The tax man spinneth…

You may remember the tax problem we were having.  You may remember we had it worked out, and that we owed far more than we thought we would (like double).  You may remember (if you read our last newsletter) that we were thankful we had almost enough to pay the bill (mainly because of people who had "just happened" to donate to our ministry).

Well, take all that and scratch it out.

Frankly, the tax man is coming, going, and spinning in circles.

Our office in Canada has been communicating back and forth with Revenue Canada.  Apparently, they (Revenue Canada) had something mixed up, and they need to start again from scratch to figure out what we owe.

That’s what their "right hand" was doing.  Meanwhile, their "left hand", (not knowing what their right hand was doing), called me asking why I wasn’t paying my bill.  Finally, our office and I got their right and left hands communicating, so they eventually put a hold on the account while they worked with our accountant to fix the tangled mess.

So, they’re all busy fixing the tangled mess.  Meanwhile, we’re working on updating some forms to try to avoid future tangled messes.

This has been going on for months – so how does that effect us (besides the time we’ve spent dealing with it)?  Essentially, it means that we’ve been afraid to claim any ministry expenses (take money from our ministry account), because we’re trying to save the money for the taxes (whatever they may be).  That means we’re paying for ministry expenses out of our pockets in the mean time, which makes things extremely tight.

It would be nice to have this all figured out, hopefully with a minimum to pay (of course, we want to pay whatever we rightly owe!).

So there’s a little update on that topic, to go along with my recent updates on kids at school, my parents’ health, and our health.  I promise, shortly I’ll have something more uplifting posted.  😉