It supposed to be death AND taxes not death THEN taxes…
Of course the misnamed “Inheritance” is actually a tax on the estate you leave behind and not a tax on your heirs. The tax is caculated based on the dollar value of the estate you leave behind instead of the amount of value any one of you heirs receives. The old name of “Estate” tax was more accurate.
I suppose that if your spirit hung around you might actually fight having another 18%-42% of the financial accummulation of your life grabbed. More than likely the IRS is actively haunted by ghost and their tax attornies seeking redress than the other way around.
You can’t list AI but AI’s can list people as dependents. The idea being that AIs are less likely to acquire sentience and try to kill us all if we’re a tax break for them. It’s works the same way as having your children as tax write offs being at times the only thing keeping you from strangling them.
panel 4 was damn funny XD
that sounds like a dream job for me. did you get the ghost? no he passed on. never will i ever leave my office
Actually, there is a paper in the Iowa Law Review about the tax situation of zombies, vampires and ghosts. There are.. rather funny consequences.
Also, thank you for brightening my mornings with such regularity and high quality.
Link???
See my name. Sorry.
For the record: It’s not “ghost”, they are corporeally challenged.
This is one of the best strips in a long time. Which is not to say you’ve been slipping, this one’s just great! Panel one needs to be on a t-shirt.
Accountant Bug has just become one of my favorite characters solely based on the fact that at no point does he look happy.
It supposed to be death AND taxes not death THEN taxes…
Of course the misnamed “Inheritance” is actually a tax on the estate you leave behind and not a tax on your heirs. The tax is caculated based on the dollar value of the estate you leave behind instead of the amount of value any one of you heirs receives. The old name of “Estate” tax was more accurate.
I suppose that if your spirit hung around you might actually fight having another 18%-42% of the financial accummulation of your life grabbed. More than likely the IRS is actively haunted by ghost and their tax attornies seeking redress than the other way around.
Crap! That would’ve been a better title: “Death Then Taxes.”
Some states have an estate tax (paid by the estate), some have inheritance tax (paid by the recipient), and some have both.
Why do the ghosts have holes under their Antenna? Are they just wearing a sheet??
Completely hilarious juxtaposition. The hemophiliac house would make a great character too.
Makes about as much sense as tax codes.
Just sayin’.
Can I list Pokémon as dependants? How about sentient AIs?
We need a way to thumb up comments here.
You can’t list AI but AI’s can list people as dependents. The idea being that AIs are less likely to acquire sentience and try to kill us all if we’re a tax break for them. It’s works the same way as having your children as tax write offs being at times the only thing keeping you from strangling them.
It’s called the “Skynet exception”
The last panel made me laugh so hard…
Please, tell me there will be a book with your work… And please, tell me it will be soon…
Correct me if I’m wrong but don’t they just charge the next of kin?