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Tax Season
Issue 18 guest edited by Everything Everywhere All At Once filmmakers Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert. An unscientific dive into the US tax system, featuring interviews with former IRS agents, a guide to tax avoidance, and stories of multiple astronauts who have requested filing extensions from space.
48 pages, Unknown Binding
Published April 24, 2022
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April 9, 2024
adorable. loved the flow chart of how to dodge taxes depending on your level of income/career. gonna win my trivia night tax questions :)
"It's been said so much that it's lost all meaning: The only two certainties in life are death and taxes. Though we'd rather not invoke the only phrase anyone has ever heard about taxes, we would like to humbly offer up an alternative to the fatalistic, sardonic saying. If the only inevitable things in life are death and taxes, then what we might actually be saying is: To be alive is to owe something to the community around us until the day we die. In this way, taxes should remind us of how fragile we are on our own, and that no person is an island. Yes, the U.S. tax code is fraught with archaic systems designed to make it confusing for everyday people. Yes, it's reprehensibly easy for those who can afford expensive accountants to game the system. Yes, the ways our governments spend our money is often disappointing. But at its core, taxes are a necessity, a responsibility, an annual ritual where we collectively contribute to the idea that we all need one another to survive in this chaotic world.
Now that we have officially lost every libertarian in the room, we'll finish with a line from our film that Michelle Yeoh whispers into Harry Shum Jr.'s ear right before their Ratatouille-style kung fu scene:
"We're all useless alone. Good thing you're not alone."
- Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert
"Under the Native Prairie Tax Exemption, Minnesota landowners with untouched, native prairie parcels of land can skip on property taxes."
"Before we proceed: Are you a high-ranking elected official? (Don't worry, violators of the STOCK Act usually only pay a $200 fine.)"
"In 2005, astronaut Leroy Chiao was still living on the International Space Station when it came time to file. The ISS's internet connection couldn't handle e-filing (no update so far on whether that's still true in 2022), so he radioed down and had his sister-slash-accountant file for an extension on his behalf. ("He certainly had a good, valid reason," Judy Chiao Smith told CNN.) But nothing quite compares to when Jack Swigert realized that he'd forgotten to do his taxes—on day one of the six-day Apollo 13 mission. Swigert joined the moon mission just three days before the April 11 launch, replacing astronaut Ken Mattingly. Tax Day in 1970 fell on April 19."
"It's been said so much that it's lost all meaning: The only two certainties in life are death and taxes. Though we'd rather not invoke the only phrase anyone has ever heard about taxes, we would like to humbly offer up an alternative to the fatalistic, sardonic saying. If the only inevitable things in life are death and taxes, then what we might actually be saying is: To be alive is to owe something to the community around us until the day we die. In this way, taxes should remind us of how fragile we are on our own, and that no person is an island. Yes, the U.S. tax code is fraught with archaic systems designed to make it confusing for everyday people. Yes, it's reprehensibly easy for those who can afford expensive accountants to game the system. Yes, the ways our governments spend our money is often disappointing. But at its core, taxes are a necessity, a responsibility, an annual ritual where we collectively contribute to the idea that we all need one another to survive in this chaotic world.
Now that we have officially lost every libertarian in the room, we'll finish with a line from our film that Michelle Yeoh whispers into Harry Shum Jr.'s ear right before their Ratatouille-style kung fu scene:
"We're all useless alone. Good thing you're not alone."
- Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert
"Under the Native Prairie Tax Exemption, Minnesota landowners with untouched, native prairie parcels of land can skip on property taxes."
"Before we proceed: Are you a high-ranking elected official? (Don't worry, violators of the STOCK Act usually only pay a $200 fine.)"
"In 2005, astronaut Leroy Chiao was still living on the International Space Station when it came time to file. The ISS's internet connection couldn't handle e-filing (no update so far on whether that's still true in 2022), so he radioed down and had his sister-slash-accountant file for an extension on his behalf. ("He certainly had a good, valid reason," Judy Chiao Smith told CNN.) But nothing quite compares to when Jack Swigert realized that he'd forgotten to do his taxes—on day one of the six-day Apollo 13 mission. Swigert joined the moon mission just three days before the April 11 launch, replacing astronaut Ken Mattingly. Tax Day in 1970 fell on April 19."
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