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A CPA Goes into a Pet Shop to Buy a Parrot…

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A little tax humor for Busy Season, as collected, curated and refined by Robert E. McKenzie. Enjoy!

  • It’s not that we can’t fill out a simple tax return. The problem is that in so many cases, a simple tax return simply doesn’t exist.

– Anderson Independent Mail, 1-25-12

  • Love, sex, and the I.R.S are three things that will always be with us.

– Dave Howell, The Morning Call, 3-30-15

  • It’s always sunny the day after tax season, regardless of the weather.

– Kurt Schneider, CPA 4-20-17

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Don’t Underestimate Communication with Staff

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Businesswoman giving presentation at meeting14 best practices, plus 22 ideas just for fun.

By Marc Rosenberg
On Staffing

To paraphrase Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, communication is one of those things that are hard to define but you know it when you see it.

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It’s always been my opinion that CPA firms operate much too secretly. Partners err on the side of NOT telling staff what’s going on, even in such innocuous areas as new clients, changes in health insurance, office changes, adoption of new software and the like.
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Celebrating the End of Tax Season 2014

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Pouring champagne

Sound Off: Marking the End of the Busy Season

Congratulations! You’ve survived another season of long nights, Saturday workdays, cranky clients, buggy software and cutthroat competition. Now it’s time to party, kick back, relax, reconnect and unplug.

The CPA Trendlines Busy Season Barometer is hearing it all. Here are some of our favorite comments from some of our favorite readers…

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Ode to the End of Tax Season

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This is our favorite “away message” so far in this post-tax season period: TAX SEASON’S OVER! MY FACE IT HAS A BIG SMILE. AND SO IT’S OFF TO THE SHORE, 1040s NO MORE, AT LEAST FOR A WHILE. – 40-year … Continued

How many IRS agents does it take to screw in a light bulb?

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 … and more tax season humor.

Every tax season for the last umpteen years, Robert E. McKenzie, a tax lawyer at  Arnstein & Lehr in Chicago, has made a tradition of sharing his carefully curated collection of tax jokes. Here are a few of his latest. Enjoy!

Q: How many IRS agents does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: Only one, but the light bulb really gets screwed.
— From Garrison Keillor’s ‘Pretty Good Joke Book’

IRS MOTTO: “We’re not happy until you’re not happy!”

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