“There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist—the taxidermist leaves the hide.”
Quoted in Time magazine article Taxes: Enter Balance Due Here http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,829745,00.html, 1 February 1963 http://books.google.com/books?id=YufVAAAAMAAJ&q=%22There+is+one+difference+between+a+tax+collector+and+a+taxidermist+the+taxidermist+leaves+the+hide%22&pg=PA13#v=onepage
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Mortimer Caplin 1
Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service; prominent tax attor… 1916–2019Related quotes

“Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.”
As quoted in Sex from Plato to Paglia : A Philosophical Encyclopedia (2006) by Alan Soble, Volume 2, p. 378, ISBN 9780313334252

“Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors — and miss.”
Source: Time Enough for Love (1973)

“The difference between death and taxes is death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.”

Source: Death Kit (1967), p.149

Walz v. Tax Commission, 397 U.S. 664, 675 (1970).

“Fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.”
On postwar accords regarding Eastern Europe, as quoted in The Wise Men (1986) by Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas