- Encore i in 1 the slow | lane.

‘Giving throiigh-traffic a straight line by which to. a
‘sail through Terrace would probably guarantee. our -

present city council a permanent and fondly regarded 7

_place in the hearts ‘and minds of all future residents in

_ this community. The aldermen. and: mayor were given.

an open door to. take this. first-step in that direction :
Monday night, courtesy of a traffic study and ~

associated Tecommendations. by the. local: detachment -

of the RCMP...

- The concept of redirecting traffic down. Keith ‘Ave.
past. the sawmill and then across a (hopefully) straight.
line overpass to be built in the vicinity of Frank. Steis.

hot new, and council’s reaction. to the latest. version. of
this suggestion, as Mayor Jack Talstra. noted rather .
drolly, i is not new either. They sent it to committee.

_ . The idea ‘is a sound one: that section of: eith i is .
fronted: almost entirely by industrial. and c mmercial

installations, one stretch of it was upgraded to higher

- roadbed: and pavement standards last year, and most

significantly both traffic flow and safety would. be

improved dramatically. .

By moving the highway designation to Keith, how-
ever; another obstacle is put in the way of realizing
the concept: the involvement of. a second level of.
government. After the RCMP recommendation |
emerges from committee (if ever — the last. one
didn’t), it will presumably be passed along to the

fanny
HAN

_, Regional Development Task Force on Transportation, | .

where. it will probably be crunched around and
debated further, and, if it emerges intact from that
process, it goes to cabinet for consideration.

When viewed in conjunction with alderman Dave |
Hull’s suggestion for traffic lights and. one-way streets
in the residential area south of the highway,.plus ~~~
sidewalks on the highway itself, the picture that
emerges. is one of an especially productive session of
our municipal government.

- What remains to be seen is whether anything actual-
ly gets done. We’ve observed this process before, with
sensible and well-intentioned ideas vanishing into the
city’s committee process, re-emerging, and vanishing ©
again like intellectual debris in the vicinity of a pro-.

cedural black hole. And if the city committees are the _

equivalent of a black hole, physics has’ yet to find
anything that would correspond to the Regional. ~
Development system. Let’s hope. someone sets out to.
prove us wrong on this one, »

by Bob Jackman

_ Perspect ves. :

A spreadsheet bites the dust

- Started on my tax return last
night! Actually, I started on it
in mid-January, when | re-
ceived a couple of paste-on ad-
dress labels from Revenue
Canada, I put the pasties where
nobody would be able to get.’

their hands on them — sure:

enough, when I started on-my._
return last night, I couldn’t get

_— my hands on them!

I got the pasties because I.

had the folks at H&R Block
~. trying to keep me out of jail
“last year. Seems RevCan __
assumes that if they've finally _

| _ pushed you to use a tax

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_- In compliance with the B.C, Human Rights Achy

___ simplified, just changed and
| improved.

_ (Line 335). To.even things up,
though, there’s.an unnumbered

preparer, you’ll never go back

to doing it yourself again, And

TaxCan are doing their best to’

push you to use a tax preparer, .
_ including sending you pasties

instead.of a tax form and

guide, .
_ ‘The tax guide is massive! In-

stead of one tax table, they’ve

got-two, appropriately labelled.

Tax Table A and Tax Table B.
But on page 2 under a blue-

highlighted title “‘New Step-By-
‘Step Return’’, TaxCan boldly .
‘states ‘The return is also (get ”
this...) changed and improved -

for 1988.” It does not say

Improved, you say? How is

.485 lines to the Balance Due

square an improvement on last.
year’s 465 lines? ‘Seems to me

' the fewer lines you had, the
more improved the form would’
be,

Improved, you ‘say? They

have a line on this year’s form

that doesn’t even have a name

“when: you get to line 335, the one they were

too embarrassed to name, you find you don’t a

havea. $6,000 exemption after all.”

- line on ‘page 3 that has a name,

_ but you have to move the in-
_formation to-not one, but two,
‘numbered: lines, both’ on dif.

ferent pages of the tax return, ;

neither of them being page 3,

where you are at the moment,
Last year I set up a computer

spreadsheet to calculate the

family contribution to
Canada’s continuing quest to.
‘ease the tax load-of the very ..
poor and the very rich. The:
spreadsheet worked surprisingly
well, probably because the nin-

'. compoops in control hadn’t got

a:chance to play around with ©
the tax forms yet, to change
and improve them for 1988.

. My spreadsheet did.some
neat things, like calculate

whether you owed UIC-repay- ;

ments, and how much, It

automatically sent any CPP

overpayment amounts to the

_ correct line after entering the

proper amount on the CPP ~

. line. It took into account the
Northern Residents Allowance,

the Child Tax Credit and the

Federal Sales Tax Credit.

This year I began to set up
the spreadsheet, thinking last

 yéar's would be a good starting
~ point. Wrong! They moved

. almost everything and changed
- the line numbers (the lines that
- have numbers, that is),

‘This next part is going to

-, hurt you more than it hurts
* TaxCan. You'll be happy: when
» you see the basic personal «

amount has gone up to $6000

from $4220 (quite a hike,

right?). When you get to line

335, the one they were too em-.

barrassed'to name, you find »

_ you don’t have a $6000 exemp-. |
tion after all. Line 338 gives -
-you only 17% of the 6000, or

$1020. Subtract that from Jast’s
$4220 and your taxable income

is up $3200. .

* For the heck of it, and to

: round out the column. I work-.
ed out this year’s form with —

last year’s information. I have -

- to-admit, I’d expected all the

sleight of hand on the tax form’
to have.cost me money. But.it -
was not to be — in fact, on T4 .

income of $41,563 and a few .,
' other goodies bringing total i in- 7

comie to $49,351 1 would have .
owed only $13,358 compared to -
$13,932, which is about what I _

made this year (are you listen-

ing TaxCan?) before deduc-
tions. -
Td like to see a tax form |
that didn’t change from year to
year, and though I like the peo-_
ple at H&R, one that the
average person could fill out in
twenty minutes. Lire 1 — How -
much did you make last year? -

‘Line 2 — If you made more

than $20,000 send us 15%, If
you made less that $20,000 but:

more than $10,000 send us

10%; If you made less than
$10,000 don’t send us anything,

Line 3. — Sign heré. ur you're.
lying, eS

we'll get you)