Swimming Pool - Update 7 - and TAX

Time flies when you're having fun is what they say ... So we must have lots and lots of fun then, since the last post is more than 2 months ago. Was it all fun then?? Hmmm, no.. definitely a lot of very, very busy times at work as well ;-).

One of the things we have done in the last months is the Tax return. Like in Holland, through a downloadable program. One of the features is that a lot of information (like interest on you bankaccounts, medicare expenses, etc) can be downloaded through that program as well. That saves a lot of time in looking through all your papers, adding numbers etc ;-).

Another great thing about the tax office is that your receive your tax-return money in your bankaccount in only two weeks!

Also we have been calling the Dutch tax office as well. We have completed and sent in the 'M'-form (migration tax form) on paper (unfortunately, that can not be done electronically) back in February.

So, as instructed on all tax-documents we called the 'abroad tax department' in Heerlen. Asking about the status of our returns the officer had to check some things and came back telling that since it is about the time we were still living in Holland, it is not their department looking after it but the national department. He was able to connect us through. So the next officer got the same story by us. She had to look some things up as well. She told us that the forms had been received, but had not been processed. She made a remark that if that would stay like that too long, they might 'fell off the system' and we would have a risk of having to fill in new forms from scratch..... (can you believe that?). She also told that the local tax office in Den Bosch are the ones that would need to be handling this. She was going to organize for colleagues in the Den Bosch office to call us the next day .......

Now, almost two months later... still no news. So, of course we will have to try again to get in contact with the right people.... to be continued.

Well, back to our pool project. Here are a few more recent photos: