Monday, August 02, 2004

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Forgive the tardiness of this update, but I've been digging through some emails and other items that "accumulated" while I was...
Friday, July 30, 2004

Turnpike Tolls: User Fees in Context

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Well, users of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, according to this article , tolls are going to increase by as much as 43% on Sunday. This news ...

More on Legal Services Outsourcing

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Beau Baez, a member of the law faculty at Liberty University, shared with me some thoughts about the outsourcing of legal research services ...
Thursday, July 29, 2004

Would You Pay for This?

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While I was away a friend and colleague forwarded an email that he had received from an outsourcing company in India, offering to do legal r...

I'm Back

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Though I tried to keep the blog current while I sailed across the Atlantic, toured Europe and sailed home, it wasn't the easiest thing t...
Saturday, July 24, 2004

Taxes, the Cosmos and Political Campaigns

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The Democrats are trying to make tax simplification a highlight of their campaign promises. This is an amusing thought, but it’s also frigh...
Wednesday, July 21, 2004

User Fees, UK Style

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The UK government is considering a proposal to impose a road congestion fee, and this has generated all sorts of opposition. The concept is ...
Sunday, July 18, 2004

It's Not Cricket

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Tax is complicated. But it's not the most complicated thing. Friends who have studied nuclear physics claim tax is more complicated. ...
Thursday, July 15, 2004

Taxing the Internet... and More: It Never Ends

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Well, the Department of Revenue of New Hampshire, after proposing a 7% tax on internet (browser, chat, etc) and other communications , has ...
Friday, July 09, 2004

Congress Getting into VOIP Taxation

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About the time that I was posting Wednesday's item about taxation of internet phone calls, two members of Congress introduced legislatio...
Wednesday, July 07, 2004

Taxing Phone Calls Made Over the Internet

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The IRS has invited comments on the applicability of the section 4251 excise tax to telephone calls made with technology more recent than wh...
Sunday, July 04, 2004

The Erratic Blogger

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If you're a regular reader, you've probably noticed that I usually post on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, with an occasional fourth ...

Happy Fourth of July at the Racinos

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Racinos? Early on the morning of Independence Day, the Pennsylvania legislature struck a blow for freedom. Or so it would like to think. ...
Friday, July 02, 2004

Philadelphia Tax News

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An update on a story to which I've given quite a bit of attention on this blog: Mayor Street of Philadelphia agreed to the budget and...

More of How Much is Enough, Part Two

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My description and analysis of the "janitor for a day" plan brought some informative and thought-provoking comments. Here are thre...
Wednesday, June 30, 2004

How Much is Enough? Part Two

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I don’t know how I missed this one. Perhaps because it involves social security benefit computations rather than the social security tax its...
Monday, June 28, 2004

How Much is Enough?

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The headline in yesterday's Philadelphia Inquirer may be a bit overdone but still carries a big oomph to most of those who saw it: Exec...
Friday, June 25, 2004

Toying With Taxes

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During the past few years the dire financial situation faced by most of the states has frequently been in the headlines. Attention has focus...
Wednesday, June 23, 2004

Taxation and the First Amendment

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United States District Court Judge Stewart Dalzell issued a decision yesterday that raises the question of how the Religious Freedom Restora...
Monday, June 21, 2004

You Do the Math

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It's imitation time. On Friday I described the tax legislation grinding through the sausage stuffer called Congress. Today Philadelphia ...
Friday, June 18, 2004

Back to the Sausage Factory: Tax Bill Going to Conference

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If they still teach Civics or Government Process in the middle and high schools of this country, and perhaps they do in some places despite ...