Friday, January 30, 2015

Voting for Tax Refund Delays

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The IRS Commissioner has disclosed that because “It takes longer to process paper returns and in light of IRS budget cuts resulting in a sm...
Wednesday, January 28, 2015

The Taxation of Egg Donations

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Almost two years ago, in Getting Smart About Tax Questions , I expressed agreement with the advice given to an individual who donated eggs t...
Monday, January 26, 2015

No Agreement? No Alimony Deduction

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A recent Tax Court case, Milbourn v. Comr. , T. C. Memo 2015-13, teaches an important lesson to spouses working their way through divorce pr...
Friday, January 23, 2015

Halfway There?

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Social media is all aflutter, or should I say, atwitter, reacting to news that by 2016 the top one percent will own nearly half the world’s...
Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Getting the Tax Facts

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When I finished reading this recent story , my first thought was, “Well, what REALLY happened?” According to the story a person identified...
Monday, January 19, 2015

Still Puzzled Four Years After Conviction to File Income Tax Returns

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Almost four years ago, in Why Teaching Isn’t Just a Matter of What One Knows or Understands , I commented on the conviction of a then Hamlin...
Friday, January 16, 2015

Does Rejection Block a Deduction?

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It’s a simple tax question with a complicated response. The facts that raise the question aren’t difficult to understand, though they do rai...
Wednesday, January 14, 2015

A New Play in the Make-the-Rich-Richer Game Plan

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A few weeks ago, in A Tax Policy Turn-Around? , I wrote about how the income tax cuts for the wealthy backfired, causing the rich to get ric...
Monday, January 12, 2015

What’s Better Than a Tax Break?

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In his latest column for the Philadelphia Inquirer, Joseph DiStefano reports that Mark Vitner, of Wells Fargo Securities L.L.C., tries to e...
Friday, January 09, 2015

The Federal Gas Tax: Getting It Right

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According to a recent report , several Republican senators are considering an increase in the federal gas tax. Tempted by reductions in the ...
Wednesday, January 07, 2015

Another Tax for the List

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More than seven years ago, in Deconstructing Tax Myths , I shared a list of different types of taxes. In addition to the usual income taxes,...
Monday, January 05, 2015

Time to Amend the Pennsylvania Constitution’s Anti-Graduated Tax Rate Provision?

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Back in March, I reacted to a proposal by then gubernatorial candidate Tom Wolf to change the Pennsylvania income tax so that high-income in...
Friday, January 02, 2015

Pay Now, Pay Later

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Readers of MauledAgain know that I prefer paying now for necessary transportation infrastructure repairs rather than paying later. Though it...
Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Counting Tax Chickens Before They Hatch

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What can a state legislature do when it needs money to fix its transportation infrastructure? There are all sorts of taxation choices, but V...
Monday, December 29, 2014

A Tax Policy Turn-Around?

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Readers of MauledAgain know that I do not subscribe to the theory that tax cuts for the wealthy will trickle down and improve the economic c...