I just heard that I could be sent to Gaol
By cynthiann
@cynthiann (18602)
Jamaica
November 9, 2010 3:03pm CST
So if I suddenly go missing then you know where I am.
Just heard on the radio if property tax is not paid up then I could go to gaol for three months. And, I owe property tax on a farm that is not yet transferred in my name and I am paying 40% interest to the government on the sum owed since my husband died.
No matter how much I give them for taxes the sum cannot seem to diminish. Yes, I have children but because of recession 3 of them were out if work last year and one was working only part time. And the sum owed just keeps mounting up.
Called #1 son and told him: Mother , he said, the Government is just trying to frighten you. Well, they have succeeded, I said.
Called #2 son who panicked as he is out of work. I will pray for you Mummy, he said. Good boy, I replied.
Called #3 son in U.K. He listened and then said that when he comes to for Christmas he promised to bring me Christmas dinner in gaol. He thought that I was joking.
Called #1 daughter who also panicked. Said not to worry as she will talk to her her brothers and sort it out.
I was having a lovely day pushing work and answering the Blue Bunny until I heard this on a news broadcast a short while ago.
#1 Granddaughter just called asking if I would be there among the tope ten of JA's most wanted if I resisted arrest.I do not think that your Daddy will allow me to be arrested I said.
Thinks: I do hope that the children sort it out because I can't. Not me. The Queen of credit card debt. My BB is beeping so they are all talking to each other trying to work it out.
Have you ever been threatened with gaol(or jail)?
Just heard on the radio if property tax is not paid up then I could go to gaol for three months. And, I owe property tax on a farm that is not yet transferred in my name and I am paying 40% interest to the government on the sum owed since my husband died.
No matter how much I give them for taxes the sum cannot seem to diminish. Yes, I have children but because of recession 3 of them were out if work last year and one was working only part time. And the sum owed just keeps mounting up.
Called #1 son and told him: Mother , he said, the Government is just trying to frighten you. Well, they have succeeded, I said.
Called #2 son who panicked as he is out of work. I will pray for you Mummy, he said. Good boy, I replied.
Called #3 son in U.K. He listened and then said that when he comes to for Christmas he promised to bring me Christmas dinner in gaol. He thought that I was joking.
Called #1 daughter who also panicked. Said not to worry as she will talk to her her brothers and sort it out.
I was having a lovely day pushing work and answering the Blue Bunny until I heard this on a news broadcast a short while ago.
#1 Granddaughter just called asking if I would be there among the tope ten of JA's most wanted if I resisted arrest.I do not think that your Daddy will allow me to be arrested I said.
Thinks: I do hope that the children sort it out because I can't. Not me. The Queen of credit card debt. My BB is beeping so they are all talking to each other trying to work it out.
Have you ever been threatened with gaol(or jail)?6 people like this
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Can i bring you a cupcake for christmas then?
@cynthiann (18602)
• Jamaica
10 Nov 10
One cup cake? How about two and you can bribe the guard at the gate This is just soemthing else to get through and the kids will work it out. Blessings
This is just soemthing else to get through and the kids will work it out. Blessings1 person likes this
@cynthiann (18602)
• Jamaica
10 Nov 10
The children will work it out and I, just for a while, became fragmented. Would not ask the sister at all. She gave an allowance to my daughter of fifty pounds a month when she was doing first degree. If she was careful then this bought her food for a week - I and my sons did tuition and everything else. But she will still bring it up in public how she 'put my daughter through university'. Get the picture? It will be all right - we are survivors. Blessings
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@cynthiann (18602)
• Jamaica
10 Nov 10
Yes, sod her, and she did the allowance thing for 9 months out of the 3 years
I have to laugh. I am serious about asking doctor for happy pills to survive her sharing my bed for a month. I do love her but cannot take the controlling attitude. O give in as she does have worse heart problem than I do and if I answer her back she will dramatically clutch her chest and take to her bed and then call everyone saying that I have been unkind to her
This is why I need happy pills as well as lots of prayer!
I have to laugh. I am serious about asking doctor for happy pills to survive her sharing my bed for a month. I do love her but cannot take the controlling attitude. O give in as she does have worse heart problem than I do and if I answer her back she will dramatically clutch her chest and take to her bed and then call everyone saying that I have been unkind to her
This is why I need happy pills as well as lots of prayer!1 person likes this
@cynthiann (18602)
• Jamaica
10 Nov 10
#1 is gong to talk to him yet again today. I did have a payment plan with government that they have now reneged on. I have paid up about 7 years so am only 3 years behind - plus interest
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@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
9 Nov 10
OMGOSH CYNTHI, I sure hope the children get this all straightened out for u since u are leaving it up to them. I'm afraid mine would just let me go to jail, lol. no, i have never been threatened w/jail, thank heavens.
@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
10 Nov 10
I certainly hope so. It would have scared me to. That lawyer of yours needs to be beheaded. He sure hasn't done u right, Cynthi. Some times it's just better to let things go & get out from under them. GOOD LUCK w/this.
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@cynthiann (18602)
• Jamaica
10 Nov 10
My son is going to speak to him today because I am so emotional that I will probably cry or something stupid.
We will get through this - thank God for my children
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@cynthiann (18602)
• Jamaica
10 Nov 10
It will get sorted out - it jut scared me for a while. I am only about 3 years behine but plus interest
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@paula27661 (15811)
• Australia
10 Nov 10
I don’t recall I have ever been threatened with jail and I’m sure that I would remember if I had! I hope your kids out their head together and come up with a solution soon otherwise you may need to call a lawyer...Surely you could work out a plan with the taxation department...Couldn’t you?... Chynthiann?... Hello?...
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@cynthiann (18602)
• Jamaica
10 Nov 10
I had worked out a payment plan and am now about 3 years behind. The trouble is that they have reneged on this. My problem is with my lawyer who has not yet had the land transferred into my name after 10 years. And no I cannot change lawyers as he is the Executor of my husband's will. It will work out - I just felt fragmented but am okay now. Blessings
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@asendud (318)
• Indonesia
10 Nov 10
that is bad. when i was you, I'll be scare too. but what the government do is just make a their people is scary not make happy.
i never get threatened with jail. i don't really like to find my self in trouble that's why my life is not so color
@cynthiann (18602)
• Jamaica
10 Nov 10
I have paid u a lot but the interest is killing me
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@cynthiann (18602)
• Jamaica
9 Nov 10
It is scary as it is a lot of land - well to me it is a lot as it is over 80 acres with water. The underground water makes it valuable but I cannot sell part of it yet as it is not yet been transferred into my name.Lawyer has dragged it all out. I will laugh later and the kids will solve it with me but am just fragmented for a moment. Lots of prayer tonight
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@katsmeow1213 (28717)
• United States
9 Nov 10
Took me till the very end to realize you were talking about jail.. I thought Gaol was the name of some town or country or something.. sheesh lady, speak English. LOL.
My FIL did not pay taxes on a house that he owned.. so the town took the house from him and auctioned it for the taxes owed. He wasn't sent to jail or fined or anything.. just lost the house. It wasn't the house he lived in either, so really no big deal to him.
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@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
11 Nov 10
wow i had heard that in other countries they can do that. it makes no sense. what good does that do? anyway, here, they just take the property. that makes more sense i think. i did have a long response here but forgot to copy it before trying to post and it went ..poof! so not going to go through the whole thing again
so not going to go through the whole thing again@cynthiann (18602)
• Jamaica
11 Nov 10
Losing responses seems to happen to me very often. I won't go to jail - won't happen. We will work something out something and I am good at praying! I was just very upset and lost it when I heard the news broadcast. Blessings
@gdesjardin (1918)
• United States
10 Nov 10
Oh gosh!! Hopefully your children will help you straighten this whole mess quickly. The majority of our kids are still young so we would be in major trouble if we were in your shoes. I guess the family you be visiting us in jail...LOL
@cynthiann (18602)
• Jamaica
10 Nov 10
Our jails are not pleasant! It will work out it was just hearing it on a news broadcast that frightened me.
@cyrus123 (6363)
• United States
10 Nov 10
No, I never have been threatened with jail and I just hope and pray everything works out for you. Just hang in there. I'm sure your children can sort it all out. I don't have to pay any taxes any more since I don't really own any property. I remember how my daddy used to scare me all the time if I hadn't done my taxes yet. I was working back then and everything was different.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
13 Nov 10
You know, I don't think that they send you to jail around here for not paying your property taxes. Instead, I know that they will put a lien on the property and if you still continue to not pay the debt, they will take the property away from you. That is what happened to our former next door neighbors. They are living up the street now in a house that they are renting because they weren't able to pay taxes on the house that they'd owned for 27 years.
@bounce58 (17387)
• Canada
12 Nov 10
I was in a fastfood restaurant talking to a guy who turned out to be a scammer well known to police. When we got out and started walkin, the police came up and talked to us. I was threatened to be put in jail just because I was talking to this guy. The cop must have thought that I was in cahoots with him.
It took some explaining but I was able to get the message across that I was just a potential victim.
I hope you get your property tax sorted out.
@cynthiann (18602)
• Jamaica
12 Nov 10
That was really close! The property tax will be sorted out. I have just embarrassed myself enormously by calling my lawyer and crying.I now feel so stupid but maybe it needed to be done. I told him that if I die before him and this is not sorted out then I will come back and haunt him. That really was not a good thing to say and I feel so bad about it. As my Dad would have said I just 'turned on the tap' and the tears of frustration just bubbled over.
@tuamora (79)
• United States
10 Nov 10
Wow, I am so sorry to hear that. I will definitely pray for you starting this very instant. It is so crazy how the government can judge you, and throw you in jail, when they too have an atrocious debt that they must pay off to other governments. Debt is a horrible cycle, and I pray that you are able to come out of it on top. My motto, once I pay my credit cards off will be. No more credit cards. I will no longer play their good credit game. They want you to go into debt, so that you owe them forever.
I can sympathize with you, because I am buried in debt myself.....
@cynthiann (18602)
• Jamaica
10 Nov 10
My credit card debt has increased to 51.99% - pure extortion. Am trying to pay that off too. Bloodsuckers. I will get out of it though . I just panicked yesterday - the children will help
