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chickenfeet ([personal profile] chickenfeet) wrote2008-04-11 08:36 am
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Your tax dollars at work

Canada Revenue Agency goes to court to try and prove the LSE is not a university for tax puposes. Apparently Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield, Iowa and God's Bible School and College, Cincinnati, Ohio are OK though.

Asshats!
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[personal profile] gramarye1971 2008-04-11 12:55 pm (UTC)(link)
....well now then.
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[identity profile] shezan.livejournal.com 2008-04-11 08:41 pm (UTC)(link)
THE PERFECT JIM HACKER ICON!!!!
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[personal profile] owlfish 2008-04-11 01:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course Maharishi International is a university - it has a dome you can float in while meditating. Doesn't every university?

[identity profile] pyroclasticgrub.livejournal.com 2008-04-11 01:24 pm (UTC)(link)
WTF? LSE doesn't count? How does that even make sense???
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[personal profile] gillo 2008-04-11 03:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Catherine Jolicoeur, a CRA spokeswoman, said in an e-mail that the agency is reviewing the decision "to determine the impact" and added that the decision could be appealed.


Sheesh. In a hole. Digging. Why not stop it?

And apparently the Ukrainian Free University at Tartu counts. Sheesh.

(Does Durham count as a uni I wonder?)

[identity profile] chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com 2008-04-11 03:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Does Durham count as a uni I wonder?

Quite likely it's not on the pre-approved list but the idiocy would be unlikely to be as bad. I think part of the cluelessness was because the LSE doesn't grant degrees, the University of London does. This is apparently altogether too much complexity for our tax people.
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[personal profile] gillo 2008-04-12 05:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Presumably they'd be equally dense about SOAS, then, despite its global prestige.

I can understand not knowing about the LSE initially. But the lunacy of planning to appeal beggars belief.

[identity profile] chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com 2008-04-12 05:25 pm (UTC)(link)
The inability to admit a mistake, ever, in the Public Service is amazing.
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[identity profile] kalypso-v.livejournal.com 2008-04-11 05:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Golly. Can't you tell them President Bartlet from The West Wing went there? That must make it real, mustn't it?

[identity profile] chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com 2008-04-11 05:16 pm (UTC)(link)
The fact that Pierre Trudeau and Jacques Parizeau both went there didn't appear to do the trick.
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[identity profile] shezan.livejournal.com 2008-04-11 08:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Conway School of Landscape Design, Conway, Mass.?

Good lord.
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[personal profile] ironed_orchid 2008-04-12 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
Consider me gobsmacked.

[identity profile] rhythmaning.livejournal.com 2008-04-13 05:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe those other places can spend more on their lawyers!

[identity profile] melted-snowball.livejournal.com 2008-04-13 08:09 pm (UTC)(link)
This is great. Does this mean that I can tell my colleague whose degree is from UofLondon that his PhD (or whateverthehellhehas) is not for real?

[identity profile] chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com 2008-04-13 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Only if you go to Germany and get yourself prosecuted for claiming to be a "Doktor"
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