Tax Time

Year after year another tax day rolls on past and never once do we see great-grandmother mention having filed her federal income tax report or having talked to a tax accountant or anything of that sort. One tends to assume that one's ancestors and relatives obviously filed their taxes on time without needing to be reminded by obnoxious little pests like me. I never even thought to ask about this, but anyway I imagine there is knowledge somewhere of the reasons why this may have gone unmentioned in the diaries. It is an obvious thing to do, much like the occasional trips to the grocery and the bank and the post office and other places frequently mentioned in the diaries. But there are just some things that one never mentions in a diary that might be read later by persons unknown. Perhaps that is because only the IRS needs to know the details. Whatever the government wants is what must be paid and nothing more. That is just how it is when financial obligations are duly enforced by the strong arm of the law.