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Chapters

Preface

One
accountants portrayed in popular culture

Two
death from overwork

Three
accountants' glamorous world

Four
history of accounting
"Sarbanes-Oxley Blues," words and music written by Headwaters Co-Founder & Chairman Dave Maney

Five
evil taxers

Six
U.S. tax history

Seven
IRS history

Eight
Al Capone, FDR, LBJ, MLK, Watergate

Nine
Sex of a Hippopotamus

Ten
Tax Court

Eleven
tax return publicity

Twelve
famous wealthy people

Notes

Index


The Kennedy Plaque

Only one president has ever entered the IRS building: John F. Kennedy . The event was so significant that IRS placed a plaque in the National Office commemorating the event. The plaque is on the third floor in the corridor near 12th Street, outside the Commissioner’s Conference Room. It is inscribed with the following words by Mortimer Caplin who was IRS commissioner at the time:

On this site, on May 1, 1961, President John F. Kennedy spoke to Internal Revenue officials and became the first chief executive to visit this building.

On that occasion, he said "I hope you will impress upon the agents of the Internal Revenue Service how much we are dependent upon them, on their courtesy, on their efficiency, on their integrity, on their fairness."

In his memory, and with the resolve to fulfill his expectations, this plaque is respectfully dedicated.

Mortimer M. Caplin
May 1, 1964


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