Kay Bell says that Scott Adams, the creator of the comic strip Dilbert, wants to impose a tax on stupidity: “I’m just curious as to whether tax policy could make a huge difference in the effectiveness of society by directly taxing stupidity,” Adams wrote on his blog. “Suppose science is applied to the task of [...]
Tags: Tax Humor
Syracuse tax professor Robert Nassau has published in PDF a cool NCAA-like bracket of IRS concepts. Check it out. I must take mild exception, however, to his claim that this is the first ever bracket of tax sections. Here’s a blog post I published in 2009: TAX MADNESS All Time Greatest Code [...]
William Baldwin of Forbes gives us some new ridiculous taxes: Herewith, to give you a break from your Form 1040, is a catalog of the country’s looniest taxes. Hat tips to William Barrett, Norml, Ray Squitieri, Stephen Von Worley, Thomson Reuters One Source Tax & Accounting and TurboTax. Arkansas: Body Piercing Tax The state spells [...]
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I’d like to see them try this in my neighborhood. From Paul Caron: Time Magazine, Swiss Village to Dog Owners: Pay Your Taxes, or Poochie Dies: The taxman has never been a popular figure anywhere. But in the tiny Swiss village of Reconvilier, that functionary has assumed the even more detestable profile as the guy [...]
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I saw a bumper sticker once that said “Accountants have Great Assets.” Perhaps Raymond Devaughn Taylor was trying to prove the veracity of this statement when he disrobed for his accounting class last week: Cobb County Sheriff’s Office said Raymond Taylor, of Kennesaw, was arrested for allegedly exposing himself to [accounting] students he was teaching at Kennesaw State University. [...]
Here’s little tax rap video I found on YouTube. Very clever: Bookmark & Share:
