♦ On tax day, it is good to remember a Charles Schultz a quote from the Peanuts comic strip: “No problem is so big or so complicated it can’t be run away from.”

♦ Two things in life are inevitable: death and taxes. We can’t say for certain when death will come. Tax day, however, is usually April 15, unless it falls on a weekend or holiday. Tracy Brunner, Standard-Examiner 3-12-12

♦ In this new, improved era, we can sweat over a computer keyboard and unfamiliar software program the night of April 15, then spill cold coffee into our computer, resulting in a shower of sparks and a small fire.— Steve Brewer  Albuquerque Tribune Columnist, March 30, 2006

♦ The IRS allows you to file for an automatic extension and file your return 6 months after the April 15 deadline. What if your doctor informed you that you that you had terminal illness and you were unlikely to live to April 15, but you could file for an automatic extension and be given to October 15?

♦ The doorbell, rings, and a man answers it. Here stands this plain but well-dressed kid, saying, “Trick or Treat!” The man asks the kids what he is dressed up like for Halloween. The kid replies, “I’m an IRS agent.” Then he takes 40 percent of the man’s candy, leaves, and doesn’t say thank you.