
What’s in a Name A Brief History of the “Internal” Revenue Service
What Keeps Me up at Night Once upon an early morning dreary, while I pondered weak and weary…What’s in a name? At about 2:45 this morning, while I was writing a post on gross income (soon, my friends), the thought crossed my mind, what makes the Internal Revenue Service and the Internal Revenue Code internal? Why not simply the Revenue Service and the Revenue Code? So, I thought to myself, what’s in a name: the



