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* ''Film/AbbottAndCostelloMeetTheInvisibleMan'': Discussed when a man delivers Lou his cash to take a dive, and Lou starts divvying it up into one thousand for him, one thousand for Bud, and four thousand for "him". When a confused Bud asks who's getting the largest share, Lou replies "The income tax man."
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheNewBatmanAdventures'' episode "Joker's Millions", the Joker earns an inheritance of several million dollars from a rival gangster who passed away. However, after living it up and partying with his new fortune [[spoiler: he learns that most of the money the gangster gave him was fake. As part of the gangster's plan for revenge against the Joker, he set him up to blow through the legitimate part of the fortune so that when the IRS came to collect taxes, he wouldn't be able to pay them. Thus, Joker could either fess up to being tricked by a dead man and become the laughing stock of Gotham's underworld, or end up in prison for tax fraud.[[note]][[ArtisticLicenseLaw In reality]], inheritance taxes are deducted at the source and after the IRS verifies the inheritance's actual value, meaning they would have found the counterfeit money and simply taken their cut from whatever real money was left. Of course then [[AcceptableBreaksFromReality we wouldn't have an episode]].[[/note]]]]
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheNewBatmanAdventures'' episode "Joker's Millions", the Joker earns an inheritance of several million dollars from a rival gangster mob boss "King" Barlowe, who passed away. However, after living it up and partying with his new fortune [[spoiler: he [[spoiler:he learns that most of the money the gangster Barlowe gave him was fake. essentially CounterfeitCash. As part of the gangster's plan for revenge Barlowe's posthumous prank against the Joker, he set him up to blow through the legitimate part of the fortune so that when the IRS came to collect taxes, he wouldn't be able to pay them. Thus, Joker could either fess up to being tricked by a dead man and become the laughing stock of Gotham's underworld, or end up in prison for tax fraud.[[note]][[ArtisticLicenseLaw Bonus brownie points for Barlowe as not only did he lay out his prank in a [[SpitefulWill Spiteful]] VideoWill and printed the bills with his face on them as an extra "in your face" to the Clown Prince of Crime, but that Joker can't go after him as he's long dead by the time the clown found out he's been had[[note]][[ArtisticLicenseLaw In reality]], inheritance taxes are deducted at the source and after the IRS verifies the inheritance's actual value, meaning they would have found the counterfeit money and simply taken their cut from whatever real money was left. Of course then [[AcceptableBreaksFromReality we wouldn't have an episode]].[[/note]]]]
