Sometimes it doesn’t pay to do things correctly. My poor Mistress does not look happy. I won’t go into a long and complicated story but suffice it to say that the business that my Mistress set up is now earning some of its money in America, $3.06 to be precise so far. Anyway, she needed a number so that the tax man didn’t keep a whole load of it in America, so she filled in the form and sent it off and thought no more about it. That was until yesterday. She got a lovely reply from them, giving her the number she needed and saying that she also needed to send them a tax return for the business to arrive with them at the latest the day before their letter arrived with her. That was bad enough, but they said their records show that she needed to submit returns for the last three years. All by the day before yesterday. She didn’t earn anything in America through the company back then. Ah well, there goes her free weekend of putting her feet up. I left her to it yesterday as she was trying to ring the tax service in America to see if she could sort it out. It was either that or fill in three lots of 6 page forms in very small print and all for the sake of $3.06!
I’m rather hoping that the weather will be good enough for another exciting outing to explore a bit more of this county. We all sat down last night to discuss where we wanted to go, Shadow opted for the beach and I opted for a forest. Ari wanted somewhere with lots of other people and dogs and I wanted somewhere deserted. I suspect that the humans will get the real choice but they agree about as much as we do. Ah well as long as there’s an ice cream at the end of it I suppose I shouldn’t grumble.
Alfie Dog with a little help from Rosemary J Kind alfie@alfiedog.me.uk
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