Benjamin Franklin once famously said, “Nothing is certain but death and taxes.”  The great statesman sure had a way of succinctly summing up complex issues.  Too bad he isn’t around to help us make sense of the tax code.  A rulemaking underway by the IRS—ongoing since August 2006 and with a finalization date still uncertain—is a good example.  As complicated as this issue is, however, it demonstrates the value of an industry having representation in Washington.  
 
The March 17 issue of Textile Rental Weekly included an item noting that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) had updated ...