Well Chris, I tried to find an answer for you, but this is all I could find.....
The tax code has grown by 820 pages since last year.
The IRS issued 271 new regulations in 1997 alone.
There are 569 tax forms available on the IRS web site.
The Clinton administration estimates the private sector spends $134 billion a year to comply with the tax code.
The 1997 budget resulted in 824 changes to the tax code and 285 new sections of the tax code.
The federal government spends nearly $14 billion a year to enforce the tax code.
IRS laws and regulations fill 17,000 pages.
It takes 31 pages of instructions to explain the 1040EZ tax form.
More than 293,000 trees are sacrificed each year to supply the 8 billion sheets of paper needed to file income taxes.
The IRS, with more than 136,000 employees, could not account for 64 percent of its own budget in 1993, according to the General Accounting Office.
99 million taxpayers called IRS hotlines in 1996 seeking help with their returns.
Chrysler Corporation’s tax return requires a stack of forms six-feet tall.
The stock value of tax-preparation firms shot up by 160 percent in the three months following the enactment of the 1997 budget.
The number of tax forms increased by 100 between 1984 and 1994.
An Internet search of the phrase "tax shelter" turns up 100,000 sites.
62,000,000 = The number of lines of computer code required by the IRS to manage the current tax code.
3,200 = The number of threats and assaults against IRS agents over a five-year period.
820 = The number of pages added to the tax code by the 1997 budget act.
271 = The number of new regulations issued by the IRS in 1997.
569 = The number of tax forms available on the IRS Web site.
33,984,689 = The number of civil penalties assessed by the IRS in 1996.
2,100,000 = The number of IRS audits conducted in 1996.
85 = The percentage of taxpayers selected by the IRS for random audits who had incomes of less than $25,000.
15 = The number of years the IRS believes it will need to modernize its computer system.
653 = The number of minutes the IRS estimates it takes to fill out a 1040 form.
$134,347,500,000 = The Clinton Administration's estimate of private-sector compliance costs.
22 = The percentage of occasions in which reporters from Money magazine received inaccurate or incomplete information in 1997 when calling the IRS's toll-free hot line.
40 = The percentage of occasions in which reporters from Money magazine received wrong answers in 1997 during face-to-face visits at IRS customer service offices.
46 = The number of wrong answers Money magazine received in 1998 when it asked 46 different tax experts to estimate a hypothetical family's 1997 tax liability.
$34,672 = The difference in liability between the highest and lowest incorrect answers among the 46 professionals who failed to calculate the correct tax liability of Money magazine's hypothetical family.
$610 = The amount by which the hypothetical family would have overpaid its 1997 taxes if it had used the answer that came closest to the actual tax liability (assuming, of course, that Money magazine's expert had filled out the tax return correctly).
824 = The number of changes in the tax code accompanying the 1997 tax cut.
285 = The number of new sections in the tax code created by the 1997 budget act.
3,132 = The number of pages needed by the Research Institute of America to explain the changes in the tax law in 1997.
11,410 = The number of tax code subsection changes between 1981 and 1997.
160 = The percentage increase in the stock value of tax preparation firms in the month period surrounding enactment of the 1997 budget.
54 = The number of lines on the new capital gains form, up from 23 before the 1997 budget deal.
$3,500 = The amount one woman was forced to pay twice, even though the IRS eventually admitted that the debt had been owed--and paid--by her former husband.
$26 = The amount the IRS seized from a six-year-old's bank account because her parents owed money.
$900,000 = The amount a small businessman was fined after being entrapped by his accountant, a paid informer for the IRS.
25 = The percentage of households with incomes over $50,000 that would pay an inaccurate assessment from the IRS rather than fight.
820 = The number of pages added to the tax code by the 1997 budget act.
250 = The number of pages needed to explain just one paragraph in the Internal Revenue Code.
271 = The number of new regulations issued by the IRS in 1997.
261 = The number of pages of regulations needed to clarify the tax code's "arms-length standard" for international intercompany transactions.
569 = The number of tax forms available on the IRS Web site.
31 = The number of pages of fine print in the instructions for filling out the "easy" 1996 1040EZ individual tax form.
8,000,000,000 = The number of pages in the forms and instructions the IRS sends out every year. Under a flat tax, the postcard-sized forms are virtually self-explanatory.
36 = The number of times the paperwork the IRS receives would circle the earth each year.
293,760 = The number of trees it takes each year to supply the 8 billion pages of paper used to file income taxes in the United States.
1,000,000,000 = The number of 1099 forms sent out each year to help the IRS track taxpayers' interest and dividend income.
33,984,689 = The number of civil penalties assessed by the IRS in 1996.
10,000 = The number of properties seized by the IRS in 1996.
750,000 = The number of liens issued by the IRS against taxpayers in 1996.
2,100,000 = The number of IRS audits conducted in 1996.
85 = The percentage of taxpayers selected by the IRS for random audits who had incomes less than $25,000.
47 = The percentage of taxpayers living in just 11 southern states subject to random audits.
10,000,000 = The number of corrections notices the IRS sends out each year.
190,000 = The number of disputes between the IRS and taxpayers in 1990 that required legal action.
3,253,000 = The number of times the IRS seized bank accounts or paychecks in 1992.
33,000,000 = The number of penalty notices the IRS sent out in 1994.
15 = The number of years the IRS believes it will need to modernize its computer system.
1,000,000 = The number of Americans who received tax forms with erroneous mailing labels in 1998.
20 = The percentage error rate at the IRS for processing paper returns.
6,400 = The number of computer tapes and cartridges lost by the IRS.
22 = The percentage of times reporters for Money magazine received inaccurate or incomplete information in 1997 when calling the IRS's toll-free hot line.
40 = The percentage of times Money magazine reporters received wrong answers in 1997 in face-to-face visits at IRS customer service offices.
$800,000,000 = The estimated cost to update the IRS's computers for the year 2000.
500,000 = The number of address changes made to correct the master file by IRS employees each year.
78 = The percentage of IRS audit assessments on corporations that eventually are disqualified.
8,500,000 = The number of times the IRS gave the wrong answer to taxpayers seeking help to comply with the tax code in 1993 (taxpayers still are held responsible for errors that result from bad advice from the IRS).
47 = The percentage of calls to the IRS that resulted in inaccurate information, according to a 1987 General Accounting Office study.
5,000,000 = The number of correction notices the IRS sends out each year that turn out to be wrong.
40 = The percentage of revenue that is returned when taxpayers challenge penalties.
$5,000,000,000 = The amount of money that taxpayers were overcharged for penalties in 1993.
3,000,000 = The number of women improperly fined each year because they have divorced or remarried.
10,000,000 = The number of taxpayers who will receive lower Social Security benefits because the IRS failed to inform the Social Security Administration about tax payments.
$200,000,000,000 = The amount of misstated taxpayer payments and refunds on the books of the IRS.
64 = The percentage of its own budget for which the IRS could not account in 1993, according to an audit by the U.S. General Accounting Office.
$8,000,000,000 = The amount the IRS spent to upgrade its computer system unsuccessfully.
$23,000,000,000 = The total proposed price for the IRS's computerization and modernization plans by 2008.
6,400,000 = The number of taxpayers who visited IRS customer service centers seeking answers to their tax questions in 1996.
99,000,000 = The number of taxpayers trying to comprehend the tax system who called IRS hotlines in 1996.
30 years = The number of years a dispute can last between the IRS and a corporation.
8,000,000 = The increase in the number of taxpayers who will be subject to the alternative minimum tax by 2007.
$134,347,500,000 = The Clinton Administration's estimate of private-sector compliance costs.
653 = The number of minutes the IRS estimates it takes to fill out a 1040 form.
72 = The number of inches of height of the stack of tax forms in the Chrysler Corporation's tax return.
6,000,000 = The number of unanswered phone calls made to the IRS in January and February 1998.
2,400,000 = The number of phone calls to the IRS that resulted in busy signals in January and February 1998.
56 = The percentage of calls to the IRS in 1997 that went unanswered.
$157,000,000,000 = The amount spent by the private sector to comply with income tax laws.
$7,240 = The average compliance cost incurred by all but the biggest 10 percent of corporations for every $1,000 of taxes paid in 1992.
50 = The percentage of taxpayers who feel compelled to obtain assistance in filling out their taxes each year.
5,400,000,000 = The number of hours it takes Americans to comply with federal tax forms.
2,943,000 = The number of full-time equivalent jobs spent on compliance.
$3,055,680,000 = The market value of the tax preparation firm H&R Block, Inc., which opposes a flat tax.
$24,000,000,000 = The difference between what corporations said they owed and what the IRS said they owed in 1992--a gap the government admits is due to ambiguity and complexity in the code.
46 = The number of wrong answers Money magazine received in 1998 when it asked 46 different tax experts to estimate a hypothetical family's 1997 tax liability.
$34,672 = The difference in liability between the highest and lowest incorrect answers among the 46 professionals who failed to calculate the tax liability of Money magazine's hypothetical family.
$610 = The amount the hypothetical family would have overpaid on its 1997 taxes if it had used the answer that came closest to the actual tax liability (assuming, of course, that Money magazine's expert had filled out the tax return correctly).
45 = The number of professional tax preparers who came up with different answers when asked by Money magazine in 1997 to fill out a hypothetical family's 1996 tax return.
45 = The number of professional tax preparers who came up with wrong answers when asked by Money magazine in 1997 to fill out a hypothetical family's 1996 tax return.
76 = The percentage of professional tax preparers who missed the right answer by more than $1,000.
$58,116 = The difference between the lowest estimate of the family's tax bill and the highest estimate in Money's survey of tax professionals.
$81 = The average hourly fee charged by the professional preparers who came up with the 45 wrong answers.
50 = The number of different answers that 50 tax experts gave Money magazine in 1988 when asked to estimate a hypothetical family's tax liability.
50 = The number of different answers Money magazine received in 1989 when it asked 50 different tax experts to estimate a hypothetical family's tax liability.
48 = The number of wrong answers Money magazine received in 1990 when it asked 50 different tax experts to estimate a hypothetical family's tax liability.
49 = The number of different answers Money magazine received in 1991 when it asked 50 different tax experts to estimate a hypothetical family's tax liability.
50 = The number of wrong answers Money magazine received in 1992 when it asked 50 different tax experts to estimate a hypothetical family's tax liability.
41 = The number of wrong answers Money magazine received in 1993 when it asked 50 different tax experts to estimate a hypothetical family's tax liability (9 of the original volunteers did not bother even to respond).
Sorry, this is the best I could do under short notice. I can find more if you'd like. 
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