Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for September 05, 2023

Do vikings even file taxes? And what does pillaging go under?

It won’t do them any good: As any good tax attorney should know, force majeure is not covered by the tax code.

Those spears should pierce the gabardine suits.

Brutal defense. Wonder if the Geneva Conventions approves.

Anyone taken captive will be tormented with writs.

It looks like the acquisition cost minus the residual value won’t justify the effort. Just go home and claim the travel expenses and depreciation.

And then they bury you in paperwork.

That’s a big dump!

No one liked attorneys even back then. Viking attorney joke: " Hey Bjorn, what do you call a sinking longboat full of attorneys?" “I don’t know Sven, what do you call it?” “Well Bjorn, I call it a good start! (har, har, har!)”They found this one carved in runic on a stone in Iceland. Fact.

I would call it flotsam, and the longboat would be salvage.

Reminds me of the ‘70s SNL sketches ’Theodoric of York, Medieval Barber’ and ‘Medieval Judge’ with Steve Martin. Medieval Tax Attorney would have been an interesting twist.

Synch with the Far Side today (in that one the lawyers are from a native tribe).

Ah, they should have been so lucky – no crocodiles, no watery moat, just paperwork …

That’s the trouble with lawyers. 99% of them give the rest a bad name.

In those days, if they said the taxes would cost them an arm and a leg, they meant it.

Kudos to today’s commenters. A pleasure reading them!

My wife and I owned a small business. We had a “disagreement” with the IRS. Our lawyer told us we could win the case, if we wanted to spend tens of thousands of dollars up front in legal fees and wait a decade or two to collect as the government sent battalions of lawyers in wave after wave funded by my taxes.

Big company have superweapon legal staffs to fight the government or buy a politician or two (See Ted Cruz) to change the law in their favor. Small businesses don’t.

So much for the digital revolution and the end of paper files. I’ve done more paper forms in doctors’ offices and similar med sign ups than I did as a teacher grading papers 30 years ago.

The kingdom is always stocked with taxmen, and bankers and jesters…OH MY!

No problem horn dude. A match and a little shark repellent and you’re in like Flynn. …whoever that is.

Aieeee! We’re going to drown in “discovery”.

I feel sorry for the crocodiles in that moat, their world is polluted

I seem to remember Hagar the Horrible running into the same problem, with a town defended by accountants.

I used to be a regular reader of Hagar the Horrible until ArcaMax’s idiot nannybot decided it didn’t want me making any comments on their precious website and kept whacking anything that came from me. GoComics is much more tolerant.

Tax laws were just as complicated back then as now. Worse, some tax payers got mentioned by name.

Hey, we all fear THE TAX MAN !! … ;)

..or DOJ prosecutors