Wednesday, February 27, 2019

California’s No-Cash-Payment-of-Taxes Policy: Is It Getting Away With Something?

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Reacting to Friday’s commentary, When Paying Taxes in Cash is Prohibited , reader Morris asked, “How does California's FTB get away with...
Monday, February 25, 2019

What’s More Effective? Taxing and Restricting Soda or Educating People About Healthy Lifestyles?

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It’s soda tax time again! This is an issue on which I have commented many times, including posts such as What Sort of Tax? , The Return of t...
Friday, February 22, 2019

When Paying Taxes in Cash is Prohibited

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Three and a half years ago, in Does It Make Tax Cents? , I commented on a story about a Pennsylvania taxpayer who paid a tax by dumping 50,0...
Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Ignoring The Tax Withholding Warning Comes at a Price

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In a series of commentaries, including The Realities of Income Tax Withholding , Indeed, Check Your Withholding, and Do It Now , and Time Ru...
Monday, February 18, 2019

Is the Proposed New Jersey Stormwater Management Fee an Unfair Tax?

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A little less than six years ago, in The “Rain Tax”? , I examined the storm management fee enacted by Maryland, which critics called a “rain...
Friday, February 15, 2019

Did a Revenge Mistake Alter Tax History?

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The Philadelphia soda tax saga, like some other topics I have addressed over the years, is a tale that does not seem to have an end. I have ...
Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Why the Job Cuts By Tax Cut Recipients?

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At some point, enough people are going to realize that the “give us a tax break and we’ll create jobs” promise is as empty as the pockets of...
Monday, February 11, 2019

Tax Ignorance or Tax Deception?

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Reader Morris sent me a tweet by Grover Norquist, who claimed “Slavery is when your owner takes 100% of your production. Democrat congresswo...
Friday, February 08, 2019

Broken Tax Promises: When Tax Cut Crumbs Are Brushed Away

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Proponents of the 2017 tax cuts for large corporations and the wealthy bragged that this tax giveaway would generate good-paying jobs and ra...
Wednesday, February 06, 2019

Was the Philadelphia Soda Tax the Product of Revenge?

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Last week, when the U.S. Attorney’s Office issued an indictment of eight individuals, as described in this report , among others, I didn’t d...
Monday, February 04, 2019

Will Tax Increases Be Inevitable as the Federal Budget Deficit Increasingly Corrodes the Economy?

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A few days ago, in this commentary , Mark Zandi pointed out that the “U.S. government is set to spend $1,000,000,000,000 more than it earns,...
Friday, February 01, 2019

Is a User-Fee-Based System Incompatible With Progressive Income Taxation?

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Reacting to my commentary, Who Should Pay to Clean Up Water , suggesting that the cost of cleaning up polluted water should be borne by thos...
Wednesday, January 30, 2019

When the Tax Stuff Piles Up

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One of the unfortunate consequences of the federal government having been shut down for as long as it was is the backlog that piles up. Life...
Monday, January 28, 2019

Pay Tax Now? Pay Tax Later?

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Those familiar with how federal income tax disputes can be resolved know that in most instances taxpayers have a choice. They can pay the am...
Friday, January 25, 2019

Unintended Consequences in the Soda Tax World

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The soda tax has been getting my attention for eleven years, and though there was a respite, it now is once again getting plenty of attentio...