Friday, March 29, 2019

If Sugar Is Bad And Is Going To Be Taxed, Tax Everything That Contains Sugar

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The debate about the soda tax shows no sign of easing up. I have commented many times on the soda tax, including posts such as What Sort of ...
Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Revenue Problems With A User Fee Solution Crying for Attention

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Sometimes timing is serendipitous. A few days ago, two articles appeared, both dealing with the same highway funding issue, one involving th...
Monday, March 25, 2019

An Alternative to Using Tax Law for Non-Tax Purposes

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Readers of MauledAgain know that I am not a fan of using federal tax law to encourage or discourage particular behavior. If Congress wants t...
Friday, March 22, 2019

A Tax Break That Pays For Itself?

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On several occasions, I have written about wealthy individuals and corporations that line up for financial assistance. A profitable business...
Wednesday, March 20, 2019

When Partisan Nonsense Muddles the Tax Debate

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Several days ago, a tax-related meme popped up on facebook. I did a bit of research and found it on several web sites, including this one . ...
Monday, March 18, 2019

What The Wealthy Can Do With Tax Breaks: A New Form of Trickle-Down?

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In recent days, news of the college admission scandal has been difficult to miss, no matter where a person looks for news. Tales of bribes, ...
Friday, March 15, 2019

What To Do With Excess Tax Revenue

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Though it doesn’t happen all that often, sometimes tax revenue dedicated to specified purposes exceeds projections and exceeds the cost of t...
Wednesday, March 13, 2019

Effective Tax Rate: It’s What Matters

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Recently I was talking with someone about the person’s tax return. The person was trying to compare their 2017 tax situation with their 2018...
Monday, March 11, 2019

Will Private Ownership of Public Necessities Work?

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If there is anything on which almost everyone, no matter which side of the aisle they inhabit, concurs, it is the need to repair, improve, a...
Friday, March 08, 2019

What’s the Impact of a Tax Proposal? Run Some Numbers, and Guess

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A few days ago, as reported in this article , Michigan’s governor Gretchen Whitmer has proposed expanding the 6 percent corporate income tax...
Wednesday, March 06, 2019

The Many Facets of Income Tax Refunds

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A recent article , thanks to its headline, appeared to focus on what taxpayers intend to do with their income tax refunds, but it touched on...
Monday, March 04, 2019

When Tax Collection Gets Beyond Heartless

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Most people dislike paying taxes. Yet whatever antipathy is directed against the imposition of a tax, or the tax rates, or what is included ...
Friday, March 01, 2019

Commas, (Tax) Statutes and Now, Semicolons

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Almost two years ago, in Commas and (Tax) Statutes , I wrote about the importance of commas, including the importance of commas in tax and o...
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...