Friday, December 29, 2006

Tax Year 2006 Closing With A Guarantee of At Least One Good Tax Year 2007 Story

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Readers of MauledAgain have emailed me. Reporters have called me. Paul Caron's TaxProf blog alerted me. The news is now a week old. For...
Wednesday, December 27, 2006

A Proposed Congressional New Year's Tax Resolution

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With each passing year, the number of taxpayers subject to the alternative minimum tax (AMT) grows, as does the attention given the issue in...
Saturday, December 23, 2006

Proof Chocolate is Medicinal: More Reason to Buy Me IRS Chocolates

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The other day I commented on IRS chocolate and pointed to it as a gift suggestion. Now comes a much longer-lasting gift. It's in the fo...
Friday, December 22, 2006

Should Tax Advisors Say "Speed Up the Birth"?

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Yesterday, on his TaxProf blog Paul Caron directed our attention to a New York Times story that suggests the recent increase in December ...
Wednesday, December 20, 2006

What to Buy, Oh, What to Buy?

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Paul Caron, over at the TaxProf Blog has started a series on "Christmas Gifts for that Special Tax Person." His first suggestion ...

If They Enact It, Will Taxpayers Use It?

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Monday's post, Tax Planning Challenges When Congress Dilly-Dallies brought a most interesting response from Andrew Mitchel , the tax ch...
Monday, December 18, 2006

Tax Planning Challenges When Congress Dilly-Dallies

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Yesterday I was at lunch with some members of my family when the conversation turned to teaching, specifically, a tale of a class taught by ...
Friday, December 15, 2006

On the Way Out, They Grabbed Tax Breaks by the Hundreds

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It's a game that has been played many times. It's late December. The IRS, facing deadlines for a variety of reasons, such as printin...
Wednesday, December 13, 2006

A Tax Advice Book for People Who Write and Illustrate Books

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Julian Block has a tax book hat trick for 2006. Earlier this year, in Tax and Relationships: A Book to Read and Give , I described his ...
Monday, December 11, 2006

So What in the Tax World Is It Really?

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A question that was posed last week presents an opportunity to explain how a student of taxation needs to learn not only rules but methods o...
Saturday, December 09, 2006

A Politician's Tax Views Not Believed by Jury

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Slightly more than two years ago, I commented on the tale of Arthur L. Farnsworth , who lost by a huge margin his campaign for Congress, dur...
Friday, December 08, 2006

Computing Telephone Excise Tax Will Keep Some of Us Busy

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Several months ago, in Adding Up The Telephone Tax Refund , I described how I invested a bit of time adding up the long-distance excise taxe...
Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Oh, No! This Tax Idea Isn't Ready for Its Coffin

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In early October, I explained, in Ready It Was Not: The Demise of California's Government-Prepared Tax Return Experiment , that the Cali...
Monday, December 04, 2006

Tax Law Is Complicated, But Is It Vague?

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Paul Caron relayed an interesting rhetorical comment about the constitutionality of the Internal Revenue Code on his TaxProf Blog . The obse...
Friday, December 01, 2006

How Much Do You Care About the Tax Code?

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In a Tax Notes Weekly report authored by Helena Klumpp, "Congress Returns, Extenders Wait," 113 Tax Notes 701 (Nov. 20, 2006), for...
Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Neither an "Alpha Wolf" Nor a "Clicker Trainer" Am I

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Thanks to Paul Caron's TaxProf Blog writeup , I found myself reading Professor Melissa Waters' short essay, Clicker Training for Law...
Monday, November 27, 2006

Just A Chance, That's All

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A recent story about a graduate of an unaccredited on-line law school suing the Connecticut Bar Examining Committee because it denies him t...
Friday, November 24, 2006

The Snipes Tax Trial: A Circus in the Making?

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About a month ago, I commented on indictment of actor Wesley Snipes on tax fraud charges. Stories at the time reported that Snipes could no...
Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Giving Thanks, Again

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Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, as almost every person in this nation knows. I won't be posting tomorrow. So, as I have done the past two year...
Monday, November 20, 2006

So What Do You Buy When You Pay Tuition?

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This is long, but it's an issue that deserves more than a soundbite. The MoneyLaw Essay Thanks to a tip from a posting on Paul Caron...