Mortimer Caplan
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Mortimer Caplan was commissioner of the IRS
in the 1960s. He was most famous for telling Time Magazine in 1963 that "There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist--the taxidermist leaves the hide."
Internal Revenue Service
The Internal Revenue Service is the revenue service of the United States federal government. The agency is a bureau of the Department of the Treasury, and is under the immediate direction of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue...
in the 1960s. He was most famous for telling Time Magazine in 1963 that "There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist--the taxidermist leaves the hide."