articulate and intelligent discussion of personal finances

[devi]

GAH TAX RETURN GAH GAAAAH. Ugh.

On the upside, in the process of hunting for a Revenue letter with important information in it I have recycled a ton of old and useless paper and thus will have less stuff to move. And found my master copy of Wasted Epiphanies 1. On the downside, no letter. Humph.

(Edit: Tonight also brought the weird realisation that I've made more from artwork this last year than I've made from writing ever. This has uncomfortable implications but is also kind of cool.)

Comments

[hatter.livejournal.com]

Recycling is good, but is missing letter one whose info can't be dug out from someone/where else ? Some paper can only be issued once, but HMRC may never actually need to see it. Found my last piece of necessary paper a couple of days back, but wish I had any idea what to do with those particular numbers, now I have them. Congrats on being I think the first person on my list to get to the 'argh' stage though, this means you're upto 5 days ahead of several other people.


the hatter

[miss-newham.livejournal.com]

You've made money from artistic things??? Cripes! Well done!

I am going to have to take my tax return to my dad tomorrow, which is galling because I thought I'd finally figured out the maths after last year's lecture, and I'm going to have to tell him how little I've earned yet again...

Hello! I'm making a new comic too! You may have kicked me into doing something again...

[the-elyan.livejournal.com]

I was going to ask you if you were around this weekend, but possibly the first line of th above edit answers that question...

Good luck - I know a bit about personal tax returns (I did a whole stack of them in Jan 05, but none since)...

[rgl.livejournal.com]

I think the implications are that the market for art is healthier than the market for writing.

I've got to do my tax return too (for my record label), which is particularly confusing this time because most of my income for 2006-07 is in dollars. :/

[libellum.livejournal.com]

Was that to try and find your UTR number? Because if so OH GOD I SYMPATHISE.

Also I was having a similar thought re art and writing recently - art is more lucrative, who'd have thought it? I figured out that writing is actually what I do for fun these days. Which is weird, because after I realised firstly that I was never going to be a novelist, and secondly that I was never going to be an academic writer, I sort of assumed that I'd given up writing. Which is blatantly untrue because I spend all my time blogging in various personal and professional contexts. It just ... doesn't earn much money.

I'm sure that's mostly to do with how seriously I take each of them, and how marketable my particular skills in each medium is. But your comparison resonated with me, anyway :)

[mollydot.livejournal.com]

Tonight also brought the weird realisation that I've made more from artwork this last year than I've made from writing ever.

Well done!

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

Arting requires outlay for materials, whereas writing only requires a garret and a candle stuck in a bottle?

[bigcat23.livejournal.com]

you've reminded me that I'll need to get onto the tax people soon on Schedule D (is it still D or has that changed again?)before they take all the music money away in PAYE. There's no specific info on their website about what is tax deductible for musicicans or anything. Looking forward to seeing your exhibition tomorrow btw!

[verlaine.livejournal.com]

The implications are that you should do a 300-odd piece artistic exhibit, each piece being a framed page of printed text with a theme strangely redolent of a "science-fiction" or "fantasy" "story", simultaneously questioning the very nature of artistic creation and making a statement on subjective context in the scope of 21st century market forces, or something.

After the initial pieces have been snapped up by millionaire collectors, an attractive softbound compilation of the work could be sold for about 5.99 by selected bookselling outlets.

[mzdt.livejournal.com]

more maps for you, if you're not sick of them by now... ;-)