It is early in the afternoon as I type these words ─ specifically, it is 1:47 p.m. ─ and I had initially begun this post with the notion that I would have time for a goodly long post. After all, I am presently home alone: my wife had to work the full day today, both of my stepsons went to work, and my younger brother left for the afternoon barely after the expiration of the noon hour.
However, it has come to my attention that I really must buckle down and get my eldest stepson's income tax return for last year set up for filing. He only sought my help this past Monday, and I've prevaricated since.
He will owe a considerable amount, and he knows it. He said he wouldn't be surprised if his tab turns out to be $1,500, for he had hardly any income taxes taken from his income last year ─ maybe $1,100 on a Gross income that will likely exceed $40,000.
So maybe he'll owe even more. For now, though, we need to file ─ the deadline was the end of last month, I believe.
He lost one or two tax slips that relate to a severance package with a previous employer, so all I have are two figures totalling something over $7,900; but he was unable to say if those were Gross or Net figures, or if there had been any income tax deducted.
Thus, all I can do is guess that the total figure is a Gross total, and that there were no deductions from that total.
Obviously the best case scenario will be that income taxes were taken and the total is indeed his Gross, and thus there will be an unknown (by us) hike to the income tax credit balance already listed for him at Canada Revenue Agency for last year which will reduce his final tax debt.
I only hope that the two amounts he quoted me, though, and not Net figures. That would mean that the Gross total on that severance package is going to be considerably greater than what I have to work with.
I don't understand why he's so scatter-brained that he not only lost those important information slips; but that he completely forgot that he needed to have his income tax return filed well before now.
Since this is going to take me a while to get worked out ─ even using the free GenuTax software that I downloaded earlier this year so that I could have my wife's and my tax returns completed and NETFILEd ─ I will need to make that task an afternoon priority.
I also have some exercising to tackle; and I want to set up a batch of three beetroots and their stalks, along with a small red cabbage, for natural fermentation. I've had the vegetables since Monday, and beet greens do not hold up well ─ it does not take too long before they start to degrade into a worthless slimy mess. Thus, I dare wait no longer.
And this is my bath day ─ I tend to bathe only every fourth day in the belief that the external beneficial microbiota are no negligible or discountable matter that we should be dismissing and washing away on a daily basis. After all, we would not purge our intestinal microbiota as a daily ritual, so why do it to our skin?
I may even require an afternoon nap.
Consequently, I do not have as much blogging time as I had originally imagined.
However, before I take a break from this post, I want to mention the very interesting interview Odessa Orlewicz has posted to her Facebook account ─ it features her second interview with a man named Joe Hazelton.
The interview is 2½ hours long, and my brother and I watched it this morning from approximately 10 a.m. through to 12:30 p.m.
Odessa has been banned from YouTube for a week, I guess, so she thus far only has the video available on her Facebook account. I wish that was not so, but she can be ridiculously tardy about uploading these videos to a more secure platform where they will not face deletion.
Heck, I don't even know the full title of the video, for Facebook cuts off titles that are too long. And that being the case, this is as much of it as I can work out: May 27-Are Canada's Elite Bloodlines Part Of the New World.
Please note that the video covered far more than what is suggested by the title. This short description she added does not even cover all of the topics:
Liberty Talk Canada Episode- Ex-Mason turned Christian Joe Hazelton is back for a second episode to discuss Canada's bloodlines, his views about Trump and his thoughts on the Q phenomena.
The video also touched up Christianity, the Rapture, and even aliens.
Okay, I am now taking that blogging break.
'Tis after 7 p.m. now, and added to the occupations consuming my afternoon was that which is preemptive above all others, and I find myself now with the bath and my stepson's income tax return still undone as a result.
Since that is so, it is best that I wrap up work on this post and see what yet I can salvage of the day.
The afternoon weather was a blend of Sun and cloud. I believe I am being truthful in declaring that there was too much cloud to have made sunning any sort of value-laden investment where my time was concerned. After all, there will be far sunnier days in store as this year advances.
Perhaps I will also mention that upon checking my Google AdSense account just ahead of opening up this post for today, I was honestly surprised and unjustifiably delighted to discover that somehow a cent was added to my balance yesterday thanks to activity at one of my two hosted websites.
The cent earned was the first income added to that account in a few months' time ─ and that was the sole reason for my delight over something so insignificant. Any positive activity in that account now seems practically miraculous and deserving of thanks to God ─ that is how pathetic this has become for me.
Yes, I had best draw this post to a close and seek that bath, then try to put in some work on my stepson's income tax return.
This my my final statement here for today's post.
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