Monday, January 21, 2008

Tax time movies.

As a certified public accountant and financial planner, I start to get very busy this time of year.

So I found it funny when I came across this list of movies from the National Taxpayers Union.  HT: Andrew Roth at the Club for Growth.

Which one is your favorite (for whatever reason)?  I’ll share mine in the comments later on.

(10) Comments
Posted by Bill Kramer at 1246 hrs
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  1. Can I add “freedom to fascism” to the list…

    ... (and then vote for that) smile

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on January 21, 2008 at 1351 hrs


  2. “Harry’s War” is my all-time favorite tax movie.

    Posted by Jim the Fireman on January 22, 2008 at 0839 hrs


  3. Since Wisconsin is now offering tax credits to producers who make movies here, AND is now facing a huge shortfall in revenues, how about a movie called:

    “Wisconsinites taxed out of existence”? or better yet

    “Its the spending stupid”

    And given the news about tax revenues going down, does anyone care to wager a bet that our taxes go way up, as opposed to spending being cut?

    Posted by Michael J. Cheaney on January 22, 2008 at 0958 hrs


  4. Well, my fave of that list is ‘Untouchables’, but after seeing the ‘Blues Brothers’ on there, I thought, “Dang, they went through all of that just to pay their taxes!”

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on January 22, 2008 at 1021 hrs


  5. Strictly speaking, Mr. Pants, they went through all that to pay someone else’s taxes. Someone who, with an adequate safety net, wouldn’t have been threatened with foreclosure wink

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on January 22, 2008 at 1100 hrs


  6. While giving props to “Stranger Than Fiction”, I’m gonna have to go with “The Blues Brothers” on that list.

    Of course you left out the little known indie flick, “Getting Blood from a Wisconsinite”.  Great movie

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on January 22, 2008 at 1111 hrs


  7. Easily, Blues Brothers. Too funny what taxes will do to folks. And many, many good memories of that time of life (when taxes, especially property taxes, weren’t a factor in life).

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on January 22, 2008 at 1214 hrs


  8. Oh yea.  Good point, apc.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on January 22, 2008 at 1218 hrs


  9. Hands down its gotta be the Blues Brothers!

    Posted by Jeff Barta on January 22, 2008 at 1616 hrs


  10. I think Blues Brothers is the best.  As noted above, all that just to pay your taxes…

    And, if we are to believe the movie, apparently Cook County, Illinois - at least in 1979 - taxed church property that was used to operate an orphanage.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on January 25, 2008 at 0029 hrs


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