Your tax dollars at work

[chickenfeet]

Canada Revenue Agency goes to court to try and prove the LSE is not a university for tax puposes. Apparently Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield, Iowa and God's Bible School and College, Cincinnati, Ohio are OK though.

Asshats!

Comments

[gramarye1971]

....well now then.

[shezan.livejournal.com]

THE PERFECT JIM HACKER ICON!!!!

[owlfish]

Of course Maharishi International is a university - it has a dome you can float in while meditating. Doesn't every university?

[pyroclasticgrub.livejournal.com]

WTF? LSE doesn't count? How does that even make sense???

[gillo]

Catherine Jolicoeur, a CRA spokeswoman, said in an e-mail that the agency is reviewing the decision "to determine the impact" and added that the decision could be appealed.

Sheesh. In a hole. Digging. Why not stop it?

And apparently the Ukrainian Free University at Tartu counts. Sheesh.

(Does Durham count as a uni I wonder?)

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Does Durham count as a uni I wonder?

Quite likely it's not on the pre-approved list but the idiocy would be unlikely to be as bad. I think part of the cluelessness was because the LSE doesn't grant degrees, the University of London does. This is apparently altogether too much complexity for our tax people.

[gillo]

Presumably they'd be equally dense about SOAS, then, despite its global prestige.

I can understand not knowing about the LSE initially. But the lunacy of planning to appeal beggars belief.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

The inability to admit a mistake, ever, in the Public Service is amazing.

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

Golly. Can't you tell them President Bartlet from The West Wing went there? That must make it real, mustn't it?

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

The fact that Pierre Trudeau and Jacques Parizeau both went there didn't appear to do the trick.

[shezan.livejournal.com]

Conway School of Landscape Design, Conway, Mass.?

Good lord.

[ironed_orchid]

Consider me gobsmacked.

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

Maybe those other places can spend more on their lawyers!

[melted-snowball.livejournal.com]

This is great. Does this mean that I can tell my colleague whose degree is from UofLondon that his PhD (or whateverthehellhehas) is not for real?

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Only if you go to Germany and get yourself prosecuted for claiming to be a "Doktor"