Wednesday, January 31, 2007

If Every Dollar Were a C-Note...

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Last Friday, in New Tax Site, Decimal Decimation, Body Advertising, and Government Goofs , I passed along news about the mess created when a...
Monday, January 29, 2007

Taxing Ticket Takers and Rocketship Riders

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Friday's posting on New Tax Site, Decimal Decimation, Body Advertising, and Government Goofs , which was picked up and referenced as ...
Friday, January 26, 2007

New Tax Site, Decimal Decimation, Body Advertising, and Government Goofs

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After looking at the growing list of "to be blogged" items in my email inbox, I decided it's time to share a few of them at on...
Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Closing the Tax Gap Requires Congressional Introspection

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Thanks to Paul Caron's TaxProf Blog posting , I learned that the GAO had issued a report , "TAX COMPLIANCE Multiple Approaches Are ...
Monday, January 22, 2007

Are Tax Incentives Necessary to Help Those Already Making Money?

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On Thursday, the House of Representatives, by a vote of 264-123, approved H.R. 6 , the CLEAN Energy Act of 2007. [If the link doesn't wo...

Tax Carnival #10 Has Arrived

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TAX CARNIVAL #10 – PUTTING IT TOGETHER , constructed and hosted by Robert D. Flach , also known as the Wandering Tax Pro, is now available f...
Friday, January 19, 2007

Appreciating the Lessons of the PRC Land Appreciation Tax

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An expert on taxation in the People's Republic of China is not a tag that would be attached to my name. Nonetheless, sometimes it is use...
Wednesday, January 17, 2007

How Small is Tax Small?

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On Friday, in How Political Blackmail Enhances Tax Law Complexity , I explained my disappointment and disdain at the ploy by certain Senator...
Monday, January 15, 2007

It's Raining Charts

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TaxChartMan, the nickname I've assigned to Andrew Mitchel, has inaugurated the new year with another 30 charts. Like the rain that has s...
Friday, January 12, 2007

How Political Blackmail Enhances Tax Law Complexity

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On Wednesday, the House voted to raise the minimum wage . The legislation passed by the House does just that. I found the text of the bill a...
Wednesday, January 10, 2007

A Sarcastic Tax Thanks for the Outgoing Congress

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In my commentary on the adverse effects of last-minute end-of-December tax legislation enactment that is effective as of the beginning of th...

Tax Carnival #9 Has Appeared

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Kay Bell, of Don't Mess With Taxes , has posted Tax Carnival #9: Welcome to Tax Season 2007 . With links to stories and commentary about...
Monday, January 08, 2007

Talking Like a Philadelphian

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OK, it's not tax, or chocolate chip cookies, or model trains. It might be related, tangentially, to genealogy and perhaps even law schoo...

Some Tax Resolutions the Congress Should Not Make

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At the end of December I shared A Proposed Congressional New Year's Tax Resolution . I proposed that Congress "[j]ettison the dozen...
Friday, January 05, 2007

Don't Buy Tax Snake Oil

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I'm beginning to think that the tax law is complicated principally because people think they are special and others aren't. So we se...
Wednesday, January 03, 2007

Can Tax Cuts for Shareholders Increase Employee Wages?

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Last week, Paul Caron's TaxProf Blog directed me to a Wall Street Journal editorial advocating a cut in corporate tax rates. Why? Beca...
Tuesday, January 02, 2007

My Holiday Tax Gift

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The family holiday gathering was delayed until yesterday, New Year's Day. Among the gifts I received was one that focused on taxes. Ther...
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 ...