Tax Day can be stressful! Here’s a little something to take the edge off:
QUOTES:
“What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.” –– Mark Twain
“The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.” – Albert Einstein
“Just taught my kids about taxes. I ate 38% of their ice cream” – Conan O’Brien
“Tax Day is the day that ordinary Americans send their money to Washington, D.C., and wealthy Americans send their money to the Cayman Islands.” – Jimmy Kimmel
FACTS:
The Gettysburg address is 269 words, the Declaration of Independence is 1,337 words, and the Bible is only 773,000 words. However, the tax law has grown from 11,400 words in 1913 to 7 million words today.
Nearly 300,000 trees are cut down yearly to produce the paper for all the IRS forms and instructions.
Taxes eat up 38.2% of the average family’s income; that’s more than for food, clothing and shelter combined.
