Error’d: Yeah Yeah I’m The Tax Man

In only a handful of years, four Liverpudlian scruffs clawed their way from obscurity to unprecedented worldwide celebrity.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Already making a mint from "Money" and other hits, by 1965 they were MBEs, and suddenly discovered class solidarity -- with the rest of the singlet-clad bathers in their grottos of ducats. To be fair, a 97% marginal rate does make it hard for a lad to break into the ranks of true generational wealth.
So in 1966, George Harrison and his newly-minted toffs released the anti-government protest shriek of the upper class, and even now, we Americans share their pain in this our momen of reckoning with ... the Tax Man.

The Beast in Black first complained "I tried to get my W2 (for our non-Murican friends, that's the statement from your employer showing how much they paid you and how much tax they deducted) from ADP, and apparently their programmers did a number (two) on the form. TRWTF is that the damn form actually works if I add the slash separators to the date components."

And again he moaned "Frankly, I'm a little too scared by this WTF to be snarky; I'd expect a Tax Accounting firm - H&R Block in this case - to not have such basic accounting WTFs. Perhaps they should change their name to H&R Blockhead...?"

Adam R. remarked "It's tax season again. I hope their tax return backend is better than their JavaScript frontend that set the tooltip on this image to [object Object]."

Frustrated Dustin S. is trying to comply: "I logged into my credit union to download the tax documents for my account, but when I clicked on the link, this is what I got. Maybe doing taxes by invoice in the U.S. now?"

And looking to the future, the tax man cometh inevitably for Michael R. , though not today. "In green: I want to enter a discount for the items I'm selling. The error says:"Invalid discount amount. Please enter a discount of less than €0.00 (packaging costs + taxes).". Yes, I have also tried to enter -7,41 without any luck. In blue: It says:"Total amount approx.". Maybe one of the ebay lawyers figured out they are using float data types and wants to cover their bottoms against the rounding errors?"

This post originally appeared on The Daily WTF.