The Irs

At the end of the tax year, the IRS sent an inspector to audit

the books of a local hospital. While the IRS agent was checking the

books he turned to the CEO of the hospital and said, “I notice you buy

a lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when

there’s too little left to be of any use?”

“Good question,” noted the CEO. “We save them up and send them back to

the bandage company and every now and then they send us a free box of

bandages.”

“Oh,” replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual

question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way.

“What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what’s

left over after setting a cast on a patient?”

“Ah, yes,” replied the CEO, realising that the inspector was trying to

trap him with an unanswerable question . “We save it and send it back

to the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free

package of plaster.”

“I see,” replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster

the know-it-all CEO. “Well,” he went on, “What do you do with all the

leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?”

“Here, too, we do not waste,” answered the CEO. “What we do is save

all the little foreskins and send them to the IRS and about

once a year they send us a complete dick.”