Received my tax letter in the mail yesterday.

Looks like they finally modernized the Belgian ministry of Finances. Rather than sending me the outcome on a paper of which it is blazingly obvious that it was printed on a dot matrix printer¹, they now appear to be having a laser printer; and the new layout of the thing suggests new software, too.

Anyway. Since this is my income tax for the year 2003, in which I had a paid job for only two months (after which I quit to co-found NixSys), my income over the whole year was so low that I didn't earn enough to be due any income tax. However, since, by Belgian law, your employer has to pre-pay the ministry of finances in your name by keeping some of your wage and sending that to the government, I'll be getting quite some money back.

Of course, we're talking about a government agency here. So it'll take them still quite some time to do so — a few months. But still.

¹ which they need to do for all Belgian citizens who have an income — I wouldn't want to be near that room!