Yet Another Tax Filing Limerick
I’m afraid I can’t stop writing tax return limericks — probably because it’s a lot more fun than actually working on my tax return.
Yet Another Tax Filing Limerick
By Madeleine Begun Kane
Why does tax filing time cause such stress?
Wretched forms to fill out—it’s a mess!
All confused, you say, “Heck!”
Then you write out a check
For what’s due or, at least, your best guess.
Tags: Federal Income Tax, Form 1040 Humor, Income Tax Humor, Money Satire, Tax Filing Humor, Taxing Humor
So you ask why this annual fleecing
Keeps blood pressure, and not wealth, increasing?
It’s that tax time, like death,
Makes us feel its warm breath
While we sheep only dream of it’s ceasing.
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Tax Carnival #17: Quit monkeying around!…
It’s April 16. The day before tax due day 2007. The day when many of us, especially those of us still working on our 1040s, feel a special kinship with those crazy loons. Don’t fret! It’s also Tax Carnival Day. And while doing taxes can definitely b…
Thanks for sharing your limerick, Paul!
I no longer stress. I just take the shoebox and cigar box and paper bag filled with possibly deductible expenses to my accountant, leave him a blank check, and tell him to disavow all knowledge of my whereabouts if the check bounces and the IRS comes around asking. ;0)
I’m visiting almost a week late for the Carnival of Family Life.
Skeet, that sounds like a very good plan. :) Thanks for stopping by.