Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for April 16, 2015

Nothing in life is so certain as Death Stars and taxes.

Suddenly, Vader doesn’t think the Death Star is so insignificant anymore.

I don’t know about treating the Death Star as a business loss. After all, the original one got blown up by a lucky shot (yes, we know about the Force. Move along now…)

Maybe he can claim Luke as a dependent.

I feel a deep disturbance in the Forms.

Nope. Won’t work. The indemnity company called the Death Star explosion an “Act of the Force.”

Better Call Sal!

It’s the 10,000 storm troopers as dependents that will hang up.

The IRS will probably audit Darth Vader. Writing off the loss of the first Death Star was fine, but the second . . . ?

He can write off $852,000,000,000,000,000, but that’s just for one.

http://www4.lehigh.edu/business/about/deathstar.aspx

I can picture the auditor saying: “Ok, the first one’s destruction was a mishap, but what measures did you take when you rebuild it?”