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What does it mean?
Filing taxes requires creative dishonesty comparable to writing fiction.
In plain terms
Tax returns involve as much creative dishonesty as novels.
What can you take from it?
Tax compliance often forces people to be creatively dishonest.

Where it applies

  • tax preparation
  • financial planning
  • ethical dilemmas

Putting it to work

  • audit financial records
  • seek professional advice
  • be accurate

Questions to consider

  • Why do laws invite evasion?
  • Where lies ethics in tax?

Another view

Many returns are honest and straightforward.

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