Interesting Facts About Taxes (Yes it does say “Interesting”)

Everybody knows taxes aren’t interesting!! We have found exceptions though. In fact we found 71 of them and found a few we wanted to share.

 

• The number of words in Atlas Shrugged is 645,000. The Bible has about 700,000 words. The Federal Tax Code: 3,700,000.

 

• In Texas, cowboy boots are exempt from sales tax. Hiking boots are not.

 

• Albert Einstein once said: “The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.”

 

• Tax evasion has been noted as an important contributing cause to the fall of the Roman Empire.

 

• An IRS agent anonymously wrote, “There is no important piece of information concerning you I am forbidden to seek.”

So the next time you start dreading taxes, check out 71 of the most interesting tax facts at http://facts.randomhistory.com/tax-facts.html and learn a bit about the oldest institution in the world, taxation.