As you complete your taxes this week and prepare to keep your sorry arse out of prison do your patriot duty by paying for everything from politicians’ mistresses to drone attacks on wedding parties, you might enjoy this: a Tax-Time Devil’s Dictionary of DC lingo.
Cheers.
Thanks very much for the plug, Claire! At least the govt. can never take away our cynicism.
Like the cartoon. I’ll have to try that.
I actually got to write such a letter – well, close anyway.
When I moved to Wyoming, I retired. Three years later, the “franchise tax board” of California sent me a letter demanding payment for “income” they determined I had received from California, and the tax form reporting it for 2006, the year AFTER I left and retired. I “owed” no tax at all.
I wrote to them and explained it as nicely as I could. Luckily, I never heard from them again. It can happen. š
I did our taxes yesterday on TurboTax. It’s quite user friendly and fairly annoying. After every few questions it posts a comment like “Good job! You’ve completed {whatever] section and we can move on. Are you ready to move on?”
Thankfully there was no sound, but I could just imagine a Disney princess voice ecstatically making this announcement in a high pitched almost squeal of delight. By the end I really wanted to slap the snot out of the computer.
Rather than focus on the absurdity of charging tax on old people living on pension and social security that we paid into for years and were already taxed on that original income, I’m choosing to remember that it only took 1 hour and only happens once year. Aside from the onerous principle of the thing, not actually any worse than dental cleanings or Pap Smears. Bit of a Pollyanna reach, I know, but oh well……….
OMG, a Disney princess. Now that you’ve put that into brains all across the land, some of us will never be the same again.
Sorry! :-p
I spent a few minutes on Sunday filing for a 6-month extension of taxes to the feds and the state of New York. It takes many hours to add up and categorize all the medical expenses for my daughter’s Lyme disease. Last year the fed’s form decided that I still owed more of my hard-earned money. Don’t know yet about this year, but I won’t have to find out for a while.
Claire,Karen:Worse yet. Imagine a Disney Clippy.