> the rules are so oddly specific that upon reading them I find myself smiling trying to think of the situation that caused a specific law to be made

I don’t think this is unique to taxes at all, I don’t have a Twitter account or really use it but there’s one account I check regularly: https://nitter.cc/crimeaday (random example https://nitter.cc/CrimeADay/status/1091488611269332993#m).