Tax season is above us. Personal income tax returns are on April 15th in the United States. If you haven’t filed your taxes yet, why not postpone a little more and play some games instead? Here are five tax games to play to put off taxes. Some involve filing virtual taxes, others involve avoiding them, while others helped people prepare their actual taxes in 2022.
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in Mother Truck Taxyou need to postpone the filing and drive directly to the IRS to get it down. What’s worse, you haven’t written your return yet, so you need to write it while driving.
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Baba doesn’t know how to file taxes. In this cute game, you will help Baba file taxes by answering a short question and forgering Baba’s signature. You will be scored on how accurately you replicate your Baba signature. Available on itch.io and you can name your own price.
Games about literally putting your taxes
This is probably on the nose too. Sort your checks, invoices, and envelopes into two piles: tax or throw. I’m very satisfied.
Cub boy commits tax evasion
Although the actual gameplay is less tax-related than in previous games, the premise is that the turnip boy commits tax evasion and is now a quest to destroy a corrupt vegetable government. Solve puzzles, fight creatures, and peel tax documents on your journey. This is certainly the longest game in a bunch.
Join Iris and look for deductions and love. Tax Heaven 3000 Dating SIMs are designed to highlight how easy taxes are and how corporate tax filing services like Turbotax “deliberately complicated the tax filing process to put normal people at a disadvantage.” Unfortunately, this game was made only in the 2022 application year, so it cannot be used to actually prepare taxes.
