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Up to a Point: I Do My Own Taxes With No Help, Except From a Couple of Bloody Marys

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Oops, April 15th…

Why do they call it a tax “return”? The cable company doesn’t call its bill a “waste-of-time return.” Or is the IRS saying that, since government prints the money, we’re supposed to return it to where it came from?

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Anyway…

Got up bright and early this morning—by freelance-writer standards—around 10:30...

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