Nagato Iwasaki aka 長門 岩崎 aka Iwasaki Nagato (Japanese, b. Japan) -
Driftwood sculptures from Torso series. In the making of his creations there isn’t any glue or adhesives used, instead he uses wooden stakes. The entire form is made using driftwood only.
For people with anxiety about filing taxes, here’s what things that happen when you make a mistake on your tax return:
- it gets corrected
- you get a letter in the mail either asking for some additional information or a letter showing the adjustment
- you pay the amount (there’s options for payment plans too!) or get a refund
Things that do not happen
- you’re “in trouble”
- you are charged with fraud
- you go to jail
I know that most people are probably just joking/exaggerating when they say a mistake on their return means they get thrown in jail but when I worked with the public I always would encounter people who believed that would happen and they would be panicking about it. So I like to put this out there every year because if I can even prevent one person from feeling that way, it’s worth it
Also the IRS will NEVER cold call you. If you get an upsetting phone call about your taxes it is a scam.
The last is the most important point: THE IRS WANTS PAPER. They do things with paper. They had to be drug kicking and screaming into letting people file electronically. They will not call you on the phone demanding money. There’s no legal record of a call. If they have a problem with your return they will send you a letter.
The IRS want’s money. They will not ask you to pay with iTunes gift cards, or anything else other than money.
The IRS has a process for escalating a problem. It does not involve sending police to grab you out of your home after a phone call. There would be letters, and more letters, and audits, and summonses, and lots and lots of paper. Nothing they do happens that quickly.
If someone calls saying they are from the IRS or any state tax agency IT IS A SCAM. Hang up.
If someone calls saying you owe the government and can pay with anything other than money, IT IS A SCAM. Hang up.
If someone calls you telling you to pay up or they will send the police to arrest you IT IS A SCAM. Hang up.
One of the many stupid feelings humans are capable of having is the private, repulsive rage of seeing someone getting support and sympathy for a problem no one helped you with when you were having it, either because you didn’t have anyone or because it never occurred to you that you could ask for help. Suddenly the world seems to split into two – the realm that contains people like them, the connected and loved – and the realm that contains you, the miserable and the alone, who must suffer in solitude. This is sufficiently horrible that you grasp for reasons or world-understandings to make this reality acceptable, and a mentally available one is that it is superior to be in the miserable solitude realm, that the problem is one that should be solved with self sufficiency and dignity. That this other person is pathetic for being aided and loved when you were not. Scorn is more palatable than confronting the notion that you could have received aid (if you had made different choices or been luckier), that you desperately wish you could have been aided but were not. Scorn is more palatable than the howling hunger for things to have been different for you. So your mind chooses scorn.
It is also a bad place to be. Human existence is full of such traps.
“You gotta make a decision leave tonight or live and die this way” is such a raw line you’d think it was from Tracy Chapman’s fast car. And it is in fact from Tracy Chapman’s fast car.
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