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Literary Sentences

IRS Worker Dead for Four Days
in The Pale King, an unfinished novel by David Foster Wallace.
Wiggle Room
By David Foster Wallace (The New Yorker, March 9, 2009).
David Foster Wallace and the Literary Tax Accountant
By Jennifer Schuessler (The New York Times, April 14, 2011).
Everybody is Under Suspicion
By Edmund Wilson, in The Cold War and the Income Tax: A Protest, pp. 20-21 (1963)
Of Taxes
by David Hume, in Hume, Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary Eugeme F. Miller, editor. (1742)

Poetic Sentences

A Talk with a Tax Collector
By Vladimir Mayakovsky. Translated by Ruth Herschberger and Marina Prychodko (Poetry, May 1963).

Spoken Sentences

This American Life: Death and Taxes
Episode 523, April 25, 2014

Episode 523: Death and Taxes
This American Life "It is a peculiar feeling to know with certainty that something big is about to happen to you. This week we watch people go right up to the edge of inevitable change. We hear from preteens about the terrifying knowledge that puberty is about to happen...any minute now. And true to the death and taxes saying, we found it unavoidable to include a story about each one of those things."

Books

The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
Call Number: Writing Reserves PS3573.A425635 P35 2012
Publication Date: 2012
Perfectly Legal by David Cay Johnston
Call Number: Writing Reserves HJ2362 .J64 2003
Publication Date: 2003
Tax and Spend by Molly C. Michelmore
Call Number: HJ2381 .M46 2012
Publication Date: 2012

A Fine Mess by T. R. Reid
Publication Date: 2017

Tax and Spend by Molly C. Michelmore
Call Number: HJ2381 .M46 2012
Publication Date: 2012
For Good and Evil by Charles Adams
Call Number: HJ2250 .A323 1999
Publication Date: 1999

Study Finds Local Taxes Hit Lower Wages
By Patricia Cohen (New York Times: Jan 13, 2015)
How the Tax-Prep Industry Takes Advantage of Low-Income Filers
By Gillian White, The Atlantic (April 14, 2016)
Tax Time
By Jill Lepore, The New Yorker (November 26, 2012)
more...less...
Why we pay.
London Mayor Boris Johnson Hates the IRS, Too
By David A. Graham (The Atlantic, February 2015).

Divorce is Cheaper Than Marriage
By Bernard Smith Harper's Magazine, pp. 232-233 (September 1947)
What a World Tour of Tax Codes Can Teach the U.S. About How to Reform Its Own
By David Cay Johnston, The New York Times (June 23, 2017)
IRS Outsources Debt Collection to Private Firms, and the Poor Feel the Sting, Watchdog Charges
By Jeff Stein, The Washington Post (July 23, 2018)
1040 Reasons You Should Know Nina Olsen
By Mark Trumbull, The Christian Science Monitor (April 12, 2012)
Stuck in the Past: Overhaul Tax for the 21st Century
By Leaders, The Economist (August 9, 2018)
Why Americans Must Change How They Save for Retirement
by William Birdthistle and Daniel Hemel, TIme (November 2, 2018)
How the IRS Was Gutted
by Paul Kiel and Jesse Eisinger, Pro Publica (December 11, 2018)
Inside TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free
By Justin Elliott and Paul Kiel, ProPublica (October 17, 2019)

"Tax Time: Why We Pay"
By Jill Lepore (The New Yorker, November 26, 2012).
"Tax Reform in America: Simpler, Fairer, Possible"
An imperfect proposal could still improve America’s awful tax code: back it, Mr President. (The Economist, July 13, 2013).
Marty Sullivan figured out how the world’s biggest companies avoided billions in taxes. Here’s how he wants to stop them.
By Steven Pearlstein (The Washington Post, October 26, 2013).
On the Income Tax
by Mark Twain. (Reprinted in The New York Times, April 9, 1961)
How the IRS seized a man's life savings without ever charging him with a crime
The United States of America, Plaintiff, v. $107,702.66 in United States Currency, Defendant. By Christopher Ingraham (The Washington Post, May 15, 2015).
World-Class Tax Evasion
By Reuven Avi-Yonah (The American Prospect, December 19, 2001).
Sworn Enemies of the IRS
Excerpted from the Illegal Tax Protester Information Book, 1986. In Harper's Magazine.
Preying on the Working Poor
By David Cay Johnston. (Chapter 9 of his work Perfectly Legal)

Supreme Court Sentences

Brief for the United States as Amicus Curiae
Donald B. Verilli, Jr., Counsel of Record, No. 13-485 in the US Supreme Court (Comptroller v. Wynne)
Petitioner's Brief
William R. Coueson, Counsel of Record in No. 89-658 in the Supreme Court of the United States (1990). Cheek v. United States.
Brief for the United States
Kenneth W. Starr, Solicitor General in No. 89-658 in the Supreme Court of the United States (1990). Cheek v. United States.

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