How to Put Your Frustrations on Taxes to Good Use

everything you worked hard for, right? Unfortunately, paying taxes is compulsory. You might even go to jail if you insisted to keep all your earnings to yourself. Instead of coming up with a new strategy to save yourself from paying off a single penny to the IRS, just put your frustrations on taxes to good use. Here are some of the things you can do when you cannot do anything else to avoid the mandatory act of paying taxes:

Write a song about it

Put your complaints and frustrations on the tax system to good use: incorporate them in a song. After all, that’s what George Harrison did when he found out that he was losing most of his earnings to taxes. He wrote “Taxman,” a song about a taxman who taxes everything from the street you drive on to the feet you walk on. Harrison did the right thing: not only did Harrison express his aversion toward the British tax system in a creative way, but he also did compose another hit song for The Beatles. Beatles hit = music royalty.

Make a movie about it

Well, it doesn’t have to be exactly about taxes. After all, who would be interested in watching that? Just try to incorporate your views on taxes in the screenplay. In the film “Stranger Than Fiction,” for example, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s character Ana is an intentional tax delinquent who only pays 78% of her total taxes. According to writer Zach Helm and director Marc Foster, Ana only pays the taxes used for “fixing potholes, erecting swing sets, and building shelters and not those which are used for ‘national defense, corporate bailouts, and campaign discretionary funds’.” Try to incorporate your rantings on taxes in the characterization of your protagonist. Who knows? You might even be the next Charlie Kaufman or Diablo Cody. Hollywood blockbuster = movie copyrights.