Tuesday, April 07, 2009
Putting the tax in "taxonomy"
Magazine articles on taxes are like bible commentaries: They can be useful, but you need to check the source, the bible. Turbotax is like the New American Standard bible: Not as simplified as Today's English Version, or as user-friendly as The Message, it is still much simpler to understand than the IRS publications, which are the King James Version of the tax world. Like the KJV, a lot of people think that the IRS pubs are the actual text, but--of course--neither one is.
The thousands of pages of tax laws are the original language. The tax code is law, not gospel, so I guess it would be Hebrew. This actually works quite well, because--just as in Judiasm--the actual law is the written code (the torah) and what the judges have decided (or the rabbis, in the talmud).
But us regular folk have to depend on the translations. And if we make a mistake, we have to hope for grace and mercy!
The thousands of pages of tax laws are the original language. The tax code is law, not gospel, so I guess it would be Hebrew. This actually works quite well, because--just as in Judiasm--the actual law is the written code (the torah) and what the judges have decided (or the rabbis, in the talmud).
But us regular folk have to depend on the translations. And if we make a mistake, we have to hope for grace and mercy!
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