Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Teaching and Learning Tax When Congress Fails to Act

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On Monday, in the basic federal income tax class, it was time to explore how taxpayers acquire basis. The depth to which the exploration is ...
Monday, September 27, 2010

REPOST: ReadyReturn Not a Ready Answer

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[republished from 1 Mar 2006 because blogspot archived page length limitations prevents all posts from appearing] During the 2005 tax filing...

Can A Zero Congress Persist Forever?

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Late last week, as reported in this Philadelphia Inquirer story and elsewhere, leaders of the Congressional majority decided to defer consi...
Friday, September 24, 2010

A Tax Agency Rises from the Dead

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In May, after more than 70 percent of those voting in a Philadelphia referendum chose to send the reviled Bureau of Revision of Taxes to the...
Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Spreading the Wealth: Not Necessarily Inconsistent with Growing the Economy

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Those who argue on behalf of the wealthy continue to set forth arguments that fall apart under the close scrutiny that is unlikely to qualif...
Monday, September 20, 2010

The Viral Nature of Tax Disinformation

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The email arrived with my name and email address in the cc: field. It was being sent by someone I know – let’s call the person N -- to a lis...
Friday, September 17, 2010

Making Progress with Mileage-Based Road Fees

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Not too long ago, in Pennsylvania State Gasoline Tax Increase: The Last Hurrah? , I noted: “What I support is the mileage-based road fee, a ...
Wednesday, September 15, 2010

The Consequences of Tax Education Deficiency

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A few days ago I had a conversation with someone who is not a tax expert, nor a lawyer, but who can fill out simple individual federal incom...
Monday, September 13, 2010

What If They Gave a Tax Party and No One . . . .

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Sorry, that headline won’t quite work. That’s because when Philadelphia hosted the tax party that I discussed in Taxes and Parties , it wasn...
Friday, September 10, 2010

If At First It Doesn’t Work, Try, Try, Try Again

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Not much is worse than a failed attempt at a resolving a problem being offered as a solution to the very problem it failed to resolve. True,...
Wednesday, September 08, 2010

When User Fee Diversion Smacks of Private Inurement

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More than two years ago, in Soccer Franchise Socks It to Bridge Users , I criticized the decision of the Delaware River Port Authority (DRPA...
Monday, September 06, 2010

Legislative Tax Procedure: Confusion Runs Rampant

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Somehow, they just don’t get it. Considering how law students struggle with procedure and process – one of the most critical aspects of lawy...
Friday, September 03, 2010

Taxes and Parties

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No, this is not about taxes and the Tea Party, or taxes and the Democratic Party, or taxes and the Republican Party. It’s about taxes and a ...
Wednesday, September 01, 2010

An Exercise in Futility?

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The other day, a distant cousin – distant both geographically and in terms of degree of relationship, something on the order of fifth cousin...