#dark reize

Interesting question! Hopefully this answers your concerns about the Shovel Knight world's tax season, Shoveler!

• Shovel Knight: Deals with it normally, as in, begrudgingly.

• Plague Knight: The IRS does not go anywhere near the Explodatorium.

• Specter Knight: Specter Knight is actually still alive, just slowly rotting. However, he's still a thief at heart, and he swears to the IRS that he is undead and therefore doesn't have to pay taxes.

• King Knight: King Knight creates taxes… that nobody pays. He pays someone to do his own self-made taxes in an attempt to convince people to pay his taxes, however, this fails miserably and he only loses money as a result.

• Shield Knight: Shield Knight is a repeat tax evader. Sometimes Shovel Knight tries to convince her to pay taxes, but she is often too busy adventuring or being the Enchantress to care.

• Black Knight: Black Knight pays his taxes, and does it competitively, attempting to pay twice as much as Shovel Knight does.

• Propeller Knight: Propeller Knight is a sky pirate, and thusly the IRS has a hard time catching the Flying Machine, since it can, y'know, fly.

• Mole Knight: Mole Knight is actually happy to do his taxes and has even taught his moles how to do their taxes.

• Treasure Knight: He's rich so he takes as many tax breaks as legally possible. Treasure Knight also does all of the Order's taxes. One of the few people who actually understands taxes.

• Polar Knight: Polar Knight does not understand taxes, and nobody, not even Treasure Knight, is bold enough to ask him for his taxes.

• Tinker Knight: He takes advantage of tax write-offs for business expenses most of the time, but he doesn't use any legal loopholes and does everything inside the system.

• Enchantress: The IRS does not go to the Tower of Fate anymore.

• Baz: The Baz does not have income and therefore does not have to pay any taxes.

• Reize: Dependent. He doesn't pay taxes.

• Mr. Hat: Mr. Hat is a wanted criminal and thusly he also doesn't pay taxes.

• Phantom Striker: Phantom Striker is retired and lives off of his pension, but he still does a good turn and pays his taxes.

• Mona: She begrudgingly paid them in secret, making sure that Plague Knight did not know. After the destruction of the Tower of Fate, everybody realized forcing anyone who is associated with Plague Knight to pay taxes is a horrible idea, and thus she no longer pays her taxes.

• Dark Reize: He does the Enchantress's taxes for her. Willingly.

• Goldarmor: Goldarmor has a lot of tax write-offs but does theirs normally.

• Dragonarmor: Like Goldarmor but cooler.

King Knight's Mom: What cute little thing are you off to, you cute little cutie-face?

Dark Reize: (cheerfully) I'm gonna annihilate my arch-enemy's entire family.