At Taxation we’re so gosh-darn high-tech that visitors to our Croydon office often see us shaping the future from our computers and mistakenly think they’ve stumbled into a Kraftwerk concert.
Inside a gigantic iMac.
In geostationary Earth orbit.
Okay, we’re not that space-age, but we like to think we’re hip to the digital world that exists just beyond our walls of Tolley’s handbooks. We use Twitter, for a start.
Today, the year’s most hyped website had us all a-titter because of Big Ben, a user with a single message: every hour on the hour, he/she tweets the appropriate number of bongs. Noon and midnight are the most satisfying, of course: ‘BONG. BONG. BONG. BONG. BONG. BONG. BONG. BONG. BONG. BONG. BONG. BONG.’
What, we wondered, would be our industry’s equivalent? A few quick searches led us to conclude that there’s a lack of tax-based humour on our favourite micro-blogging site.
Lots of tax firms offering their services: yes. Countless users complaining about various levies: indeed. Spammers posing as tax advisers but linking to smut: oh, aye (the profile pics of big-chested ladies are a giveaway).
Funnies with a tax bent: nope. So, here’s our idea (and by ‘idea’, we mean ‘shameless rip-off of Big Ben’): Tax Timesheet.
Follow it on Twitter to be reminded every six minutes* to update your client-billing paperwork.
We’re sure it’ll either be funny or helpful.
Or maddening.