More oddities spotted in the news

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Government of Canada promises to make tax returns Y2K-compliant

Yes - 20 years after Denmark and Sweden did this, 80 years after the UK did the same thing, and an unknown-to-me number of years since Germany, Japan, Chile, Spain, Estonia, Finland, Norway, and Iceland did the same thing, Canada is finally admitting that they already have everybody's tax slips on file because the employers, banks, and charities send them copies, and will start filling out the tax forms for us - thus ensuring that we get all of the tax credits that are due to us. Including the one-in-eight people who currently don't get tax credits because they don't file because they don't have to pay anything,.. but thus miss out on getting money from federal programs.

I have no doubt that the professional tax-preparation services are upset.