Wednesday, June 30, 2010

What Do After-Tax Income Studies Teach?

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The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has released Income Gaps Between Very Rich and Everyone Else More Than Tripled In Last Three Deca...
Monday, June 28, 2010

The Post-Tax Revenue Era

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So people don’t like taxes. Governments aren’t collecting enough taxes to pay for all the things people want governments to provide. Increas...
Friday, June 25, 2010

Tax Amnesty Scorecard Updated

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About a month ago, in To Amnesty or Not to Amnesty, That is the Question , I noted the tough decisions that tax amnesties presented both to ...
Wednesday, June 23, 2010

FICA, Medicare, and Payroll Taxes

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Last week, in Social Security Activist Appeals to Philly Millionaires , Joseph N. DiStefano wrote about David Walker, who has issued warning...
Monday, June 21, 2010

Internal Revenue Code: Small Change, New Feature, New Look

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As I worked my way through a new provision of the Internal Revenue Code, trying to interpret it so that I could add a small discussion of it...
Friday, June 18, 2010

Pulling the Tax Rug Out From Under Taxpayers

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Because tax law affects people’s decision making, it makes sense for people to know what the tax law is and how it affects their decisions b...
Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Yet Another Sin Tax

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A few days ago, the IRS released proposed and temporary regulations addressing mostly procedural issues with respect to the new excise tax ...
Monday, June 14, 2010

Tax Credits on Parade

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For many decades, CCH has published a weekly update on taxation called Taxes on Parade. It’s a clever title. Sometimes it causes me to think...
Friday, June 11, 2010

Lining Up for Tax Breaks

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The Federal Trade Commission has been studying “the challenges faced by journalism in the Internet age,” to quote from a discussion paper r...
Wednesday, June 09, 2010

Back to the Gasoline Tax Future

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Last Friday, as more fully reported in this Philadelphia Inquirer article , the idea of raising state gasoline taxes resurfaced in Harrisbur...
Monday, June 07, 2010

Tax-Cut Advocates – Like the Poor – Will Always Be With Us: Part Three

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Pappas laments, in his latest post: I shutter when I consider that Professor Maule is likely teaching his students that there are no valid a...
Friday, June 04, 2010

Tax-Cut Advocates – Like the Poor – Will Always Be With Us: Part Two

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So why does Pappas so desperately want to show the world that I have tagged him, and other tax-cut defenders, with terrible labels, when in ...
Wednesday, June 02, 2010

Tax-Cut Advocates – Like the Poor – Will Always Be With Us: Part One

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The tenacity with which Peter Pappas holds his views on tax policy and the amount of offense he takes at having those views scrutinized, cri...
Monday, May 31, 2010

Memorial Day, Taxes, and Remembering the Future

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On Friday, as the Memorial Day weekend was about to begin, I heard a commercial on a local radio station that began with these words, “Memor...
Friday, May 28, 2010

To Amnesty or Not to Amnesty, That is the Question

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Sorry about the bad grammar, but it happens. A grammatically correct expression of the thought would create too long of a post title. The to...
Wednesday, May 26, 2010

More Proof The U.S.A. Needs More and Better Tax Education

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It started with my post, Is Public Truly Getting IRS-Congress Distinction? . My suggestion that if people understood the tax system and the...