stevethetaxman

I am an experienced Tax Account in Australia. Different tax laws... similar headaches. This is a great idea sir, and I tip my proverbial hat to you. I tried doing an AMA last tax season (our financial years is July 1st - June 30th) to encourage people to do their taxes on time and avoid a hefty penalty, but, it didn't get any traction because the sight trends more towards non-Australian users...

Either way... how do you do sir. Good to see another bean counter here. I've never done too much research on American Tax, but from what I've extrapolated from American ex-pats it seems bizarre and I plan to look into it more, later on in my career.

Also! I have another question.

When I left high-school, I never would have thought that I would end up to taxes for a living. If you had have suggested it to a 17 year-old me, he would have laughed and through cheap beer in your face. My first job was as a birthday party clown and the only reason I took a job doing taxes was because I hadn't prepared my own taxes in six years and I enjoyed the irony.

Now, I can't imagine myself doing anything else. So my question to you is how did you come into the job, what do you love about it and why?

I had someone argue with me that they SHOULD be able to claim their morning coffees on their taxes. The logic being "If don't buy the coffee I can't work, therefore, I HAVE to buy the coffee to earn money to pay tax to the government".

I couldn't argue with the logic, but I also couldn't claim it. Ha!