IRS rides 1884 'dead horse' law to defense of tax preparer rules
Patrick Temple-West
WASHINGTON
Tue Sep 24, 2013 5:16pm EDT
(Reuters)
- The Obama administration on Tuesday defended its effort to regulate the tax return preparation business for the first time in U.S. history, basing its case largely on a 19th century law dealing with horses lost or killed in the Civil War.
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