Monday, September 30, 2019

Clamoring for Tax Basis Indexing AND Special Low Rates: Inspired by Greed

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Grover Norquist is at it again. Not that he has ever stopped his crusade against taxes and his efforts, to use his words, to “drown [governm...
Friday, September 27, 2019

When Tax Break Giveaways, Praised as “Investments,” Deliver Low Returns

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As I wrote not long ago, I am not a fan of the New Jersey tax break giveaway that promised substantial numbers of jobs for unemployed resid...
Wednesday, September 25, 2019

Rescuing a Legislature Not Prepared to Define “Prepared Foods”

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The other day, in A Sales Tax Question: What Is “Prepared Food” And Who Should Define It? , I described the clamor that arose in Connecticut...
Monday, September 23, 2019

Are Taxes the Deterrent Some Claim Them to Be?

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Politicians, lobbyists, oligarchs, and some others often use the “taxes deter investment” and “taxes chase people out of states and cities” ...
Friday, September 20, 2019

A Sales Tax Question: What Is “Prepared Food” And Who Should Define It?

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Some states that impose sales taxes require those taxes to be collected on the sale of “prepared foods.” Effective administration of a sales...
Wednesday, September 18, 2019

The Cost of Creating 27 Jobs? $8,000,000,000 in Tax Break Giveaways

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I am not a fan of the New Jersey tax break giveaway that promised substantial numbers of jobs for unemployed residents of Camden. Readers o...
Monday, September 16, 2019

Who Should Be Fixing the Ignorance Problem?

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Too often, I have observed the menace that ignorance presents to civilization. I have written many times about ignorance, usually focusing o...
Friday, September 13, 2019

Is Tax Ignorance Eternal?

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It’s been a while since I have written about the absurd claims tossed about concerning the size of the Internal Revenue Code. If I were to w...
Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Fighting Over Tax Dependents When There Is No Evidence

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The list of television court show episodes that have inspired MauledAgain commentary is getting longer. That’s not a surprise, because the l...
Monday, September 09, 2019

Soda Taxes: So It’s Not So Much the Soda, Is It?

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I have been writing about the flaws of the soda tax for more than a decade, beginning with What Sort of Tax? , and continuing with The Retur...
Friday, September 06, 2019

Dollar Amount Marijuana Taxes Versus Percentage Marijuana Taxes

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From time to time I have addressed the intersection of marijuana sales and taxation, principally the issues of how Internal Revenue Code sec...
Wednesday, September 04, 2019

Taxes and Tree Houses

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More than three years ago, in Section 280A and the Tree House , I considered whether a tree house, equipped with heater, shower, and outhous...
Monday, September 02, 2019

Philadelphia’s Prohibition on Refusing Cash Payments Would Not Apply to the City of Philadelphia

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Six months ago, in When Paying Taxes in Cash is Prohibited , I described legislation pending in Philadelphia that would prohibit stores from...
Friday, August 30, 2019

Taxing Robots?

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Reader Morris alerted me to this New York Post article . The first thing I noticed was the headline: “Brave New World: Uncle Sam is taxing r...
Wednesday, August 28, 2019

Are These Financial Literacy Survey Results Reasons to Rejoice or Worry?

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Readers of MauledAgain know that I abhor ignorance. Unlike some diseases, we know the cure for ignorance. Sometimes, though, patients refuse...
Monday, August 26, 2019

The Menace of Impetuous or Maniplative Tax Policy Announcements

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Recently, the President expressed support for two major tax cuts. His statements generated quite a bit of reaction not only throughout the t...
Friday, August 23, 2019

What Is a Tax Loophole?

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The other day, I noticed a question on Quora that, unlike almost all of the questions I’ve read, focused on tax. The person posing the ques...
Wednesday, August 21, 2019

New Jersey Rental Fees and Taxes: When Exemptions and Exceptions to Exemptions Make the Law Complicated

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Three months ago, in Making Sense of the New Jersey Rental Fees and Taxes , I described a tax issue afflicting owners of properties along th...