Saturday, April 17, 2010

Avoiding the Tax Man while ducking the rain

Sorry about the lack of updates, have been extremely busy and not much time to do them. The rainy season has come a little early this year as this week we have had rain three of the last four days and really heavy rain is scheduled for this weekend. As I write this we have had almost four hours of steady rain and these Saturday downpours have put a crimp in our plans to go baby shopping today and price various items at the two big baby stores on the Island. Thursday was tax day and as we continue to have combined income below the amount which qualifies for the foreign earned income exclusion we are avoiding the tax man altogether. The government down here is getting a lot of pressure from the UK to implement some kind of tax to pay for the budget deficit they have but the political will is strong here against direct taxes. Of course they still get their money from the bank and import duties as well as work permit fees

Katie keeps updating the baby blog so check there for updates on the pregnancy. Our next visit is this coming Friday the 23rd.