Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Special Low Tax Rates Hurt the Economy and Thus the Nation

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The debate between those who want to tax capital gains and dividends as all other income is taxed and those who want to bless the recipient...
Monday, February 25, 2013

Tax Law Provision Enforceable Even if Unwise

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Some taxpayers who are not trained in the law think that if a law does not make sense or is unwise they can ignore it. That simply isn’t the...
Friday, February 22, 2013

How Tax Falsehoods Get Fertilized

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On Wednesday, in Tax Commercial’s False Facts Perpetuates Falsehood , I lamented the ease with which the false claim that the Internal Reven...
Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Tax Commercial’s False Facts Perpetuates Falsehood

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A goodly portion of the citizens of the United States claim that they live in the greatest nation on earth, the greatest nation in history, ...
Monday, February 18, 2013

A New Chapter in the Philadelphia Property Tax Story

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According to this story , Philadelphia property owners now have, or will shortly have, the assessments placed on their properties under the ...
Friday, February 15, 2013

Alarm Bells Ringing for Philadelphia Property Tax Reform

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The Philadelphia real property tax system is a mess. For years, it has been beset with inconsistent valuations, miserable administration, ev...
Wednesday, February 13, 2013

When Spending Cuts Meet Asteroids: The Value of Taxes

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Two stories caught my eye this morning. The connection between the two is significant. According to the first story , on Friday, Feb. 15, ...
Monday, February 11, 2013

Spending Problem or Revenue Problem?

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Much of the debate surrounding the size of the federal debt, a situation that surely poses grave danger to the nation, involves claims that ...
Friday, February 08, 2013

When Is a Tax Increase Not a Tax Increase?

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With all the opposition to tax increases overshadowing the needs of the nation, it is important to identify tax increases. One way of avoidi...
Wednesday, February 06, 2013

Tax Ignorance As Persistent as Death and Taxes

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Sometimes tackling tax ignorance appears to be as pointless a task as trying to shovel all the sand off a beach. Every time I blink, I read ...
Monday, February 04, 2013

Looking Again at Tax and Political Ignorance

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A little more than a week ago, in Tax Ignorance and Its Siblings , I lamented the adverse impact that ignorance has on the nation’s politica...
Friday, February 01, 2013

Another “Flat Tax” Proposal That Falls Flat

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I suppose it’s expecting too much to discover that there are points on which all people can agree. After all, there still exists a Flat Eart...
Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Tax Law Warning: Don’t Cut Mom a Rent Break

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When I teach section 280A, I point out to students the necessity of reading section 280A(d) very carefully. Section 280A(d) specifies rules ...
Monday, January 28, 2013

Tax Planning: A Chore That Never Sleeps

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Six years ago, I had the opportunity to review Julian Block’s "Year Round Tax Savings," and shared my thoughts in Another Tax Book...
Friday, January 25, 2013

A Tax Question: So What Do You Do With Your Time?

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One of the pieces of advice that I give to newly enrolled law students is that they should budget their time. The demands of law school are ...
Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Tax Ignorance and Its Siblings

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There’s just something about ignorance that disturbs me. It always has. Even as a very young child, it bothered me more than just a little b...