Book Reviews of Confessions of a Tax Collector

Yancey spent a couple of years as a collection agent for the IRS, mainly going after owners of small businesses that messed up payroll and other taxes beyond redemption. While it is true that many of the harsh collection methods described in the book were prohibited by Congress after Yancey left the IRS, this account gives proof why we ought to be afraid, very afraid, of unchecked government power directed at individual citizens. Another good point: anybody that has worked in an office will connect with the colorful personalities Yancey describes among his fellow IRS employees, especially the monster supervisors.

A memoir of a RO, Revenue Officer. Before the restructuring in 1998, the IRS was a almost a secret society with a myriad a forms, systems, and a language of it's own. Today, it all seems like part of a bad corporate or predatory banking structure. Light, quick read.

I didn't find it dry at all. In fact, I found I could barely put it down. I had no idea the kinds of things went on in those stodgy looking offices. A real eye opener.

A pretty dry confessional. A few humorous moments, but they are few and far between.