Sunday, February 29, 2004

Comments Roll In

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One of the intended consequences of this blog is to plant ideas and energize discussion. To that extent, this blog is beginning to succeed. ...
Friday, February 27, 2004

A Response to the Social Security Suggestions

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From James Howard, a tax professional who is a ABA-TAX list colleague: "I scanned today's blog and believe there's another a...

Triple Tax / Tax Times Three

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Six stories on the front page of the Philadelphia business section and THREE are about taxes. One of the stories is a followup on the Pe...
Wednesday, February 25, 2004

Philadelphia Admits its Tax System is a Mess

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Full story from the Philadelphia Inquirer Favorite quotes and reports: 1. By Paul Levy, head of the Center City District: "The c...
Sunday, February 22, 2004

Tax Spin: Rotating the Numbers in Circles

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Well, it's fun enough, isn't it, to work through a tax return line by line, pausing every now and then to jump to another form or a ...
Thursday, February 19, 2004

Pennsylvania Taxes: Making the Feds Look Good

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The next time you get annoyed, frustrated, bewildered, shocked, or overwhelmed by a federal income tax form or by trying to fill one out, sa...
Tuesday, February 17, 2004

Tax Breaks, Politician Takes

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Here in the Philadelphia area (and the rest of Pennsylvania for that matter) much is being written about the proposal to give Comcast a tax ...
Saturday, February 14, 2004

Marriage and Taxes

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I should know better than to think that commentary on marriage and taxes can fit into a brief posting to this weblog, but the question is ou...
Wednesday, February 11, 2004

The Impact of Culture on Tax Law

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I heard a commercial this morning on my drive to the gym. It shed some fascinating light on what I consider one of the core problems in the ...
Monday, February 09, 2004

Helping Poor People

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I'm in the late stages of writing a BNA Tax Mgmt Income Tax Portfolio on "Tax Incentives for Low-Income Areas." At first glanc...
Friday, February 06, 2004

Teachers and Lawyers: Is There a Difference?

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Listserves are great. I belong to at least a dozen. Don't worry, Dean, other than the several for family history they're all law rel...
Wednesday, February 04, 2004

Why So Complicated?

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I finally succeeded in getting Turbotax loaded and running. It took a while because of some problem with kernel32.dll, and ended with a work...
Tuesday, February 03, 2004

What? A Bigger Tax Code

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So the Administration wants to pile bunches more provisions onto the existing pile of law known as the Internal Revenue Code. Why not replac...

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Stay tuned.