Wednesday, April 07, 2004

Tax Law Changes Pay a Dividend of Confusion

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One might think that a tax law amendment that reduces the tax rate on dividends would be simple. Perhaps "dividends are taxed at a rate...
Monday, April 05, 2004

Fixing the Tax Mess: Reaction to a Journalist's Proposals

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Allan Sloane, a Newsweek journalist, has shared Six Fixes for the Tax Mess" . Though he claims it is arrogant for an "unelected me...
Friday, April 02, 2004

Taxes and.... yes, Parking

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Taxes are everywhere. Some, like the income tax and even the sales tax, jump in our faces. Others aren't so obvious. Take a close look a...
Wednesday, March 31, 2004

A Tax Trifecta: Gas, Enforcement, and Special Interests

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Tax just doesn't go away. Today it grabs three different headlines. The gasoline tax is getting attention as part of the debate over gas...
Monday, March 29, 2004

Taxes and Music

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I wonder how many people say or think "time to face the music" when they sit down to being preparing their tax returns. I'm su...
Friday, March 26, 2004

Legal Education: What's so Special?

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Law school has become even more popular. Applications are up. Acceptance ratios are down (it's tougher to get in). It seems that everyon...

Tax News Flash: Kerry Proposes Solution????

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This isn't what I planned to post today and I still expect to get to that in a few hours. But I just had to react to John Kerry's...
Wednesday, March 24, 2004

Tick Tock... Countdown to April 15

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Hang around a university campus long enough and you notice an interesting phenomenon: during exams, it not only gets very quiet but the tens...
Monday, March 22, 2004

Connecting Two Blog Posts

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Amazing. I post my small description of searching for citations to my articles. I discover that one of them is available on-line from the...

Taxes From a Different Angle

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It's that time of the year again when faculty report to the Dean what they've been doing. The Dean likes to know that the faculty ha...
Friday, March 19, 2004

Capital Gains, Dividends, and Taxes

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A friend asked me for some help the other day. He was doing a tax return for a small trust. He's not a "tax guy" but he's ...
Wednesday, March 17, 2004

Hidden Taxes

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Tom Ferrick, a columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer, had an interesting column in today's paper about the financial woes of the Phi...
Monday, March 15, 2004

Elephants, Taxes, and Spin

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This post ALMOST got the title of "Spinning Elephants" but the image it created in my mind was dreadful. It wasn't those circu...
Friday, March 12, 2004

The "Stealth Tax"

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They call it the "stealth tax." It's the alternative minimum tax, or AMT for short. The federal Internal Revenue Code has one,...
Wednesday, March 10, 2004

Jobs, Jobs, Where are the Jobs?

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Some more thoughts about jobs, or the lack of them, are in order. It looks as though the jobs issue is going to be a significant factor in t...