What’s your favorite Halloween movie? Hocus Pocus? Poltergeist? The Nightmare Before Christmas? From the merely themed to the spooky, all the way to the downright horrifying, we gravitate towards a wide range of horrifying stories to send chills up our spines. But it doesn’t matter how much we love a good scare. The last place we want to end up is in the middle of a tax horror story.
Much how plenty of different types of Halloween movies exist, so do the types of tax horror story you can end up in. And unlike a slasher film, the worst outcomes of your tax horror story may linger with you for months and years to come. Sadly, some never quite get out of their tax horror story—and their lives remain changed forever.
We thought we’d shed some light on these tax horror stories to help you avoid them in the future. So we’ll walk you through a few tax horror stories, as well as how you can avoid them this Halloween.