legislature is in session." This kind of thing has been going on for a long time...
At 08:17 PM 9/15/03 -0400, you wrote:
Krikees! They could have saved a lot of space and just said, "The Commissioner
can do or say whatever he wants, whenever he wants"
What amazes me (and my apologies for being so far OT) is how Orwell ended up being far more right than I suspect even he feared he'd be.
Militaryspeak, Governmentspeak and Bureaucratspeak have become so pervasive that
we don't even notice it anymore. Here in our province, we have for the last two
terms had a government in power that has been particularly bad at
governmentspeak. They amended the Landlord and Tenant Act, to take power from
the tenants and give it to the landlords. They called the new legislation "The
Tenant's Rights Act" (I kid you not). They want to make it hard for
construction workers in a neighbouring province to work in Ontario, so they
brought in the "Fairness is a Two Way Street Act" (yes, that's the actual
name!).
John Coyle wrote:
> Frank, you'll appreciate this.
>
> The Australian tax-man wanting it all his own way: Section 92(2) of the
> Sales Tax Assessment Bill:
>
> " For the purposes of cancelling a tax benefit, the Commissioner may, in the
> assessment, determine any or all of the following:
> (a) that particular things are to be treated as not having happened;
> (b) that particular things are to be treated as having been done by a
> different person or to have happened at a different time;
> (c) that particular things that did not actually happen are to be treated as
> having happened and, where appropriate:
> (i) to have been done by a particular person;
> (ii) to have happened at a particular time."
>
> Fortunately, I don't think it ever got into the Act, which has now been
> superseded by GST law anyway, but it underlines the way bureaucreats thiink
> (if that's an apposite word!).
>
> John Coyle
> Brisbane, Australia
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "frank theriault" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 6:57 AM
> Subject: Re: pentax-discuss-d Digest V03 #984
>
> > Bingo, Tom!!
> >
> > You hit the nail on the head with that one. When you owe taxes on a
> transaction
> > has nothing to do with when the transaction is actually complete. The
> IRS, (or in
> > Canada, RevCan) live in their own little world, that has little bearing on
> > reality. Of course, when you write the laws...
> >
> > What a great line, I'll have to remember that: "You owe the taxes when
> the tax
> > people say you owe the taxes." Never have truer words been posted on this
> list.
> > <vbg>
> >
> > cheers,
> > frank
> >
> > graywolf wrote:
> >
> > > You own the taxes when the
> > > tax people say you owe the taxes.
> >
> > --
> > Honour - that virtue of the unjust!
> > -Albert Camus
> >
> >
-- Honour - that virtue of the unjust! -Albert Camus
To grasp the true meaning of socialism, imagine a world where everything is designed by
the post office, even the sleaze.
O'Rourke, P.J.
