Ayyy, what would I be without you, my love… Every year you give me a new experience. 2024 has been no different. In fact, it has been beautiful: one more year without inspection, and I already feel like I live in a garden without flowers 🌼… without colors … without soul … but with bills. Always with invoices. And don’t get the wrong idea… the P doesn’t stand for PUTA, it stands for PESADILLA.
Treasury or by making thieves?
Because, of course, who needs peace of mind when you can have 85 VAT rates to play accounting Tetris? 🤯
This year we have collected:
0️⃣ , 2️⃣, 4️⃣, 5️⃣, 5-0.25 (what is that, a Lidl VAT-free Day promotion?), 7,5️⃣, 🔟, and the inevitable 2️⃣1️⃣ .
I just need a sticker album to glue them all together! 📚
And of course, then comes the tax reality:
📌 “You can’t deduct the whole car because you also use it to get bread.”
📌 “Light doesn’t count because it lights up your face, and that’s not economic activity (at the moment).”
📌 “Gas, water, wifi… watch out, that’s enjoyed by your dog too, and Hacienda doesn’t deduct pets.” 🐶💧⚡
Meanwhile, those who do have the resources to work magic with their money (cof cof cof, the big companies), have advisors, prosecutors, consultants, evasion experts who could hack NASA if they were asked… and those, curiously, nobody bothers them.
But the little ones… you always have us in your sights 🔍
We are like that student who does study but still gets caught copying… because of course, you have to make quotas, and it is easier to annoy those who have nothing to defend themselves with.
Yes:
📆 I work 18 hours a day.
👷♂️ I have two employees to whom I pay their social security, income tax, withholdings, and I even buy them a coffee from time to time.
💼 I am self-employed.
📉 And it turns out that, when we retire, they will almost certainly collect more pension than I do.
And I have yet to hear that being your own boss is “freedom”… Freedom, yes. To screw yourself in style. 🕊️💥
📣 Dear Treasury,
Do you really think it is wrong that a rural house that bills at 10% and buys at 21% is entitled to have the difference refunded?
Is it so complex?
Do you think it is so suspicious that we simply want to deduct what is due without you treating us as if we were putting drugs in the fruit boxes? 🍌🚓
We want to work. Not survive by juggling regulations that even you don’t understand.
So, thanks for another year of strong emotions, regulatory contradictions and early mornings to balance an Excel with more VAT than logic.
I love you. But from far away. Very far away.
Almost as far as the retirement I will have left after all this. 🥲📉
From MasTorrencito we wish you a good day and may your dogs be with you!!!!
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