'Sorry, he won't be in until next week ...'.

AuthorPeters, Charles
PositionTILTING at windmills - Taxable conferences - Brief article

That embarrassing IRS conference actually took place in 2010, not last week as so much of the recent indignant reporting implied. The IRS and other government agencies have slowly reformed since the General Services Administration fiasco. The continuing scandal is that almost every other organization in America from beauticians to embalmers has one of these meetings at least once a year. They are supposedly held for educational purposes and are thus tax deductible, but more often, they are devoted to sports, entertainment, and other recreations.

The Monthly's first comment on this came in a 1977 article by Walter Shapiro and Aleta Kaufman, "Conferences and Conventions: The $20 Billion Industry That Keeps America from Working." The absurdities of these get-togethers--dozens of which have been attended by almost every single...

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