Only two things are inevitable, said a wise person long ago, death and taxes.

The Eiffel Tower, someone has said, is the Empire State Building after taxes.

Another wit asks if we have heard about the new tax payer’s wrist watch? It doesn’t actually tell the time. It just wrings its hands!

A burglar, needing money to pay his income taxes, decided to burgle the safe in a store. On the safe door he was very pleased to find a note reading: “Please don’t use dynamite. The safe is not locked. Just turn the knob.”

And that is just what he did. As soon as he turned the knob, a heavy sandbag fell on him, the entire premises were floodlighted, and alarms started clanging. As the police carried him out on a stretcher, he was heard moaning: “My confidence in human nature has been rudely shaken.” (…