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Ladies and gentlemen, I am no longer a fugitive from the law! Okay, so maybe I was never actually wanted by the law, but if I had let my taxes go any longer then I very well might have been. So at lunch time today I ran down to Canada Place and dropped off the statements of my earnings. Unfortunately, due to time and bad filing, I didn't get to write off nearly as much stuff as I could have. Everyone I know who does contract work jokes about writing off lunches for business expenses, and one contractor I know even writes off video games as software expenses.
Unfortunately, I am neither that bold nor that well organized. So I probably took a fairly beefy hit on taxes this year because I forget to save receipts. Oh, yeah, there is also the fact that I absolutely refuse to write off games. The funny thing is that because I MAKE video games it's probably even a legitimate expense to a degree. I could call it research. But somehow that cheapens the games in my mind. No longer are they labeled as objects of fun, they are now just tools to be used in my trade. It's sort of like a sperm clinic writing off pornos, those magazines were never meant to be taxable expenses, even if in this case it is perfectly reasonable.
Wow, you know you are a nerd when videogames and porn can be equated to each other so easily.
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