Wednesday, August 02, 2006

Need More Tax Charts? They're Waiting for You

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While I was away, news reached me that Andrew Mitchel , the unchallenged champion of tax chart web publishing, added another batch of charts...
Monday, July 31, 2006

Reduced Federal Budget Deficit Estimate: Deception Plus

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While I was away, Matt Gardner sent me a tip about a Citizens for Tax Justice news analysis concerning the federal budget deficit. Mainstrea...
Friday, July 28, 2006

Why Oppose Additional Tax Education?

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The Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) has issued a decision in a long-standing dispute between the IRS and the National Treasury Em...
Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Does It Matter Where I Sit in the Tax Class?

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Jennjou Chen of National Chengchi University and Tsui-Fang Lin of National Taipei University have issued Class Attendance and Exam Performan...
Sunday, July 23, 2006

When the Mess Makers Ask Why There's a Mess

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The Acting Director of the IRS Office of Taxpayer Burden has told the House Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs that unless the tax laws unde...
Friday, July 21, 2006

More on Tax and Physics

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My post earlier this week, In Tax and Physics, Zero is Not Nothing , brought a response from Elaine Soost that touches on some additional as...

One Down, One to Go?

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In response to my posts about the blocking of Blogspot blogs by India and China , a long-time (well, in blog years) reader sent this messag...

China Too?

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The other day I passed along a report that MauledAgain, and all other Blogspot blogs, have been censored in India . Now comes an email from ...
Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Censoring MauledAgain is Unwise

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The government of India and internet service providers in India have managed to block folks in India from reading MauledAgain. Yes, there ar...
Tuesday, July 18, 2006

In Tax and Physics, Zero is Not Nothing

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My post last Friday referencing a comparison between the laws of tax with the laws of physics brought to mind something I put into my ...
Sunday, July 16, 2006

Better to Save than Toss Tax Records

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Recently a tax practitioner asked the ABA-TAX list subscribers for input on the question of how long a tax practitioner should retain client...
Friday, July 14, 2006

Tax Laws and The Laws of Gravity

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Earlier this month, Ellen Aprill of Loyola Law School Los Angeles put a challenge to her tax teaching colleagues throughout the country. Sh...
Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Learning Tax by Creating Tax Charts

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Andrew Mitchel, the tax chart designer to whom I referred last week in my Tax Chart Mania post, has reached beyond charts of cases and ruli...
Sunday, July 09, 2006

Who Gets to Pay the Tax Bill?

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A report issued late last month by Citizens for Tax Justice explains how the 99 percent of Americans not among the top one percent in term...
Thursday, July 06, 2006

Tax Chart Mania

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When I was a youngster, I narrowly missed winning a contest that required the children to guess the number of jelly beans in a jar. Had I be...
Tuesday, July 04, 2006

Freedom From Tax Is No Freedom At All

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It is Independence Day, a time to celebrate not only the freedom earned more than two centuries ago and the values underlying the rights for...
Sunday, July 02, 2006

Today New Jersey, Tomorrow the Feds?

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During an interview on a news program this morning (not sure which one), Gov. Corzine of New Jersey explained why the State of New Jersey wa...
Thursday, June 29, 2006

Cutting Through the Timber Tax Break

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A reader, responding to my criticism of the tax break for timber offered as a sweetener to "persuade" member of Congress to vote f...
Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Taxes the Highlight of This Year's Pennsylvania Gubernatorial Campaign?

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This morning's Philadelphia Inquirer story about Pennsylvania's governor signing into law the tax reform bill passed by the Pennsyl...
Monday, June 26, 2006

So What's the Problem with the Problem Method?

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For years, a few of us stood alone, teaching our law school classes in a way that resembles what students will do as practitioners: solving ...
Friday, June 23, 2006

A Tax Sweetener That Needs to be Cut Down and Turned to Mulch

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Earlier this week, in Tax Sweeteners Leave Sour Taste , I criticized the strategy laid out by Bill Frist and his House counterparts to push ...
Wednesday, June 21, 2006

The Rich Get Richer: The Tax Law's Role?

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A report that is just now making the rounds of various newspapers, such as the St Petersburg Times , the Richmond Times Dispatch , the Phila...
Monday, June 19, 2006

Tax Sweeteners Leave Sour Taste

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Though folks are usually told it's best not to tour the sausage factory before a meal, perhaps it's best that a feature of the feder...
Friday, June 16, 2006

New Pennsylvania Tax "Reform" Doesn't Add Up

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After dropping the property tax relief ball in December, and then side-stepping the issue in May of this year, the Pennsylvania legislatur...
Wednesday, June 14, 2006

Tax Stupidity? No, Tax Stupid Acts and Stupid Decisions

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After reading the news about Ben Roethlisberger's motorcycle accident , I particularly noticed the fact he was not wearing a helmet. Tho...
Monday, June 12, 2006

Lottery Winnings as Capital Gain? Don't Bet on It

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Gamblers are persistent. Those who lose continue to play thinking that they're overdue for a win. Those who win think they've got a ...