Examines the history of taxation in the United States, discusses how taxes are used by the government, and looks at the role of the Internal Revenue Service in collecting taxes.

GAO reviewed the process used by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to select individual tax returns for audit.

These are a few items in the book, but there are many more which will leave the readers shaking their heads in disbelief. There are no technical tax matters in the book. The author describes the events in an easy going conversational style.