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BUT THE PAY STINKS, TOO

August 28, 2002

From the August 27 issue of Tax Notes Today come statements unlikely to be used by the executive recruiter trying to hire the next IRS Commissioner:

Anyone who has served as IRS commissioner knows what it's like to be "at the vortex of the sewer of the world," according to former IRS Commissioner Sheldon S. Cohen, whose tenure was arguably less tumultuous than the ones served by some of the other living former commissioners.

"It's kinda like coming in from a nice fall day into a blast furnace," said current IRS Commissioner Charles O. Rossotti, describing his entrance onto the national tax stage after a quarter-century in the private sector.

It’s news to us that there is a “sewer of the world,” and that it has a vortex. It’s a relief that the sewer vortex is at IRS Headquarters, 1111 Constitution Avenue, Washington D.C. (it doesn’t smell as bad as you might expect), rather than in Iowa somewhere. It’s hard enough to draw tourists.

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