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04/13/15 Grif.Net – Tax Facts

04/13/15 Grif.Net – Tax Facts

“What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The
taxidermist takes only your skin.” – Mark Twain

“I owe the government $3,400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a
toilet seat.” – Michael McShane

“The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.” -Albert
Einstein

So here are some TAX FACTS to brighten the day

The Gettysburg address is 269 words, the Declaration of Independence is
1,337 words, and the Bible is only 773,000 words. However, the tax law has
grown from 11,400 words in 1913 to 9 million words today.

The IRS produce 9 billion pages of forms and instructions each year. Laid
end to end, they would stretch almost 32 times around the earth.

Nearly 350,000 trees are cut down yearly to produce the paper for all the
IRS forms and instructions.

American taxpayers spend over $200 billion and 5.4 billion hours working to
comply with federal taxes each year, more than it takes to produce every
car, truck, and van in the United States.

The amount of effort needed to calculate and pay federal income for
individuals and businesses in the United States is the equivalent of a staff
of 3 million people working full time for a year.

The IRS employs 114,000 people – twice as many as the CIA and five times
more than the FBI.

70% of taxpayers must hire a professional or pay for software to get through
their own return.

Taxes eat up 38.2% of the average family’s income; that’s more cost than for
food, clothing and shelter combined.

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Dr Bob Griffin
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“Jesus Knows Me, This I Love!”