Friday, January 29, 2010

Freezing Real Property Tax Reassessments: A Nice Idea

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As expected, the continuing story of problems with the Philadelphia real property tax assessment system has turned the page to a new chapter...
Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Federal Ready Return: Theoretically Attractive, Pragmatically Unworkable

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The New York Times has jumped onto the “federal Ready Return” bandwagon, a theoretically attractive idea that has been floating around for a...
Monday, January 25, 2010

Surely the Poor Are Not Responsible for the Tax Law Mess

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In Wealth, Taxes, Politics, Jim Maule’s Surrebuttal, and the Hierarchy of Needs , Peter Pappas responds to my latest posting in our dialogu...
Friday, January 22, 2010

Getting Tax Help

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As we near the end of January, the specter of tax filing season begins to loom over our heads. Some people can afford to pay a professional ...
Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Is It Any Wonder That the Tax Law is a Mess?

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My recent post, If A Wealth-Dominated Congress is So Great, Why Are Taxation and Other Policies Such a Mess? , a reply to a Peter Pappas po...
Monday, January 18, 2010

Non-Shocking Tax Shockers

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The Government Accounting Office has issued a report in which, relying on data from the IRS National Research Program, it discloses that 68...
Friday, January 15, 2010

Yes, I Am . . . Cool with Technology

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Joe Kristan, of Tax Update Blog , asks, in his post When We’re Boring, We Demand Your Full Attention , “The TaxProf is cool with technology....
Wednesday, January 13, 2010

If A Wealth-Dominated Congress is So Great, Why Are Taxation and Other Policies Such a Mess?

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Peter Pappas, of The Tax Lawyer’s Blog , takes issue with a point I made in A Tax Policy Determination Clue . Technically, in Two Professors...
Monday, January 11, 2010

Taxing Modernization = Tax Foolishness

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Some people in France don't like the consequences of digital technology and are proposing a tax on advertising revenue collected by Goog...
Friday, January 08, 2010

Shakeout in the Tax Return Preparation Industry?

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The IRS has announced ”a sweeping new effort to reach tax return preparers with enforcement and education” . The decision follows a multi-mo...
Wednesday, January 06, 2010

A Tax Policy Determination Clue

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A column in Monday’s Philadelphia Inquirer by Maria Panaritis, Happy Ending for ‘GenHexed’ , caught my eye because it examines a topic that ...
Monday, January 04, 2010

Taxes, Happiness, and Unhappiness

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Thanks to a tip from Paul Caron's TaxProf blog posting , I turned my attention to a Wall Street Journal Opinion article, Are Taxes the R...
Friday, January 01, 2010

A Zero Tax, A Zero Congress

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The other day when I was at the gym, a retired fellow asked me what was going to happen with the estate tax, which as of today has become a ...