So You Haven'T Filed Your Income Tax Yet

So You Haven’t Filed Your Income Tax Yet

By Elton Camp

You don’t want penalties cause it’s late
So why or why did you procrastinate
“I will do it for sure tomorrow,” you say
But tomorrow you wait yet another day

There is a good chance a refund is due
But until you file, it won’t come to you
But now it has gotten down to the wire
It’s even too late H & R Block to hire

All of your records you pile on the table
Must do it now even if you don’t feel able
“Find the lesser amount of line twenty-two”
And then you must decide what have to do

For an especially hot corner of hell you hope
For who wrote these instructions—the dope!
Must they be complicated in what they say
Surely there must be a much simpler way

“I’ll print 1040 from online,” you think
Only to find the printer’s out of ink
Too late, you find you’re missing a form W-2
Now what in the world are you going to do

So let this teach a valuable lesson this year
File taxes early and there’s naught to fear
I decided years ago, never an idiot to be
For this same thing has happened to me
Copyright © | Year Posted 2012


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