Wednesday, April 13, 2005

A CPA Tax Monopoly? Hardly

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Last Friday I addressed the quesion of Do I Really Need to "Take" Tax?" and shortly thereafter this question to me from a la...
Monday, April 11, 2005

The New Red Scare

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The news in this report on ink colors used for grading gets my nomination for top prize in the Warped Impact of Political Correctness Conte...
Friday, April 08, 2005

Do I Really Need to "Take" Tax?

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Earlier today, someone who is planning to teach a tax course for law students not intending to practice tax law asked advice about leading o...
Wednesday, April 06, 2005

Babysitting Cooperatives and the Income Tax

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Yesterday during an on-line discussion someone raised a question concerning the tax consequences of babysitting cooperatives. I didn't k...
Monday, April 04, 2005

The Tax Gap: BIG. Wonder Why?

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The IRS has released information on the tax gap. According to the report , based on a sampling of 46,000 tax returns for 2001, the gross ann...

So Who Can See Your Tax Return?

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Apparently, a lot of people, if you use P2P (peer to peer) file sharing and have it configured to access files on the same computer drive on...
Friday, April 01, 2005

Gasoline Prices: Not the Only Thing on the Increase

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My recent post about gasoline price increases brough not only a response from one of my students, Nakul Krishnakumar, posted here , but als...
Wednesday, March 30, 2005

Another Setback for the Telecommuting Nonresident Taxpayer

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Back in January I shared my analysis of a case involving New York's insistence on taxing a Tennessee resident, who is not a New York re...
Tuesday, March 29, 2005

The First Ten Tax Urban Legends

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It may be time to begin collecting Tax Urban Legends. It's not so much the quantity, but the quality of the misinformation. Thanks to th...
Monday, March 28, 2005

More on Gasoline and Free Markets

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Larry Staton, referring to the gasoline and free markets post asked: Are these two statements contradictory? "Any method we can employ...
Friday, March 25, 2005

Tax License Plates Resurface

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Saw a license plate the other morning, just a mile from home. RAD TAX was on a car parked in front of the offices of Radnor Tax Services. Ea...
Wednesday, March 23, 2005

Gasoline and Free Markets

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My recent comments about the increase in gasoline prices brought a reply from one of our students, Nakul Krishnakumar, who is no stranger t...

Tax Return Filing Advice: Request Return Receipt

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It really is sad to learn that a problem that should have been solved wasn't solved. Some years ago, IRS employees were discovered to ha...
Tuesday, March 22, 2005

Speaking of Gasoline

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On the heels of yesterday's post about gasoline prices and the environment comes news that the Senate has approved H.R. 1270, which ext...
Monday, March 21, 2005

Up, Up, and Away

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So gasoline prices are getting higher , and news media have something to write about during the four-day lull between the second and third r...

C'mon, Surprise Me!

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Did you see the headline in the Wall Street Journal? Federal Tax Code Draws Criticism From Citizens, Experts, Economists [headline now arch...
Friday, March 18, 2005

Law Schools: Preparing Students for Practice?

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An interesting article at the Law.com site, All You Really Need to Know You Learned in Law School , by Prof. Kristen David Adams of Stetson ...
Wednesday, March 16, 2005

A New Scam: Beware

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OK, it's not quite taxes, or chocolate chip cookies. One of these days I'm going to share my thoughts about the entire scam industry...