10 Times Vince McMahon Got Revenge

10. IRS

Vince McMahon has historically had a problem paying taxes. While he has avoided actually being busted for non-payment, the IRS has had to ask pretty forcefully to get their pound of flesh from VKM. In later years Vince and wife Linda were late enough paying property tax on a luxury condo that it impacted Linda's attempt to kick off a political career.

If you ever wonder what Vince thought about all this, look to the wrestling ring, where he made his opinions very clear indeed with the character of Irwin R. Schyster.

'IRS' was a heel taxman whose sole character trait was the desire to harangue the audience for not paying taxes. That was literally the only thing he did. Every IRS promo was the same - pay your taxes or a huge angry man in an ill-advised wrestling tie will audit you, by which he meant levelling you with a flying clothesline called the 'Write-Off'.

Vince's vengeance against the constant annoyance of the Internal Revenue Service was to embody it as an equally annoying heel. IRS hardly ever won, either. He was purely a dig at the tax-gathering apparatus of the US Government.