Alan Moore’s grand plan was to study English and philosophy at Trinity College Dublin. However, the intervention of his mother pushed him in an altogether different direction. Moore, from Rathfarnham in Dublin, had, like many of his generation, completed the exams for the civil service. When the letter arrived, offering him a role with the Revenue Commissioners, his mother opened it first. “You are taking that job,” she told him. And so began a career in tax. Over the decades that followed, Moore has been a tax official, a tax adviser, a tax educator, a tax writer, and now, at…

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