Kevin Rudd Didn’t Stimulate Us

Monday 11th May 2009
The weather is starting to get a wintery feel about it, it is getting down to temperatures that make you feel like not getting out of bed in the morning, at least not until the sun has had a chance to warm the house up a bit.
In reality, Ian has worked for so many years doing late turns or in pubs, he will probably be retired before he reaches the point where he feels like getting out of bed in the morning, even on a warm day.
The workload at the Café seems to be levelling out now, presumably in response to it starting to feel wintery, so we are looking at ways to try and boost trade, especially in the afternoon.
Ian and Carolyn went to see the accountant this afternoon to sign off our tax returns for last year, would you believe it, everyone else in the country that fills out a tax return seems to be getting stimulated by Kevin Rudd and given $900 for the pleasure.
Just because we didn’t pay him any tax to start off with last year and no doubt because we still aren’t totally accepted over here he is not going to stimulate us, now how mean is that?
After work, Ian and Carolyn went for a walk down by the beach to see if one of our cats, Sterling, had got himself lost in the bush down there. we haven’t seen him for a couple of days and he does like his meal times, so we thought we had better try and find him, no luck though.
Fraser had a mountain of homework to do again tonight, he did as much as we would let him but if we let him carry on, he would be doing it for homework sake and not for learning sake which would be pointless.
Kristian didn’t go to Cubs again this week as we were not sure if there was going to be enough adults there to look after them.
After the kids went to bed, we watched the film Burn after reading, it was vaguely amusing but not really our thing, it will go on the crap film list.
Carolyn said that she was glad she hadn’t paid to go and see it at the cinema, Ian then pointed out to her that if we had we wouldn’t have gone out and bought it.

46% tax on your savings!!!

Tuesday 19th February 2008
We stayed at home all day today, Carolyn did some housework while Ian scoured the Internet all day looking for businesses with some potential for us to look at.
We contacted the Tax Office to let them know that they had got our residential status wrong and that we were actually living in the country which is why we needed a Tax File Number rather than paying 46% tax as a non resident. Perhaps they thought that we were trying to get preferential treatment with our visa by paying tax over here when we had never even set foot in the place.
Carolyn took the kids over the park for a while and later they went to the Library and in the evening Carolyn checked out the map of Busselton and rent prices etc before sending off a Confidentiality Disclosure Document for a Lunch bar that is on the market.