Friday, April 30, 2004

What is a Post-Modern Student?

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Or, better yet, what is an MTV generation student? Or a post 9-11 student? Why do I ask? Prof. Ann Althouse of Wisconsin Law has posted some...

The LanSkool Experience

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The use of clickers in the classroom is a technological advance on a more elaborate and complicated approach that I used in the early and m...

Classroom Clicking

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It hasn't yet been 72 hours since the NY Times article about Prof. Paul Caron's use of clickers in his courses at the University o...
Wednesday, April 28, 2004

More on the Marriage Penalty

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The headline read "House: No More Marriage Penalty" on the FoxNews web site but thankfully the story itself gets it right. An in...

The Marriage Penalty That Will Not Die!

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Sounds like the name of a horror movie, except that it's not a movie but a real problem. For married people. And for unmarried people. A...
Monday, April 26, 2004

How Private is Confidential?

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I've never done a survey, and I haven't been able to find anything, but it seems to me that most taxpayers think that the informatio...
Friday, April 23, 2004

AAG (Tax) Speaks at Harvard

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.... and gets blogged. Sounds bad, but it isn't. It's nice to show up in someone's blog. And that's what happened to Eile...

Getting it Right

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No, that's not a political statement. It's about being correct. Oops, not politically correct. Tax correct. The tax law is compli...
Wednesday, April 21, 2004

Well, Did He or Didn't He?

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File his own tax returns, that is. Who? Roosevelt. Franklin. I mentioned in my last post that when looking at the tax returns of se...
Monday, April 19, 2004

CBO Report on AMT

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The CBO has released a report on the alternative minimum tax , which is full of useful examples, explanations, graphs, and projections. The ...

Presidents and Taxes

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As the first part of tax season rolled to an end (the second part ends August 15), the President, the Vice-President, and the presumptive De...
Friday, April 16, 2004

Numbers, Numbers, More Numbers

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OK, so "tax day" is behind us. (Isn't every day a tax day?) This posting is brief because I'm investing some time wande...
Wednesday, April 14, 2004

John, How Can That Be?

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Presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee John Kerry asserts that under his tax plan, "98 percent of Americans will get a tax cut....

C'mon, Pennsylvania, You Can Do Better

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Bear with this rant for a moment. Several years ago, after filing a Pennsylvania S corporation income and franchise tax return for entity...
Monday, April 12, 2004

Tax Audits and Tax Compliance

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Almost every fall, in the basic federal income tax course, a student will ask something like this: "How do they know that you had that ...
Friday, April 09, 2004

Reduce Taxes, Increase Employment?

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The other day the GAO released a report on A Comparison of the Reported Tax Liabilities of Foreign and U.S.-Controlled Corporations, 1996-20...