(巻三十二)諌めつつ繋ぎ居にけり猫の恋(炭太祇)
３月９日水曜日
確定申告に税務署に出かけた。ネットでも申告できるが、年に一度立石近くの中川沿いを歩くのもよいものだ。
８時半過ぎに税務署に到着し、入場整理券(６６番)を頂く。９時半からの枠になるので小一時間ある。直ぐ裏にある中川の堤防に出て、水際沿いの遊歩道に下りて、ベンチに座り間近にある川面など眺めて、無常だなあと感慨に耽る。
https://nprtheeconomistworld.hatenablog.com/entry/38700891
９時１５分ころ署に戻り陽溜まりに他の老納税者と共に佇んでいると、番号の点呼が始まり、９時半の第２グループとして９時２５分に庁内に誘導された。受付の脇を通ったので何番まできたのかチラッとみると４１４番まで進んでいて予定時刻は午後１時半になっていた。やはり９時までに着くかどうかが分かれ目だったわけだ。
申告は二段構えで、一段目が下拵えだ。源泉徴収票３枚を収入書類として提示し、控除資料として細君の源泉徴収票、国民健康保険料納付控、医療費明細書を提示した。
テキパキとした女性担当官が下拵えしてくれた。毎年のことなので自分で計算しておけばよいのだが、医療費明細が去年の１１月から今年の４月までの１枚と５月から１０月までの１枚に分かれている。越年して記載してあるので去年の分を減算しておかなければならないが、そこが面倒だ。しかし、考えてみれば毎年１１月と１２月の医療費は控除対象にしていないわけだ。来年はそこも領収証を取っておいて控除額に入れよう。反対に高額医療費で還付を受けた部分を差し引いていないので過大な控除請求額とも云えるかな。
とにかくテキパキと拵えて頂いた書類をもって入力部屋へ移動し、申告入力をいたす。
二段目の入力指導員のおばさんはバイトらしく、入力の指導はバッチリなのであるが、医療費控除額の前年分の除外と自己負担の列の確認に手間取り、本官の応援を受けていた。一昨年は医療費総額と自己負担額を取り違えて入力して申告して再申告となった。今年のバイトのおばさんもそこのところが怪しいので、こちらもしつこく確認を求めたのであります。
一通りの入力を終わり、申告のセンドをしたところ六千余円の還付との御告げでございました。
１０時１５分ころ、作成した書類を打ち出し、投函して庁外に退出いたす。外にはかなりの人が順番待ちをしていた。
確定申告終へて風船飛ぶ方へ(小木曽あや子)
願い事－生死直結で叶えてください。コワクナイ、コワクナイ。この先を生きて行くのは怖い怖い！
長寿税有るやも知れず亀鳴ける(伊藤杯紅)
2022/03/09
I went to the tax office to file a tax return. You can file your tax return online, but it's also a good idea to walk along the Nakagawa River near Tateishi once a year.
Arrive at the tax office after 8:30 and get an admission ticket (No. 66). It will be a batch from 9:30, so there will be an hour. I went out to the embankment of Nakagawa, immediately at the back the office, and went down to the promenade along the water's edge, sat on a bench and looked at the river surface underneath, and I was deeply moved.
“The river never stops running, and the water is never the same as before.”
https://nprtheeconomistworld.hatenablog.com/entry/38700891
When I returned to the office at around 9:15 and was standing with other old taxpayers in the sunny corner, the roll call of the number started by a tax man and I was guided to the office at 9:25 as the second group of 9:30 batch. As I passed by the reception, I glanced at what number had been given, and it was 414, and the scheduled time was 1:30 pm. After all, whether or not to arrive by 9 o'clock was a critical point.
The declaration is in two stages, and the first stage is preparatory. Three withholding slips were presented as income documents, and spouse's withholding slip, national health insurance premium payment copy, and medical expense statement were presented as deduction items.
An agile female officer shuffled the material and jotted down figures into the primary sheet. Since it is an annual event, you can calculate it yourself, but the medical expense statement is divided into one from November last year to April this year and one from May to October. Since it is written over the years, I have to subtract the amount from last year, means Nov. and Dec. in 2020, but that is troublesome. However, when you think about it, I came to know that themedical expenses in Nov. and Dec. every year had not been deducted for years. Next year, I'll save the receipt of that period and put it in the deduction amount. On the other hand, I was refunded for high medical expenses about $25 from the National Health Insurance and I forgot to declare it. It can be said that the claimed amount of deduction could be logically excessive.
Anyway, I will move to the declaration room with the documents arranged by the agile tax woman.
The data feeding instructor in the second stage is an woman in her 40s and seems to be a part-time worker for this tax return filing month. Her input instruction is perfect, but she took time to determine the medical expenses deduction amount for the previous year and and received the support of the officer proper. The year before last, the total medical expenses and the out-of-pocket amount, were mixed up, and I had to re-reporting. The aunt of this year is also not confident, so I asked for confirmation persistently.
After completing all the input and sending the declaration, the screen informed that I would get a refund of around $50.
At around 10:15, I put out the created documents, posted them, and left the office. There were quite a few people waiting in line outside.
