Friday, March 30, 2007

Forwarding Telephone Excise Tax Refunds

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Ring up some accolades for a creative idea. The folks at Refunds for Good have been busy connecting their attempt to make taxpayers aware o...
Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Are Citizens About to be Railroaded on Toll Highway Sales?

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About a month ago, in Selling Off Government Revenue Streams: Good Idea or Bad? , I considered the many factors that need to be taken into a...
Monday, March 26, 2007

Too Long Silent in Health Care Tax Impact Discussion

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Somehow I missed Joe Kristan's response to my response to his response to my posting, Health Care Standard Deduction: Solves Uninsured P...

Splitting Tax Hairs

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Perhaps this commentary should be titled "Dividing Tax Hairs." A recent case from the Tax Court, Goode-Parker v. Comr., T.C. Summa...
Friday, March 23, 2007

Congress Invites My Ideas for Improving Tax Compliance and Of Course I Respond

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Several days ago I received a letter from Senator Max Baucus, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and Senator Charles E. Grassley, ran...
Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Some Law and Academic Things I Won't Be the First in the Family to Do

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Ever since I started digging into family history, I've known that a disproportionately high number of Thomas Maule's descendants wer...
Monday, March 19, 2007

It's Sleeting Tax Charts

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The last time I posted about Andrew Mitchel's new tax charts, I titled my comments "It's Raining Charts" . This latest cha...
Friday, March 16, 2007

Ignorant About Tax? It Might Be Dangerous to Life and Law Practice

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It was the headline that caught my eye. CNN announced Americans don't know jack about taxes and followed up with this teaser: "Mos...
Wednesday, March 14, 2007

"Should I Take This Course?"

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My suggestion last week in Law Grads: Time to Start Reading Lots of Tax and Law Books , to the effect that practitioners make lists of cours...
Monday, March 12, 2007

What is a Temporary Absence for Tax Purposes?

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From time to time students ask me to suggest tax topics that they can discuss in a directed research or seminar paper. Whether they are in t...
Friday, March 09, 2007

Law Grads: Time to Start Reading Lots of Tax and Law Books

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On Wednesday, in Tax Books for the School to Practice Transition , I considered a question posed by Larry Staton, Jr. He is looking for book...
Wednesday, March 07, 2007

Tax Books for the School to Practice Transition

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Larry Staton, Jr., who has been following MauledAgain for most of its existence (see More on Gasoline and Free Markets ), presented me with ...
Monday, March 05, 2007

A Nontechnical Tax Guide for Self-Employed Individuals

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Tax season is well underway, and surely there are people who are discovering that starting a business without keeping good records and under...
Friday, March 02, 2007

Using Tax Revenues for A Welfare Program Benefitting the Wealthy?

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Last evening, returning home, I heard a 30-second news story on KYW, the region's news station, but my search for the story on-line was ...
Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Tax Charts and Graphs of An Entirely Different Sort

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As strange as it may seem, today I am going to draw attention to web sites that illustrate tax issues with charts and graphs that are not of...
Monday, February 26, 2007

Selling Off Government Revenue Streams: Good Idea or Bad?

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It's the latest rage in reducing state budget deficits and fending off tax increases. Toll roads lead the parade of state assets that po...
Friday, February 23, 2007

A Dark Side of Teaching Law

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Fortunately, most of the experiences I've had teaching law have been uplifting, rewarding, constructive, educational, and affirmative. S...
Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Is the J.D. Degree Merely a Ticket to More Training?

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Over at the Money Law blog, interesting comments are being shared in A great debate at WSJ's Law Blog . The discussion began with a Wa...