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04/13/10 Grif.Net – IRS, 2

04/13/10 Grif.Net – IRS, 2

[More in this week’s collection of odd thoughts about taxes]

Do you realize that some tax forms ask you to check a box if you are BLIND?
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The Eiffel Tower is the Empire State Building after taxes.
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Under the Freedom of Information Act, a man with a small business sent a
request to the IRS asking if they had a file on him. The IRS wrote back,
“There is now.”
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It would be nice if we could all pay our taxes with a smile, but normally
cash is required.
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Who audits IRS agents?
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A man about to have a heart transplant was offered the choice of either a 26
year-old marathon runner’s heart or the heart of a 62 year-old IRS agent. He
picked the agent’s heart because he said it had never been used.
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There is no child so bad that he/she can’t be used as an income tax
deduction.
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A taxpayer received a strongly worded “second notice” that his taxes were
overdue. Hastening to the collector’s office, he paid his bill, saying
apologetically that he had overlooked the first notice. “Oh,” confided the
collector with a smile, “we don’t send out first notices. We have found that
the second notices are more effective.”
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It’s tax time. I know this because I’m staring at documents that make no
sense to me, no matter how much I drink.

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Dr Bob Griffin
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