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   Hello Shawn!   
      
   ** On Friday 15.01.21 - 09:04, Shawn Highfield wrote to August Abolins:   
      
    AA>> If ..non-essential, then the government's expectations for   
    AA>> my collecting their precious sales taxes and my performing   
    AA>> any other reporting to the government should follow as   
    AA>> ALSO non-essential! I'm d*mn serious.   
      
    SH>   I agree with you here.  I haven't filed my GST paperwork   
    SH>   yet for 2020.  I just stopped.   
      
   You're not alone.   
      
   In the past, I'd get a call from Rev Can to remind me that my     
   GST filing is late.   I haven't heard from them since last     
   March. It could certainly benefit me to take advantage of the     
   tax credits (on paper the net result is avoiding to send in     
   unnecessary taxes) ..but frankly, the net result is menial to     
   them. In one quarterly period my sales might be good, but then     
   it is offset by the GST that I paid out wrt to those sales. In     
   another quarterly period when the sales are low, there is a     
   credit difference that comes back to me.  It's just a silly     
   make-work project for which I don't get any hourly compensation.   
      
   In your case, if your service is reasonably uniform throughout     
   the year, then it wouldn't be prudent to NOT to take of it to     
   minimize penalties, fees and even the interest charges that they     
   have the audacity to add on.   
      
      
    SH>   I will do it with my income tax and draw on my line of   
    SH>   credit to pay them.  Fair?  Nope.  But I do it because I   
    SH>   don't want to argue anymore.   
      
   I do pretty much the same thing.  When I am short for a     
   particular quarterly period, I just borrow some money for the     
   short term until the next quarterly period gives me a credit.   
      
      
    SH>   This country is corrupt and I accept it now.  Soon as the   
    SH>   tattoo shops reopen I'm covering my proud to be Canadian   
    SH>   tattoo with black ink.   
      
   Sorry to hear that you feel that dark about all that. As someone     
   else mentioned, maybe you can try to assign a different     
   (positive) meaning about the tattoo.   
      
   BTW.. I thought tattoo technology has progressed to the point     
   where the inks can be practically removed.   
      
      
    AA>> I was just reminded that there are some new relief   
    AA>> programs specifically intended for businesses now since   
    AA>> the famous CERB.   
      
    SH>   I bet you don't qualify.  It's not setup for small   
    SH>   business owners to make it, only for big box stores.   
    SH>   (Sorry I'm negative)   
      
   There are at least two of them. An earlier one is federal and a     
   recent one is provincial - I've been told.  Haven't looked into     
   the details, but participating in the bureaucracy of the     
   processes to test my qualification feels tedious to me.   
      
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