Friday, January 07, 2005

The Bad Idea Gets Enacted, So Now What?

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Well, Congress enacted the bad idea I described in a posting the other day . Congress decided that letting people deduct on their 2004 tax r...

Privatizing Mass Transit: Solving the Opinion Poll Puzzle

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The Pennsylvania Economy League has released results of a poll taken by IssuesPA/Pew, that indicates a majority or Pennsylvanians support n...
Thursday, January 06, 2005

Maybe We Are Part of the Project, After All

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In yesterdays'post about the Comcast deal, I stated Anyhow, I'm grateful to Andy Cassel for putting this issue in front of taxpaye...
Wednesday, January 05, 2005

"Gimme All Your Money ... Oh, OK, Then Gimme Some of It"

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In his column in today's Philadelphia Inquirer , Andy Cassel notes that after considering the mayor's criticism of people who are ...

Complicated Acceleration: Good Intentions, Bad Idea

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According to an AP new report , two Senators are sponsoring a bill that would amend the Internal Revenue Code to permit taxpayers to claim a...
Tuesday, January 04, 2005

Sorry I Wrote....?

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Time to wander from tax into another area of interest (and one in which I also teach), that of wills and trusts. Specifically, time to explo...
Sunday, January 02, 2005

Avoiding a Triple Whammy

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A question was raised about the tax treatment of transactions in which the SEC refunds to the shareholders of a corporation fines that the S...
Friday, December 31, 2004

Making the New Year Happy

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It's the end of the year, but unlike most media outlets, this blogger isn't going to do a recap. Imagine. "The Year in Taxes....
Wednesday, December 29, 2004

Does Tax Compliance Create Value?

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Digging through my email files, I came upon some ABA-TAX listserv discussions that I had set aside for further exploration. The topic touche...

A Cheaper Way to Play?

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My recent series of postings on the use of taxpayer money to pay for the ballparks used by wealthy club owners and their highly compensated ...

Me? Opinionated?

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In his most recent column, Bruce Bartlett, affiliated with the National Center for Policy Analysis, highlights four tax blogs in an article ...
Tuesday, December 28, 2004

More on that Hawaii Vacation

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Paul Caron noted my Hawaii vacation item after enduring what he calls his worst snowstorm in 15 years. Check out his post and the pictures...
Monday, December 27, 2004

A Milestone

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I didn't notice this when it happened, partly because email from SiteMeter isn't getting through, but total visits to MauledAgain r...

Cleverness? Trying to Deduct the Hawaii Vacation

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I've been questioned at different times about my use of the word "clever" or "cleverness" to describe the plans, or ...
Friday, December 24, 2004

The Quiz Expands, in Several Ways

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So how are we doing on that state sales tax table quiz from the other day? None of the choices have been selected. Instead, additional c...
Wednesday, December 22, 2004

Sales Tax Quiz Time

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One of the folks on the ABA-TAX listserv has alerted us to what may be a mystery, though, as with most mysteries, some digging around should...

They Blinked, and Presto, No Third Strike?

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The headline to this New York Times story says it all: Baseball Deal Back as Washington Council Blinks. Council surely did. So once again a...
Tuesday, December 21, 2004

Student Pre-Exam Questions

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At the end of every semester, when examinations loom like stormclouds over the heads of the students, there is a surge in questions presente...
Monday, December 20, 2004

Booing the Third-Strike Argument

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One advantage that real-time blogging (and similar instantaneous communication such as chat and text messaging) has over traditional print p...
Saturday, December 18, 2004

Arguing That Third Strike

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A few days ago (in this post ) I shared the widely held thinking that the recent D.C. Council decision to require that half the financing of...

Update on Electronic Filing

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A VITA volunteer let me know that at the site where he worked last tax season clients had the option of filing electronically. The set-up wa...