Friday, April 30, 2010

Taxes and Priorities

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The tension between demands for reduced taxes or reduced tax increases and demands for government services is escalating. Several recent dev...
Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Is Public Truly Getting IRS-Congress Distinction?

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David Cay Johnston’s latest Tax Notes commentary, What Polls Tell Us About the Public's View of Taxes , republished by Paul Caron’s TaxP...
Monday, April 26, 2010

Cut Taxes + Cut Spending = Reduced Education?

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In Tax Lessons from New Jersey , I described the battle over taxes that has enveloped the state of New Jersey. In the latest chapter in this...
Friday, April 23, 2010

Tax Education is Not Just For Tax Professionals

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The other day I received an email from a reader who described having attending a local government meeting, at which a local resident introdu...
Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Does Tax Break for Volunteering Makes Volunteers Mercenaries?

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When, in Tax Law Going to the Dogs in a Fishy Proposal , I commented on the proposal to allow deductions for pet care expenses, I thought ...
Monday, April 19, 2010

The IRS as Health Care Political Pawn

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The challenges posed by having the IRS enforce and regulate the newly-enacted provisions in the health care legislation requiring individual...
Friday, April 16, 2010

What Would YOU Cut Off to Avoid a Tax?

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On Wednesday I learned a new phrase. The phrase is “crop club.” I learned this word from Jeffrey Kacirk's 2010 Forgotten English 365-Day...
Wednesday, April 14, 2010

First Ready Return, Next Ready Vote?

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On Saturday, April 10, several of my comments shared during an interview with reporter Julie Small were aired on National Public Radio’s Mar...
Monday, April 12, 2010

Philadelphia Real Property Tax Solutions: Land Tax? Realty Transfer Tax Credit?

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The conflict between Philadelphia’s mayor and City Council, on the one hand, and the city’s Board of Revision of Taxes, on the other, contin...
Friday, April 09, 2010

Can Bad Tax Administration Doom the Tax?

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The tax world is interesting. Most of the people who are upset with the complexity of the federal income tax law, and who object to the loop...
Wednesday, April 07, 2010

Don’t Like This Tax? How About That Tax?

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Philadelphia’s struggles with finding the best way to raise revenue have become even more complicated as another possibility has been tossed...