Tuesday, May 02, 2006

Time to Vote: People's Voice Webby Awards

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This morning I learned that the folks at Jurist are in a tight race for the award in the LAW category of the 10th Annual People's Voice...
Monday, May 01, 2006

Where Do Your Tax Dollars Go?

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Thanks to Albert S. Golbert for passing along this tip: If you are curious about what the federal government does with the taxes that you pa...
Friday, April 28, 2006

Gas Price Pains: What NOT to Do With the Tax Law

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They're at it again. Members of Congress, that is. Here come more ideas to add to the long list of "are you kidding me?" propo...
Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Tax and Other Solutions to the Gasoline Price Reality

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The recent furor over rapidly escalating gasoline prices, which has been widely reported in stories such as this one , has generated an inte...
Monday, April 24, 2006

Tax Consequences of Home Makeovers: Does the IRS Read MauledAgain?

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A little more than a year ago I shared an analysis of the tax consequences of home makeovers experienced by families whose applications wer...
Friday, April 21, 2006

Ranking Law Schools = Selecting the Most Attractive = Fruitless Impossibilities

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It's that time of the year again. Yes, it's law school ranking season. After U.S. News and World Reports issues its compilation , th...
Wednesday, April 19, 2006

Laugh, Laugh, Tax is a Joke

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Thank to KC Jenkins, a regular participant on the ABA-TAX listserv, my attention has been drawn to an extensive collection of tax cartoons ....

Another Tax Chart: In Design Stage

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Tax days may come and go, but Andrew Mitchell's tax chart production hums right along. The April 2006 entry is "a draft flowchart ...
Monday, April 17, 2006

Blawg Review #53

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The folks at Blawg Review graciously invited me to host the Carnival of Law Bloggers for what many people call “Tax Day.” It is an honor, a...
Friday, April 14, 2006

When Political Correctness Met Form 1040

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It is with words that lawyers conduct their profession. And though many might think that it is with numbers that tax lawyers and other pract...
Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Avoid Red When Doing Tax Returns?

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I love the Internet. I heard a story Monday yesterday on Philadelphia's radio news station, KYW but could not find the story on its web...
Monday, April 10, 2006

Preparers Selling Tax Data: Where's the Good Reason for Allowing It to Happen?

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The debate about disclosure of tax return information by preparers rumbles onward. I expressed my dismay at the prospect of preparers sellin...
Friday, April 07, 2006

Is It Time to License Tax Return Preparers?

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Two recently-issued reports cast doubt on the overall quality of tax return preparation. Although most tax return preparers are honest, dili...