Friday, November 28, 2008

Taxes and Benefits: Cliffs and Steps

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It's easier to go up steps than to go up cliffs, and it's easier to go down steps than to go down a cliff. This is true in both the ...
Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Giving MauledAgain a Personality

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Thanks to a link that the Wandering Tax Pro included in What's the Buzz? Tell Me What's a Happennin' , I found my way to Typea...
Monday, November 24, 2008

A Tax Conundrum

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Last week, the Philadelphia City Council approved Mayor Nutter's proposed legislation to deal with impending budget deficits caused by t...
Friday, November 21, 2008

Apologizing for the Tax Law Efforts of the Congress

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A few days ago, I received an email from a reader, and with the reader's permission, I share it: I enjoy your commentaries; keep them c...
Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Creative Tax Argument Gets Drowned

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For those who think tax law is boring, there's nothing like an interesting tax case to dispel that notion. Last week, in Langer v. Comr....
Monday, November 17, 2008

They Tax What?

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Here's an interesting tax story that I discovered over the weekend. Apparently, back in 1940, New Jersey enacted a law that permits mun...
Friday, November 14, 2008

Evading Tax = Self-Help Bailouts?

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Four different news items coming along during the past two days have coalesced into a strange thought. All three stories involve the financi...
Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Taxes and Economic Stimulus: Déjà vu All Over Again?

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Talk of a second stimulus package is making the rounds on Capitol Hill. The first stimulus legislation, originally marketed as a tax rebate...
Monday, November 10, 2008

Tax, Emotionally

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For tax practitioners, tax is a rational subject. So, too, is tax law. Occasionally afflicted by illogical provisions, it nonetheless conta...
Friday, November 07, 2008

What's Ahead for the Tax Law?

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Trying to predict what changes will take place in the tax law as we approach 2009 and the commencement of the Obama Administration is a fool...
Wednesday, November 05, 2008

Tax Lies Don't Work

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It's wonderful that the number of voters who bought into the "Barack Obama voted to raise taxes on everyone earning more than $42,0...
Monday, November 03, 2008

Americans, Wealth Distribution, and Income Taxes

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Last week, in Wealth Redistribution, Socialism, and the Tax Law , I wrote: The notion that believing in taking from the haves and giving to ...
Friday, October 31, 2008

A Truly Frightening Halloween Candy Bar

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Today is Halloween. It's also the day that parade honoring the Philadelphia Phillies for their World Series Championship is scheduled to...
Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Wealth Redistribution, Socialism, and the Tax Law

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During the past week, the outpouring of "it's socialism" as a response to the proposal to revoke the tax cuts enacted for thos...
Monday, October 27, 2008

Is Tax Noncompliance by The Rich Worse than by the Super-Rich?

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A new study by Prof. Joel B. Slemrod, a University of Michigan business school professor and Andrew Johns of the IRS, The Distribution of In...
Friday, October 24, 2008

Progressive Income Taxation and Socialism

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My post dealing with the charge that letting tax cuts for high income taxpayers expire, Taxes, Bailouts and Socialism , has generated all so...