Quote: March 21, 2003

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“There are clear indications that professional standards have eroded in some corners of the practitioner community. Attorneys and accountants should be pillars of our system of taxation, not the architects of its circumvention.

 

IRS Commissioner nominee Mark W. Everson, during a Senate Finance Committee hearing.

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