I actually exchanged humorous letters with the taxman many years ago. In the days when tax assessments came with a carbon copy, someone had, on another document, written the words “FAT ARSE”, such that it came out on the carbon copy. Coincidentally, the words “FAT ARSE” mostly appeared in a box marked “Allowances”. I wrote to the taxman, saying that I was happy for my arse to be considered fat, but was unsure of the scale of the allowance and whether it depended on the fatness of my arse. I received a reply saying that parts of the body could not be considered as tax allowances unless the particular part of the body was connected with a business enterprise. He also enclosed a leaflet detailing tax deductible allowances.
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