The groaning taxpayer studiously applied his nose to the grindstone. Now he knew what he was up against.
Self-styled taxperts all over the land gave furiously contradictory answers to reporters who brought them identical sets of figures. Virginia's hopeful Representative A. Willis Robertson, who had proposed that the Bureau of Internal Revenue do all the little taxpayer's figuring for him, had given up hope. The average taxpayer must muddle through on his own.
If his loneliness with Form 1040 got too horrible, he could still get help, of a kind. Vacant holes-in-the-wall from coast to coast suddenly became taxperts' offices. At...
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