The Ultimate Rip-Off: A Taxing Tale

Our series of teaching novels has shown students that accounting can be fun! The books are easy to use. Students read them and enjoy them. They are useful within a classroom setting or for those wanting to learn more about accounting on their own. Would you rather learn from a boring textbook or a suspenseful novel? Jeff Burk, a Special Agent for the IRS, goes beyond the law to find several taxpayers who are evading taxes and uncovers a major plot by the IRS commissioner and a rare coin enterprise to rip off millions of dollars in income tax revenues to finance a secret project. Along the way, public finance concepts, political controversies, contemporary individual and corporate tax planning, tax fraud and avoidance, and the real life of IRS employees are elucidated in a way both students and instructors will find gripping and informative.