the juno steel detective agency & taxes: does juno foist off the company's finances on rita, or has rita never done her taxes legally in her life and juno doesn't trust her with them?
I’m going to be extremely self-indulgent here, given that I see way too much of myself in Juno, and there are long periods of time when I have no freakin’ clue what month it is (even before 2020). Thank god my partner is into finance, because I cannot be trusted with taxes. So I’m gonna say he probably shouldn’t be involved in that.
And knowing Rita “can do multilayered decryption in her head in a matter of seconds” [REDACTED], she probably sees them as a weird little logic puzzle.
Also, as Juno’s secretary, I feel like Rita would fold that into her responsibilities (and/or hiring an accountant, or doing the Standard Hyperion City Tax Evasion (tm)-- which, hell, you know that if Rita’s doing the tax evading, absolutely nobody is ever going to catch them.
Rita can absolutely do the taxes in a heartbeat, but she gets herself so psyched up about it beforehand that she freezes up. This would be a huge problem, but Juno knows exactly how to calm her down so she can do them. They make a quarterly ritual out of it, where he gets her favorite sodas and Dusty Cruncies and they sit down to do it together-- though Juno is largely acting as moral support.