They wanted to audit me. They wanted receipts and a profile of my industry. Fortunately I was able to survive reading this letter without smelling salts because I had been prepping for an audit ever since the introduction of the GST (Goods and Services Tax – a value-added Canadian tax).
They wanted receipts? No problem. Profile of our industry? Hmmmm…. I called ACTRA, “Say RevCan wants an industrial profile for actors in Canada. Got one? Huh? Whaddyamean, no?” I called Fraternal, Equity, even the Canadian Conference of the Arts. No profile existed. So I wrote one:
An Industrial and Economic Profile
of the Actor.
The profile helped me to survive my audit. It allowed me to deduct a much broader and deeper field of expenses – all thanks to thinking about the GST. Pre-GST, I wrote off 15%-ish of my expenses and only a small proportion of my expense categories, post-GST: 100% right across the board – thanks Revenue Canada, because filling out the GST forms made me think about what I was selling.
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