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Sto caricando le informazioni... Confessions of a Tax Collector: One Man's Tour of Duty Inside the IRSdi Richard Yancey
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I thought this book would have some funny parts in it, but I found the book depressing and sad. The book had example after example of cases of delinquent taxpayers who really were losing everything to the IRS and the mostly neurotic staff working for the IRS did not seem to care that they were ruining people's lives. Sad commentary. Avoid this book like the plague if you care about misfortunate people. Two thumbs way down. http://elenburg.blogspot.com/2010/01/book-review-confessions-of-tax.html I meet once or twice a year with my financial advisor, and we started swapping books in our meetings. Last year I gave him Tim Keller's The Reason for God and he almost didn't give it back he liked it so much. He said he was getting his own copy for his personal library. He loaned me Predictably Irrational which I'd never heard of and probably never would have picked up myself. I thought it was fascinating. It made me rethink some common sense concepts. This past week my advisor loaned me Confessions of a Tax Collector: One man's Tour of Duty Inside the IRS by Richard Yancey, another book I never would have picked up to read on my own. It is a fictionalized account of the actual experiences the author had working as a revenue officer inside the IRS. I read almost exclusively non-fiction, and while this book is based on a real life experience, it reads like a novel. I also primarily read books on Christian faith and theology, but this book is a dive into the bowels of the Byzantium known as the IRS. There were several places in the book where Yancey goes into this stream-of-consciousness yammering that I ended up skipping over, but for the most part he weaves an interesting story. Still, I'm much more a fan of another author by the same last name (no relation), Philip Yancey. "Confessions" is interesting if you've ever wondered what the IRS looks like on the inside, and it kept my attention to the end and was entertaining, but it really didn't make me think--other than realizing I want to have as little contact as possible with the IRS, and I certainly wouldn't want to work there. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Twelve years ago, Richard Yancey answered a blind ad in the newspaper offering a salary higher than what he’d made over the three previous years combined. It turned out that the job was for the Internal Revenue Service -- the most hated and feared organization in the federal government. So Yancey became the man who got in his car, drove to your house, knocked on your door, and made you pay. Never mind that his car was littered with candy wrappers, his palms were sweaty, and he couldn’t remember where he stashed his own tax records. He was there on the authority of the United States government. With "a rich mix of humor, horror, and angst [and] better than most novels on the bestseller lists" (Boston Sunday Globe), Confessions of a Tax Collector contains an astonishing cast of too-strange-for-fiction characters. But the most intriguing character of all is Yancey himself who -- in detailing how the job changed him and how he managed to pull himself back from the brink of moral, ethical, and spiritual bankruptcy -- reveals what really lies beneath those dark suits and mirrored sunglasses. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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