Americans by now should have received W-2s, 1099s and other notices of all the funds that have passed in or near our hands so we can prepare our 1040s with schedule A, B, C, D and so on. So here’s a few tax related LOLs.
Greetings of the Season: Tax Season
Comics I Don't Understand 
OY! That reminds me, not only is it time to start on the 2023 return, but I can’t remember if I did the January 15 final estimated payment! Oh gosh, what if I’m late?!
This Candorville was the only one that drew me to post in the strips comment section.
(The IRS treats crypto as investments, so gains are taxable & losses deductible as capital gains or losses)
I answered the Candorville question in their comment section.
The interest on a late estimate is no big deal, but calculating it can be a pain, especially if you were expecting low tax and had a big gain late in the year. I had to put my 2021 return on extension & file on paper because the crappy software couldn’t handle some of the forms. The IRS took over a year to process it, and in the meantime I was getting bills for 2022 (efiled & timely) because they hadn’t applied the overpayment.
Sorry, I am simply unable to find anything funny about Tax season, be it now or on April 15th, and none of these strips was able to convince me otherwise.
I went into the pub one Saturday and announced to my drinking mates that I had occasion that week to send two pieces of crap to the Government: a faecal sample to the NHS for the bi-annual colon cancer check and my tax return to the Inland Revenue. I thought that was something funny about tax season. Ho ho.
Round here (UKland) the tax year runs to April 5th. If you submit a paper self-assessment tax return the deadline is October 31st, and if you do it online it is January 31st (however, the deadline for paying any tax due is also January 31st, so it’s better to give yourself a bit of leeway).
If all your income is through salary or wages you normally don’t need to submit one, as it is handled by PAYE (Pay As You Earn) through your employer.
https://www.gov.uk/self-assessment-tax-returns/who-must-send-a-tax-return
re #5, this forum needs a “like” button.
@Patrick, the Like buttons and display of number collected are not by default visible in this interface (classic web browser window or tab to the single site). But they could be turned on; the times we have tried that, however, they were massively rejected by most of the readership. The general feeling expressed was that those sorts of mechanism can end up promoting competition and working against coöperation and camaraderie.
However, they do exist underlyingly, and can be seen in the WP Reader view (web browse to https://wordpress.com/read — or, lately, they seem to be forcing the use of something called the Jetpack app). For that view you need to have signed up for a WordPress account, though a free one will work so it is not terribly burdensome. You select the blogs you want to follow, and it will display recent posts (and accompanying comments) from those. These are presented in a uniform styling which does not use the Theme (“template”, “local stylings”) from those WP blogs. Thus, for example, comments made as replies to previous comments are displayed indented, regardless of whether the blog in question uses that feature.
Also — to get back to the original point! — the WordPress Reader view shows Like buttons for posts and for comments, and the number of Likes an item has received. In some circumstances it also shows usernames of those who have voted a Like.
The downsides of WP Reader for many users include (1) that it removes the styling Themes for the individual blogs, which can be an appealing part of the reading experience; and (2) it throws everything into one feed for you, interfering with the idea of following a train of thought thru a series of posts and comments. They in turn add back in some tools for doing that (e.g. subscribing to a “conversation”), but for many users it remains a diminished or at any rate confused experience. But it’s there if you want to try it; and does record your Likes and even notifies the poster or commenter.
@Mitch4,
Thanks for the explanation, but “this forum needs a like button” was just my way of agreeing with Kilby.
Patrick, I understand, but felt like rolling out a long-form reminder to people of other viewing options!