Friday, February 26, 2010

Taxes and Disgust

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Early this week I wrote about Taxes and Anger . Today I will describe how taxes can trigger disgust. There’s simply no point in getting angr...
Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Snow, Budgets, and User Fees

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The news that Philadelphia already has incurred $11.5 million in snow removal costs this winter isn’t the startling part of this story . Thr...
Monday, February 22, 2010

Taxes and Anger

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Joseph Stack was angry. A lot of things went wrong in his life, as outlined in a posting that was taken down from the internet but not befor...
Friday, February 19, 2010

So Are Law Grads Ready to Be Tax Auditors?

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A thought-provoking suggestion from Rob Nassau at Syracuse has turned attention to the question of whether it would make sense for the IRS ...
Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Snow, Jobs, and Taxes

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Yes, notice carefully the commas. It does not say (with apologies to Lynne Truss, author of "Eats, Shoots & Leaves," a must-r...
Monday, February 15, 2010

A Lesson in Use Tax Collection

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Unlike the states that try to make out-of-state vendors responsible for use tax collection on behalf of in-state residents who fail to file ...
Friday, February 12, 2010

Time for Some Sales Tax Calculations

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According to news released on Tuesday, Pennsylvania's Governor Ed Rendell is proposing that the state reduce its sales tax rate by 2 pe...
Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Some Insights into the Tax Policy Mess

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Those who wonder why the nation’s tax policy is such a mess, and who understand that tax policy is not developed in a vacuum but in the cont...
Monday, February 08, 2010

Back to the Internet Taxation Future

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Several days ago, I received an email containing the text of an article by Eleanor Roberts, Main St. Needs Tax Loophole Closed . It was sugg...
Friday, February 05, 2010

Repeals, Expirations, and Reinstatements: A Taxing But Critical Difference

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Words are precision instruments, but too often, even in the hands of professionals such as lawyers and journalists, they get used as though ...
Wednesday, February 03, 2010

Caveat Emptor, Law Students Seeking Outlines

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The title of this post isn’t designed to demonstrate any sort of proficiency in Latin but to alert law students to the dangers of relying on...
Monday, February 01, 2010

Tax Incentives Can Do Only So Much

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Last Wednesday, in his State of the Union address, the President put forth several specific suggestions for changes in the tax law: I'm ...
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...