Tax Guru – Ker$tetter Letter

Letterman’s annual tax preparer top ten as delivered by ten tax pros:

Top Ten Reasons I Like Being An Accountant

10 “My exciting lifestyle is the envy of all my claims adjuster colleagues” (Arthur Drucker)

9 “I made ten grand doing taxes for Leona Helmsley’s dog” (Richard Koenigsberg)

8 “Numbers are my only friends” (Andrew Rubin)

7 “What other job allows you to show up for work in just a suit and tie?” (Lou DeFalco)

6 “Mild-mannered day job protects my true identity: Batman” (William Bregman)

5 “I’m always the first to hear about all the latest calculator innovations” (Steven Goldsteen)

4 “I was a finalist on last season’s “Accounting With The Stars”” (Vicki Penino)

3 “When some idiot asks me about a form 8038-G information return for tax-exempt governmental obligation, when they really mean a form 1038-R recovery of overpayment under arbitrage rebate provisions — that s***’s hilarious!” (Andrew Ross)

2 “If I screw up something, you go to jail, not me!” (Sandra Busell)

1 “I get more tail than George Clooney” (Richard Cohen)