Tax Joker Prints

Leonardo Meets the I.R.S.

Build a better mousetrap and the IRS will beat a path to your door.

'What I don't understand is how all three of us managed to get the figures wrong!'

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

'Progress of a bookshelf'

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

"You have to declare what you rob from the rich, but you can deduct what you give to the poor."

"How is the budget forecast looking?"

'Honestly Bob, it's not that bad. If you can make as much next year as you did this year you'll be able to pay off your outstanding taxes for last year. That'll just leave the interest, the tax for this year and... my fees.'

"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."

'We decided the current system for reviewing corporation tax was too complex so we'll trial the 'think of a number and then double it' method.'

'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."

During his financial report to the board of directors, Ted hits the poignancy button by mistake.

"Thank you, and may the I.R.S. accept all your deductions."

'I'm afraid there is no Book of Loophole.'

"You may think the government is a big 'Giveaway' program, but you can't deduct your tax as a charitable contribution."

IRS, 'I think we should audit this one, sir -- his signature looks shaky.'

'How's daddy's little deductions doing?'

"It's no use, Super Rich! Your labyrinthine, yet entirely legal tax structures are too powerful for me!"

Congressional Budget Committee: Benefactor...Victim

Tax Collector

'We don't care if it's a boy or a girl, as long as it's a tax deduction.'

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

"Don't you think we should wait to see the effects of the new tax code?"

'So, they weren't interested in your Robin Hood tax then.'

'Okay... now everyone smile and say: 'that;s not deductible'.'

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

'Aluminum siding will be used to cut costs in restoration at the U.S. Capitol.'

Sales - We could try a 'free offer' but it would cost us.

New Improved I.R.S.

'Wouldn't it be easier if the banks simply merged with the Inland Revenue?'