Monday, June 29, 2009

Student Focus, Part I

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Two summers ago, in Structuring the Basic Tax Course, Part I , I commenced a series of 40 posts that explored “how and why I have structured...
Friday, June 26, 2009

A Tax Reality Show?

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Someone commenting on What Is Taxation? caused as thought to cross my mind. The anonymous commenter took the position that taxes are not li...
Wednesday, June 24, 2009

The Total Happiness of Taxlessness

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In my last post, I asked, "Come to think of it, what tax isn't disliked?" In Tax as a Hate Crime? , I noted, "There are p...
Monday, June 22, 2009

A Classic Tax Increase Battle

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It is unlikely that it could have been avoided. The storm clouds of a tax increase battle have been gathering over Pennsylvania since late l...
Friday, June 19, 2009

What's So Bad About Higher Taxes on Millionaires and Billionaires?

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It started rather simply. An OECD report informed us that the nations whose people ranked the happiest in a new survey are those with tax r...
Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Get the Tax Fraud Allegation Picture?

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Roger Corbin is hoping that you don't. Get the picture, that is. The picture of Roger Corbin being arrested, cuffed, and taken to jail o...
Monday, June 15, 2009

Tax as a Hate Crime?

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Proposals to impose taxes on sugar-containing beverages and to increase taxes on alcohol have resurfaced, this time at the federal level, as...
Sunday, June 14, 2009

Making A Living but Not a Killing: The Discordant Symphony of Wealth Creation and Wealth Grabbing

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In Forget Lives, Liberties, and Happiness: The Pursuit of Wealth and Power , I responded to two questions posed by Peter Pappas of The Tax L...
Friday, June 12, 2009

Forget Lives, Liberties, and Happiness: The Pursuit of Wealth and Power

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My post of several weeks ago, Pay Taxes, Be Happy , has triggered two questions for me from Peter Pappas of The Tax Lawyer's Blog . In ...
Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Corrupted Files and Getting Caught: Cheating By No Other Name

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Courtesy of Paul Caron's Tax Prof Blog posting , The High Tech Alternative to "My Grandmother Died," I became aware of an Insi...
Monday, June 08, 2009

Deductions for Medical Expenses Subsidized by Gift

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Another case involving the deduction of in vitro fertilization expenses has been decided by the Tax Court, but this time the issue isn't...
Friday, June 05, 2009

Is a Gasoline Tax Increase in the Pipeline?

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More than a year ago, in The Return of the Federal Gasoline Tax Increase Proposal , I reacted to the proposal by the National Surface Trans...
Wednesday, June 03, 2009

A Tax-and-Spend Conundrum

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In his Philadelphia Daily News column, "Budget Will be Late, Painful" , John Baer, after predicting that Philadelphia's sales ...
Monday, June 01, 2009

What is Taxation?

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Over on AnswerBag someone named morrisonhimself asked an interesting pair of questions: "If taxation is not theft, what is it? If thef...