Treasures New & Old; Death and Taxes

We’re going to put off the death part yet awhile.

Taxes, not so easy.

The dreaded packet came in the mail yesterday.

They want to throw me off the scent so they try to pretend that there aren’t as many sheets of paper in the packet as I see. Do they think I am blind?

First there are six pages, unnumbered, so they don’t count.

Pages 1 and 2 come next, numbered, with all kinds of information about me that I already know.

Quite a bit of it is wrong, either because it changed since last tax season or because it was already wrong. Who are these people who put down the wrong number for my mobile pho...