What I Miss About Tax Season

By Thomas A. Letus, CPA

This should be short. I miss playing the song “Taxman” every day at 5 p.m. and … that’s about it. During my first year at a CPA firm, I was working in a room with three other new staff preparing tax returns. The four of us worked long days and we could get a little grumpy in the evenings. One day in early March at 5 p.m., I put on the song “Taxman” by the Beatles and cranked it up. All of us laughed and took a much-needed break. When the song finished we all went back to work, but the 5 o’clock break helped us to relax and get us through the next couple of hours.

The next day at the same time, I cranked up the stereo again. This time I played the Stevie Ray Vaughn version of the song. Again, we all stopped and took a break from our tax returns. The following day I blasted the Black Oak Arkansas version of “Taxman” and a tradition began.

The “Taxman” tradition continued every tax season that I was there, even when I had my own office. I invite you to take a break, click the “comment” link below, and share one of your tax season traditions.
— Thomas A. Letus, CPA

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