It's like living in the same apartment with alcoholic gorilla prone to random outbursts of violence. One day it eats too much of fermented fruit and you're toas

It's like living in the same apartment with alcoholic gorilla prone to random outbursts of violence. One day it eats too much of fermented fruit and you're toast. And you have no way of knowing when it happens. Maybe you'll get lucky and you'll be out that day. Maybe you won't. That's pretty much it. I remember not feeling any sympathy for my friends who ran in to tax problems. It's easy to assume that this stuff is well understood and it must be their fault for failing to do it properly. What I found out later is that even if you make every effort to pay your tax correctly, you will still get screwed eventually. Provisional tax law, for example, requires literally knowing the future to avoid penalties. I'm in New Zealand and I thought it was complex here. Then I encountered the US tax system. Holy crap! Even hiring expensive US accountants our company still managed to get a 20k fine out of nowhere for reasons I don't understand. Supposedly this is being appealed and our accountant assures us that we will get the fine rescinded, but there you go.