Tax

Well every time I come to this blog I seem to end up ranting about flights and airlines. Which I was going to do again but decided to leave it, because there are far more interesting things to talk about (even though planes are a big part of my life again).

So this morning I took a rather big step: I went to see a tax accountant. There is something very grown-up and definitive about this, I find. Like a cleaner, once you have one you can never live without one.

Bar the obvious fact that my company ought to be doing this for me, it was quite nice sitting down and working out how much the government here owes me and even nicer when he found an extra lump sum that I was owed. A long-overdue but successful meeting, triggered by my transfer to the 52% income tax bracket. Ouch.

The tax accountants are based in Leiden, which almost put me off going there. However, I did make it and luckily, when I was lost in a forest of buildings asking the way, a lady decided to give me a tour of the Biotech park which was on the way to their office (she had been working there for 10 years and knew all the companies). Random but sweet.