Friday, December 09, 2005

Tax Dollars at Work: Funding the College Road Trip

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Serendipitous timing is wonderful. Nakul Krishnakumar, one of my former students, and I have been engaged in another one of our tax policy e...
Thursday, December 08, 2005

In Congress, It's Holiday Tax Gift Time!

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A story in today's Washington Post summarizes the most recent tax legislative action by the House of Representatives. The House has pas...
Wednesday, December 07, 2005

Tax Reform Shoved to the Back Burner

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Reports are popping up throughout the news world that tax reform is dead. Technically, it's being described as "postponed" or ...
Tuesday, December 06, 2005

Welcome Another VUSL Prof to Blogland

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In yesterday's post on why we blog , I mentioned that several of my colleagues were considering entry into blogland. Well, today one of ...
Monday, December 05, 2005

The Whys of Blawgs

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With things slow on the tax news front, as Congress spins its wheels trying to deliver tax legislation, I get a chance to dig into my "...
Friday, December 02, 2005

Tax, Marriage, Step-Siblings, and Dependency Exemptions: Sometimes It's Life That Is Complicated

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Once more I can demonstrate why it is true that one can learn much by teaching. The recent changes in the definition of dependent for purpos...
Thursday, December 01, 2005

MauledAgain Featured in Blawgworld 2006

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This blog has been selected as one of 51 blawgs (law-related blogs) featured in TechnoLawyer's new e-book, "Blawgworld 2006: Capita...
Wednesday, November 30, 2005

I Sing a Song of Taxes, a Pocketful of Cries

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The feeding frenzy at the tax trough continues unabated. The latest "we're special" provision was added to H.R. 4297, the Tax ...
Tuesday, November 29, 2005

Tax + Maule = Not Fun?

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Rick Telberg's column this week on CPA2BIZ reviews tax and accounting blogs. Of this one, he says: "www.mauledagain.blogspot.com i...
Monday, November 28, 2005

Planning: It Can Be Taxing

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Andy Cassel's column in yesterday's Philadelphia Inquirer set forth yet another early warning about the impending pension deficit c...
Friday, November 25, 2005

So Where Do (Tax) Laws Come From?

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The recent news about the guilty plea entered by a former aide to Representative Tom DeLay is most troubling. Michael Scanlon apparently co...
Thursday, November 24, 2005

A Tax Thanksgiving

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Thanks for reading this blog, for without readers it wouldn't be much. Thanks for sending informative and thought-provoking comments, fo...
Wednesday, November 23, 2005

Stereotypes in the Tax World

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It is so true that a great way to learn things is to teach. Although the principal reason for that seeming paradox is the need for the teach...
Monday, November 21, 2005

Anyone Want to Count the Words in the Internal Revenue Code?

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Some things, like taxes, never die. For example, talking and writing about taxes seems to be a perpetual activity. Specifically, commentary ...
Friday, November 18, 2005

"They" May Be Reading the Tax Analysis, But Are "They" Listening?

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It's getting a bit weird. As I noted last Friday , my previous posting about whose ox would be gored by the Tax Reform Panel's recom...
Thursday, November 17, 2005

A Cornucopia of Tax Charts

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In time for Thanksgiving, TaxChartMan has delivered again. Andrew Mitchell has stuffed some more tax law graphics into his tax charts web si...
Wednesday, November 16, 2005

A New Dawn Flickers on the Tax Horizon

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A small flicker of a new dawn twinkles on the tax horizon. Gathering clouds threaten to plunge the sky into darkness. The good news: As repo...