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Finality of encroachment as I receive the letter promised by the lady from the Taxation Office on Saturday afternoon. Since I'll be donating my time for the first time they have me booked for three days of intense taxation cramming. And the training venue? Where else but the Smith Family in Liverpool, a charitable organisation itself. For three straight days from the forth of July they expect me to be at the place by 09:30 till 16:30. I can't even make it to an exam on time at 09:00 and that's with a purpose.
Given only three days I suspect that they have it within themselves the ability to saturate my mind with a fine attention to detail. One or two slips of mental focus and the poor soul who fronts this volunteer may see the end that befell Al Capone. Or, if given even inside knowledge, I may never have to pay my full share of tax when the time comes for me to earn an income.
According to the statement that I received a day before the volunteer confirmation I owe the Taxation Office, after two years in a go nowhere course, approximately ten thousand and three hundred and ninety dollars. By the time I finish I should see that figure bloat out close to nineteen thousand. With the fact that the GST affects the inflation index and that the total outstanding value of HECS is calculated against the index, I may be well off that value come the time in where my legal income threshold reaches the point of automatic deductions to to pay it off.
I know things aren't free. But with the crap I have had to deal with in learning from this university I would think perhaps a deduction or even a total refund of my HECS be in order. Free education? Only a figment of the poor's imagination.
Saturday, 16 June 2001 - 10:41
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