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You are here: Home / Diary / Flashback Friday: A Taxing Time

Flashback Friday: A Taxing Time

March 15, 2013 By: Sparkle Cat24 Comments

I did not approve of her deductions

For fun, I thought I would look back at March 2005 to see what was going on. And surprise! My human was working on her annual tax return. She does it in February now because she is no longer a “sole proprietor” and has to get it done sooner. But that is about the only thing that has changed.

The calculator is a coveted cat toy!

What is a constant: while my human toils over numbers, we kitties have a paper party!

She was lucky - that is usually my gig!

That year, Binga got to play with the calculator tape the most.

Boodie never gets the calculator tape

Boodie played a rousing game of Rattle The Papers. Note that in the background, in the hallway, there is a cat toy that is being totally ignored.

Boodie considers the calculator a spectator sport

Every year, it’s the same thing — my human does all the tax preparation by hand, on the floor of her home office. One year, after we moved into the new house, she had room to do the taxes on her desk. But almost always, it’s on the floor, where she meticulously writes everything down. She does have Quickbooks, but she has never learned to use it.

Wasteful human!

The money she spent on Quickbooks would have bought a really nice cat tree, or several awesome cat beds. Just saying.

If you want to see what we kitties did the rest of March 2005, you can click here to see the original blog post!

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  1. tamstercat says

    March 23, 2013 at 9:56 am

    Awwww fun flashback! Paper makes everything better 😀

    I’m just hoping that i can one day look back on taxes 2012 with a smile… or at least NOT as a “omc” and “wtc was I thinking?!” heheh

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  2. Sushi says

    March 18, 2013 at 4:52 am

    Momma’s tax paying is on April. I love to play with paper. :mrgreen:

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  3. Kjelle Bus aka Charlie Rascal says

    March 16, 2013 at 9:19 am

    Playing with papers are FUN 😀
    Here in Sweden you just log into the tax departments website and write in your numbers and voila finish 🙂

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  4. Fisher says

    March 16, 2013 at 4:31 am

    I love how you put in the little remark about the CAT TREE! You are so smart.

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  5. Texas, a cat in New York says

    March 15, 2013 at 8:07 pm

    I like to sit on my human’s taxes paper. She says it’s appropriate. Whatever this crazy human of mine means! Of course it’s appropriate to sit on paper! As much as to play with it!
    Purrs

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  6. Cathy Keisha says

    March 15, 2013 at 6:39 pm

    Heh-heh! Bet your human didn’t use HBO words like mine did when I sat on her papers while she was scanning them to send them to cousin Kevin, their accountant.

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  7. Eric and Flynn says

    March 15, 2013 at 6:02 pm

    Tax returns look far more fun for all of you than for your Human.

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  8. BeadedTail says

    March 15, 2013 at 4:57 pm

    It looks like way more fun doing taxes at your house than ours! Mommy won’t even let us play with her pencil anymore. She’s a party pooper. Our mommy loves when people use Quickbooks but they probably don’t love all the journal entries she gives them back to fix everything they did wrong!

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  9. Brian says

    March 15, 2013 at 4:39 pm

    I guess it is paper chase time for lots of humans in the U.S., we have been helping lots too!

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  10. sue brandes says

    March 15, 2013 at 2:41 pm

    looks like that was a lot of fun playing in all those papers. :mrgreen:

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  11. Abby says

    March 15, 2013 at 2:27 pm

    Guys we think tax time is a fun time for you and work time for your hooman! 😀

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  12. Savannah NanaMo says

    March 15, 2013 at 1:50 pm

    well, my Dad uses Quicken and Quick Books and no way do I ever get on his or even Mom’s desk. I am just too scared I will get punished I guess; I am not very adventuresome…sigh…but looks like you all have been enjoying your human’s tax time 😛 peeEss just curious…Sparkle when did you begin your blog?

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  13. Emma and Buster says

    March 15, 2013 at 12:39 pm

    that’s fun wasn’t it? so did you recheck every sheet the humans completed?

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  14. da tabbies o trout towne says

    March 15, 2013 at 12:29 pm

    sparkle; yur mom wuz a SOLE proprietor 😛 thatz az good aza trout ore flounder proprietor; bet everee one wuz sorree ta see de fish go huh…. 🙄

    Haza awesum seachtain OH deireadh anda happee Lá Fhéile Pádraig
    Ore:
    haza awesum week oh end anda happee st patricks day

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  15. The Poupounette Gang says

    March 15, 2013 at 10:40 am

    We think it’s lovely that you are all still there, all those years later, still helping!

    Purrs.
    The Chans

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  16. Pasha says

    March 15, 2013 at 10:17 am

    Tax prep!!! yikes!!! but you guys make it to be so much fun!

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  17. Selina says

    March 15, 2013 at 7:20 am

    MomKatt refuses to try to do her taxes herself – she says it’s important to let people do what they are good at, so she allows our CPA to be good at HIS job so SHE can do something SHE is good at (AND more interested in – like entertaining us! MOL)

    Good luck to your meowmy w/her taxes …

    PURRZ!
    Selina

    PS – Paper is WAY fun!

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  18. Bernadette says

    March 15, 2013 at 7:08 am

    Whatever humans are playing with is always more fun than an old cat toy. Bravo to your human for doing her taxes by hand! Our human is lucky she can count all our toes and get it right.

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  19. The Island Cats says

    March 15, 2013 at 5:54 am

    Your human should pay all of you for helping her with those taxes!

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  20. Zoolatry says

    March 15, 2013 at 4:11 am

    … looks all too familiar … the annual angst … are you kitties gonna help pay up, too? 😈

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    • Marg says

      March 15, 2013 at 4:52 am

      Oh Binga, that looks like great fun to pull on that paper in the adding machine. We bet that all of you were such a big help. Take care.

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  21. The Kitties of Purring Pines says

    March 15, 2013 at 2:48 am

    Can’t resist paper, especially if the hoomans need it! Have a great weekend.

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  22. Hannah and Lucy says

    March 15, 2013 at 1:53 am

    We can see that the three of you are very helpful to your Mom when she is busy. The papers all seem to be getting prepared for filing and we know she will be very grateful.
    Luv Hannah and Lucy xx xx

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  23. Tillie and Georgia says

    March 15, 2013 at 1:37 am

    Oooooooooooooooooooooooo!! Paper play !
    That is way more fun than mousies!!!
    Purrs Tillie and Georgia,
    Treasure,Tiger,JJ and Julie

    Reply

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