Warning tax scams!

[conciencia]

WARNING! PLEASE READ IMMEDIATELY! THIS IS SERIOUS!
> >
> >If you get an envelope from a company called the Internal Revenue
Service,"
> >DO NOT OPEN IT! This group operates a scam around this time every year.
> >Their letter claims that you owe them money, which they will take and use
> to
> >pay for the operation of essential functions of the United States
> >government. This is untrue! The money the IRS collects is used to fund
> >various inefficient and pointless social engineering projects.
> >
> >This organization has ties to another shady outfit called the Social
> >Security Administration, who claim to take money from your regular
> paychecks
> >and save it for your retirement. In truth, the SSA uses the money to pay
> for
> >the same misguided make-work projects the IRS helps mastermind.
> >
> >These scam artists have bilked honest, hard working Americans out of
> >billions of dollars. Don't be among them!
> >
> >FORWARD THIS MESSAGE TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW!
> >
> >
> >$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
> >
> >
> >"Some Tax Facts"
> >
> >The GETTYSBURG address is 269 words, the Declaration of Independence is
> >1,337 words, and the Holy Bible is only 773,000 [I don't know what
version
> >the author was referring to] words. However, the tax law has grown from
> >11,400 words in 1913, to 7 million words today.
> >
> >There are at least 480 different tax forms, each with many pages of
> >instructions.
> >
> >Even the easiest form, the 1040E has 33 pages in instructions, and all in
> >fine print.
> >
> >The IRS sends out 8 billion pages of forms and instructions each year.
Laid
> >end to end, they would stretch 28 times around the earth.
> >
> >Nearly 300,000 trees are cut down yearly to produce the paper for all the
> >IRS forms and instructions.
> >
> >American taxpayers spend $200 billion and 5.4 billion hours working to
> >comply with federal taxes each year, more than it takes to produce every
> >car, truck, and van in the United States.
> >
> >The IRS employs 114,000 people; that's twice as many as the CIA and five
> >times more than the FBI.
> >
> >60% of taxpayers must hire a professional to get through their own
return.
> >
> >Taxes eat up 38.2% of the average family's income; that's more than for
> >food, clothing and shelter combined.
> >
> >Scary, isn't it?
> >
> >
> >$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
> >
> >One day, at a local buffet, a man suddenly called out, "My son is
choking!
> >He swallowed a quarter! Help! Please, anyone! Help!"
> >
> >A man from a nearby table stood up and announced that he was quite
> >experienced at this sort of thing. He stepped over with almost no look of
> >concern at all, wrapped his hands around the boy, and squeezed. Out
popped
> >the quarter. The man then went back to his table as though nothing had
> >happened.
> >
> >"Thank you! Thank you!" the father cried. "Are you a paramedic?"
> >
> > "No," replied the man. "I work for the IRS."
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
> >
> > "Collecting more taxes that is absolutely necessary is legalized
> robbery."
> >
> > Calvin Coolidge
> >
> >
> >$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
> >
> >A new arrival, about to enter hospital, saw two white coated doctors
> >searching through the flower beds.
> >
> >"Excuse me," he said, "have you lost something?"
> >
> >"No," replied one of the doctors. "We're doing a heart transplant for an
> >IRS agent and want to find a suitable rock."
> >
> >$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
> >
> >"We have what it takes to take what you have."
> >
> >IRS Motto

[Leticia_g]

I thought I had to do the tax jokes here since I'm the accountant.

Listen try reading those tax forms on a daily basis during tax season, after a while you don't want to see any at all.

Thanks for bringing tax humor into our forum. I am one of those exceptions that does her tax forms..I won't do any family members.