Monday, April 30, 2018

Yet Another Reason the 2017 Tax Cut Legislation Isn’t Good for Most Americans

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Last week, in Another Reason the 2017 Tax Cut Legislation Isn’t Good for Most Americans , I commented on one of the many flaws in the 2017 t...
Friday, April 27, 2018

Some Statistics About Tax Attorneys

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The latest 2018’s Best & Worst Entry-Level Jobs report from WalletHub includes some rather interesting information about tax attorneys....
Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Another Reason the 2017 Tax Cut Legislation Isn’t Good for Most Americans

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It’s no secret I’m not a fan of the 2017 tax legislation that lowered taxes significantly for the wealthy, gave some modest or trivial tax d...
Monday, April 23, 2018

Tithing, Taxes, and Income

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Reader Morris pointed me in the direction of a question at the intersection of tax and theology . There are many questions at that intersect...
Friday, April 20, 2018

Who Should Decide Tax Policy?

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According to this recent story , a billionaire who is registered as an independent but who has donated to both major political parties thoug...
Wednesday, April 18, 2018

When Anti-Tax Means Anti-Too-Much

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Too often, the anti-tax crowd portrays opposition to tax as beneficial for society. A frequent social media meme claims that before the inco...
Monday, April 16, 2018

No, It’s Not A Good Way to Run a Tax System

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A little more than a week ago, in How Not to Run a Tax System , I criticized the efforts by the Office of Management and Budget to get its h...
Friday, April 13, 2018

How Not to Manage Income Tax Refunds

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The title of the article, Why tax season is good (and bad) for Americans' health caught my eye. Expecting to read about increases in st...
Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Kansas Demonstrates Again Why Supply-Side Economics Fails

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One of the best examples of how trickle-down supply-side tax policy is a total failure is the Kansas experience. I have written about the te...
Monday, April 09, 2018

What Is a Retailer’s Obligation Not to Provide Misleading Tax Information?

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The other day, listening to Philadelphia’s news radio station, I heard a commercial for a retailer in Delaware. One of the featured parts of...
Friday, April 06, 2018

How Not to Run a Tax System

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In theory, the process of administering new tax laws works. Congress amends the Internal Revenue Code, and the Treasury Department, in coope...
Wednesday, April 04, 2018

Progress on the Mileage-Based Road Fee Front?

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For almost fifteen years, I have advocated the enactment of mileage-based road fees to replace the increasingly less effective and less effi...
Monday, April 02, 2018

Misclassifying Employees as Independent Contractors Can Be Even More Expensive Than Taxes, Interest, and Penalties

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Three and a half years ago, in Employee or Independent Contractor Issue Stripped Down , I described a judicial decision in which a federal d...
Friday, March 30, 2018

Send a Check or EFT, Not a Tax Break

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No sooner had I posted Why Is Taxation Almost Always the Solution of First Resort? , criticizing use of the tax law to solve problems that a...
Wednesday, March 28, 2018

A Bit of Cryptic Tax Trivia

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In his commentary about cryptocurrencies , Mark Zandi not only explained why digital currencies, despite some periods of rapid growth in va...
Monday, March 26, 2018

Why Is Taxation Almost Always the Solution of First Resort?

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Readers of MauledAgain know that I am not a fan of using taxes as a mechanism to encourage or discourage behavior. Taxes, user fees, tolls, ...
Friday, March 23, 2018

Lawyers Who Don’t Practice Tax Cannot Ignore Basic Tax Principles

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There are some basic principles of tax law that every teenage and adult American should know and understand, though it might be expecting t...
Wednesday, March 21, 2018

How Not to Lower Taxes or Reduce Tax Increases

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The headline did not mention tax, but something about it, Jersey Shore ice cream wars. Who gets to sell? , caught my eye and I read the Phil...
Monday, March 19, 2018

The Tax Consequences of Embryo and Egg Damage

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The intersection between tax and biotechnological developments, and between tax and technological development generally, has always captured...
Friday, March 16, 2018

What Tolls and Transportation Taxes Purchase

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Earlier this week, the Philadelphia Inquirer published a letter to the editor from Nathan A. Benefield, vice president and CEO of Commonweal...
Wednesday, March 14, 2018

Arguing About Tax Crumbs

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In his March 7, 2018, Institute for Policy Innovation commentary, Whose Crumbs? , Tom Giovanetti criticized Democrat Minority Leader Nancy P...
Monday, March 12, 2018

Tax Opposition: A Costly Road to Follow

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With great delight, Americans for Prosperity issued a press release proudly quoting Paul Ryan’s promise, “We’re not going to raise gas taxe...
Friday, March 09, 2018

What Is a Successful Tax?

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For almost a decade I have been criticizing the so-called soda tax. It fails to get my support because it is both too narrow and too broad. ...
Wednesday, March 07, 2018

More Proof Supply-Side Economic Theory Is Bad Tax Policy

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Readers of this blog know that I am an advocate of demand-side economic policy. Logic and experience have established the failure of tax cut...
Monday, March 05, 2018

A Second Man Who Made a Difference in the Tax World

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Two weeks ago, in One Man Who Made a Difference in the Tax World , I reacted to the passing of Leonard L. Silverstein by describing the posi...
Friday, March 02, 2018

How To Use the Tax Law to Create Jobs and Raise Wages

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On Monday, in How To Use Tax Breaks to Properly Stimulate an Economy , I stated that, “The worst way to use the tax law to encourage behavio...