"Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's." Except, of course, for those things you lost to Caesar in his Las Vegas palace or Atlantic City resort.
Taxes – the less morbid of those two certainties that permeate the world in which we live – are a subject of such appreciable complexity that reformation of the Internal Revenue Code has earned a unique spot atop the pantheon of politicians’ bait-and-switch campaign promises over the past several decades. Certified public accountants and tax lawyers are no longer a fringe cottage industry subsumed within the American core of professionals – they have, for better or worse, become as much a part of our April tradition as those showers that proverbially beg May flowers.