death and taxes

[gentle_edgar]

Death and Taxes, in which John and Ronon drink beer and discuss tax forms. For siegeofangels's economic. stimulation. package. comment fest.

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Apparently Sateda had combined sales and income tax, with different kinds of items taxed at different rates--but that was somehow also influenced by the type of job and the total income of the taxee.

'Taxee' wasn't a

Comments

[leesa_perrie]

Oh boy, Sateda wins, hands down, for bureaucracy gone mad!! Brilliant!

"But it sure was fun to complain about."

LOL!

[bratfarrar]

Thanks!

[kensieg]

Not the way I'd want tax reform! *chuckle*

[bratfarrar]

Me either! :D

[saphirablue]

That is wonderful!

I love Ronon talking about Sateda, so thank you very much for this ficlet! :)

PS.: I'm with Ronon - revisions of (tax)laws almost always make the law worse and even more unlogical/incomprehensible.

[bratfarrar]

Thanks! I love Ronon talking about Sateda too, although I can't get him to do it as often as I'd like.

[ozsaur]

Ah, Ronon! I bet he thinks the American tax system is wimpy compared to Sateda. :)

[bratfarrar]

Ridiculously wimpy. He doesn't get what all the moaning and groaning is about--especially what with TurboTax and legal tax preparers and all. (Satedans were mandated by law to do only their own taxes, without the aid of anyone not affiliated with the tax agency and no one wanted to do that because it meant an automatic audit, so there was a whole lot of black-market tax preparation going on there for a while.)