How to demand a house tax
Organise a piss-up in a brewery?
Our gubmint couldn't even find the fucking brewery even if they were standing at the gates, surrounded by a crowd shouting directions.
The latest fiasco started when they sent out somewhere around a million letters to households around the country demanding payment for the Home Tax. By all accounts the letter was utterly confusing and the recipients couldn't understand a word of it.
I haven't seen the letter myself as it somehow accidentally and spontaneously combusted as it came in through the letter-box. Heh!
By all accounts though it gives people up until the 7th [i.e. next Thursday] to cough up their full Home Tax for next year. Obviously the cunts want to grab all the cash people have saved for Christmas, and want to make sure they get their grubby little hands on it before it is squandered on something so trivial as buying presents or spreading a little happiness.
Of course there has been uproar, with people complaining they don't understand the fucking letter, and those that do are complaining that they don't owe the money until next year.
The gubmint/Revenue's response is that they aren't actually looking for money now, but just want to know how people intend to pay. But then they go on to say that if you intend to pay by credit card or cheque, that you have to pay now.
Dame Enda and the rest of the gubmint are now screaming from the rooftops that no, you do NOT have to pay until next year.
The Revenue are screaming from the rooftops that yes, you do have to pay now or else….
The gubmint say it's not their fault as Revenue are an independent body.
Revenue say it's not their fault as they have to abide by the law as set by the gubmint.
So now the gubmint has called Revenue into the headmaster's office and are demanding explanations.
And presumably this train-wreck of a situation has to be resolved before Thursday.
You honestly couldn't make this shit up.
All I can say is thank God I decided not to get involved.
Brass necks springs to mind.
Or headless chickens?
There's nothing confusing about the letter at all. But it is ironic when the Government and Banks are leading us to a cashless society where all transactions must be done by plastic cards, (so that they can track every penny you have), that if you choose to pay by plastic, they steal it from you now. If you want to dribble the money to them in cash, you won't finish paying the bastards until December 2014.
As I said, I haven't seen the letter myself so I'm just going on what I have heard.
By all accounts they have laid out a series of ways of paying and that is part of the confusion. You can pay now by plastic [or cheque?], you can pay on-line, you can pay at the Post Office, you can pay in a lump sum or deferred payment and a rake of other options. It's fine giving people alternative ways of paying but they should explain it ore clearly. I suppose one way of paying would be to give them a bank account they can draw from, and then close that account?
Better to dribble it to the bastards month by month.
Talk about prolonging the agony!
Who voted for this tax imposition?
According to history the Irish people will rebel when they have had enough. Is Ireland now so overrun by immigrants (or for the politically correct, GCHQ, NSA and whoever else is caching this, migrants) rebellion is impossible?
This tax was not voted on by anyone. It was demanded by our Lords and Masters in Brussels – the Three Pigs [AKA the Troika]. So if there is anyone out there who is under the illusion that being a member of the EU means no loss in sovereignty……………………
Remember the old slogan "Just say NO"?
I'm tired of saying NO. Nowadays I just ignore them altogether.
Over here the council tax aka property tax is demanded by utter shits in town halls from something called 'a liable person'. Ignoring all the myriad of definitions that exist for the word person in practise this person is the name(s) that are recorded on the electoral roll forms sent to 'the occupier'. If the shits get no response the assume the last names they had are the liable persons.
If the form is filled in incorrectly the deadly penalty of £1000 may brought into play but if the form was filled in incorrectly how would the shits know who to penalise?
There is no penalty offered for simply putting a thick black line across the form and sending it back.
Problem is the biffo population genuinely believes they have to supply their personal details to whoever demands them.
Fuck off stamped on the form in red does also get the message across rather effectively
Off hand I would drop off a bag of loses 1 cent coins every couple of weeks. To keep things interesting throw in the odd 2 or 5 cent coin so they have examine everyone one instead of simply weighing the bag. Maybe through in a couple of washers also to confuse things. Also make sure you overpay by 1 cent so they have to issue a refund cheque.
"A Penny for the Puca" – that's what we used to say at doorsteps on Halloween and we dressed up in masks and unscary witches' outfits. And we accepted CASH coins, but wouldn't have said NO to a ten-shilling orange note with a comely portrait of Michael Collins's seductress on it. These civil servants under the age of 40 just don't know that Halloween collection methods (straight into this bag Sir; bless you Sir) of old are a sound model for collecting the blasted house tax. But you know what some kids reacted a long time ago if a householder failed to put one halfpenny, or peanut, or crab apple in the collection bag? Yes, the meanie adult could be subjected some nights later to the doorbell treatment viz., some nipper rang the doorbell and ran into the dark.
I suggest the doorbell ringing model might serve as metaphor for dealing with the office collecting the household tax. Send them your used phone cards. Anonymously. Along with losing betting slips and lottery tickets. Slip in a note telling them to keep the change.