Do You Fear the IRS, Too?
Apr 15, 2025
Do you work in an office? Is it a ghost town today? Welcome to IRS Appreciation Day.
OK, so I made that holiday up. We might as well appreciate them – we’ve been stuck with them for our entire lives and probably will be for the rest of our lives.
Maybe the holiday should be National Procrastinators Day, a day to use PTO to take care of paperwork we’ve known since January we had to take care of, and yet we put it off until the last possible day. Oh, wait – the truly great procrastinators will file an extension, putting off that paperwork as long as possible.
And yet, it still has to be done.
Why the heck do we dread doing taxes, when for most of us, it’s not that big a deal. We either can do the simplified version of taxes, or we can hire someone to do the more complicated version for us. Fifty one percent of Americans file in the first two weeks of April or later. Over half of us put it off until the last minute, or beyond the last minute.
Over half. Why? The top three reasons for tax-foot-dragging are stress, wanting it to be right, and feeling like it takes too much time.
Doing taxes is stressful. Procrastination is stressful. Avoidance is a natural outcome of those two stressors, and yet remains the worst strategy for us all.
Maybe this year, those of us who wait until April to even start working on this annual stress-filled task can make ourselves a promise – that this will be the last time we wait so long. Next year, we’ll do better because we’ll do it earlier.
Hey, we can dream, right?
Wags,
Sandy Weaver
The Voice of Wagaliciousness
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