You will wear the crown, you have no choice, the spikes growing on your head have a metal sheen to them and coalesce into a mock halo. You will command, for your voice is a terrible thing, you are a terrible thing. You will be just, and you will be fair, for any grievances you cause to your people scar your body and leave lasting pain and false promises sizzle on your tongue like hot oil. Your god is watching and it won’t forget what your ancestor did and it won’t let you go
For people with anxiety about filing taxes, here’s what things that happen when you make a mistake on your tax return:
– it gets corrected
– you get a letter in the mail either asking for some additional information or a letter showing the adjustment
– you pay the amount (there’s options for payment plans too!) or get a refund
Things that do not happen
– you’re “in trouble”
– you are charged with fraud
– you go to jail
I know that most people are probably just joking/exaggerating when they say a mistake on their return means they get thrown in jail but when I worked with the public I always would encounter people who believed that would happen and they would be panicking about it. So I like to put this out there every year because if I can even prevent one person from feeling that way, it’s worth it
I’ve fucked it up three different times and here’s the breakdown of results:
First time:
The IRS sent me a letter “Tev you owe us XXXX.”
I double checked. I owed the IRS money. I wrote them a check. It was fine.
Second time:
The IRS sent me a letter “Tev you owe us XXXXX.”
I double checked. The IRS owed me money. I told them this. They wrote me a check. It was fine.
Third time:
The IRS sent us a letter “Tev and Dante you owe us this much”
I double checked. We did pay them the right amounts but the numbers were in the wrong boxes. I told them this, they were like “oh yeah we agree.” It was fine.
