Friday, September 30, 2011

Infrastructure, Tolls, Barns, Jackasses, and Carpenters

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The subheadline of a Philadelphia Inquirer article earlier this week caught my eye. “People want improvements, but no one wants to pay for ...
Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Taxes and the Funding of (De)Regulated Markets

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The anti-tax lobby is fond of singing the praises of the “free market” and justifying, in part, their aversion to taxation because it provid...
Monday, September 26, 2011

Disaster Relief, Taxes, and Offsets

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Last month, in Storms, Public Infrastructure, and Taxes , I criticized the posture of the anti-tax crowd for its insistence that governments...
Friday, September 23, 2011

Taxes As a Weapon in Class Warfare

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Even before the President formally announced his plan to ensure that wealthy individuals did not pay federal income taxes at rates lower tha...
Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Toll Increases Ought Not Finance Free Rides

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When reality hits the ideal, the ideal almost always caves in. Consider what has been happening when the anti-tax crowd meets the reality of...
Monday, September 19, 2011

Do Lower Taxes, Less Regulation Create Jobs? Do Payroll Tax Cuts, Employment Credits, More Section 179 Expensing, Unemployment Benefits Create Jobs?

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On one thing, almost everyone can agree. The economy is a mess, as evidenced by the number of people lacking employment. On something else, ...
Friday, September 16, 2011

The IRS and Forms 1099-INT: We Remain Curious

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One of the benefits of writing this blog is that it gives me the opportunity to learn. Last week, in Does the IRS Issue Forms 1099? Should I...
Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Even Giants Make Tax Mistakes

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A practitioner pointed me in the direction of an H&R Block Press Center Newsroom Story Ideas posting , titled, “Renting Your Vacation Ho...
Monday, September 12, 2011

Destruction: Natural Disasters and Taxation

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Many months ago, back in March, KVUE in Austin, Texas, ran a story that certainly did not get my attention and probably did not get much at...
Friday, September 09, 2011

More on the IRS and Form 1099-INT

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My Wednesday post, Does the IRS Issue Forms 1099? Should It? brought a response from Mary Lew Kehm, a CPA and PFS (personal financial speci...
Wednesday, September 07, 2011

Does the IRS Issue Forms 1099? Should It?

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A Tax Court opinion released last week made me stop and ask myself a question. Does the IRS issue Forms 1099? In Megibow v. Comr. , T.C. ...
Monday, September 05, 2011

You Know the Election Cycle Has Started When The Tax Talk Gets Even Dumber

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Taxes certainly get a lot of attention. This is particularly noteworthy when one considers that taxes are not like the matters that usually ...
Friday, September 02, 2011

Employee or Independent Contractor? For Taxes, It Matters

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Whether a person who is performing services ends up characterized as an employee or as an independent contractor affects a variety of tax is...
Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Storms, Public Infrastructure, and Taxes

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Though the damage caused by Hurricane Irene along the east coast of the United States was not as severe as expected, and nowhere near what i...
Monday, August 29, 2011

Highways, Trucks, Recessions, and Taxes

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One of the sights I saw, frequently, on my recent very short journey part-way across the country, was the tractor-trailer. I haven’t seen th...
Friday, August 26, 2011

Two Types of Tax Increases

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Apparently there are two types of tax increases in this nation. And apparently one type is very bad and the other is very good. How does one...
Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Taxation and the Descendants of Thomas Maule of Salem, Mass., Part X

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This is the tenth in a series of posts that highlight descendants (and in several instances, spouses of descendants) of Thomas Maule of Sale...
Monday, August 22, 2011

Taxation and the Descendants of Thomas Maule of Salem, Mass., Part IX

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This is the ninth in a series of posts that highlight descendants (and in several instances, spouses of descendants) of Thomas Maule of Sale...