In honor of the holiday of Purim, I put together this compendium of how the super complex US Internal Revenue Code, at over 1 million words, has been repeatedly been compared to the Talmud.

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Updated: Dec 10, 2024

3/2024 In honor of the holiday of Purim, I put together this compendium of how the super complex US Internal Revenue Code, at over 1 million words, has been repeatedly been compared to the Talmud (1,860,131 words).

The UK tax code has over 10 million words; who knows what that's comparable to!

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In honor of the holiday of Purim, I put together this compendium of how the super complex US Internal Revenue Code, at over 1 million words, has been repeatedly been compared to the Talmud.

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