At 08:08 AM 6/6/97 -0400, you wrote:
>>actually the
>>tax act is more like bad programming by a team of people that never
>>shared a social life - or understood the real world !
>
>OK, so do you mean bean counters or politicians?  Or both?
>
><G>
>
>Andy

In the old days when I had a sales tax audit - I hid some sun dried
mung beans amoungst all my papers. Suffice it to say the 'representative'
of the tax office was less than impressed - in those days I was lucky
since they had little chance of discretion and had to do exactly per
the procedure - these days they'd probably increase the penalty rate !

I never did get the mung bean count - though he did go to great pains
to tell me that every time I took a resistor out of stock and use it
in a circuit I had to prepare a docket. I think he was having a go at
me since he was most emphatic it had to be done on the spot and I wasn't
really allowed to add them all up at the end of the day etc etc.

Somehow I would be surprised if a (long standing) tax officer were to
become a (gainfully employed) electronics hobbyist. Almost like the
oxymoron of 'Military Intelligence' - sorry all you enlisted guys, its
the top brass I'm having a go at - oops Perth now in target range...

Cheers as I look for breakfast with mung beans

Mike :)


Some say there is no magic but, all things begin with thought then it becomes
academic, then some poor slob works out a practical way to implement all that
theory, this is called Engineering - for most people another form of magic.
                                                                       Massen