Footnotes: May Day; Mayday! | 05.01.13

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Dylan Prime – the steakhouse, not a person – has filed for bankruptcy after being shut down for non-payment of sales taxes. Moo! [Bloomberg]

Facebook's chief accounting officer David Spillane is no longer in a relationship with Facebook [MW]

KPMG has 99 problems but a press release ain't one [PR Newswire]

"A new study finds that bombarding people with stats and graphs on income inequality and taxes on the rich barely changes anybody's opinion on redistribution" [The Atlantic]

Relevant for slobs: there is a company out there trying to produce a shirt you can wear for 100 days without washing [Business Insider]

Everywhere Else, May Day Honors Workers; Here, It Salutes 'Loyalty' [DailyFinance]

Apparently 41% of college grads are "overqualified" for what they do, which doesn't explain why no intern has ever been able to find that box of tickmarks [CNN Money]

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Attention Dallas Cowboys Fans: You Have Another Shot at Season Tickets Courtesy of the IRS

Tomorrow morning at 9 am Dallas time, bring your biggest suitcase filled with consecutively numbered hundos so you can watch Romo disappoint the faithful for yet another season:

The Internal Revenue Service plans to auction the six-seat package Tuesday, with bidding starting at about $185,000.

It’s the first time in at least five years that a season ticket package for any professional sports team has been auctioned to settle a debt, said Clay Sanford, an IRS spokesman in Dallas.

Sanford said the agency’s privacy rules prevented him from identifying the ticket holder. But a document relating to the auction shows the federal government is owed $4.5 million.

Technically, the IRS is auctioning off two contracts offering licenses, or “options,” for six seats. Included in the package are 2010 season tickets for the six seats and parking for the 10 home games.

The licenses grant the holder the right to buy season tickets for a given seat for 30 years. Licenses for those seats sell for $50,000 each, said Cowboys spokesman Brett Daniels.

That would be $300,000 for the six licenses up for bid.

All of the seats are in section C110 between the 40 and 50 yard lines on the lower level, the first level up from the field. The auction includes parking for the 2010 season.

We should tell you that you’ll also have to pay an additional $70,000 “still due on the contracts and to cover transfer fees.”

IRS auctioning off Dallas Cowboys seat package [DMN]