Friday, June 28, 2013

How I Ended Up Teaching Tax (and Other Things): Part VI

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After I graduated from high school and entered college, I continued to tutor high school students in several subjects. These students were n...
Wednesday, June 26, 2013

How I Ended Up Teaching Tax (and Other Things): Part V

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High school brought another opportunity to teach. Two thoughts coalesced in my mind. One was that I enjoyed teaching. The other was that it ...
Monday, June 24, 2013

How I Ended Up Teaching Tax (and Other Things): Part IV

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By the time I reached high school, I had learned to pipe down in the classroom, though I wasn’t in it all that much by the time I was in eig...
Friday, June 21, 2013

How I Ended Up Teaching Tax (and Other Things): Part III

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My next foray into teaching also has its roots in the struggles that the elementary school teachers encountered trying to deal with me in th...
Wednesday, June 19, 2013

How I Ended Up Teaching Tax (and Other Things): Part II

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My earliest memory of engaging in teaching activities takes me back to fourth grade. It’s possible that I was teaching before that time. Sur...
Monday, June 17, 2013

How I Ended Up Teaching Tax (and Other Things): Part I

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Every once in a while, someone asks me how or why I ended up teaching tax, or teaching in a law school. There are two versions of the story....
Friday, June 14, 2013

Potholes: Poster Children for Why Tax Increases Save Money

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On several occasions in the past, I have tried to make the point that the cost of stopping tax increases can exceed the tax increase thereby...
Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Reactions to “Parents to Children: Be a Lawyer, Marry a Lawyer”

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My recent post, Parents to Children: Be a Lawyer, Marry a Lawyer , generated a response from a reader. He sent me several links, including M...
Monday, June 10, 2013

Code-Sized Ignorance Discussion Also Is Growing

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It started with Bush Pages Through the Tax Code? , and continued with Anyone Want to Count the Words in the Internal Revenue Code? , Tax Com...
Friday, June 07, 2013

Parents to Children: Be a Lawyer, Marry a Lawyer

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The results of a new survey by the blog lawyers.com reveals some surprising or perhaps not so surprising perspectives. The survey disclosed...
Wednesday, June 05, 2013

Code-Size Ignorance Knows No Boundaries

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For almost nine years, I have been trying educate people about the size of the Internal Revenue Code. Trying to eliminate the woeful ignoran...
Monday, June 03, 2013

Does a Mandatory Compensation Deduction Reduction Make a Credit Mandatory?

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On Friday, I described some of The Tax Woes of a Corporation Owned by an Indian Tribe . Specifically, in discussing Uniband, Inc. v. Comr. ,...
Friday, May 31, 2013

The Tax Woes of a Corporation Owned by an Indian Tribe

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A recent case, Uniband, Inc. v. Comr. , 140 T.C. No. 13 (2013), addresses what appears to be novel questions concerning the tax relationship...
Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Reader Weighs In on Weighing the Code

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On Friday, in Weighing the Size of the Internal Revenue Code , I compared a reader’s conclusion that the Internal Revenue Code weighs 80 pou...
Monday, May 27, 2013

Paying Taxes: In Memoriam

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A few people pay taxes with a smile. Some people pay taxes, though grumbling all the way. Many people detest taxes. Just about every discuss...
Friday, May 24, 2013

Weighing the Size of the Internal Revenue Code

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A reader has been carefully following my posts concerning the size of the Internal Revenue Code. His contributions to my awareness of the wi...
Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Taxation is Not Theft

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Even a judge can’t get it right. In a blistering attack on taxation and government titled “Taxation is Theft,” Judge Andrew P. Napolitano –...
Monday, May 20, 2013

Taxing Activities or Things That Can Disappear

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The Philadelphia School District is in deep financial trouble. The combination of declining tax revenues, caused in part by a shrinking tax ...
Friday, May 17, 2013

Julian Block Looks at Marriage, Divorce, Affairs, Engagements, and Cohabitation in the Shadow of Tax

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Julian Block has delivered the 2013 edition of “Tax Tips for Marriage and Divorce,” the previous edition of which I reviewed favorably in Ju...
Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Tax Ignorance Gone Viral

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A week ago, in How Difficult Is It to Count Tax Words? , I revisited the pervasive ignorance manifesting itself in absurd declarations of In...
Monday, May 13, 2013

The Complexities of Tax: Is This Really Necessary?

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A recent IRS private ruling, PLR 201318003 , illustrates how the special low rates for capital gain adds layer upon layer of complexity to t...
Friday, May 10, 2013

It’s Not a New Tax

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The United States Senate recently passed a bill , which is now under consideration in the House of Representatives, requiring on-line retai...
Wednesday, May 08, 2013

How Difficult Is It to Count Tax Words?

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Leonard Lance, a Republican member of Congress from New Jersey, has added his voice to the ever-growing number of people who make erroneous...
Monday, May 06, 2013

Why the “Toss Tax Records After Three (or Seven) Years” Advice is Bad

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A recent tax court case, Cole v. Comr. , T.C. Summ. Op. 2013-34, illustrates the need to retain certain tax-related information for much lon...