Forgot To Do Your Taxes? That Sucks.

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When April 15th comes around, one thought always comes to mind: "I wonder if anyone is freaking out right now because they forgot about their taxes."

Thank God for Twitter!

I just love the fact that people are realizing what day it is, freaking out, but still carving out a little time to tell the world that they are freaking out via Twitter before actually doing anything about it.

Here are some tweets I grabbed from people doing exactly that.

See the updated Twitter results throughout the day here: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=taxes+forgot

Of course, you could always just not do your taxes right?  If that's the path you're taking, Christopher Beam from Slate has worked out the details for you:

What happens if you get tired of waiting and decide not to file your taxes at all?

Probably nothing. If you're self-employed without any major assets or loans, the odds of getting busted are extremely low. In fact, an estimated 7 million Americans fail to file their taxes every year, and in 2008 the IRS examined only 158,000 such cases. That comes out to a roughly 2 percent chance of getting caught. Even if the IRS does audit you, the agency probably won't press charges. Instead, they'll just file a tax return for you and charge you a fee for the trouble.

It gets trickier, though, if you have a boss or if, for some reason, you end up on the IRS's radar.

Find out how tricky by reading his full article.