1 {scene: Head Death's desk. His receptionist is standing to one side.}
1 Death of Insanely Overpowered Fireballs: Why would Taxes audit us? You don't pay us anything.
1 Head Death: That's... a very good question.
2 Death of Insanely Overpowered Fireballs: I mean, you make us fill out expense reports and travel logs and time sheets and all, but...
3 {beat}
4 Death of Insanely Overpowered Fireballs: You're embezzling the wages of Death!!
4 Head Death: Shhh!!!!

Taxes go back to at least the earliest Ancient Egyptian dynasties. The Rosetta Stone, dating several thousand years later, is actually a recording of a decree on taxation by Pharaoh Ptolemy V.

So next time you think taxes are don't achieve anything, remember that they achieved the deciphering of the Egyptian hieroglyphic writing system, and with it virtually everything we know about Ancient Egypt.