Archive for March, 2008

dutch tax office rant

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

Just venting here…

1. About 2005

The tax office sent me a letter 2 weeks ago, requesting all kinds of documents back from 2005 to prove my income, and that I owned a house, etc… I spent the whole easter looking for these documents, overturning EVERY box I have and was getting very worried. And then I found out, by coincidence, that my ex girlfriend has the docs…

But still, why do they need the docs. If the tax office would work together with the various communities, they could just ask them for the docs. This is such a waste of paper. It seems that they’re just doing it as an employment project for people in Limburg (where my tax office is located and sort of the Jylland of Holland).

2. About 2007

Because I lived in Holland until April 2007, I need to file a report for that. But, they never contacted me about it. So I decided to call them myself. Apparently my situation (self-employed, emigrated) does not seem to exist in their automated response system. I spoke to 20 different persons (I wonder from how many departments), explaining the situation every time. The last one is going to send me a form. But she said: “If you order this form, you are obliged to fill it in and return! Are you really sure you want this one?”. Oooooook…. How the hell would I know??

frilandsmuseet

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

Organic farm roof I went to Frilandsmuseet in Kgs Lyngby yesterday. It’s a very nice open air museum close to Copenhagen with old farms from all over Denmark. See the pictures here.

wilders

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

Damn, even here in Denmark I get confronted with this guy. While I’m very pro freedom of speech, I think he gets way too much (media) attention. Please, can everybody just walk on and IGNORE this guy?

I hereby denounce his point of views (so did Fogh!). Seriously, come on! He makes me hide my Dutch passport :/

See the program here if he doesn’t make you sick yet. The program is in Danish, but the interview in English.

Funny how he gets cut off every time he tries to point out his statements.

I guess I paid attention to him too now…

winter

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

Finally, winter has arrived! It has snowed two days already, and this is the forecast for easter:

KBH weather

Crazy weather here!