Local Woman Gets Into Spirit Of Halloween By Waiting Until October 31st To Do Her Scary Tax Return

EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | Contact

A woman who’s now well into the ‘owing money’ part of her life as tax payer has decided she’ll leave it to the last possible day, which coincidentally is the spookiest time of the year – October 31.

As someone who’s racked up an impressive HECs debt by flipping and flopping between multiple arts degrees, Elsie DeLoncourt, 32 often finds herself cursing her younger self at this time of year, for naively believing that having an extensive HECs would never be a problem.

That, and the couple of jobs she’s dabbled in alongside her main job – as par for the course for any young person trying to live in a major city who isn’t on a six figure salary – Elsie now finds herself staring down the barrel of a four figure tax debt.

Which, according to her, doesn’t actually exist until she finally hits send on that tax return.

This comes as Elsie still doesn’t really know what she’s doing or why she owes so much, despite having done taxes for fourteen years now.

“I really miss the days where doing a tax return was a good thing. I’m not rich, why do I owe money? It’s so silly, so MEAN”, says Elsie, with a huff.

“Can I say 90% of my phone bill is used for work? Is that suss?”

“Like, technically as a social media manager, so I um, am technically researching when I use social media?”

“What about my new Docs? I walk to work, does that count?”

More to come.