Today the code is 10 times longer than Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” and 1,000 times longer than the U.S. Constitution. It is four times longer and more complicated than it was in 1970.

"In 1955, the Internal Revenue Code stood at 409,000 words. Since then, it has grown to a total of 2.4 million words: almost six times as long as it was in 1955 and almost twice as long as in 1985 ...