Songs about taxes or that reference taxes...

In honor of April 15 - tax filing day in the U.S.

Taxman - Beatles
Sunny Afternoon - Kinks
Tax Paying Blues - JB Lenoir
i'm payin' taxes, what am i buyin' - fred wesley & the j.b.'s
taxes on the farmer feeds us all - ry cooder

You can pay Uncle Sam with the overtime--
Is that all you get for your money?

mansun - taxloss

Most ironically named song ever

Song Review by Tom Maginnis

”Sunny Afternoon” was released as a single on June 3, 1966 and become an across the board #1 hit on the U.K. charts and reached #14 in the United States. The song’s success would help solidify The Kinks and songwriter Ray Davies in particular, as the foremost incorporators of English music hall style into rock and roll. The kitschy vignettes skewering tightly wound social mores of British society had already been explored in earlier recordings, such as ”A Well Respected Man” and ”Dedicated Follower Of Fashion”. While ”Sunny Afternoon” appeared a breezy tune on the surface, it belied a scathing indictment of a brutal tax system that in itself would become a favorite preoccupation of English musicians, such as George Harrison’s ”Taxman” of the same period and would help drive The Rolling Stones into tax exile a few years later. To a sarcastically fluffy acoustic guitar and a lazily descending riff Davies defiantly kicks back to enjoy the fine summer weather while his fortune crumbles around him, crooning in pleasant voiced resignation, “The tax man’s taken all my dough / And left me in my stately home / Lazing on a sunny afternoon /And I can’t sail my yacht / He’s taken everything I’ve got / All I’ve got’s this sunny afternoon” The pace picks up during the lilting bridge, guitars wank in time to happy organ accents and supported by gentle backing vocals as he pleads, “Save me, save me, save me from this squeeze / I got a big fat mama trying to break me / And I love to live so pleasantly / Live this life of luxury / Lazing on a sunny afternoon / In the summertime” Davies words are razor sharp throughout, brilliantly painting indelible images, all rendered with deft economy like in the smart second verse, “My girlfiend’s run off with my car / And gone back to her ma and pa / Telling tales of drunkenness and cruelty / Now I’m sitting here / Sipping at my ice cold beer / Lazing on a sunny afternoon”. ”Sunny Afternoon” would also identify The Kinks as an Anglo-centric group, both scrutinizing and reflecting British culture and musical traditions. Such a proclivity was perhaps exacerbated by the fact that an argument with a television executive during the band’s first American tour resulted in a blacklisting that effectively banned The Kinks from performing in the United States for many years and forcing Davies to focus his attention more keenly on his homeland. –Tom Maginnis

"I'd Love to Change the World" by Ten Years After - "Tax the rich, feed the poor, till there are no rich no more."

Brother Ali - "Uncle Sam Goddamn"
in what is coincidentally his dopest 8 bars ever

You don't give money to the bums
on a corner with a sign bleeding from their gums
Talking about you don't support a crackhead
What you think happens to the money from your taxes?
Shit, the governments an addict
With a billion dollar a week kill-brown-people habit
And even if you ain't on the front line
when massah yell crunch time you right back at it

Ludacris - "Large Amounts"

The IRS'll never sweat me or even put up a fight
Cause I'm sure I've paid more in taxes than you've made in yo' LIFE

I just wanna file my taxes with youuuu

https://nikkinair.bandcamp.com/track/irs-love

Can't believe no one referenced Marvin Gaye's "Inner City Blues (Makes Me Wanna Holler)".

Hang ups, let downs
Bad breaks, set backs
Natural fact is,
Honey, that I can't pay my taxes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP8UI7yOaAk

also "Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today)" by the Temptations

Politicians say more taxes will solve everything