Shame on you for leaving out the best party, Subby:

The MPs name is Dick Harris.

In spite of that, Revenue Canada really have been bastards to this guy. Heard him on the radio the other day. Revenue Canada's own auditors told the guy to sue them, because it was the only way he was going to get them to leave him alone.

He kept no business records. What the fark was Revenue Canada supposed to do, take it on faith? Keep accurate, detailed business records or someone from some organization is going to fark you long and hard. He's just getting popular support because everyone hates the tax man.

Bored Horde: He kept no business records. What the fark was Revenue Canada supposed to do, take it on faith? Keep accurate, detailed business records or someone from some organization is going to fark you long and hard. He's just getting popular support because everyone hates the tax man.

Are you sure about that? (new window)

Irvin says the CRA lost his records. He could be lying, of course, but here's the money quote from that article:

In 2005, he took his case to the Tax Court of Canada, where the CRA gave up in a so-called consent to judgment, essentially admitting its mistake. That reduced Leroux's personal tax bill to zero and his GST bill to $20,000. Documents show that by 2006, Leroux was actually owed a $24,000 tax refund.

hankhorsey: Irvin says the CRA lost his records. He could be lying, of course, but here's the money quote from that article:

I think this dispute hinges on whether the CRA auditor taking his business records allowed the business owner the chance to make his own copies first.
If he had the chance to make copies and didn't, then he's equally if not more responsible for the mess after the originals were lost by the CRA.
If he was not given the chance, then the CRA bears responsibility.

How about we agree that this was a clusterfark from all parties involved, and wish the poor bastard luck in winning back his legal costs.

Nice to know that America does not have a monopoly on shiatheel dumbass politicians.

Procedural Texture: I think this dispute hinges on whether the CRA auditor taking his business records allowed the business owner the chance to make his own copies first.

Is that your legal opinion? Because it sure sounds like malarkey. Making copies of your records may be commonsense, but failing to do so probably isn't grounds for having your property confiscated by Revenue Canada.

I actually think there's probably a little more to this story than Irvin is saying. But who knows? The CRA ain't talking.

What's his FARK handle?

You know, my friend always says "no matter how bad the US is, everywhere else is far worse." Articles like this remind me that he's right

baka-san: Nice to know that America does not have a monopoly on shiatheel dumbass politicians.

Don't feel too threatened your monopoly is safe, he was consoling a guy that had been farked by the CRA for over a decade.

Pechorin: You know, my friend always says "no matter how bad the US is, everywhere else is far worse." Articles like this remind me that he's right

Your friends an idiot.

baka-san: Nice to know that America does not have a monopoly on shiatheel dumbass politicians.

Nope.
But I want to know why BC seems to be breeding all the retarded Canadian ones. First the Nanaimo-Alberni MP saying Darwin wouldn't believe in evolution if he were alive today and now this illiterate tard.

Silovik: Pechorin: You know, my friend always says "no matter how bad the US is, everywhere else is far worse." Articles like this remind me that he's right

Your friends friend's an idiot.

FTFY.

Pechorin: Silovik: Pechorin: You know, my friend always says "no matter how bad the US is, everywhere else is far worse." Articles like this remind me that he's right

Your friends friend's an idiot.

FTFY.

Yah, maybe if you took that passion for the written language, you could read about Europe, Canada, Australia etc.

What a ridiculous comparison! I very much doubt CRA's effectiveness against Israeli incursion. Plus, Hezbollah likes to give out money to the people (albeit counterfeit money) whereas CRA... just RTFA.

Another Canada thread.....

Pechorin: Silovik: Pechorin: You know, my friend always says "no matter how bad the US is, everywhere else is far worse." Articles like this remind me that he's right

Your friends friend's an a idiot.

FTFY. Sorry, pet peeve?

Why is that so many politicians and high level government appointees don't feel it is important to pay their taxes properly until they get in trouble for it? I really don't understand this.

No, not Muslims, but we have Cannocks.

Oh gawd...the idiot spells like a computer science grad student. how embarrassing. Now if only somebody cared, someone might...care.

Silovik: Pechorin: Silovik: Pechorin: You know, my friend always says "no matter how bad the US is, everywhere else is far worse." Articles like this remind me that he's right

Your friends friend's an idiot.

FTFY.

Yah, maybe if you took that passion for the written language, you could read about Europe, Canada, Australia etc.

I'm from Europe, and I visit relatives regularly. Genius.

Brainmask: Plus, Hezbollah likes to give out money to the people (albeit counterfeit money)

Hehehe. It's funny how the major news services always fall for that counterfeit money propaganda picture. I guess they can't resist the temptation of printing a picture of 'free' money being handed out.

Brainmask: Pechorin: Silovik: Pechorin: You know, my friend always says "no matter how bad the US is, everywhere else is far worse." Articles like this remind me that he's right

Your friends friend's an a idiot.

FTFY. Sorry, pet peeve poove?

FTFY

Pechorin: Silovik: Pechorin: Silovik: Pechorin: You know, my friend always says "no matter how bad the US is, everywhere else is far worse." Articles like this remind me that he's right

Your friends friend's an idiot.

FTFY.

Yah, maybe if you took that passion for the written language, you could read about Europe, Canada, Australia etc.

I'm from Europe, and I visit relatives regularly. Genius.

just willfully ignorant then?

andrewagill: No, not Muslims, but we have Cannocks.

Oh, speaking of which, does anyone have the full text of the Canuck letter?

I thought it would be easy to find online, but I was wrong.

Silovik: Pechorin: Silovik: Pechorin: Silovik: Pechorin: You know, my friend always says "no matter how bad the US is, everywhere else is far worse." Articles like this remind me that he's right

Your friends friend's an idiot.

FTFY.

Yah, maybe if you took that passion for the written language, you could read about Europe, Canada, Australia etc.

I'm from Europe, and I visit relatives regularly. Genius.

just willfully ignorant then?

No, I'm just not as super serious as you are. I like to make sarcastic comments, and don't usually argue with people on fark. You on the other hand, post in nearly every politics thread. And while I agree with your political views 90%, I place you in the category of the self righteous political hack, who must label everyone he sees as "with him or against him." When you saw the fact that I stated every other country is worse than America, I bet that made you go into "REPUBLICAN ALERT MODE" and attack me as a political opponent. Don't worry though, there are more super serious people like you out there than laid back people like me, so take some relief in that. Later.

Pechorin: You know, my friend always says "no matter how bad the US is, everywhere else is far worse." Articles like this remind me that he's right

I knew there was a reason I stayed here for the last 8 years.

Bored Horde:
How about we agree that this was a clusterfark from all parties involved, and wish the poor bastard luck in winning back his legal costs.

FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAG!1!!!!

Srsly, the Conservative party here has any number of redneck backbenchers who are always about one beer away from spewing racist slurs and WHARRGARBL like a crap fountain. I think this is due to their likely policy of purging anyone who vaguely resembles a principled old-school Progressive Conservative, and replacing them with Reform Party cock suckers who burn crosses in their spare time.

Erebus1954: Why is that so many politicians and high level government appointees don't feel it is important to pay their taxes properly until they get in trouble for it? I really don't understand this.

Meh, not even close to relevant to the topic at hand.

0/10.

You can do better _{probably not}

Potatoe, eh?

Apparently it's a common theme we find in every country in the world: people of a conservative mindset are morons.

Procedural Texture: hankhorsey: Irvin says the CRA lost his records. He could be lying, of course, but here's the money quote from that article:

I think this dispute hinges on whether the CRA auditor taking his business records allowed the business owner the chance to make his own copies first.
If he had the chance to make copies and didn't, then he's equally if not more responsible for the mess after the originals were lost by the CRA.
If he was not given the chance, then the CRA bears responsibility.

Haven't RTFA, I'm taking a course on Records Management right now. The rule is if anyone in authority wants to see them, and they have a legal right, you never, never, never get rid of anything until you are 100% sure you can get rid of it safely. In the US there are actually legal holds placed. I don't know about Canada. But getting rid of any records while a tax group is looking at them? Seems idiotic to me.

/writing my final in the class right now.

Silovik: Pechorin: You know, my friend always says "no matter how bad the US is, everywhere else is far worse." Articles like this remind me that he's right

Your friends an idiot.

Well, it depends on what he meant by it. I mean, America is the best place in the world for ME. It's my friggin' HOME, fer chrissakes.

Pechorin: You know, my friend always says "no matter how bad the US is, everywhere else is far worse." Articles like this remind me that he's right

I think "there are lots of places that are far worse" is probably more accurate.

Pechorin: Silovik: Pechorin: Silovik: Pechorin: Silovik: Pechorin: You know, my friend always says "no matter how bad the US is, everywhere else is far worse." Articles like this remind me that he's right

Your friends friend's an idiot.

FTFY.

Yah, maybe if you took that passion for the written language, you could read about Europe, Canada, Australia etc.

I'm from Europe, and I visit relatives regularly. Genius.

just willfully ignorant then?

No, I'm just not as super serious as you are. I like to make sarcastic comments, and don't usually argue with people on fark. You on the other hand, post in nearly every politics thread. And while I agree with your political views 90%, I place you in the category of the self righteous political hack, who must label everyone he sees as "with him or against him." When you saw the fact that I stated every other country is worse than America, I bet that made you go into "REPUBLICAN ALERT MODE" and attack me as a political opponent. Don't worry though, there are more super serious people like you out there than laid back people like me, so take some relief in that. Later.

Don't take it seriously... I mean I like a Fark argument too, but you went paragraph on me

/might be the playoffs pumping me up

jso2897: Silovik: Pechorin: You know, my friend always says "no matter how bad the US is, everywhere else is far worse." Articles like this remind me that he's right

Your friends an idiot.

Well, it depends on what he meant by it. I mean, America is the best place in the world for ME. It's my friggin' HOME, fer chrissakes.

I know. I tried living in France, but it was, like, a 16-hour commute. France sucks.

Silovik: Pechorin: Silovik: Pechorin: Silovik: Pechorin: Silovik: Pechorin: You know, my friend always says "no matter how bad the US is, everywhere else is far worse." Articles like this remind me that he's right

Your friends friend's an idiot.

FTFY.

Yah, maybe if you took that passion for the written language, you could read about Europe, Canada, Australia etc.

I'm from Europe, and I visit relatives regularly. Genius.

just willfully ignorant then?

No, I'm just not as super serious as you are. I like to make sarcastic comments, and don't usually argue with people on fark. You on the other hand, post in nearly every politics thread. And while I agree with your political views 90%, I place you in the category of the self righteous political hack, who must label everyone he sees as "with him or against him." When you saw the fact that I stated every other country is worse than America, I bet that made you go into "REPUBLICAN ALERT MODE" and attack me as a political opponent. Don't worry though, there are more super serious people like you out there than laid back people like me, so take some relief in that. Later.

Don't take it seriously... I mean I like a Fark argument too, but you went paragraph on me

/might be the playoffs pumping me up

Sorry, I was bored. Haven't done a written monologue in a while. No hard feelings.

No Such Agency: Reform Party cock suckers who burn crosses in their spare time.

You leave Stockwell Day alone!

whats up, eh?

FTA: Harris's harsh characterization of the CRA comes as an unusual statement from a member of the government funded by money that the revenue agency. [verb missing]

Whatever this MP has, it is contagious.

Hmmmmm... Wiki says Dick Harris was once a member of the Canadian Alliance. That is absolutely no surprise. 9/10ths of the Conservative party's embarrassments come from the Alliance side.

/For our international friends: The Canadian Alliance was a political party made up of, almost exclusively, social conservatives. It would be the Canadian equivalent of "the Sarah Palin party" (yeah that's a potshot at you Stockwell Day).

Everybody knows that taxmen are more like the Taliban. Idiot.

saintstryfe:
Haven't RTFA, I'm taking a course on Records Management right now. The rule is if anyone in authority wants to see them, and they have a legal right, you never, never, never get rid of anything until you are 100% sure you can get rid of it safely. In the US there are actually legal holds placed. I don't know about Canada. But getting rid of any records while a tax group is looking at them? Seems idiotic to me.

But you see, he didn't get rid of his records. He gave them to the Canada Revenue Agency, who accidentally shredded them. (At least, that's his story.)

Anyway, this case isn't about his records. From time to time records get lost or burnt in fires or stolen or ruined in floods or destroyed by a helpful tax auditor. There are procedures for this; and it appears that Irvin Leroux followed the procedures, because the court reviewed his reproduced records and found that CRA owed Leroux money and not the other way around.

Moreover, as reported by the Ottawa Citizen, "In another email message to constituents Irvin Leroux and his wife Jill Moore, Harris said he had spoken to then-Revenue Minister Carol Skelton about their case. He said Skelton had told him she would use the case an example for a taxpayer's bill of rights and to illustrate how the CRA abuses Canadians."

Yeah I know: sounds like Dick "Hizbollah" Harris is exaggerating and running his mouth again. But don't be fooled into thinking this asshatted MP has anything do with what looks like a clear cut story: some CRA asshole at a local branch made an error on Irvin Leroux's audit, and instead of checking his work or admitting the mistake he sicked every federal resource at his disposal on the poor guy.

hankhorsey: Is that your legal opinion? Because it sure sounds like malarkey. Making copies of your records may be commonsense, but failing to do so probably isn't grounds for having your property confiscated by Revenue Canada.

Whoa, whoa whoa!
I simply implied that if the auditor didn't give the guy a chance to make copies of the records before taking them in for review (and then accidentally shredding them) then the guy has some cause for complaint.
If he was given notice and therefore time to make copies, but didn't, then the guy's a dummy. I'd feel for the guy, sorta, but CRA's mistake wouldn't outshine his mistake.
Not a legal opinion. I am not a lawyer.

I'm just kind of appalled that an MP displays worse spelling than most of the worst fark trolls.

/and what is it with farkers who spell 'though' as 'tho'
//seriously, what is that?

posting in thread about Canada

gopher321: Screw you, Taxpayer!

Wins

whereisian: I'm just kind of appalled that an MP displays worse spelling than most of the worst fark trolls.

/and what is it with farkers who spell 'though' as 'tho'
//seriously, what is that?

Laziness, mostly.

whereisian: /and what is it with farkers who spell 'though' as 'tho'
//seriously, what is that?

You know what really grinds my gears?

When people on the internet refuse to write with vowels. The end results lks smthg lk ths. Srsl, wtf s wth ths sht?!