Most confusing sentence - WE NEED PLAIN ENGLISH

The hardest sentence in the tax code

Apr 20th 2011, 21:06 by R.L.G. | NEW YORK

AMERICA'S tax-filing season ended Monday; accountants are still sleeping it off and ordinary Americans just glad the ordeal is over for another twelve months, even those who got a refund. Tax-filing is extraordinarily complicated in America, despite the country's reputation as low-tax and libertarian in things economic. This is why both of the (otherwise radically different) deficit plans of Barack Obama and Paul Ryan, a congressman, call for simplifying the code.

And so speaking of confusing statutes, via Going Concern, an accounting blog, I found this New York Times citation of section 509(a), "legendary as the most difficult sentence to understand in the tax code."  Are you ready for it?

For purposes of paragraph (3), an organization described in paragraph (2) shall be deemed to include an organization described in section 501(c)(4), (5), or (6) which would be described in paragraph (2) if it were an organization described in section 501(c)(3).

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