Tuesday, October 12, 2004

Shedding Light on the Gross Receipts Tax

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Yesterday's post on the proposed gross receipts tax in Pennsylvania brought some comments from Prof. Beau Baez, of Liberty University Sc...
Monday, October 11, 2004

A Bad Tax Idea Keeps Breathing

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Almost two months ago, I delivered a criticism of how Pennsylvania's legislature is going about state and local tax reform . I especiall...

Getting Names by the Tax Authorities

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Thanks to Paul Caron's TaxProfBlog for this tidbit. According to an ABC News report , tax authorities in Sweden rejected an attempt by ...
Friday, October 08, 2004

Debating Taxes

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If they prove nothing else, these presidential candidate debates demonstrate that politicians will trip over each other handing out tax good...

Redefining Children (at least in the Tax World)

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The recently-enacted Working Families Tax Relief Act of 2004 attempts to establish a consistent definition of the term "child," wh...
Thursday, October 07, 2004

Taxing Tomatoes

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It begins with an email from a student to a tax law professor, who shares the question with other tax law professors. The student had bee...
Wednesday, October 06, 2004

Another Tax Bill on the Way

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Tax bills originate in the Ways and Means Committee. As in how many ways can we change what we mean? Today the House-Senate Conference on...

Still More Tax License Plates

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I've been informed that a law professor who teaches in the state of Michigan and who specializes in the value added tax has VATMAN1 on h...

Scoring the VP Candidate Debate on Taxes

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Listening to the vice-presidential candidate debates, I was puzzled by several comments concerning taxes (as taken from the transcript of th...
Monday, October 04, 2004

Tax Rebates, Tax Cuts, Deficits, War, Politics and the Economy

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With the presidential campaign debate over domestic issues (including taxes and the economy) looming on the horizon, I decided to share some...
Friday, October 01, 2004

A Scary Thought

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This is real. From a reader: have you considered approaching a publisher about a compilation of the "Best of Mauled Again?" I thi...

Feedback on Teaching Philosophy

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I'm beginning to understand what it must be like to be a newspaper editor, as yet more feedback arrives. Unlike the many letters to edit...

More Tax License Plates

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Who would have guessed that the tax license plate posting would bring so much traffic to the site and trigger the largest number of respons...
Wednesday, September 29, 2004

A License to Tax?

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Or a tax license? The getting-very-famous (or at least more famous than MauledAgain) TaxProfBlog has run into a tiny problem. It seems t...

Losing Trust: A Wobbly Feeling

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A new poll reveals that 61% of us have lost faith in leaders and institutions during the past four years. It isn't clear if that's ...

Just a Mistake?

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News that a "Top Tax Lawyer Pleads Guilty to Felony Tax Evasion" may come as a surprise to some, but for me it's only in the ...
Monday, September 27, 2004

Net Federal Spending by State: Correlations?

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Today, Paul Caron's TaxProf blog carried an item analyzing net federal spending by state with the state's character as a "red ...

Bush Pages Through the Tax Code?

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Paul Caron has an item on his TaxProf blog this morning, citing a Washington Post article that quotes the President describing describing t...
Friday, September 24, 2004

Tax Revenues and D.C. Baseball

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Very low on the national news headline radar, but getting some attention in the sports pages, is the allegedly imminent move of the Expos fr...
Thursday, September 23, 2004

Tax Woes for Philadelphia Restauranteur

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Somehow, it never fails. A person's financial problems make the news, and sometime later the other shoe drops: the person has tax proble...
Wednesday, September 22, 2004

Maule on Legal Education

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Yippee! I published again. No, not the sort of "scholarly" work that gets the usual attention. It's another "soapbox...

The Joys of IRC Section 86

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Today in the Introduction to Federal Income Taxation class it was time to tackle section 86 of the Internal Revenue Code, which specifies th...