Letters From Dad Press

I just got this email from my Dad. He very well might be a funny and excellent father:


Hi Julesy,

May I offer my services as your confidential personal facilitator and guide to help you through the 12 step program of Taxavoiders Anonymous.

The 12 TA Steps
1. We admit we are powerless over our fear of the IRS - that our lives have become unmanageable.
2. We come to believe that the IRS is a power greater than ourselves and that working with Dad can restore us to sanity.
3. We make a decision to turn our will and our tax information over and accept the help of Dad.
4. We make a searching and fearless tax inventory or ourselves and our files.
5. We admit to Dad, to ourselves, and to the IRS the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. We are entirely ready to have the IRS read our tax filing for 2008 and 2009.
7. Humbly, we ask the IRS to accept our filing.
8. We make a list of all income and expenses and become willing to make amends to the IRS.
9. We make direct amends to the IRS wherever possible, except when to do so would injure ourselves and possibly cause a higher tax.
10. We continue to take personal taxable inventory and when we are wrong promptly admit it, if it is financially feasible, and file the correct form, in any case.
11. We seek through prayer, meditation, tequilla, or other drugs of personal choice, to improve our conscious contact with the IRS, as we understand them, praying only for knowledge of their will for us and the power to carry that out and avoid further penalties, heavy interest charges, and possibly jail time.
12. Having had a spiritual and more taxing experience as the result of these Steps, we will try to carry this message to our brain and heart and to practice these principles by the 15th of April of every year, but especially right now with the IRS breathing down our neck.

This is a family intervention
With Love
Dad