Skip to main content.
« Previous entry: Rejesus blog | Main page | Next entry: What readers of the Sun will see »

January 22nd, 2007

Tax return cartoon

tax return cartoon

It is the time of year when people who are last minute about things do their tax returns. I noticed from the procrastination comments thread that there are others who are in the same boat as I, so perhaps this post will act as a motivational resource to help us all.

I am grateful to the Government for the advertisements telling me about the dire consequences of not getting my form filled in on time, but there are one or two things that I am not sure that they understand:

As you can see these things are often not as simple as they first appear and I do not feel the Government always understands this.

OK, some motivational talking:

Come on everyone! Let’s do our tax returns! Yes yes yes!

[If you want to reuse the tax return cartoon on your blog (though it is a bit cartoonist-centric) you are welcome to do so using the following code]

<img src="http://www.weblogcartoons.com/cb/tax-return.gif" alt="cartoon from www.weblogcartoons.com" />
<p>Cartoon by <a href="http://www.cartoonchurch.com/blog/">Dave Walker</a>. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at <a href="http://www.weblogcartoons.com/">We Blog Cartoons</a>.</p>

21 Comments »



Share this on Facebook:

If you enjoyed this post you might also enjoy these (possibly) related articles:

If you liked this post why not send it to someone else by e-mail? Click here to do so.

This is a single post on the Cartoon Blog by Dave posted on Monday, January 22nd, 2007 at 11:30 am. Click here to read all of the latest posts. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

Other things technologically advanced people may like to do: trackback from another site, follow responses via the comments feed, bookmark on del.icio.us or digg.

21 Responses to “Tax return cartoon”


  1. David says:

    Dave,

    I have you thought about getting an accountant to do it? There must be some nice helpful fellows in your neighbourhood.

    At the accountancy practice where I work, we have several clients who just drop off boxes of papers for us to sift through.

    But obviously the fee they pay would be lower if they sorted the papers into piles first.

    The cartoon is great, perhaps your cartoons are funnier when you are avoiding an important task?

    January 22nd, 2007 at 12:04 pm
  2. Kristen says:

    Thanks for this Dave – reminded me of the marvellous episode of Black Books where Bernard goes to desperate lengths to avoid doing his tax return… including being seriously injured!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRjWvqGwBMQ

    January 22nd, 2007 at 12:47 pm
  3. Miffy says:

    Done my tax return! (smug smile). But if you were to substitute ‘Avoiding writing my assignment’ and add ‘kettle,’ ‘internet,’ ‘uncontrollable urge to: walk dog, do ironing,’ (yes really), ‘study papers for forthcoming pcc meeting,’ that’d be an all too accurate picture of me right this minute. :(

    January 22nd, 2007 at 1:09 pm
  4. Emma says:

    You have a box of unused coat hangers?! This is a very necessary commodity much saught after in my house! I often resort to piles of clean clothes that have no coat hangers to put them away on…

    January 22nd, 2007 at 2:44 pm
  5. Simo says:

    I knew it! I think you have put up a very good argument as to why you have not done it and personally if I were in the tax office I would be understanding of your situation and indeed suggest that you should employ someone to sort out the box of coat hangers as a tax deductible expense and of course would offer you a month or twos extension on the deadline, however my experience is that most people (I use the term loosely) who work in the tax office are not quite so understanding and forgiving or even helpful and your moor likely to get a “go straight to Jail, do not pass go” kind of response!

    January 22nd, 2007 at 2:44 pm
  6. jody says:

    am avoiding revising right at this moment, am thinking of making some hot chocolate. My house is cold and my feet are the only warm thing as they are on a hot water bottle.

    wittering on about random things, I find, is a very good way to procrastinate…

    January 22nd, 2007 at 3:25 pm
  7. Philip of Samaria says:

    The fine or the interest you have to pay is quite compelling…

    I have this morbid fascination with tax forms – its a challenge to beat the tax man by actually understanding the thing and making the on-line calculator etc work…

    ..i conclude that really I’m deceived and he’s (note never she) is ripping me off…

    And think of it this way – its one more way to mess around wasting time on the internet answering tom fool questions you dont really understand but you can do really creative answers:

    Q: Give below total receipts from overseas earnings

    A: £2.20 that I got from the very nice japanese man I sold my thimble to on Ebay with a view of Corfe castle.

    Q: total interest from UK Bank accounts
    A: my bank has shown absolutely zilch interest in my money all year apart from endless circulars about how to part with large portions of it in return for meaningless free gifts or advice on how to interpret the number 8 in other countries..

    January 22nd, 2007 at 7:49 pm
  8. Michelle says:

    Still haven’t done mine… but I’m going to read your motivational statement every hour – I’m sure that will do the trick!

    January 22nd, 2007 at 8:29 pm
  9. Pedant says:

    This is a little pedantic, but I don’t think you possibly could have taken that particular route. The directional arrows have you leaving the kettle twice, but only arriving once and you arrive three times at the computer table, but only leave once.

    It is of course possible that whilst procrastinating, you have invented a teleportation device, and have not indicated where you used it in this particular cartoon.

    January 22nd, 2007 at 9:36 pm
  10. Richard L says:

    You’ve been spying on me again :)

    January 22nd, 2007 at 11:56 pm
  11. Simo says:

    I’ve done mine now, just going for a little lie down in a darkened room. Actually using the online form isn’t too bad especially as i have not done anything self employed, next year maybe a different story!

    January 23rd, 2007 at 10:41 am
  12. Clare says:

    Oh dear, I came across this whilst procrastinating on doing my tax return by spending some time on the internet. Guess I’d better get on with it now.

    January 23rd, 2007 at 1:02 pm
  13. Kate says:

    I’ve started.

    I thought I’d lost half the necessary paperwork, but it’s OK. It was in the room I expected, just a different pile – between an old amazon box and Delia’s ‘How to Cook’. Which makes me wonder what exactly was distracting me last time I went through this process a year ago.

    Oh – and I got all filled with righteous anger earlier cos the online form was down, and I thought they’d have to give me an extension as it was their fault… but it’s up again now and apparently I am 15% completed. Only the complicated bit to go then…!

    K.

    January 24th, 2007 at 1:29 am
  14. Mary says:

    Woohoo! Posted my tax return yesterday! Thank you for your inspiration!

    January 24th, 2007 at 7:53 am
  15. St says:

    Also smug about having done it, but slightly less smug about owing £680 for 2005/6 and £1000 first instalment for 2006/7. And I use an accountant.

    January 24th, 2007 at 8:38 am
  16. Dave says:

    Well done everyone. Keep up the good work. I have now tackled the clothes hangers and so am ready to start on the green box.

    January 24th, 2007 at 10:27 am
  17. jody says:

    am not doing a tax form (don’t ‘work’ and so don’t earn any money, just spend it on ‘fees’ or something) my hubby has to do one, and he did it last week, you could see the physical weight lifted from his shoulders…

    I just have to say…mumble….exams….should be revising….mumble….Calvin….inner testimony….mumble….suffering in OT…maybe I’ll have a cup of tea….mumble….

    :-P

    January 24th, 2007 at 11:15 am
  18. Richard L says:

    Woohoo! Tax return in … am going to reward myself with something disproportionate to the amount of toil involved.

    January 24th, 2007 at 6:33 pm
  19. Kate says:

    Done the bugger!

    I don’t quite understand the answer, but I think I’m free of having to pay them anything until July. This must be due to the immense amount I paid them last year, and is a bit of a relief I must say.

    I’m very tired now after an evening of wailing ‘well if that goes in box 3.24, where does the baroque bow and the 52 miles to Frome and back fit??’

    K.

    January 24th, 2007 at 11:15 pm
  20. nessa says:

    oh dave!! oh my gosh oh my gosh oh my gosh. it’s like you are here in my office!!

    i started mine the other day, got scared, and went to make tea and didn’t get back to it. should one date each year bring so much universal fear and disallowing of a person’s natural humanity??

    and ok, explain this one to me: no, don’t. you don’t want to hear it. but the brutes have been brutes and inhuman and i’m just a tad resentful of having to deal with invertibrates rather than other humans.

    sorry, i know that’s not very gracious. perhaps i’ll just make myself some more tea and it will all be ok. :-/

    January 25th, 2007 at 2:27 pm
  21. Philip of Samaria says:

    I rang the nice tax lady today to ask her to take off some ‘benefits’ from my personal allowance for this yr (07/08 for avoidance of doubt and for those still stuck with LAST YEAR’S return) and she said ‘no problem sir I’ll deal with it right away’. Wow – what has happened! Admittedly I await the written confirmation but not a ‘letter in triplicate required’ in sight… ..is this a presage of revival?

    January 29th, 2007 at 8:10 pm