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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] 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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