Monday, March 23, 2026

"Pot [Tax] for Potholes" Is Just Another Cute Slogan with Ugly Results

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Back in October, in An Unfair and Unwise Tax to Fund Roads , I commented on the Michigan wholesale tax on the sale of marijuana from growers...
Tuesday, March 17, 2026

Does a Temporary Tax Suspension Solve the Underlying Problem?

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About a week ago, Pennsylvania State Senatore Lisa M. Boscola described her plan to suspend the state's liquid fuel taxes for 60 days. ...
Saturday, March 07, 2026

Tax Return Preparer Not Satisfied With Just Tax Fraud

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I have written so many times about tax return preparers who disregard the law that I refrain from commenting every time a tax return prepare...
Wednesday, February 25, 2026

Estimated Tax Payment Challenges

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So this situation was posed to me. A brokerage provides financial information to its clients during the calendar year. However, it does not ...
Wednesday, February 11, 2026

The Things People Do To Avoid Paying Taxes

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No one enjoys paying taxes. But without taxes civilization is impossible. So just as people who need root canals pull themselves together an...
Thursday, January 29, 2026

So Is Tax Fraud Less Reprehensible Than FEMA Fraud?

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This morning I saw an article in the Philadelphia Inquirer about a woman being sentenced for committing FEMA fraud. After a bit of research,...
Saturday, January 17, 2026

International Aspects of the Mileage-Based Road Fee

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As readers of MauledAgain know, I am an advocate of the mileage-based road fee, as a replacement for and not an addition to, liquid fuel tax...
Friday, January 02, 2026

How U.S. Individual Taxpayers Prepare Their Income Tax Returns

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As another tax filing season will soon begin, it’s instructive to see how individual taxpayers in this country prepare their federal income ...
Saturday, December 20, 2025

Taxes on Condoms and Contraceptives

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Reader Morris directed me to a recent article about China’s attempts to raise its birth rate. He then asked a question and answered it. Fi...
Saturday, December 06, 2025

How Much Prison Time Should Be Imposed on a Tax Return Preparer Convicted of Preparing and Filing Fraudulent Returns?

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I have written many times about the non-ending stream of tax return preparers who disregard the law and end up being caught. I’ve done so in...
Thursday, November 27, 2025

Thanksgiving Is More Than Thanks for People and Things Past and Present

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Almost all Thanksgiving messages that I read focus on gratitude for people and things that bring or have brought happiness into our lives....
Friday, November 21, 2025

Is Lab-Grown Chocolate Considered Candy for Pennsylvania Sales Tax Purposes?

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Recently, reader Morris sent me a link to a story about chocolate being grown in a laboratory in Switzerland. The article is worth reading ...
Tuesday, November 11, 2025

One-Stop Shopping for Tax Return Preparation and Unrelated Merchandise?

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A new wrinkle has pooped up in the world of tax return preparers who run afoul of the tax law. Readers of MauledAgain know that I have writt...
Friday, October 31, 2025

Are There Tax Consequences to Halloween Costume Swaps?

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Every year since the start of MauledAgain, I have shared a commentary on Halloween that shared something silly or goofy but occasionally mor...
Friday, October 24, 2025

Professional Sports Team Tax Breaks That Promise, But Don’t Provide, the Promised Public Benefits

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It’s no secret that I do not support using tax breaks to finance construction of facilities for, or operations of, professional sports franc...
Saturday, October 11, 2025

An Unfair and Unwise Tax to Fund Roads

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I am an advocate of user fees, to the extent user fees can best suited to the product or service being provided by a government. Not every g...