I would have thought Scott Adams would put something complicated but sorta realistic in the joke instead of complete nonsense. “Multiply line 22 by the eigenvalue of lines 23 through 38.”
I have had my last April 15 tax day! I started helping dad with taxes with his new fangled device – a photo copier when I was (I figure) 8 years old. The original and a sheet of the special treated paper were put through the top slot and a green light came on and a picture of the page made. Then the treated paper was sent through the lower slot and a wet copy came out of the page. My job was to hang up the page to dry.
So now over 60 years later I have decided that this was my last tax season. I had planned to keep the practice going as long as I had clients – some of whom knew me as a child – but IRS is more and more making impossible for small practices to continue down to 5 clients).
I still have 2 returns to do – a 2024 return for a friend and 2025 return for a very long time business client . After that I will only be doing our personal return and our craft business return. It will certainly be a different life during tax season for me (and for husband).
No more Manhattan SOHO gallery artist clients. No more 47th street jewelry exchange clients. No more small factory clients. No more friend of husband’s from work whose taxes I do for $10. No more widow of a professor who taught with dad at local college (they moved to New Mexico). No more friend whose taxes I do free as I had to push to give me the info and I did not want her to think I was pushing her for money for me – why should she lose her refund for not filing. NO more having to take annual exam so I can call myself a tax preparer.
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I would have thought Scott Adams would put something complicated but sorta realistic in the joke instead of complete nonsense. “Multiply line 22 by the eigenvalue of lines 23 through 38.”
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I have had my last April 15 tax day! I started helping dad with taxes with his new fangled device – a photo copier when I was (I figure) 8 years old. The original and a sheet of the special treated paper were put through the top slot and a green light came on and a picture of the page made. Then the treated paper was sent through the lower slot and a wet copy came out of the page. My job was to hang up the page to dry.
So now over 60 years later I have decided that this was my last tax season. I had planned to keep the practice going as long as I had clients – some of whom knew me as a child – but IRS is more and more making impossible for small practices to continue down to 5 clients).
I still have 2 returns to do – a 2024 return for a friend and 2025 return for a very long time business client . After that I will only be doing our personal return and our craft business return. It will certainly be a different life during tax season for me (and for husband).
No more Manhattan SOHO gallery artist clients. No more 47th street jewelry exchange clients. No more small factory clients. No more friend of husband’s from work whose taxes I do for $10. No more widow of a professor who taught with dad at local college (they moved to New Mexico). No more friend whose taxes I do free as I had to push to give me the info and I did not want her to think I was pushing her for money for me – why should she lose her refund for not filing. NO more having to take annual exam so I can call myself a tax preparer.
I wonder what life will be like next April.
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