“I stopped writing on tax six months before GST barged into our lives.” So the first essay begins, on 24 January 2018, 390 days after the last bulletin; after twelve years of the editorial “we”, the first word is “I”. The silence of 2017 was chosen; the new tax ended it. The essays take one subject at a time. One asks whether notice pay attracts GST; another, the customs duty on a chariot mysteriously washed ashore.