The official deadline for filing your 2005 tax returns is Monday, April 17. And while this date invokes no fear for our thoughtful and responsible readers, we thought you'd enjoy hearing some of the real excuses others have tried in their attempt to weasel out of paying taxes. 10) "I went to a lonely road and prayed that I should become self-sufficient and be able to help others, and a short time later I received a $836,939.19 check upon my discharge from the Army. I didn't report it on my tax return because I thought the check was a miraculous answer to my prayer instead of a Government error (his final Army paycheck should have been $183.69)." 9) "I defer to my wife on financial matters because her income is greater than mine, but she has a tendency to go off on spending binges, and I wasn't strong enough to make her pay the taxes." 8) "I didn't file my 1992 tax returns because my wife refused to give me my son's social security number so that I could claim him as a dependant. I didn't file my 1993 or 1994 tax returns due to marital discord. As for my 1995 tax return, I held off because I wanted to file it along with the other tax returns." 7) "My cousin really owned the store and I never worked there, but I let him put the business in my name because my cousin was an illegal immigrant with an arrest record, and after my cousin was killed in a robbery attempt the business tax returns were never filed or paid." 6) "I didn't file my income tax returns for 1987 or 1988 because I was afraid that doing so would draw attention to the fact that I had not filed for 1986." 5) "I never was given any financial information regarding the company, I just signed the checks and let the company put my name down as an officer so that they could run the business without having problems with the unions, and I didn't know that the real owners of the company were not remitting the payroll tax checks I signed." 4) "When I was audited by the IRS many years ago the IRS agent told me that he had never seen a taxpayer as scrupulous and honest in his affairs as me, and that I would never have to file a tax return again." 3) "The harassment at work exacerbated my stress-related medical problems, which necessitated my going out on disability leave, which compounded my misdiagnosed and untreated learning disabilities and caused me to have no income so I couldn't pay my property taxes." 2) "I worked 18 hours per day six days a week, and had only 4 vacations in 10 years." 1) "It was my accountant's job to file the tax return." For more wacky, lame, unbelievable excuses, visit http://madtbone.tripod.com/tax_excuses.htm.
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