Monday, January 05, 2009

Whatever a Tax Increase is Called, Someone Needs to Sell It

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On Friday, reports such as this Philadelphia Inquirer story brought the news that the National Commission on Surface Transportation Infrast...
Friday, January 02, 2009

Fix Housing FIRST?

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On New Year's Eve I heard a commercial on the local news radio station for something called "Fix Housing First," and so I went...
Wednesday, December 31, 2008

We Don't Need to Make These Up

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It is impossible for me to tally how many times I have said to my students, in one or another class, "We law professors don't need ...
Monday, December 29, 2008

Tax Holidays?

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Last week, in a letter to the editors of the Philadelphia Inquirer , Scott Duman proposed that all employee payroll and federal income taxes...
Friday, December 26, 2008

Are In Vitro Fertilization Expenses Deductible?

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Here's yet another one of those tax questions the answer to which is "It depends." It's the next question that often stump...
Wednesday, December 24, 2008

What Sort of Tax?

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The current tax debate in New York State is a textbook example of the tax policy issues implicated when a state determines that it must incr...
Monday, December 22, 2008

Great New Book Helps Estate Planning Clients Help Their Attorneys

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One of the many practical points I try to get across to my students in Decedents' Estates and Trusts is that they will encounter clients...
Friday, December 19, 2008

Cutting Up the Economic Distress Remediation Pie

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Thanks to Paul Caron's TaxProf blog post, Did Double Tax on Corporate Income Contribute to Economic Meltdown? , I found myself exploring...
Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Is Tax the Best Way to Deal with Greed and Financial Foolishness?

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Three months ago, in Risk Premiums with a Greed Tax? , I suggested that perhaps there should be a tax on greed. I proposed that "The ta...
Monday, December 15, 2008

Timing Estimated State Income Tax Payments

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Last week someone brought to my attention advice being given by Charles Schwab to the effect that one should "prepay" state estim...
Friday, December 12, 2008

All of Us Knew Tax is Just About Hot Air

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Thanks to Paul Caron's TaxProf blog post , I have learned of a proposed user fee for animal-caused air pollution. According to Proposed ...
Wednesday, December 10, 2008

A MauledAgain Millesimal Event

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Well, folks, here it is. Post number 1,000. Who would have thought, almost five years ago, that MauledAgain would be around for 1,000 posts?...
Monday, December 08, 2008

Do Tax Credits Deserve Credit?

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The chief executive of a major home builder, Toll Brothers, Inc., has suggested that the government's proposal to guarantee mortgage-bac...
Friday, December 05, 2008

Leaders as Teachers: Fixing the Financial Fiasco

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Speaking from experience, it truly is difficult to resist saying, "I told you so." Yet somehow, according to this report , Paul O...
Wednesday, December 03, 2008

Uniformly Rejecting Tax Non-Uniformity

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Eighteen months ago, in An Unconstitutional Tax Assessment System , I commented on the decision in Clifton v. Allegheny Co. , holding that A...
Monday, December 01, 2008

Some Tax Odds and Ends

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Several news stories during the past few days have caught my attention. Tax is involved in some indirect way. According to a KYW News Radio ...
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 ...