Tax... in... Space (solution)
by James Grimmelmann
There are no circles in the definitions, so the values can be computed uniquely in a single pass:
| Interstellar travel and entertainment | 1,000,000 |
| Intergalactic travel and entertainment | 25,000 |
| Interdimensional travel and entertainment | 17,000 |
| Net relativistic hotchpot basis | 49,468 |
| Alternative minimum tax | 26,227,362 |
| Normalized alternative minimum tax | 834 |
| Quantum normalized ... minimum tax | 83,438 |
| Hyperbolic quantum ... minimum tax | 83,468 |
| Inverse hyperbolic ... minimum tax | 86,438 |
| Illudium phosdex exploration quasi-credit | 2,131 |
| Phaser deduction phaseout threshold | 1,699 |
| Phaser deduction | 1,300 |
| Capital loss carryforward | 8,421 |
| Trilithium recycling deduction | 2,741 |
| Adjustments to income | 6,673 |
| (Adjustments to)^2 income | 4,736,724 |
| (Adjustments to)^3 income | 9,999 |
| (Adjustments to)^4 income | 4,720,052 |
| (Adjustments to)^5 income | 317,500 |
| Gross income | 5,037,552 |
| Adjusted gross income | 4,726,725 |
| Modified gross income | 327,499 |
| Modified adjusted gross income | 4,730,051 |
| Net income | 4,746,723 |
| Adjusted net income | 16,672 |
| Modified net income | 4,743,397 |
| Modified adjusted net income | 324,173 |
| Gambling losses | 100 |
| Gambling gains | 99 |
| Allowable gambling losses | 121,188 |
| Allowable gambling gains | 118,812 |
| Astro-yak razor replacement credit | 525,000 |
| Unmarked sandwich allowance | 17 |
| Time-dilation correction | 79,912 |
| Vacuum reclamation enterprize zone credit | 222 |
| Miscellaneous non-farm overhead adjustment | 181 |
| Preliminary tax owed | 0 |
| Prior-year excess basis depletion recapture threshold | 641,091 |
| Flux capacitor discharge penalty | 80,000 |
| Like-kind hovercopter exchange setoff | 12,004 |
| Prepayment penalty | 561,293 |
| Fudge factor | 222,181 |
| Processing code | P1T |
| Robotax owed | 202 [CA hexidecimal] |
| Tax owed | 771,470 |
The form to be filed lists, in order, the robotax owed, the processing code, and the tax owed.
The instructions for tax owed specify that the taxpayer is to “stand on your head,” which means it should be entered upside-down.
Thus, using the standard upside-down calculator trick, the form reads:
| CA | P1T | 771470 |
Giving the answer: CAPITOL HILL, an appropriate place to lay the blame for the complexity of tax forms.