replacing his false teeth, (He lost his first pair) costing $500. hmmmm...the short answer was no. Unless he paid more than $1500 for the replacement, then we have something to play with.

I wonder what other outrageous claims will be next.