A Taxing Day

This morning, I attended a CanSMOF board of directors meeting. As you may or may not have heard (the news hasn't been that widespread), Winnipeg and Orlando both filed bids to host the 2023 NASFiC, and at the same time Glasgow is the only bid that filed for the 2024 Worldcon. Both the 2023 NASFiC and the 2024 Worldcon will be selected by a vote at Chicon 8, the 2022 Worldcon. Only members of Chicon 8 can vote on those elections. They are separate elections, and there will be a cost (the advance supporting membership fee) for each of them. I'm a director of the Winnipeg bid's parent non-profit corporation, but I'm not part of their bid committee. The rest of the meeting was spent discussing CanSMOF's other conventions, both past ones still getting cleared up and future ones in the pipeline.

That wasn't the taxing part of the day, though. I spent several hours preparing our income tax return. I had been slightly worried that my relatively small pension that I started collecting from XPO (because the GXO spin-off triggered my pension eligibility from the former Menlo Logistics) might put me into a position where I'd owe extra taxes. Fortunately, that wasn't the case, in part because when I sold my late grandfather's house a couple of years ago, I incurred a paper loss that couldn't be taken all at once, but instead will be spread over several years, and essentially that loss offsets the income, and everything is about the same as it was last year.

Lisa and I reviewed the return and I submitted it electronically. That's one worry taken care of.