Online Daters Would Go to Extremes to Avoid Taxes

(datelists.com - April 14, 2005) On the brink of the tax-filing deadline, LavaLife released poll results explaining the lengths that single online daters would go to avoid filing their taxes. According to the poll, 35% of the 2,500 single females surveyed said that they would rather take body shots off of Donald Trump than file their taxes and almost half (49%) of 4,200 men surveyed admitted that they would rather streak naked down a busy street than file their tax forms. Almost a quarter of the poll participants claimed that they would choose to spend three months in jail with Martha Stewart if they could get out of filing their taxes.

When asked what they intended to do with their tax refund, 70% of singles surveyed overwhelmingly responded that they planned to invest or save their refund this year. And, surprisingly, more than two-thirds (71%) of 7,000 people polled stated that they had filed their taxes as soon as they could in February and March rather than waiting until the last minute.

LavaLife commissioned three separate surveys to find out singles’ preferences as the tax-filing deadline approached. The polls generated over 21,000 responses. Some of the interesting responses generated from the online poll, which was conducted the week of April 4th, 2005, include:

»15% of 7,000 singles polled say they plan to wait until the night before to file their taxes

» 71% of survey respondents plan to tuck their refund away in savings or investments, but 19% said that they would love to splurge on an impromptu trip to Las Vegas

» 25% of men surveyed would spend three months in a jail cell with Martha Stewart instead of filing their taxes but only 15% of women surveyed would share a cell with Stewart