A Law Unto Itself: Power, Politics, and the IRS

by David Burnham

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394560973
• ISBN13: 9780394560977
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Random House (NY)
• Length: 419 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.

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It is bigger than the FBI or the CIA. It has the financial goods on more than 194 million individuas and corporations. Its regulations - 9,800 pages' worth - are so complex that not even its own agents understand them. it has the authority to seize the assets of political parties, thrifty ten-year-olds, o any taxpayer who notes that her return is "signed involuntarily under penalty of statutory punishment." It, in other words, is the Internal Revenue Service, the United States' most powerful bureaucratic institution, whose operations are exposed in this ground-breaking work of investigative journalism.