Have I Mentioned I Have to Do My Tax Return This Month?

It is possible that I have mentioned having to do my tax return this month … Maybe I have …

Yes — I have to do my tax return by the end of this month.

But, of course, I have to do it a bit before that because if I leave it to the last minute, then everyone else in the world will be trying to submit it online, too, and the tax return website will crash, and then I won’t be able to get mine submitted, and then I won’t get it in on time, and then I’ll have to pay a penalty for not getting it in on time.

So here I am, resisting all calls from cats to visit with them in the great outside.

I’m at my desk getting all worked up about what on earth I did with my tax return from last year, so I can look at that and know at least roughly what I should be doing this year.

Why haven’t I started this year’s properly yet?

I’ve got up the spreadsheets; I’ve got papers scattered all around; I’ve got calculator at the ready; I’ve got coffee; I’ve got snacks; I’ve got the worry; I’ve not yet got the last-minute-panic, though.

In fact, maybe I should take a nap now that I’m all ready to rock ’n’ roll, and then I’ll spring up — refreshed and raring to go.

Yeah, that’ll work.

Actually, what I really should do before I do anything else is make sure my bone collection is in proper order — either in ascending or descending order of size, I reckon — whichever seems best.

Yes, that’s the job that really needs to be done before anything else can be done.

In fact, it’s essential.

It’ll only weigh on my mind if I don’t do it. It has to be done.

Gotta do it now.

Really, really gotta do it now.

Gotta stay up for as long as it takes.

Make the coffee stronger; make the day longer; just get on and do it!

Or maybe I should get someone else to do it …

Some doggo who can actually count.

But then I’ll have to hand over all those bags of papers and little notes scribbled on scrap, and my workings about those cash expenses, and all my explanations for this bit of dosh or that withdrawal there …

Nah. I’ve got to do it myself.

Just as soon as I’ve done this year’s tax return and sent it in, I shall immediately set about starting the following year’s in such a way that I update all the figures once a month — maybe once a week so that this time next year all I have to do is plug in my pre-prepared figures and it won’t be the agony that this is.

Yep. That’s what I’ll do.

For sure.

Hang on, though, maybe, I’d just better play with PupperJack first. I don’t want him to feel neglected; maybe take him for an amble; maybe check over his collection of toys — check they’re all in one piece and clean. Or maybe we’d better get together with the gang and tell them our tax return is in.

Yay! That’s what we’ll do.

(When it’s in. We’ll do that when it’s in.)

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