Friday, November 30, 2018

Another Tax Return Preparer Meets Judge Judy

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Over the years, I have had the opportunity to comment on a increasingly lengthier list of television court shows that involve taxes. Some of...
Wednesday, November 28, 2018

A Core Principle of Teaching: Formative Feedback

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A meme popped up on facebook a few days ago. The meme stated: “College student: HS students worry about grades . . . imagine not knowing you...
Monday, November 26, 2018

How Tax Cuts for Large Corporations and Wealthy Individuals Impact Jobs

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When I read the New York Times article , I was not surprised. The news was consistent with my reaction to the 2017 tax legislation that incr...
Friday, November 23, 2018

Defeating Ignorance, and Not Just in the Tax World

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In Reaching New Lows With Tax Ignorance . I wrote “Ignorance has become an epidemic.” I think it poses a threat to the survival of democracy...
Wednesday, November 21, 2018

Particularly Thankful This Time Around

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For as long as I’ve been writing this blog, I’ve been sharing a Thanksgiving post to express my gratitude for a variety of people, events, a...
Monday, November 19, 2018

Tax Breaks and Corporate Blackmail

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A meme is making its way around facebook, and for all I know, perhaps other social media outlets. It asks a question. “As Jeff Bezos Earns $...
Friday, November 16, 2018

Fighting Over a Tax Refund

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Another Hot Bench episode provides an important lesson for people who live together, have children together, or do both, without being marri...
Wednesday, November 14, 2018

Oregon Voters Stop Attempt to Protect Business Tax Breaks

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Reader Morris directed my attention to an election report on the outcome of an Oregon ballot initiative that would have subjected changes i...
Monday, November 12, 2018

Election Outcomes and Taxes

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So what’s in the future when it comes to taxes at the federal level? Four points are made in this recent post-election article . The first...
Friday, November 09, 2018

Be Careful When Selecting and Dealing with a Tax Return Preparer

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Those television court shows continue to provide material for this blog. Some examples can be found in previous posts such as Judge Judy and...
Wednesday, November 07, 2018

Doing the Same Tax Thing Time and Again With the Same Adverse Outcome

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One definition of insanity that circulates through society is the notion that doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a diffe...
Monday, November 05, 2018

Throwing Tax Into a Welcoming Conversation

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Every now and then I remind people that tax is everywhere. I did that 13 years ago in Truly, Tax is Everywhere , 12 years ago in Attack of t...
Friday, November 02, 2018

Tax Ballot Wording Matters

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After reading this Philadelphia Inquirer article I concluded that inattention to precise wording causes needless confusion. A bit of backgr...
Wednesday, October 31, 2018

If Halloween Candy Isn’t Food, Is it Medicine?

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From the outset of this blog, I have made it a point to work Halloween into MauledAgain, usually looking for the silly or goofy but occasion...
Monday, October 29, 2018

A Tax I Do Not Support

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Perhaps the title of this commentary should be A Tax I Have Not Supported and Still Do Not Support, but that’s probably a bit too long. If I...
Friday, October 26, 2018

What to Do When Drowning in Money and Hauling in Tax Cuts

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The idea of trying to amass tens of millions or billions of dollars has never appealed to me. What would I do with it? I don’t need it. But ...
Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Mileage-Based Road Fee Enters Illinois Gubernatorial Campaign

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For almost a decade and a half, I have advocated the enactment of mileage-based road fees to replace the increasingly less effective and les...
Monday, October 22, 2018

The Dangers of Ignorance, Present and Eternal

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Ignorance is high on my list of dislikes. Unlike some things that I don’t like, ignorance can be avoided, and in most instances it is easily...
Friday, October 19, 2018

Surrender of Tax Breaks Not a Philanthropic Move

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Three years ago, in When the Rich Beg, for Tax Breaks , I wrote about the request by Disney Corp. to extend by 30 years a tax break it negot...