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43 unusual facts about Internal Revenue Service


Bear Magazine

In 2002 Brush Creek Media closed its doors when the IRS seized its inventory.

Bobby Meeks

Meeks was known to have built custom engines for both bootleggers and the very same IRS agents attempting to catch them.

Charles C. Walcutt

In May he was appointed the U.S. Internal Revenue Service collector for the 7th district of Ohio by President Grant, which he held until July 1, 1883.

Consent to Kill

Ross sends the IRS to investigate Coleman and requests Coleman's personnel file from the Navy.

Craig Fertig

The IRS impounded the franchise at the conclusion of the 1974 season.

Danny Walsh

The federal government charged Walsh not with bootlegging but with tax evasion, regarding $350,000 in back taxes and penalties owed the Internal Revenue Service, although Walsh and authorities agreed on a lesser sum.

Divorce in the United States

The IRS established rules on the deductibility of alimony, and federal bankruptcy laws prohibit discharging in bankruptcy of alimony and child support obligations.

Doom novels

Multiple armed forces are sent to Salt Lake City to detain or fight the resistance, including the United States Army, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and the Internal Revenue Service 'revenue collection' strike force.

Ethel Waters

She lost tens of thousands in jewelry and cash in a robbery, and had difficulties with the IRS.

Fairbanks Rollergirls

Initially formed as a 501(c)(4) non-profit organization FBXRG went on to become a 501(c)(3) in December 2009 after being granted 501(c)(3) status by the Internal Revenue Service.

Fusion Energy Foundation

In September 1985, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) withdrew the FEF's status as a tax-deductible non-profit, Section 501(c)(3), which it had had since 1978.

Garbage in, garbage out

The first use of the term has been dated to a 1 April 1963 syndicated newspaper article about the first stages of computerization of the US Internal Revenue Service.

Howard M. Guthmann

In 2006, Guthmann was appointed by the United States Department of the Treasury to the National Tax Advocacy Panel where he served as an advocate for taxpayers at the Internal Revenue Service.

Internal Revenue Service

Senior official at the Office of Management and Budget Daniel Werfel was announced as the acting Commissioner of Internal Revenue.

The IRS also includes a criminal law enforcement division (IRS Criminal Investigation Division).

Jack Scalia

According to a July 3, 2011 report by the New York Post the IRS revoked the tax-exempt status from Scalia's "9-11-01 Lest We Forget" charitable group for failing to file a tax return in its decade of existence.

Jean Nidetch

She later worked for Man O'War Publishing Company and the Internal Revenue Service.

Joe Wardy

On Tuesday, May 9, 2006, The National Center for the Employment of the Disabled (NCED) (renamed Ready One Industries, in March 2006), of which Wardy was President and CEO, was raided by over 65 agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), General Services Administration, US Army and Internal Revenue Service.

Joop Wijn

In the second Balkenende cabinet he was junior Minister of Finance, and among other things responsible for the functioning of the Internal Revenue Service.

Kreisler Bergonzi

After being forced to donate his Guarnerius to the Library of Congress to settle a tax debt with the United States Internal Revenue Service, Kreisler used the Bergonzi violin as his primary performance instrument for more than ten years near the end of his career.

Mainline Airways

According to IRS tax records, Mainline Airways posted a substantial loss in 2003 including $12,000 of call center expenses and forfeiture a $20,000 deposit on an aircraft charter contract.

According to IRS tax records, Mainline Airways posted a substantial loss in 2003 including forfeiting a $20,000 deposit on an aircraft charter contract.

Mount Saint Joseph, Ohio

Because it includes the motherhouse of the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati, the Internal Revenue Service recognizes 45051 as the eighth most generous ZIP code in the United States, with residents giving 41.50% of their net income to charity.

North American Guqin Association

As of 2006, the society is recognized as a nonprofit organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Service.

O'Hara, U.S. Treasury

These included the Secret Service, the Intelligence Unit of the Internal Revenue Service, the then-Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Division of IRS, and the then-Customs Bureau.

Patricia Courtney

She then was hired as an accountant by the Internal Revenue Service, spending a thirty-year-plus career with the IRS after becoming one of the first women to break into the ranks of the then all male bastion of revenue agent.

Paul Regina

One of five children, his father, Paul Joseph Regina, was a tradesman; his mother, Irma (née Manjarrez), worked for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

Quebradillas, Puerto Rico

An event that marked negatively in the decade of 1990s was the disappearance of the tax exemptions to the private corporations section 936 of the code of the US Internal Revenue Service , which at the time was the ideal excuse for the closing of one of the greater manufacturers of textiles in the northwest area of the island.

Robert Maynard Hutchins

Due to the rapid growth of the US automotive industry in the early 1950s, the Ford Foundation was running such large surpluses that it attracted unwanted attention from the Internal Revenue Service.

Robert Ruwe

He earned his BA at Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1963, and was a Special Agent for the Intelligence Division of the Internal Revenue Service from 1963-70.

Russell Erxleben

In 1999, following an investigation by the Texas State Securities Board and the Internal Revenue Service, Erxleben pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud, mail fraud and money laundering, and a second count for securities fraud, in connection with misleading statements regarding the past performance of Austin Forex.

Solvent Red 26

Its main use is as a standard fuel dye in the United States of America mandated by the IRS to distinguish low-taxed or tax exempt heating oil from automotive diesel fuel, and by the EPA to mark fuels with higher sulfur content; it is however increasingly replaced with Solvent Red 164, a similar dye with longer alkyl chains, which is better soluble in hydrocarbons.

Stanley T. Adams

As a civilian, Adams lived in Alaska and worked as an administrator for the Internal Revenue Service there.

Sussex Records

The company folded in July 1975, due to unpaid federal and state taxes amounting to $62,000: the Internal Revenue Service padlocked the offices and auctioned off all assets.

Tax Avoiders

At the end of the quarter, the other phase has the player move around to manage his investments while another sprite oscillates between an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agent, a certified public accountant (CPA), and an investment advisor.

The Ballad of Thunder Road

It tells the tale of "Lucas Doolin" (Robert Mitchum), a bootlegger during the 1950s who would deliver moonshine along local roads at excessive speeds to avoid "revenuers".

The International Research Foundation for English Language Education

TIRF is now an independent organization recognized with 501(c)(3) status by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service 1954 tax law.

The Pale King

Many of the chapters relate the experiences of a handful of employees of the Internal Revenue Service in Peoria, Illinois in 1985.

Timothy Davlin

In May, 2010 the Internal Revenue Service filed a notice of a Federal Tax Lien against Davlin for non-payment of taxes for the years 2003, 2005 and 2006.

Tom Cryer

In a recent case in United States Tax Court, Cryer contested a determination by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service that he owed $1.7 million in taxes and penalties.

United States Bicycle Motocross Association

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) was cited as a suspect since they had ongoing legal actions against them.

Vincent Hallinan

In his 1963 autobiography, Hallinan claimed that he was prosecuted by the IRS for his political views, and that the government did not differentiate between tax avoidance (legal) and tax evasion.

Wiley Drake

Because the letter was on church stationery, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) began investigating Drake for possibly endorsing a political candidate as a church leader; such electioneering by churches is forbidden as a condition for churches' tax-exempt status.


Chicago flood

Since it occurred near Tax Day, the IRS granted natural disaster extensions to those affected.

Elizabeth Chittick

Chittick was the first woman civilian administrator of the U.S. Naval Air Stations in Seattle, Washington and Banana River, Florida, the first woman to be a registered representative of the New York Stock Exchange, and the first female revenue collections officer with the Internal Revenue Service.

Frederick Lawton

One of his primary contributions was in helping to re-design the Bureau of Internal Revenue, action which led to the creation of the Internal Revenue Service.

Lawton called for reform within the Bureau of Internal Revenue, claiming that its "magnitude and complexity" required an overhaul.

Huston Plan

This would include the Plumbers Unit, the proposed fire-bombing of the Brookings Institution, the 1971 burglary of the office of the psychiatrist of Daniel Ellsberg, the creation of a White House enemies list, and the use of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to punish those deemed to be enemies.

IRA Required Minimum Distributions

The IRS penalty is an excise tax equal to 50% of the amount they should have withdrawn.

James E. Boasberg

On January 18, 2013, Judge Boasberg issued a permanent injunction prohibiting the Internal Revenue Service from enforcing regulations on Registered Tax Return Preparers, which otherwise required tax return preparers to register with the IRS and pass a written test as evidence of competency.

Norton S. Karno

Karno, along with fellow attorneys Meade Emory, James Q. Fisher, and Sherman and Stephen Lenske were reportedly involved in the Church's battle against the Internal Revenue Service during Operation Snow White.

Osgood Castle

In 2003 the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) seized it, claiming he and another partner had purchased it with the proceeds from a Ponzi scheme in which they sold a thousand unsuspecting investors "prime bank notes" with a guaranteed 400% return, for a total of $56 million in fraudulent gains.

Patrick V. McNamara Federal Building

It houses offices of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, Army Corps of Engineers, Defense Contract Management Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Internal Revenue Service, Peace Corps, Railroad Retirement Board and Social Security Administration.

Pyro 2

Real buildings represented in this game include: the IRS Building and the White House in Washington D.C., the Moscow Kremlin, and Buckingham Palace.

Rothko case

In 1979 after much of the matter's litigation had already taken place, the court said:... The bulk of the estate was and is in the form of hundreds of paintings rather than cash ... and ... the Internal Revenue Service may not at an early time complete its final determination with respect to date-of-death estate taxes.

Tax protester arguments

Some protesters have claimed that statutes enacted by the United States Congress pursuant to its constitutional taxing power are defective, invalid (see e.g., the Irwin Schiff quote below), or that the statutes are misapplied by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the courts, lawyers, CPAs, law professors, and legal experts generally, and that the tax "protesters" are not liable for tax under the law (see below).