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The Yearning

Ever since I made my last time payment on my home Dell Dimension 8200 computer October 9, 2006 (Desktop #1) I’ve been itching to buy a new Laptop computer. It’s been almost two years now, since HART’s ancient Laptop has been up on the market for sale and still sits in a spare room in my house, not used. The last time I tried to sell it .. the infamous Blue Screen popped up. It sits collecting dust.

Although .. truth be told .. I don’t *REALLY NEED* a laptop for my business .. I *DESPARATELY WANT* one for many reasons. I’m been using my Desktop #2 (aka the SIMS2 computer) for all my backups. Especially since this Desktop #1 crashed this past February 2007.

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I have finally converted my old static website for my business HBS MANAGEMENT CONSULTANTS to a blog format.

HBS Management Consultants is a Proprietorship name that I operate under for my system consulting, accounting, bookkeeping and income tax preparation business. All my other earnings are maintained separately under a different registered business name, but is also a division of HBS Management Consultants .. like HART-Empire Network for my blogging ventures, and PapillonLvr,com for product related ventures (Ebay, watch repair, Online Stores, etc).

With the new HBS Management Consultants (HBSMC.com) site .. I will *NOT* be moving any discussions or type of postings that I have been doing on this 1-800-HART Blog .. in fact, I really just wanted to create a static site that is my online “business card” site, except with a content management system such as blogging software (wordpress).

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I’ve added a few other .pps’s to my Powerpoint entry .. HERE

In case you are lazy and just want to see it from this post (although there are a lot of neat powerpoint slideshows on the above post) .. here it is …

Added May 28, 2007

National Geographic Magazine - from 2005

www.1800HART.com/media/NationalG.PPS

Enjoy!

The following is now available on the CRA Web site

News Release

Toronto, Ontario, May 28, 2007… The Honourable Carol Skelton, Minister of National Revenue, joined by the Honourable Jim Flaherty, Minister of Finance and Regional Minister for the Greater Toronto area, today announced two new initiatives, a Taxpayer Bill of Rights and a Taxpayers’ Ombudsman, to ensure Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) is more accountable to Canadians.

“All taxpayers will be better served by these new initiatives that will enhance the services delivered to Canadians by the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA),” said Minister Skelton. “We want taxpayers to know they have rights and that we at the CRA take these rights seriously. By introducing a Taxpayer Bill of Rights, we are ensuring that taxpayers are served with a higher standard of service, and if that fails, they have a Taxpayers’ Ombudsman to turn to.”

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Have you been following the Exchange Rates Lately?

Here are the average annual exchange rates for the following years by CRA

1995 - USD - 1.3726
1996 - USD - 1.3618
1997 - USD - 1.4267
1998 - USD - 1.5422
1999 - USD - 1.48584024
2000 - USD - 1.48520240
2001 - USD - 1.54841633
2002 - USD - 1.57035976
2003 - USD - 1.40146175
2004 - USD - 1.30152024
2005 - USD - 1.21163240
2006 - USD - 1.13409360

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The following is now available on the CRA Web site:

News release
Ottawa, Ontario, May 23, 2007…

William V. Baker, Commissioner of the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) and the Commissioners of Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States welcome the Commissioner from Japan, Mr. Susumu Fukuda, to the Joint International Tax Shelter Information Centre (JITSIC).

The JITSIC was formed by the tax administrations of Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States in 2004 to address a number of common challenges with respect to abusive tax activities.

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I’ve added a few other .pps’s to my Powerpoint entry .. HERE

In case you are lazy and just want to see it from this post (although there are a lot of neat powerpoint slideshows on the above post) .. here it is …

Added May 18, 2007

Old Advertisements found on the internet

www.1800HART.com/media/OldAds.pps

NBC’s 2005 Pictures of the Year etc (with music)

www.1800HART.com/media/NBC_Photo.pps

Optical Illusions that are probably duplicates

www.1800HART.com/media/opticalillusions01_1.pps

Enjoy!

My how time flies .. when you aren’t watching TV! I mean, except for Stargate SG-1 on Thursday nights and 1 movie the day after this was assembled .. that’s all I’ve watched on our new TV.

Click the specs in the link above, if interested .. but I took pictures after assembled, and I now must make room in my camera for more pictures. I figured .. rather than delete the pictures, I may as well blog about it! It’s a SONY BRAVIA - KLV-40S200A and I’m not ashamed to admit (weeks later) that we actually bought this at the Brick!

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The following is now available on the CRA Web site:

News release

A New GST/HST Processing System

Ottawa, Ontario, May 16, 2007… The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) has redesigned its internal GST/HST processing by putting a new system into operation. The new system enables the CRA to modernize its business processes, expand its services to businesses, and improve compliance.

In addition, these improvements build on the shared commitment between National Revenue Minister Carol Skelton and the CRA to reduce the compliance and paperwork burden for Canada’s small businesses as outlined in the recent report from the Action Task Force on Small Business Issues www.cra.gc.ca/atfreport.

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The following Notice of Tax Treaty Developments has just been posted on the Finance Canada Site

May 15, 2007

Negotiations for an income tax treaty between Canada and Greece will be held the week of June 4, 2007 in Ottawa.

The purpose of this bulletin is to ensure that persons whose interests are affected have an opportunity to inform the government of any particular issues of double taxation that might be taken into account during the course of negotiations. The government is particularly interested in learning of any difficulties encountered by Canadians under the tax system of Greece.

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