It’s A Dirty Business
For those of you whose financial affairs are sufficiently complicated that you hire an accountant to prepare your tax return (a minor subset of those who file a return, which may in turn be dwarfed here on Salon blogs by those who simply don’t bother to file) - there are a couple of reasons to get busy and fill out that questionnaire your accountant sends you and mail it back instead of waiting until April 14th to traipse into his/her office with your sorry box of receipts.
First, you want to avoid being consigned to your accountant’s Box Of The Damned, those that get worked on last and billed the most hours at the highest rate.
Second, there seems to be a health concern when you visit an accountant’s office. It appears that accountants’ offices harbor 7 times the amount of germs that lawyers’ offices do, and they trail only school classrooms in the germ habitat sweepstakes. And this from a study conducted subsequent to Sarbanes-Oxley.
In keeping with Bush administration tactics, when you don’t like the outcome of a scientific process, seek to discredit the scientist. Don’t even need to play the theology card to discredit this one - the “study” was funded by the Clorox company, makers of Clorox Disinfecting Wipes and Clorox Anywhere Hard Surface Sanitizing Spray. Geez, next time, at least filter the funding through an obfuscatorily-named think tank.
