Tax pros are nerds. I don’t mean the pocket-protector-using, plastic-rimmed glasses-wearing stereotype that may come to mind. Come on! It’s 2015! You’d have to get a look at a tax pro’s smartphone apps to really judge their nerdiness. Imagine Shadowmagic instead of CandyCrush or an expense tracker instead of Facebook. I mean, how many people make a marriage proposal by asking to file jointly? Only a tax pro.
But we love the more than 80,000 nerds working at our H&R Block offices. And we love to hear them debate the ins and outs of what the basis is for a capital gain or what limitations apply to a private foundation. Hearing them talk is like listening to another language. One where you hear the sounds but have no earthly idea what the words mean.
While us mere mortals (aka taxpayers) can understand an occasional snippet of the tax code, other parts of it border on absolute absurdity. For example, this gem from Section 509:
“For purposes of paragraph (3), an organization described in paragraph (2) shall be deemed to include an organization described in section 501(c)(4), (5), or (6) which would be described in paragraph (2) if it were an organization described in section 501(c)(3).”
It was with that in mind that we teamed up with some of the most awesome nerds we could think of to celebrate the tax code in all of its wacky glory. Dear tax pros, this is for you.
And for the rest of you: have a good laugh and then stop by an office to get one of these nerds to help you file a 2014 tax return.
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