Another medal

I deserve another medal: I have just done my taxes. Why do they have to change the forms every single year? Why do I always feel that I am not filling them correctly and am thus defrauding the Revenue? Is ignorance an excuse?

I have used the online programme Elster for the first time. The German taxman has a strange sense of humour: Elster is derived from the words "elektronische Steuererklärung", ie electronic tax return. But it is also German for magpie, a bird often called "thieving".