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* In the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short "The Wabbit Who Came to Supper", Elmer Fudd expects to inherit $3 Million from his Uncle Louie. But when Louie dies, Elmer has to pay an Inheritance Tax, State Tax, County Tax, Defense Tax, Special Tax and Property Tax...leaving him owing the government $1.98. This makes this a ShaggyDogStory as he was forced to take care of Bugs Bunny or lose the inheritance and, like a ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' cartoon years later, Elmer stood to lose this if anything came to harm to the rabbit and Bugs took advantage of it.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short "The Wabbit Who Came to Supper", Elmer Fudd expects to inherit $3 Million from his Uncle Louie. But when Louie dies, Elmer has to pay an Inheritance Tax, State Tax, County Tax, Defense Tax, Special Tax and Tax, Property Tax...Tax and a ridiculous Attorney Fee...leaving him owing the government $1.98. This makes this a ShaggyDogStory as he was forced to take care of Bugs Bunny or lose the inheritance and, like a ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' cartoon years later, Elmer stood to lose this if anything came to harm to the rabbit and Bugs took advantage of it.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short "The Wabbit Who Came to Supper", Elmer Fudd expects to inherit $3 Million from his Uncle Louie. But when Louie dies, Elmer has to pay an Inheritance Tax, State Tax, County Tax, Defense Tax, Special Tax and Property Tax...leaving him owing the government $1.98.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short "The Wabbit Who Came to Supper", Elmer Fudd expects to inherit $3 Million from his Uncle Louie. But when Louie dies, Elmer has to pay an Inheritance Tax, State Tax, County Tax, Defense Tax, Special Tax and Property Tax...leaving him owing the government $1.98. This makes this a ShaggyDogStory as he was forced to take care of Bugs Bunny or lose the inheritance and, like a ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' cartoon years later, Elmer stood to lose this if anything came to harm to the rabbit and Bugs took advantage of it.
-->'''Bugs Bunny:''' You don't get da dough, do ya, butterball?
-->'''Elmer Fudd:''' [[TheDogBitesBack No, but I'm gonna get you!]]
-->'''Bugs Bunny:''' You don't get da dough, do ya, butterball?
-->'''Elmer Fudd:''' [[TheDogBitesBack No, but I'm gonna get you!]]
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** In "Three Pests in a Mess" a trio of con artists (not the Stooges) learn of a man (also not one of the Stooges) who won $100,000 in a contest. They later learn that after paying this income taxes he had only $12 left.
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** In "Three Pests in a Mess" a trio of con artists (not the Stooges) learn of a man (also not one of the Stooges) who won $100,000 in a contest. They later learn that after paying this his income taxes he had only $12 left.
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** In "An Ache in Every Stake" another con artist sells the boys the rights to a "lost mine" loaded with "a hundred thousand tons of pure gold worth $35 an ounce." Curly determines that after taxes said gold is worth "a dollar and a half."
** In "An Ache in Every Stake" another con artist sells the boys the rights to a "lost mine" loaded with "a hundred thousand tons of pure gold worth $35 an ounce." Curly determines that after taxes said gold is worth "a dollar and a half."
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* Paramount's Modern Madcap character Jeepers and Creepers in "Busy Buddies" had Creepers trying to win some money in a prize fight contest so he can pay is IRS debt. He wins and pays it off, but now he still owes for the money he just won.
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* Paramount's Modern Madcap character Jeepers and Creepers in "Busy Buddies" had Creepers trying to win some money in a prize fight contest so he can pay is his IRS debt. He wins and pays it off, but now he still owes for the money he just won.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'': Roxy once won one million dollars thanks to a lottery ticket she found. She lost half to the IRS.
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* Paramount's Modern Madcap character Jeepers and Creepers in "Busy Buddies" had Creepers trying to win some money in a prize fight contest so he can pay is IRS debt. He wins and pays it off, but now he still owes for the money he just won.
* Paramount's Modern Madcap character Jeepers and Creepers in "Busy Buddies" had Creepers trying to win some money in a prize fight contest so he can pay is IRS debt. He wins and pays it off, but now he still owes for the money he just won.
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* The ''ScoobyDooWhereAreYou'' story "The Galleon Ghost" (Gold Key #2, June, 1970) dealt with the gang coming across a band of pirates in a Florida swamp. They are unmasked to be gypsies who were only trying to keep the gold they found a secret for fear that the IRS will take it. Fred assures them that the IRS will only take part of the gold, leaving the gypsies well off after all.
* The ''ScoobyDooWhereAreYou'' story "The Galleon Ghost" (Gold Key #2, June, 1970) dealt with the gang coming across a band of pirates in a Florida swamp. They are unmasked to be gypsies who were only trying to keep the gold they found a secret for fear that the IRS will take it. Fred assures them that the IRS will only take part of the gold, leaving the gypsies well off after all.
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* Music/TheBeatles' song ''Taxman'' from Music/{{Revolver}} is a scathing critique on taxes.
* Music/SergeGainsbourg once protested against taxes by burning a money bill live on the air during a TV interview. He felt he would rather burn this high amount of money than give it away to the tax institute.
* Music/TheBeatles' song ''Taxman'' from Music/{{Revolver}} is a scathing critique on taxes.
* Music/SergeGainsbourg once protested against taxes by burning a money bill live on the air during a TV interview. He felt he would rather burn this high amount of money than give it away to the tax institute.
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* In "Champagne for Caeser" Ronald Colman is on the verge of bankrupting a soap company through their game show and is being shadowed by two sinister men in dark suits. Since the company president has already tried to sabotage him he's naturally paranoid about them. Finally he confronts them and finds out they are from the IRS. When he asks how much he'll owe, one says "Let's just say you're in the battleship class."
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Basically the government's equivalent to CutASliceTakeTheRest. This is almost exclusively an American trope, given the reputation the Internal Revenue Service has (justified or not) for coming up with any reason at all to seize large chunks of money from the suddenly-wealthy. Story-wise, this trope can be used to keep a character in PerpetualPoverty and maintain the [[StatusQuoIsGod status quo]] while giving them a small taste of the wealthy life.
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Basically the government's equivalent to CutASliceTakeTheRest. This is almost exclusively an American trope, given the reputation the Internal Revenue Service has (justified or not) for coming up with any reason at all to seize large chunks of money from the suddenly-wealthy. Story-wise, this trope can be used to keep a character in PerpetualPoverty and maintain the [[StatusQuoIsGod status quo]] while giving them a small taste of the wealthy life. \n But of course, woe be to the character who already started spending large sums of their cash before they get the news that they can't keep most of it.
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* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': Cartman inherited one million dollars in one episode and a good part of it was taken by tax collectors.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'': Roxy once won one million dollars thanks to a lottery ticket she found. She lost half to the IRS.
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': Cartman inherited one million dollars in one episode and a good part of it was taken by tax collectors.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'': Roxy once won one million dollars thanks to a lottery ticket she found. She lost half to the IRS.
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* The HeckleAndJeckle cartoon "Pirate's Gold" has the two bords invading a pirate ship and making off with his treasure. A mousy little man who turned up frequently shows up at the end and identifies himself as a tax collector. He glomps all but one coin ("This is yours...after taxes.")
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* The HeckleAndJeckle cartoon "Pirate's Gold" has the two bords birds invading a pirate ship and making off with his treasure. A mousy little man who turned up frequently shows up at the end and identifies himself as a tax collector. He glomps all but one coin ("This is yours...after taxes.")
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* The ''Disneyland'' television show "The Goofy Success Story" has Goofy receiving a paycheck for appearing in his first movie, only for several men to collect money for taxes until Goofy has to pay ''them''.
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* The ''Disneyland'' television show "The Goofy Success Story" has Goofy receiving a paycheck for appearing in his first movie, only for several men to collect money for taxes until Goofy has to pay ''them''.''them''.
* The HeckleAndJeckle cartoon "Pirate's Gold" has the two bords invading a pirate ship and making off with his treasure. A mousy little man who turned up frequently shows up at the end and identifies himself as a tax collector. He glomps all but one coin ("This is yours...after taxes.")
-->'''Heckle:''' (''to us'') Ya can't escape it. Even in a cartoon!
* The HeckleAndJeckle cartoon "Pirate's Gold" has the two bords invading a pirate ship and making off with his treasure. A mousy little man who turned up frequently shows up at the end and identifies himself as a tax collector. He glomps all but one coin ("This is yours...after taxes.")
-->'''Heckle:''' (''to us'') Ya can't escape it. Even in a cartoon!
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* The 1993 remake of ''Series/{{Route66}}'' starts the plot like this. Nick's estranged father dies and leaves him everything; after inheritance taxes and lawyer fees he actually owes a little money, leaving him with nothing except his dad's classic Corvette.
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* In ''TabletopGame/{{Monopoly}}'', it's possible on the same move to receive £200 by passing 'Go' and then land on 'Income Tax - pay £200'.
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Monopoly}}'', it's possible on the same move to receive £200 by passing 'Go' and then land on 'Income Tax - pay £200'.
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* The ''Disneyland'' television show "The Goofy Success Story" has Goofy receiving a paycheck for appearing in his first movie, only for several men to collect money for taxes until Goofy has to pay ''them''.
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* ''{{Series/Emergency}}'' had one episode where a wealthy guy left left John and Roy a fortune after they rescued him. But he asked that some go to someone else, and gets some, and after taxes get taken out, the paramedics have a few bucks left and that's it.
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* ''{{Series/Emergency}}'' had one episode where a wealthy guy left left John and Roy a fortune after they rescued him. But he asked that some go to someone else, and gets some, and after taxes get taken out, the paramedics have a few bucks left and that's it.
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* At the end of the WesternAnimation/BarneyBear cartoon "Heir Bear", the taxman comes to take "Uncle Sam's share" from the treasure Barney had just uncovered. He takes a coin... for Barney to keep while he collects the rest.
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* At the end of the WesternAnimation/BarneyBear ''WesternAnimation/BarneyBear'' cartoon "Heir Bear", the taxman comes to take "Uncle Sam's share" from the treasure Barney had just uncovered. He takes a coin... for Barney to keep while he collects the rest.
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->''Let me tell you how it will be\\
There's one for you, 19 for me''
-->--Music/TheBeatles, "Taxman"
Congratulations! Through either winning a sweepstakes, the lottery, or an UnexpectedInheritance, you're suddenly rich! But, don't celebrate too soon; a man from the IntimidatingRevenueService will be along shortly to inform you that after federal taxes, state taxes, employment taxes, property taxes and miscellaneous additional fees, your winnings have dwindled down to nothing, heck you may even ''owe'' money.
Basically the government's equivalent to CutASliceTakeTheRest. This is almost exclusively an American trope, given the reputation the Internal Revenue Service has (justified or not) for coming up with any reason at all to seize large chunks of money from the suddenly-wealthy. Story-wise, this trope can be used to keep a character in PerpetualPoverty and maintain the [[StatusQuoIsGod status quo]] while giving them a small taste of the wealthy life.
See also AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted. A subtrope of YankTheDogsChain.
TruthInTelevision
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* In ''Film/TheThreeStooges'' short "Healthy, Wealthy and Dumb", Curly wins $50,000 in a radio sweepstakes, and the stooges think they have it made. That is until they find out that after taxes Curly is only left with $4.85, leaving them unable to pay for the damages to the expensive hotel they're living in. This scenario was repeated in "A Missed Fortune", a remake featuring Shemp.
* Variation: Due to the events of the film ''Film/{{Uncovered}}'', the heroine Julia ends up with ownership of an old Spanish estate. The banker then informs her that she has also ended up with the mountain of debts attached to it and she promptly has to sell the whole thing off. Her boyfriend remarks:
--> '''Domenec:''' Easy come. Easy go.
* In between the first and second ''Film/NationalTreasure'' movies, this happens to Riley Poole and at the beginning of the second film, his Ferrari is impounded by the IRS while he is signing copies of his book.
-->'''Riley Poole''': [to Ben] Do you know what the taxes are on 5 million dollars? 6 million dollars.
* In ''Film/TheShawshankRedemption'', Byron Hadley, the sadistic captain of the prison guard, receives an inheritance of $35,000, but he complains about taxes coming to take most of it away, even if he decides to buy something with it. The main character, Andy Dufresne, overhears him and offers to guide him through a financial loophole to allow him to keep the whole sum.
-->'''Hadley:''' Dumb shit, what do you think the government's gonna do to me? Take a big wet bite out of my ass is what!
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* ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' Classic episode "The Man in the Bottle". The Castles' second wish is for a million dollars in cash. After they give away some of the money, an IRS agent shows up and gives them a bill for the taxes (Federal and state) they owe on it. This leaves them with only five dollars.
* ''{{Series/Emergency}}'' had one episode where a wealthy guy left left John and Roy a fortune after they rescued him. But he asked that some go to someone else, and gets some, and after taxes get taken out, the paramedics have a few bucks left and that's it.
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* In ''InTheHeights'', in the song "$96,000", where it's been announced that ''someone'' won the lottery, and everyone is fantasizing about what they'd do with the money, Usnavi points out "You'll have a knapsack full of jack after taxes".
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* At the end of the WesternAnimation/BarneyBear cartoon "Heir Bear", the taxman comes to take "Uncle Sam's share" from the treasure Barney had just uncovered. He takes a coin... for Barney to keep while he collects the rest.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short "The Wabbit Who Came to Supper", Elmer Fudd expects to inherit $3 Million from his Uncle Louie. But when Louie dies, Elmer has to pay an Inheritance Tax, State Tax, County Tax, Defense Tax, Special Tax and Property Tax...leaving him owing the government $1.98.
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsons'' has Jane and George making it big on betting in races (using [[AppliedPhlebotinum a pair of glasses that can see a few minutes into the future]]) and running away from a pair of men that they think belongs to TheMafia... only to find out that the men belongs to the Intergalactic Revenue Service and that the government's cut of their winnings leaves them with only one (space) dollar.
* This was part of King Barlow's posthumous revenge against SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker in the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "Joker's Millions". Barlow left the Joker a fortune, but most of the money was fake. He figured that the Joker would quickly blow through the real money, and then the government would come for the taxes, and he'd either go to jail for tax evasion or be forced to admit that he got conned by a dead man.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'' "The Balooest of the Blue Bloods", Baloo stands to inherit a ton of money from a distant relative, but he has to survive a night in a haunted, cursed house. After he survives the night, all the money is lost due to the "real family curse" - decades of unpaid land taxes.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' Homer wins the lottery but for plot relevant reasons has Barney turn in the ticket for the winnings. Barney gets a GiantNoveltyCheck, and the IRS guys get an even bigger GiantNoveltyCheck for their portion.
* This turned out to be the motive behind one of the MonsterOfTheWeek schemes on ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo''. The perpetrators had discovered a sunken treasure, and were trying to smuggle it out without declaring it, because if they did Uncle Sam would come in and take more than half of it.
* In ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', season 4, "Druselsteinoween", when Doofenshmirtz inherits a Drusselsteinian castle from his great aunt, he enlists Perry to help him find a large, hidden treasure that his Great Aunt has placed somewhere within the castle. After they find the treasure, in the form of bags of money, various local officials comes to his castle and makes Doofenshmirtz pay a bunch of fees for owning a castle. He gives each of the officials a bag of money which leaves him penniless.
* The ''Disneyland'' television show "The Goofy Success Story" has Goofy receiving a paycheck for appearing in his first movie, only for several men to collect money for taxes until Goofy has to pay ''them''.
->''Let me tell you how it will be\\
There's one for you, 19 for me''
-->--Music/TheBeatles, "Taxman"
Congratulations! Through either winning a sweepstakes, the lottery, or an UnexpectedInheritance, you're suddenly rich! But, don't celebrate too soon; a man from the IntimidatingRevenueService will be along shortly to inform you that after federal taxes, state taxes, employment taxes, property taxes and miscellaneous additional fees, your winnings have dwindled down to nothing, heck you may even ''owe'' money.
Basically the government's equivalent to CutASliceTakeTheRest. This is almost exclusively an American trope, given the reputation the Internal Revenue Service has (justified or not) for coming up with any reason at all to seize large chunks of money from the suddenly-wealthy. Story-wise, this trope can be used to keep a character in PerpetualPoverty and maintain the [[StatusQuoIsGod status quo]] while giving them a small taste of the wealthy life.
See also AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted. A subtrope of YankTheDogsChain.
TruthInTelevision
!!Examples
[[AC:{{Film}}]]
* In ''Film/TheThreeStooges'' short "Healthy, Wealthy and Dumb", Curly wins $50,000 in a radio sweepstakes, and the stooges think they have it made. That is until they find out that after taxes Curly is only left with $4.85, leaving them unable to pay for the damages to the expensive hotel they're living in. This scenario was repeated in "A Missed Fortune", a remake featuring Shemp.
* Variation: Due to the events of the film ''Film/{{Uncovered}}'', the heroine Julia ends up with ownership of an old Spanish estate. The banker then informs her that she has also ended up with the mountain of debts attached to it and she promptly has to sell the whole thing off. Her boyfriend remarks:
--> '''Domenec:''' Easy come. Easy go.
* In between the first and second ''Film/NationalTreasure'' movies, this happens to Riley Poole and at the beginning of the second film, his Ferrari is impounded by the IRS while he is signing copies of his book.
-->'''Riley Poole''': [to Ben] Do you know what the taxes are on 5 million dollars? 6 million dollars.
* In ''Film/TheShawshankRedemption'', Byron Hadley, the sadistic captain of the prison guard, receives an inheritance of $35,000, but he complains about taxes coming to take most of it away, even if he decides to buy something with it. The main character, Andy Dufresne, overhears him and offers to guide him through a financial loophole to allow him to keep the whole sum.
-->'''Hadley:''' Dumb shit, what do you think the government's gonna do to me? Take a big wet bite out of my ass is what!
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* ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' Classic episode "The Man in the Bottle". The Castles' second wish is for a million dollars in cash. After they give away some of the money, an IRS agent shows up and gives them a bill for the taxes (Federal and state) they owe on it. This leaves them with only five dollars.
* ''{{Series/Emergency}}'' had one episode where a wealthy guy left left John and Roy a fortune after they rescued him. But he asked that some go to someone else, and gets some, and after taxes get taken out, the paramedics have a few bucks left and that's it.
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* In ''InTheHeights'', in the song "$96,000", where it's been announced that ''someone'' won the lottery, and everyone is fantasizing about what they'd do with the money, Usnavi points out "You'll have a knapsack full of jack after taxes".
[[AC:WesternAnimation]]
* At the end of the WesternAnimation/BarneyBear cartoon "Heir Bear", the taxman comes to take "Uncle Sam's share" from the treasure Barney had just uncovered. He takes a coin... for Barney to keep while he collects the rest.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short "The Wabbit Who Came to Supper", Elmer Fudd expects to inherit $3 Million from his Uncle Louie. But when Louie dies, Elmer has to pay an Inheritance Tax, State Tax, County Tax, Defense Tax, Special Tax and Property Tax...leaving him owing the government $1.98.
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsons'' has Jane and George making it big on betting in races (using [[AppliedPhlebotinum a pair of glasses that can see a few minutes into the future]]) and running away from a pair of men that they think belongs to TheMafia... only to find out that the men belongs to the Intergalactic Revenue Service and that the government's cut of their winnings leaves them with only one (space) dollar.
* This was part of King Barlow's posthumous revenge against SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker in the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "Joker's Millions". Barlow left the Joker a fortune, but most of the money was fake. He figured that the Joker would quickly blow through the real money, and then the government would come for the taxes, and he'd either go to jail for tax evasion or be forced to admit that he got conned by a dead man.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'' "The Balooest of the Blue Bloods", Baloo stands to inherit a ton of money from a distant relative, but he has to survive a night in a haunted, cursed house. After he survives the night, all the money is lost due to the "real family curse" - decades of unpaid land taxes.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' Homer wins the lottery but for plot relevant reasons has Barney turn in the ticket for the winnings. Barney gets a GiantNoveltyCheck, and the IRS guys get an even bigger GiantNoveltyCheck for their portion.
* This turned out to be the motive behind one of the MonsterOfTheWeek schemes on ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo''. The perpetrators had discovered a sunken treasure, and were trying to smuggle it out without declaring it, because if they did Uncle Sam would come in and take more than half of it.
* In ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', season 4, "Druselsteinoween", when Doofenshmirtz inherits a Drusselsteinian castle from his great aunt, he enlists Perry to help him find a large, hidden treasure that his Great Aunt has placed somewhere within the castle. After they find the treasure, in the form of bags of money, various local officials comes to his castle and makes Doofenshmirtz pay a bunch of fees for owning a castle. He gives each of the officials a bag of money which leaves him penniless.
* The ''Disneyland'' television show "The Goofy Success Story" has Goofy receiving a paycheck for appearing in his first movie, only for several men to collect money for taxes until Goofy has to pay ''them''.
