It's end of financial year again, here is a good ATO joke sent to me I thought I'll share with you all:
A bright, young, fresh-out-of-school auditor just joined the ATO,
excited to begin tracking down high-powered offenders - such as the Mum & Dad-type Tea Tree Farmers, Pine Plantation or Film Investors.
Anxious for his first high-powered audit, he was a bit dismayed
when his assignment was to audit a Rabbi.
Looking over the books and taxes were pretty straight forward,
and the Rabbi clearly very frugal, so he thought he'd make his day
interesting
(just as the ATO had trained him to do)
by having a little fun with the Rabbi.
"Rabbi," he said, "I noticed that you buy a lot of candles."
"Yes," answered the Rabbi.
"Well, Rabbi, what do you do with the candle drippings?" he asked.
"A good question," noted the Rabbi. "We actually save them up and
when we have enough, we send them back to the candle maker. And every
now and then, they send us a free box of candles."
"Oh," replied the auditor somewhat disappointed that ! his unusual
question actually had a practical answer. So he thought (because the
ATO had taught him never to accept a truthful answer) he'd go on, in
his obnoxious way...
"Rabbi, what about all these matzo [for the gentiles matzo is
unleavened bread, flat& dry ] purchases? What do you do with the
crumbs from the matzo?"
"Ah, yes," replied the Rabbi calmly, "we actually collect up all the
crumbs from the matzo and when we have enough, we send them in a box
back to the manufacturer and every now and then, they send a box of
matzo balls."
"Oh," replied the auditor, thinking hard how to fluster the Rabbi
(because his ATO training taught him that the more unreasonable he
got, the easier it would be to persecute the tax-payer).
"Well, Rabbi," he went on, "what do you do with all the foreskins from
the circumcisions?"
"Yes, here too, we do not waste," answered the Rabbi. "What we do is
save up all the foreskins, and when we have enough we actually send
them to the ATO!"
"The ATO?! " questioned the auditor in disbelief.
"Ahh, yes," replied the Rabbi, " the ATO ... and about once a year,
they send us a little prick like you."
A bright, young, fresh-out-of-school auditor just joined the ATO,
excited to begin tracking down high-powered offenders - such as the Mum & Dad-type Tea Tree Farmers, Pine Plantation or Film Investors.
Anxious for his first high-powered audit, he was a bit dismayed
when his assignment was to audit a Rabbi.
Looking over the books and taxes were pretty straight forward,
and the Rabbi clearly very frugal, so he thought he'd make his day
interesting
(just as the ATO had trained him to do)
by having a little fun with the Rabbi.
"Rabbi," he said, "I noticed that you buy a lot of candles."
"Yes," answered the Rabbi.
"Well, Rabbi, what do you do with the candle drippings?" he asked.
"A good question," noted the Rabbi. "We actually save them up and
when we have enough, we send them back to the candle maker. And every
now and then, they send us a free box of candles."
"Oh," replied the auditor somewhat disappointed that ! his unusual
question actually had a practical answer. So he thought (because the
ATO had taught him never to accept a truthful answer) he'd go on, in
his obnoxious way...
"Rabbi, what about all these matzo [for the gentiles matzo is
unleavened bread, flat& dry ] purchases? What do you do with the
crumbs from the matzo?"
"Ah, yes," replied the Rabbi calmly, "we actually collect up all the
crumbs from the matzo and when we have enough, we send them in a box
back to the manufacturer and every now and then, they send a box of
matzo balls."
"Oh," replied the auditor, thinking hard how to fluster the Rabbi
(because his ATO training taught him that the more unreasonable he
got, the easier it would be to persecute the tax-payer).
"Well, Rabbi," he went on, "what do you do with all the foreskins from
the circumcisions?"
"Yes, here too, we do not waste," answered the Rabbi. "What we do is
save up all the foreskins, and when we have enough we actually send
them to the ATO!"
"The ATO?! " questioned the auditor in disbelief.
"Ahh, yes," replied the Rabbi, " the ATO ... and about once a year,
they send us a little prick like you."
