Douglas Todd: Why the excitement over the speculation-tax form?

I’m not a fan of filling out forms.
So I worried after commentators and politicians warned it could take 40 minutes to fill out what was being called a 14-page form for the B.C. government’s speculation and vacancy tax. Headlines declared the forms are causing “devastation.”
When the tax notice arrived in our mailbox this week, marked “Action Required,” I was curious about how bad it was going to be. I grabbed my smartphone and clicked on its stopwatch functio