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Today's entertainment: Unusual tax rules you've never heard of
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From Weather Sealed:

They say that when life gives you lemons, make lemonade. So what do you do when life gives you an IRS 1040? Make IRS 1040-ade? I tried, and there’s no such thing, goddammit!

Up ’til a month ago, I felt the same way about state taxes. Then, whilst I drifted upon the stupefying boilerplate sea of California’s 540 form, the phrases “false imprisonment” and “Ottoman Turkish Empire” bubbled to the surface. What were they doing there?

It turns out that each state tweaks the tax code - by adjusting the Federal rules with their own credits and deductions - to help...

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