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IN DAVID
COPPERFIELD-"
ave you
you been
been a a grouch
grouch around
around
ave
the office
office lately,
lately, growling
growling at
at your
your
the
.,_ _ _ _ _ .. most
most efficient
efficient secretary
secretary for
for no
no
reason? Is
Is your
your hair
hair thinning
thinning a a
reason?
little
more
from
stress
little more from stress and
and
worry?
Have
you
been
searching through
through your
your suit
suit
worry? Have you been searching
pockets
for
receipts
you
put
there
for
safe
keeping?
pockets for receipts you put there for safe keeping?
Did your
your Cub
Cub Scout
Scout Master
Master (who
(who happened
happened to
to be
be a a
Did
good
attorney)
get
hired
by
the
IRS,
leaving
you
in
good attorney) get hired by the IRS, leaving you in
a
lurch?
Has
your
accountant
become
the
most
a lurch? Has your accountant become the most
important person
person in
in your
your life?
life? Has
Has H&R
H&R Block
Block been
been
important
advertising
on
1V
more
than
McDonalds?
advertising on TV more than McDonalds?
Aha! It It must
must be
be tax
tax time.
time. It's
It's that
that time
time of
of year
year
Aha!
when
no
matter
what
happens,
no
matter
how
busy
when no matter what happens, no matter how busy
we
are,
no
matter
how
much
we
dread
it,
April
15
we are, no matter how much we dread it, April 15
is
lurking
right
around
the
corner
to
spring
is lurking right around the corner to spring
unexpectedly, as
as if if we
we didn't
didn't know
know it it was
was coming,
coming,
unexpectedly,
and
sometimes
drastically
change
our
plans.
That
and sometimes drastically change our plans. That
dream
vacation
we
had
been
saving
for
may
stay a a
dream vacation we had been saving for may stay
dream
and
the
money
used
to
pay
taxes.
"I
can't
dream and the money used to pay taxes. "I can't
wait
for
that
new
car"
may
become
"I
wish
we
wait for that new car" may become "I wish we
could have
have gotten
gotten the
the car
car instead
instead of
of paying
paying taxes."
taxes."
could
The
expansion
of
businesses
is
put
on
hold.
The expansion of businesses is put on hold.
UGHHHHH! How
How can
can we
we go
go through
through this
this torture
torture
UGHHHHH!
every
year?!
every year ?!
Alas, no
no matter
how it it raises
raises blood
blood pressures
pressures or
or
Alas,
matter how
brings
out
the
worst
in
all
of
us,
April
15
is
that
brings out the worst in all of us, April 15 is that
dreaded day
day our
our taxes
taxes are
are due
due in
in to
to Uncle
Uncle Sam,
Sam, who
who
dreaded
is
very
unforgiving
if
late.
I'm
sure
many
of
you
is very unforgiving if late. I'm sure many of you
swore on
on your
your mothers'
mothers' graves
graves that
that this
this year
year would
would
swore
be
different;
that
this
year
you
would
not
be
one of
of
be different; that this year you would not be one
those
people
interviewed
at
the
post
office
at
one
those people interviewed at the post office at one
minute until
until midnight
midnight on
on April
April 15
15 by
by a a sadistic
sadistic TV
1V
minute
newsman
who
invariably
asks,
"How
do
you
feel
newsman who invariably asks, "How do you feel
about waiting
waiting in
in line
line to
to have
have your
your taxes
taxes postmarked
postmarked
about
by
April
15?"
or
"Could
you
tell
us
why
you waited
waited
by April 15?" or "Could you tell us why you
so
long,
didn't
you
know
that
April
follows
March?"
so long, didn't you know that April follows March?"
Of course,
course, there
there are
are always
always those
those extremely
extremely organized
organized
Of
types
who
by
the
start
of
the
business
day
of
the
types who by the start of the business day of the
new
year
actually
know
where
to
put
their
hands
on
new year actually know where to put their hands on
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everything their
their accountant
accountant needs
needs to
to do
do their
their taxes.
taxes.
everything
Personally,
I
don't
know
any
of
them.
Personally, I don't know any of them.
Just as
as sure
sure as
as John
John Marshall
Marshall was
was that
that "The
"The power
power
Just
to
tax
involves
the
power
to
destroy,"
I
think
Plato,
to tax involves the power to destroy," I think Plato,
back in
in 300
300 B.C.
B.C. had
had a a vision
vision of
of what
what lay
lay ahead
ahead
back
when
he
said,
''When
there
is
an
income
tax,
when he said, "When there is an income tax, the
the
just man
will pay
pay more
more and
unjust less
less on
on the
just
man will
and the
the unjust
the
same amount
amount of
of income."
income." Franklin
Franklin Roosevelt
Roosevelt agreed
agreed
same
centuries later
later when
when he
he said
in a a tax
tax veto
veto message
message
centuries
said in
in
1944,
"It
is
not
a
tax
bill
but
a
tax
relief
bill
in 1944, "It is not a tax bill but a tax relief bill
providing
relief
not
for
the
needy
but
for
the
providing relief not for the needy but for the
greedy."
."
greedy
The new
new tax
tax laws
laws are
are proving
proving to
to be
be a a nightmare.
nightmare.
The
If
the
new
W-4
Form
is
any
indication
of
what the
the
If the new W-4 Form is any indication of what
new
income
tax
forms
will
be
...
well,
I
hope
someone
new income tax forms will be ... well, I hope someone
knows what's
what's going
going on.
on.
knows
As
you
glance
through
this issue,
issue, you
you will
will see
see a
a
As you glance through this
myriad
of
articles
on
the
new
tax
laws.
Every
article
myriad of articles on the new tax laws. Every article
will certainly
not apply
apply to
to every
every business,
business, but
but there
there
will
certainly not
are
some
interesting
facts
and
tidbits
of
information
are some interesting facts and tidbits of information
that could
could very
very well
well save
you money
money on
on your
your taxes.
taxes.
that
save you
If
you
would
like
some
more
information
on
any
If you would like some more information on any
of
the
articles,
the
writer's
address
is
at
the
bottom
of the articles, the writer's address is at the bottom
of the
the article
article and
and he
he would
would be
be willing
willing to
to be
be of
of
of
further
assistance.
Also,
if
you
have
found
some
further assistance. Also, if you have found some
useful tax
tax tips
tips that
that could
could benefit
benefit some
some of
of your
your fellow
fellow
useful
operators,
please
let
me
know.
I
would
be
glad
to
operators, please let me know. I would be glad to
print
any
helpful
information.
print any helpful information.
hope we
we will
will be
be useful
useful during
during this
this dreaded
dreaded deed
deed
I I hope
and
best
of
luck
on
your
taxes.
As
Benjamin
Franklin
and best of luck on your taxes. As Benjamin Franklin
once observed,
observed, "in
"in this
this world
world nothing
nothing is is certain
certain but
but
once
death
and
taxes."
And
I
might
add
that
at
least
we
death and taxes." And I might add that at least we
know
when
taxes
are
due.
know when taxes are due.
V ~rn~
aleria Cogneich
Valerie Cognevich
Editor
Editor