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                                Death and Taxes
                                        
Ouch. 

I hurt. 

I did my taxes (Death and the IRS) [1] last night. 

Let me just say that Schedule SE [2] just plain sucks. Getting hit with 7%
Social Security [3] as an employee and 7% as an employer really hurts.
Especially given that as an employer I can't write off the 7% as a business
expense in this case. 

[1] http://www.conman.org/people/spc/writings/sketches/death.irs.html
[2] http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040sse.pdf
[3] http://www.sociealsecurity.gov/

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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