Tax Code Trickster Mugs

'I wonder if I can declare you as dependents on my income taxes?'

"Tariffs love me...tariffs love me not..."

'Progress of a bookshelf'

"I'm curious about your dependent children, Scamp, Flop, and Spunky."

Is this your idea of a joke, Findlay...?

"My accountant is brilliant - he has just had a loophole names after him!"

'Brilliant, Prof.Brainstorm. Any fool can come up with a new product, you've come up with a new tax break.'

"We may have to rob from the rich AND the poor."

'In this class you will learn to apply the talents of creative writing to accounting.'

I've found a loophole in your loophole

"For this job, we require someone with excellent multi-taxing skills."

"It only made sense for us to finally merge."

"I'm curious about your dependent children, Scamp, Flop, and Spunky."

'Life, liberty & the pursuit of tax shelters.'

Panama Papers Scandal

"It's part of a deal I worked out with the I.R.S."

"For my will I decided to cut out the middle man and bequeath all my money to the IRS."

'By proposing a merger instead of marriage, we can deduct this meal as a business expense.'

Money laundering.

"I wish I had done more pro bono work. I need the tax write offs."

I filed my tax return electronically, to speed things up. Sure enough, I got audited in record time.

"Do I have to declare this as income to the IRS?"

'No, you can't write off the cost of your wake-up call service.'

"The public seems concerned about the size of government."

"I moved to the coast to get away from the Inland Revenue..."

'She didn't marry him for his looks or personality - she needed his debts for a tax write-off!'

'I made my fortune the old fashioned way - concealing it from the government.'

"It's funny how two intelligent people can have such opposite interpretations of the tax code!"

Accountant's Awards - "Our next award is for 'Tax Loophole of the Year'..."

"Is that before or after tax?"

"Chris, find a safe and fast way into lucrative tax heavens!"

'I wanted a few words about your tax return - have I called at an inconvenient time?'

Conrad Black will be unable to do his investment club's tax returns this year.

'But, there must be some mistake. I don't want to buy the school.'

'I've found an Inheritance Tax loophole!' - Immortality.