Income Tax Fuss
Friday, 29 April, 2005
General | 笔者: Twinsmom
Early last week…
Twinsmom: “Daddy, your tax forms how ah?”
Twinsdad: “Ai yoh…tsk! The accountant in my company resigned liao leh, last time she fill all the 5 years forms for me, now I don’t know how to fill, you know?”
Twinsmom: “I where got know, my pay never up to taxable standard.”
Twinsdad: “How ah?”
Twinsmom: “I don’t know, I only know this month end is the deadline.”
Twinsdad scratch head.
End of last week…
Twinsdad: “Ai yah…next week due lor…”
This week…
Monday lunch time…
Twinsmom: “How ah? This weekend due lor.”
Twinsdad: “Tsk! Let me ask the new accountant in my office, see she can help or not.”
Dinner time…
Twinsmom: “Ask already or not?”
Twinsdad: “Pai-seh to ask, not very familiar with her.”
Twinsmom: “Ask your sister lar, she work in the bank she know number, may be she can help.” To Twinsmom all the people can deal with number wan will know how to fill income tax form, but not the 4 digits number lar.
Twinsdad: “Oh, ya hor.”
Tuesday…
Twinsdad: “Sis, you know how to fill the income tax form?”
TwinsAunt: “Very easy mah, just follow the book I gave you last time lar.”
Twinsdad: “You help me lar.”
Two of them sit down check check check…
TwinsAunt: “Where is your 2004 EA form?”
Twinsdad: “Here.”
TwinsAunt: “2004 BE form?”
Searching, Searching, Searching…
Twinsdad: “Yee? Don’t have wor.”
TwinsAunt: “Hah? How come? Then you better go to the income tax office to get one. Then nvm, do the 2003 wan first, BE form for 2003?”
Twinsdad: “Nah, 2003 BE form.”
TwinsAunt: “2003 EA form?”
Searching, Searching, Searching…
Twinsdad: “Yee? Don’t have wor.”
TwinsAunt: “Then how to submit? You better check with your company got send to you or not the EA form.”
Searching, Searching, Searching…
Twinsdad: “Yee? I got 2003 Form J.”
TwinsAunt: “Hah? How come your 2003 not yet submit you got 2003 form J?”
Twinsdad and TwinsAunt scratching head together…
2004 — EA form (Yes), BE form (No).
Twinsmom: “The income tax website got 2004 BE form can download wor, you print it out tomorrow lor.”
Twinsdad: “See how lar.”
Wednesday…
After dinner…
Searching, Searching, Searching…
Twinsdad: “Yee? I got 2004 BE form!!!”
Twinsmom: “No wander can’t find it, different colour from the 2003 wan, I keep looking for green wan, and actually is blue wan.”
Filling the form…
“What is this?”
“Don’t know.”
“What is no. gaji?”
“Err…may be is this.”
“What is this?”
“Err…see the book?”
“Insurance not enough space to fill, how?”
“I don’t know leh.”
“Why can’t they use some simply language?”
“Ask sister tomorrow.”
Thursday…
After dinner…
Twinsdad: “I filled up this already, and what is this, this, and this?”
TwinsAunt: “This is yada, yada, yada…the income tax open until
Twinsdad: “Oh, yak ah? Nvm lar, go tomorrow lar.”
Minutes later…
Twinsdad: “Do you think the photostat still open this hour?”
Twinsmom: “think so, the
Twinsdad: “I go photostat it now then go to income tax office now, you want to come?”
Twinsmom: “OK.”
Twinsdad: “Sis, we go submit it now lar, you look after the girls for a while.”
Reached Kerana Jaya income tax office after photostat and bought lor-mai-gai (chicken sticky rice) in
A lot of cars man…tsk tsk tsk…all last minutes.
Twinsdad: “You get down first, go Q-up and I’ll park the car and come look for you, remember to get them chop the photostat copy to indicate we submit liao.”
Inside the income tax office…
The guard: “…ambil number…yada yada yada…counter 1-3 yada yada yada…submit saja pergi counter 11-12…”
Twinsdad: “gao-tim (done) ?”
Twinsmom: “Done. Shouldn’t tear off the first page, because they will chop the first page and give it back to us, but nvm I let him chop the photostat copy liao.”
Twinsdad: “Want to go mamak?”
Twinsmom: “OK.”
Twinsmom: “Teh ice limau satu, teh ice satu, curry mee satu.”
Twinsdad: “Let call sister.”
Talk to the phone: “Sis, we are in the income tax office, a lot people leh, we will be back by around 10.30 I think.”
Off the phone…
Twinsmom and Twinsdad: “Hehehe…”
Submit income tax form very easy mah, why so much hassles hah? Hehehe…