“You cannot claim alcohol as a dependent on your taxes” is a popular joke around tax filing time. “Wonder if I can claim alcohol as a dependent on my tax return” was posted on Twitter on December 4, 2009. “When your liver files taxes it lists Alcohol as a dependent” was posted on Twitter on August 16, 2010.
“F.Y.I. – You cannot claim alcohol as a dependent on your taxes” was published in a 2014 book.
Twitter
Kristi McKamie
@Kristi_McKamie
Wondren the same thing #FF RT @RogueBeotch: Had to run back here for MAC card-Wonder if I can claim alcohol as a dependent on my tax return.
8:32 PM - 4 Dec 2009
Twitter
Heather Abuel
@suedestar99
Listening to the Hoff roast on @sternshow. Best line “When your liver files taxes it lists Alcohol as a dependent”..Funny as hell
11:22 AM - 16 Aug 2010
Twitter
Will O’Fend
@willoffendyou
I think that I am going to claim alcohol as a dependent on my taxes this year.
8:15 PM - 30 Jul 2011
Twitter
Nick
@SebNickMendoza
I put down “alcohol” as a dependent on my taxes.
10:37 AM - 5 Apr 2012
Twitter
Richard Hodges
@prfctsoundforvr
have been informed i cannot list alcohol as a dependent on my tax forms
9:44 PM - 12 Jan 2013
Google Books
Facebook Quotes and Status Updates, Volume 1
By Silver S.
Newark, DE: Speedy Publishing LLC
2014
Pg. ?:
F.Y.I. – You cannot claim alcohol as a dependent on your taxes.
Twitter
Busby
@BusbyStandUp
I just got a letter from the IRS. Apparently I can’t claim alcohol as a dependent.
9:37 AM - 25 Jun 2015
Twitter
G.O.D.
@npcjerry
Alcohol as a dependent #RejectedTaxDeductions
2:01 AM - 6 Mar 2016
Twitter
735 Liquor Castle
@902CrankPalace
“Wait you can’t claim alcohol as a dependent on your tax return?”
6:28 PM - 19 Feb 2017
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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps. Stolen and missing, 2021-2024.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
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