Happy Tax Day 2008

Have you completed your tax forms yet? Of course, it's more costly than last year.

Tax season became a little more taxing this year, with the average person spending more than a day and more than $200 collecting, calculating and compiling those numbers for the tax man, according to a report based on Internal Revenue Service figures.

If it's any consolation to the individual still trying to get receipts in order a day before Tuesday's filing deadline, businesses have it far worse. The National Taxpayers Union, in its annual look at the burdens of taxpaying, said the corporate cost of compliance is about $170 billion. General Electric in 2006 filed returns equivalent to 24,000 printed pages.

Hallmark makes cards for every occasion, it seems. I wonder if they have a card for Tax Day? Certainly it would be appreciated by all the CPAs and H&R Block employees across the nation. What would a Tax Day card say?

Here's one:

Don't think of it as taxes . . . Think of it as toilet paper for bureaucrats.

I'll keep working on that.