Friday, July 31, 2020

Tax Break Recaptures and Claw Backs: Contracts, Conditions, and Language: A Follow-up

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Readers of MauledAgain know that I have long criticized the handing out of tax breaks based on promises that are broken, such as claims that...
Wednesday, July 29, 2020

Another Tax Return Preparation Enterprise Gone Bad

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Perhaps they are turning up the heat on tax return preparers gone bad. They being investigators and attorneys at the Department of Justice, ...
Monday, July 27, 2020

Who Gets Surplus Proceeds From a Tax Sale?

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Learning is a life-long process, at least for most people. It is, for me. My impression about the disposition of surplus proceeds from a tax...
Friday, July 24, 2020

Another Foolish Tax Idea That Won’t Go Away

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Several months ago, in Taxes and the Virus , I criticized a proposal by the current Administration to cut payroll taxes as a solution to dea...
Wednesday, July 22, 2020

Perhaps Yet Another Reason Not to Run for Tax Collector

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About a month ago, in A Reason Not to Run for Tax Collector (or Any Other Office)? , I commented on a story about an incumbent tax collector...
Monday, July 20, 2020

Tax Talk and Tax Action

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Every business day I receive several emails from different tax publishers summarizing the previous day’s developments. These include cases, ...
Friday, July 17, 2020

Tax Returns and Paternity Testing

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It wasn’t a television court show. It was the Maury Show, season 22, episode 115, on a rerun. It showed up when the previous show ended and ...
Wednesday, July 15, 2020

A Pitiful Excuse for Taking Tax Dollars

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On Friday, in Tax Practice What You Tax Preach? , I criticized Grover Norquist and his Americans for Tax Reform Foundation for taking Payche...
Monday, July 13, 2020

Anything, Even the Risk of Death or Serious Illness, for a Tax Break?

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The stupidity continues, and grows. Not quite a month ago, in Another Unwise Tax Proposal , I criticized a proposal by the Administration fo...
Friday, July 10, 2020

Tax Practice What You Tax Preach?

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Though Grover Norquist and I agree that it is futile to put tax return preparation in the hands of the Internal Revenue Service, we part way...
Wednesday, July 08, 2020

Sometimes the Price for Tax Revenue is Too High

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Two years ago, in Raising Tax Revenue By Encouraging Risky Behavior , I criticized the Pennsylvania legislature for repealing certain restri...
Monday, July 06, 2020

Tax Break Recaptures and Claw Backs: Contracts, Conditions, and Language

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Readers of MauledAgain know that I have long criticized the handing out of tax breaks based on promises that are broken, such as claims that...
Friday, July 03, 2020

Classifying Taxes Isn’t So Simple

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There is a discussion underway in the state of Washington that involves the classification of taxes. According to this report written by Ja...
Wednesday, July 01, 2020

Do As I Tax Say, Not As I Tax Do

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In a way, it’s sad. In a way, it’s puzzling. In a way, it’s foolish. In a way, it’s infuriating. What am I describing? According to this W...
Monday, June 29, 2020

How Not to Write Tax Break Statutes

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As readers of MauledAgain know, I am not a fan of tax breaks. Of course, the fact that I do not think they should be enacted doesn’t mean th...
Friday, June 26, 2020

A Reason Not to Run for Tax Collector (or Any Other Office)?

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There are many reasons that an otherwise qualified individual declines to run for public office. Political campaigns are filthy. Lies abound...
Wednesday, June 24, 2020

There Must Be More to this Tax Fraud Guilty Plea Story

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Last week, according to this news release from the Kansas Attorney General, a Topeka resident pleaded no contest to a charge of failing to ...
Monday, June 22, 2020

Wealthy Couple Loses Bid to Postpone Paying Tax Deficiency

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First, some background will help. When taxpayers are unable to pay their federal income taxes they can enter into installment agreements wit...
Friday, June 19, 2020

When Those Who Should be Protecting Tax Compliance Don’t Comply

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Tax return preparers are entrusted with helping people file tax returns that comply with the tax laws. Most tax return preparers fulfill thi...
Wednesday, June 17, 2020

Another Unwise Tax Proposal

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It appears that another unwise tax proposal has been put on the table. According to numerous reports, including this one , the idea is to pr...
Monday, June 15, 2020

How Not to Operate a Tax-Exempt Charity

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When people encounter charities, they usually think, “Here is an organization doing good work.” When people are asked to donate to a charity...
Friday, June 12, 2020

The Real Math Behind the Real Math Behind a Tax Increase

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A few days ago, in this editorial in the Villages-News titled “The real math behind the 25% Sumter County tax increase,” Craig Estep attemp...
Wednesday, June 10, 2020

The Bad Tax Idea That Won’t Go Away, and a Proposal to Make It Work

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Nine years ago, the previous administration and the Congress enacted a payroll tax cut in order to stimulate the economy. I wrote about this...