TOP will be on hiatus for a day or two. My fellow Americans know what time of year this is....
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Mike, whose talents do not include accounting
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john cross: "Can you enlighten us in the rest of the world who have no idea what you mean by that comment?"
Mike replies: Sure. "U.S. persons," which is apparently the current term of art, are required to compute their own tax bills and submit their accounting and remit their payments to Federal and State governments on April 15th (the date can change slightly under various extenuating circumstances).
Naturally this is the subject of many laws. "The United States tax code is complex," Wikipedia states, drily, in one of the great understatements in human history. The article continues, "On January 10, 2010, the then commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, Douglas Shulman, told C-SPAN that he uses a tax preparer to do his federal income tax return because he finds the tax code too complex to handle the job himself." To quote a common children's expression, "him and me both."
We all pay taxes: some more, some less.
Posted by: Bryce Lee | Monday, 13 April 2015 at 12:38 PM
Good luck, and remember...everything is deductible.
Posted by: Kevin | Monday, 13 April 2015 at 01:52 PM
TurboTax!!!
Posted by: Len Kowitz | Monday, 13 April 2015 at 07:36 PM
And your Canadian readers will think you're getting ready for hockey playoffs!
Posted by: Ricardo | Monday, 13 April 2015 at 08:35 PM
If you were Canadian, you could procrastinate for another 15 days or so
Posted by: Rusty | Monday, 13 April 2015 at 10:31 PM
Quick books pro + a good cap to watch your back...
Posted by: Kirk tuck | Tuesday, 14 April 2015 at 12:03 AM
I suspect it is time to report taxes - it is the recurring theme on comics.com ...
Posted by: Tom Simonsen | Tuesday, 14 April 2015 at 05:00 AM
"I make pretty good money but it don't even slow down when to gets to me".
Roy Clark
Posted by: mike plews | Tuesday, 14 April 2015 at 07:45 AM
Beware the Ides of April.
Posted by: toto | Tuesday, 14 April 2015 at 07:48 PM
"If you were Canadian, you could procrastinate for another 15 days or so."
This year is different for me. My late father's partner was diagnosed in January with Alzheimer's, at age 75. Had to find another accountant, who could do a complicated (even by Canadian standards) tax return. Got one, am seeing him April 27, and the tax will be filed electronically, all being well. And unlike all the other years, shall have to pay somebody to do same, it won't be cheap! Write a cheque to the accountant and probably an even larger cheque to Revenue Canada, last year was was penalized for making too much money; no Old Age or Canada Pension income for me for at least 12 months. That is what happens when you play the stock market and keep winning. This current year not so lucky, dammit.
Posted by: Bryce Lee | Tuesday, 14 April 2015 at 11:27 PM
(Ahem) That is, one can file *on or before* April 15...
Posted by: Chuck Albertson | Tuesday, 14 April 2015 at 11:42 PM
"If you were Canadian, you could procrastinate for another 15 days or so"
And if you were British you'd be paying a year in advance against money you might never make!
Posted by: Tom | Wednesday, 15 April 2015 at 04:38 AM