Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Tax Day Yearly Debacle

Hello.  This is The Daily Bone and I'm your austere and fiscally responsible 
doggie reporter Chester L. W. Spaniel. 


Today is a serious and ominous day in the United States of America. Today is Tax Day! That means the humans should be finished with the complicated task of figuring out how much money they owe the government based on last year’s income. From what I’ve heard, tax day is almost as bad as the end of the world (again.) People stay up all night, scrambling to get the paperwork done, ruining their health from the stress of it all, drinking large amounts of caffeinated beverages, or just as much alcoholic ones, and then waiting in long lines at the Post Office in order to get all that mess mailed out to the IRS. Some people will have to pay the government more money, and some will get a refund, depending on a myriad of diabolically contrived factors.


I recently did an inventory of all my squeaky toys. Do I have to include the ones I received as gifts? For example, as you might remember, Professor Braydie Spiker passed away and bequeathed to me a whole box of wonderful, amazing, delightful, fascinating squeaky toys from her personal top secret paranormal squeaky toy research archives. My humans are holding most of them in a trust fund so that I don’t dissect, unstuff, and chew them all up at once. In fact, I don’t even know how many there are and what they’re worth. Perhaps I shouldn’t have even mentioned this. What if the IRS decides to audit me? What about the big bag of tennis ball my Jason human got for me? There’s no way the IRS can prove I had them, is there? You know what? This is rather nerve wracking. 

Maybe I need to file for an extension. 

11 comments:

  1. Oh the joys of Tax Return season!
    Watch it those Tax Inspectors are so sneaky I believe they are in league with those evil squirrels!
    Loves and licky kisses
    Princess Leah xxx

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  2. OMD do WE have to pay Taxes on our Toys and Snacks and Stuffs???? OMD OMD

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  3. Luckily we don't have that over here so we can chill out and our toys and treats are safe. Have a wonderful Wednesday.
    Best wishes Molly

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  4. shhhhhhh don't speak to loudly - the government is ALWAYS looking to find new things to tax us on - have fun could be the next on the list :)

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  5. I ain'y reporting my stuffies, da IRS are gonna have to come and take em from me. And my bite is just as bad as my bark!

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  6. We think we furries fit under all exemption laws - no taxes here!@!! We won't stand for it!!!

    Woos - Ciara and Lightning

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  7. Crikey ...... I can't count so I'm exempt, aye???

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  8. Oh, my goodness...pawppy did those number crunchies too. He about got bald...at least there is a whole year to grow it back till he has to resume that pastime...

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  9. Phew, here in Denmark we can do everything about tax digitally. So it was easy for mom to send it all in to the tax office at the beginning of March.

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  11. Doing the taxes can be really frustrating, especially when you're far from finished with computations on the day of the deadline. That being said, we should remind ourselves to do the taxes ahead of time so as to avoid being frantic on the last day. In any way, thanks for sharing this! Good luck with doing the inventory, Chester! Have a great day!

    Courtney Morris @ Onyx Cleaning

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