Because the tax laws are so full of loop holes and contradictions, and because it is not possible to ever file a corrrect tax return, and because the Internal Revenue Service (I.R.S.) (sometimes known as the Infernal Revenue Service) assumes you are guilty until proven innocent (the exact opposite of the rest of the judicial system where you are innocent until proven guilty), there have developed a few strategies for preparing tax returns:

For the bargainers, they like to think of their tax return as the opening bid.

For the authors, they like to think of their tax return as the greatest novel ever written.

For the attorneys, they like to think that their tax return is truth, because the truth is whatever is boldly asserted and plausibly maintained.

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