Monday, August 08, 2005

Gambling with Tax Liability?

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Every once in a while I get lucky and write something that ends up preceding rather than following a tax-related event. Back in October of ...
Friday, August 05, 2005

Tax Complexity Ought Not Generate Fear

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It’s not all that surprising that the debate over the alleged simplicity or complexity of the Internal Revenue Code continues. This will be ...
Thursday, August 04, 2005

Taxes Causing Pornography? Yikes!

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No sooner had I reported on the Congressional proposal to impose an excise tax on "regulated pornographic web sites" in yesterday...
Wednesday, August 03, 2005

Taxes Solve All Problems? I Doubt It

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So a bunch of Senators has decided that the solution to the problem of Internet pornography sites luring children to their pages and product...
Monday, August 01, 2005

Energy Tax Incentives for Almost None of Us

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A little more than a month ago I shared a summary of the tax provisions of the ENERGY POLICY TAX INCENTIVES ACT OF 2005, as approved by the ...
Friday, July 29, 2005

Worth a Second Glance....?

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Every once in a while something happens that makes me wonder if I chose the wrong profession. Sometimes it's an encounter or experience ...
Thursday, July 28, 2005

An Interesting Trial Looms

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All I'll say is this: if you can't pass the bar exam without knowing the questions and answers in advance, you ought not be permitte...

Complexity Debate Gains New Participant

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Joe Kristan of Roth and Company, P.C., weighs in on the Code complexity debate. His post is short and simple. I salute his farm method of a...
Wednesday, July 27, 2005

In Defense of Complexity?

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The recent series of postings concerning the degree to which the Internal Revenue Code is complicted, the last of which is here , has brough...
Monday, July 25, 2005

Deceptive Simplicity: More Code Complexity Debate

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Kreig Mitchell has posted an interesting and helpful response to my latest entry in our continuing debate about the complexity of the Inte...
Sunday, July 24, 2005

Still More Tax Charts

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Andrew Mitchel is back at it. I pointed out in this post of three weeks ago that he had put together a collection of charts depicting a va...
Thursday, July 21, 2005

Can't Rebut the Argument? Attack the Proponent!

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My post yesterday challenging the assertion that the Internal Revenue Code is "clear, simple, and well organized" has brought a q...
Wednesday, July 20, 2005

The Code is Simple? NOT!

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The People's Tax Lawyer has posted a defense of the Internal Revenue Code , concluding that it is "model of clarity and simplicity...
Monday, July 18, 2005

Hello, Taxes

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I begin my Introduction to Federal Taxation Class, after getting through the "housekeeping" details, with an illustration of the f...
Friday, July 15, 2005

A Tax Dirt Book. Really.

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The story begins when the IRS decides to write a history of its criminal enforcement activities. Presumably it was an anniversary project, a...

What a Way for Tax to Meet Apostille

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Warren Rojas of Tax Notes, made this connection between my recent posts ( here and here ) on the word for the streamlined process for authe...
Monday, July 11, 2005

More Tax Pictures

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Andrew Mitchel is at it again. I pointed out in this post of two weeks ago that he had put together a collection of charts depicting a vari...

Big Brother Getting Bigger?

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Some things don't mix. Oil nd water come to mind. Some things ought not be allowed to mix. Drinking and driving, for example. So how abo...
Friday, July 08, 2005

Apostille II

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No sooner had I posted my "discovery" of the apostille , both word and process, than the English major and expert of the family se...
Wednesday, July 06, 2005

Apostille

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One never knows when one will learn something new. For me, this time, it was during a visit with one of my cousins, retired from the diploma...
Sunday, July 03, 2005

Independence, Taxes, and Homeownership

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It's almost Independence Day. It's a day that means a lot of things to a lot of people. We have opportunities unlike those available...
Friday, July 01, 2005

Taxing Traffic?

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This traffic backup/tieup simulator is VERY cool. Run the uphill grade variant and decide if the truck in the left land should be charged a...
Wednesday, June 29, 2005

Save Some Energy to Learn More New Tax Law

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A little more than a week ago I posted a summary and critique of the energy bill approved by the Senate Finance Committee. Today it passed ...
Tuesday, June 28, 2005

Tax Fashion Getting Out of Hand?

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My recent post on Taxes, Fashion Sense, and the Internet brought some additional information from Dave Harmon: Apparently Cafe Press will ...
Sunday, June 26, 2005

More on the News Feed

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In response to my announcement that I had put a FeedBurner newsfeed link on the blog , Raj A Kapadia of Mumbai, India, who reads the blog re...

A Good Job of Picturing Tax

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What's going on here? A Saturday post. A Sunday post. Yes, indeed, it's the summer schedule. I'd like to bring to your attention...
Saturday, June 25, 2005

Taxes, Fashion Sense, and the Internet

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Perhaps this is one of the great contributions of the internet to culture. Someone has an idea, and it can be shared with the world in the b...
Friday, June 24, 2005

The Summertime of Tax

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Summer officially began several days ago. At least for the astronomers, climatologists, weather forecasters, and anyone paying attention to ...
Wednesday, June 22, 2005

Sole Proprietorship as Corporation?

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Sometimes the simplest of tax questions can trigger the most complex of discussions. The question put to the ABA-TAX listserve was simple. ...