Form

Department of Christmas SpiritSeasonal Cheerfulness Service

1225

(99)

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2015

Christmas Cheer Return

For the year Jan. 1--Dec. 31, 2015, or other year beginning

ADESTE FIDELES

Write and staple all you want in this space.

See separate instructions.

, ending

Your first name and initial

Last name

Your Circuit City Rewards Number

If joint return, your fellow wassailer's name & initial

Last name

Wassailer's Comcast Account Number

Home address (number and street). If you have a P.O. box, what's wrong with you?

Don't worry about whether the

numbers above are correct.

Apt. no.

City, town or post office, state, and ZIP code. If you have a foreign address, what are you, some sort of tax cheat?
Foreign country name and why it's not as good as America

Foreign province/state/county

Lump of Coal
Check here if you, or your fellow wassailer if filing
jointly, want $3 to go to God-fearing American coal
companies.

Foreign postal code

You

All alone on Christmas

CHECK ONE BOX ( Use 'X' )

Buying someone else gifts from joint checking (even if only one had income)

Buying from separate accounts. Enter wassailer's SSN above

Wassailer

Christmas party host (with eggnog). (See instructions.) If

Filing Status
Check only one
box, unless you
want to check two.

Exemptions

this childs name here.

and full name here.

6a

Yourself.

Qualifying Scrooge with sufficient humbugs

Boxes checked
on 6a and 6b.

If someone out there is not ashamed to claim you, do not check box 6a . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.

if urchin under age 17

(1) First name

Last name

(2) Urchin's

(3) Urchin's

social security
number

relationship to

(4)

qualifying for extra gifts

you

(See instructions.)

Attach Christmas
cards received
here. Exclude
the card from
your dentist.

If you did not

get any cards,
no one likes you.

Adjusted
Christmas
Light Wattage

d
7
8 a
b
9 a
b
10
11
12
13
14
15 a
16 a
17
18
19
20 a
21

cry because they

failed to receive a
pony or laptop

22
23
24

Ingrates on 6c
not entered above

Total number of nativity scenes at the Vatican . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0. . Random

. . . number
. . . .
Wages, salaries, tips, etc. down the drain on Christmas
. . . gifts
. . . .. . .. .. . . . . . .. . . . . . ... . . . .. . ..
Actual interest in the holiday season. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Feigned interest. Do not include on line 8a
. . . . . . . . . 8b
Ordinary Christmas lights. Attach only working strand. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Those ridiculous blinking lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9b
Hours spent lying to children about Santa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Golden rings received . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Subtract dreams of a white Christmas from calories in a sugar cookie . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . . .. . . 7.
. . . . . . 8a

0
0

. . . . . . 9a
. . . . .

. . . . . . .10. .
. . . . . . . 11. . . . .
. . . . . . .12. . . . . . . . . . .0 . . . . . . . . . .
If Jeanette and Isabella brought a torch, check here.
0
13
Fulfilled prophesies. Attach Old Testament . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Christmas card distributions
15a
0
b Stamp cost . . . . . . . 15b
0
Texted holiday greetings
16a
0
b SMS costs . . . . . . . 16b
0
Manheim Steamroller expressed as a percentage of all steamrollers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
17
0
Yule log burn rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
. . . .
Estimated fruitcake shelf life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
. . . . . . . . .
. .
What child is this?
20a
0
b Member of Trinity . . . . . 20b
0
Creatures stirring. List type and amount.
21
This is your holiday spirit
Combine the amounts in the far right column for lines 7 through 21.
22
0

23
24
25 Deduction for Christmas parties attended . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
. . . . . .
26 Holiday travel expenses. Attach Form 3903 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
. . . . . .
27 Deductible part of extra holiday pounds. Attach Schedule SE . . . . . . 27
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28 Humbugs per capita . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
29 Credit for bells heard on Christmas day
. . . . . . . . . . . . 29
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30 Penalty on early Christmas playlists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
b Prefered mining operation
31 a Lumps of coal
31a
32 Nativity deductions from public square
. . . . . . . . . . 32
33 Credit for knowing that Dec. 25
is the first day of Christmas . . . . 33
34 What in the world is "Pat-a-Pan" about? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
35 Domestic gift production deduction. Attach Form 8903
35
36 Add costs of replicating the Saturnalia. . . . . . . . . . . . .
This is your Christmas light wattage
37 Subtract line 36 from line 22.
Number of ships seen sailing in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Credit for hearing "Jingle Bells" yet again . . . . . . . . . . . .

For Disclosure, Privacy Act, and Paperwork Reduction Act Notice, see separate instructions.
Form 1225 (2015)

appreciate any gift

0
0

Holiday Cheer

No. of urchins

Wassailer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . on. 6c. who:

c Little Urchins:
If more than four
urchins, claim
credit for saving
Social Security.

a qualifying guest is a child but not your dependent, enter

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. . . . 0. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . .
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0

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Cat. No. 11320B

36
37

0
0
Form 1225

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Page

Christmas
Presents
Standard
Gift Card for --

People who you

otherwise have no
idea what to buy
for, see
instructions.

All others:
Immediate family,
Personal Item of
sentimental value
Extended family,
$10 in a white
envelope
Acquaintances, A
card, maybe.

Pudding
Share

Returns
If you have a
qualifying
child, take out
a line of credit.

Refund
Direct deposit?
See
instructions.

Amount
You Owe
Third Party
Designee
Sign
Here
Joint return?
See instructions.
Keep a copy

38 Amount from line 37 (Christmas light wattage)

39 a Check
You hear what I hear
if:

You know what I know

0
You MUST indicate

Child

39a

b If your spouse is responsible for decorating the tree, check here

your filing status

in lines 1-5.

39b

40

40

Itemized Christmas gifts (from Schedule A) or your standard gift card (see left margin)

41
42
43
44

Subtract anachronistic Santa from nativity set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Exemptions. If number of reindeer is 11 or less, subtract two fruitcakes. Otherwise, see instructions.
Eggnog Excise.
Subtract line 42 from line 41. If too difficult, eggnog was spiked
. . . . . . . .
Christmas Past
b
Present c
Christmas Spirit (see instructions). Check if: a

41
42
43
44

45

Alternative Christmas Spirit (see instructions). Attach Jacob Marley

45

46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53

Add lines 44 and 45

. . . . . . . . . . . .
North Pole tariff. Attach Form 1116 if required
.
Depreciation for War on Christmas. Attach Form 2441 .
Inflatable Lawn Ornament Credit . . . . . . . . .
Subtract maids-a-milking from partridges in pear trees
Number of harks the Herald Angel sang . . . . . .
Boar's head credit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3800
b
Other credits from Form: a
8801

54
55

These are your wise men . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

. .
Add Eastern kings bearing gifts
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Subtract line 54 from line 46 to yield number of gifts to purchase
55

0
0

56

Deduction for census tax of Cyrenius, governor of Syria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

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57

Unreported dwelling of King of the Jews (to Herod):

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Bethehem

Filing status?
0
Filing status?

46

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47
48
49
50
51
52
53

57

Nazareth

. . . . . . . . . .
58 Additional tax on Christmas trees, other qualified dcor, etc. Attach Form 5329 if required . . . . . . . . . 58
59 a Gingerbread Household employment taxes from Schedule H
59a
b First-time living nativity participant credit. Attach embarrassing photo if required
b

60

Gifts from: a

61
62
63
64 a
b
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73

Add lines 55 through 60.

74 a
b
d
75
76
77

Form 8959 b

Form
8960 c

Instructions; enter code(s)

This is your figgy pudding allocation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2015 estimated litigation costs against town hall creches

.
Bill O'Reilly's income from waging the war on the war on Xmas
Credit for not hating "Xmas" . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Ratio of chai teas to Chi Rhos . . . . . 64b
Additional elf tax credit. Attach form 8812. . . . . . . . .
Subtract age of little drummer boy from Tiny Tim's height
.
Amortization of goodwill under Section 197
. . . . . . .
Amount spent on electronics for 3-year olds
. . . . . .
Excess goose courtesy of Ebenezer Scrooge
. . . . .
Credit for federal tax on reindeer-propeled alternative vehicles
Credits from Form: a

2439 b

Resvd

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applied to your 2016 Christmas Club

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72
73

74a

76

Savings

75

Subtract number of friends you neglected.

. . . . . . . . . .

If Form 8888 is attached, check here

4c Type:
Checking

Amount of caroling you owe.

Estimated resultant Facebook defriendings

65
66
67
68
69
70
71

This is the amount you overpaid

refunded to you.

60
61

These are your gift returns

Infant's gift price above the cost of wrapping paper

Account number
Amount of line 73 you want

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.
.

8885 d

Add lines 62, 63, 64a, and 65 through 71.

Amount of line 73 you want
Routing number

. . . . 62
.
63
. . . . 64a

77

Do you want to allow another person to discuss whether you've been naughty or nice?

Yes. Complete below.

No

Phone
Personal Identification no.(PIN)
no.
Under penalties of perjury, I declare that I have examined this return and accompanying schedules and statements, and to the best of my knowledge and belief,
they are true, correct, and complete. Declaration of preparer (other than caroler) is based on all information of which preparer has any knowledge.

Designee's
name

Your signature
Fellow wassailers signature. If a joint return, both must sign.

Date

Your soul-crushing career

Number at which you don't check voicemail

Date

Fellow wassailer's occupation

If the North Pole sent you coordinates, enter

them here.

for your records.

Paid
Preparer's
Use Only

38

Song

Print/Type preparers name

Preparers signature

Check

Date

if

PTIN

Amway seller
Firm name

Infirm EIN

Less firm address

Phone no.
Form 1225

(2015)