Tax Day Is Coming. The IRS Is Ready. Are You?

The dreaded 2024 TAX DAY is coming in less than a month and you just KNOW that the IRS is ready to collect your money.

The question is, "Are you ready?"

We know that Florida Man isn't.

DATELINE - Fort Myers and the Saga of Florida Man Timothy Meade.

Let's set the scene for you.

Tax day is coming, less than a month away.

Do you have your taxes done yet? Will you need to file an extension? Will you get a refund? Will you owe?

So many questions.

I mean, you still have a few weeks away, but there's that pressure to get it done on time. I actually got my taxes in already.

I don't know if I owe yet or not. I'll worry about that later, but either way, they're done.

I bring all of this up because the IRS, while they want to help you, if you owe them money, especially if you owe them a lot of money, well, they're coming after it and they're going to get it.

And if they don't, well, there are penalties.

Meade had already been convicted of income tax evasion back in 2005, so he has a history with the IRS.

It seems that he owned a pair of prison phone call service companies that he ran from 2009 to 2023.

They sold prepaid phone cards to prison inmates.

In his role as the company's owner, he withheld taxes from his employee paychecks as required by law.

Good job by him.

However, rather than passing that money onto the IRS, starting in 2011, he kept the money spending it on himself and the business.

Bad job by him.

He also did not pay the business portion of his employees, social security and Medicare taxes, according to prosecutors and investigators.

Really bad job by him.

While the IRS began its collection efforts back in 2012, need and the IRS had come to an installment agreement where he would pay them $5,000 a month.

That's a lot of money.

Well, Meade stopped making payments on that in less than a year.

But as the IRS was trying to claw back what it was owed, need who was still operating the company with the prepaid prison phone cards, continued to withdraw taxes from paychecks and continued to just keep the money for himself.

So it turns out that mead owes more than $900,000 and he's going to spend the next two and a half years in jail.

You fool around with the IRS, you find out the consequences.

MORE EPISODES OF FLORIDA MAN STRIKES AGAIN

We just celebrated St. Patrick’s Day. So many of us had corned beef and cabbage. Maybe you drank Guinness. And of course, you may have worn Green. I’m not Irish at all, but even I had on some green. Ok, it was an Eagles Hoodie, but it had a lot of green on it. So that works! I recently asked DHA listeners to pick some songs that had a color in the title. Not necessarily Green, but any color! So, let’s look at the top rock songs with a color in the title.

For my feature First Call Last Call, I’ll post a question of the day to our DHA Facebook page. Then, an hour later, I’ll play back some listener responses as part of a block of tunes for the ride home. It’s always fun reading back through the answers. I usually have songs or bands that I focus on and it’s so fun when a listener names a tune that wasn’t even on my radar!

I could put together a block of tunes with a theme, but it’s so much more fun when it comes from you!

I’ve done a lot of lyrical themes lately in my questions. But I also just love to ask for a song or band with something specific in their name or song title. It’s somewhat humorous that when I was answering my own question on Friday, I could only think of a few songs with a color in the title. When I went to the Facebook Page to see how the answers were going, it turned out there were many songs to choose from!

DHA listeners know their music and it’s always fun to read their responses.

So, with so many colors and songs to choose from, what were the most people's tunes? Let’s take a look at the Top rock Songs with a color in the title.

Blue! My Favorite color. This tune is so fun. It's got some heavy moments but also just a catchy sing-along-able chorus!

Such a dark song.  Yet it's got this melody that sucks you in and hypnotizes you! Black is the color

One of my favorite rush songs.  But besides that, it's descriptive in that it mentions the color red.  It's also just a fun upbeat Rush track!

Another song with black in the title.  This one is a powerful yet slowed down ballad-like track.  Chris Cornell has some really interesting lyrics and it's an intriguing song!

Ahhhh....a different color!  LOL.  This time it's Pink.   And Aerosmith does a great job of hammering home why this color is so important to them.