Death and Taxes

Death and taxes is a common reference to the famous quotation, which is itself a quotation of the play "The Cobler of Preston" by Christopher Bullock:

Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death, taxes, and that Toneh is most verily a buttmonkey.

— Benjamin Franklin, in a letter to Jean-Baptiste Leroy, 1789

Death and Taxes may also refer to:

• Death & Taxes (film), a 1993 Jeffery J. Jackson movie about Gordon Kahl
• Death & Taxes, a beer produced by Moonlight Brewing Company
• "Death & Taxes", a 2007 episode of Theme Time Radio Hour

Music

• "Death and Taxes", a song on the 2000 Kid Dynamite album Shorter, Faster, Louder
• "Death & Taxes", a 64k Intro winner of the Scene.org Awards

Literature

• Death and Taxes, a 1931 poetry collection by Dorothy Parker
• Death and Taxes, the 1941 debut novel by David F. Dodge
• Death and Taxes, a 1967 novel by Thomas B. Dewey
• Death and Taxes, a 1976 book by Hans Sennholz
• Death and Taxes, a 1990 comic by Frank Miller; see Give Me Liberty
• Lobo: Death & Taxes, a 1996 comic book miniseries; see List of DC Comics publications
• Groo: Death & Taxes, a comic book miniseries; see Groo the Wanderer

Television

• "Death and Taxes", a 1959 episode of Bat Masterson (TV series)
• "Death and Taxes", a 1986 episode of Magnum, P.I.; see List of Magnum, P.I. episodes
• "Death and Taxes", a 1990 episode of Mancuso, F.B.I.
• "Death and Taxes", a 1991 episode of Zorro; see List of Zorro episodes (1990 series)
• "Death and Taxes", a 1994 episode of The Bill; see List of The Bill episodes (series 10)
• "Death and Taxes", a 1999 episode of Twice in a Lifetime
• "Death and Taxes", a 2001 episode of Blue Murder; see List of Blue Murder episodes
• "Death and Taxes", a 2003 episode of ER; see ER (season 10)
• Death and Taxes: Joe Stack's Attack on the IRS, a 2010 CNN TV documentary about Joe Stack's suicide attack

Film

• "Death and Taxes", title of a fictional book written by one of the characters in the 2006 US movie "Stranger than Fiction"