Although the significance of money, both conscious and unconscious, has been examined exhaustively, the reluctance to discuss money and fiscal matters has not. This reticence appears to be practically ubiquitous in our culture, and has been called “the last taboo” by Krueger. Since psychotherapists are by no means immune, the fiscal blind spot tends to pass to succeeding generations of therapists unaltered. This paper is a preliminary discussion of the fiscal scotoma and its effects on countertransference.