Friday, July 30, 2021

A Tax Expert Is Just a Phone Call or Email Away

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Granted, the thrust of the Hill article by Joseph Chamie is that the federal tax system is too complicated, unfair, difficult to understand...
Wednesday, July 28, 2021

Is a Tax Credit or Tax Deduction the Answer to Every Problem?

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Life presents a constant stream of decisions that people need to make. Sometimes the decision ultimately doesn’t matter, as when a person ch...
Monday, July 26, 2021

A Space Tourism Tax, or Perhaps Fee?

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According to this story , Earl Blumenauer, a member of Congress from Oregon has proposed a tax on space tourists. He observed that the space...
Friday, July 23, 2021

It Failed Again: Congress Still Has Not Learned the IRS Funding Lesson

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A little more than three months ago, in Has Congress Learned the IRS Funding Lesson, or Will It Fail Again? , I reviewed my previous comment...
Wednesday, July 21, 2021

Can Fraudulent Tax Return Preparation Become An Addiction?

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It is true, I have written more than a few times about tax return preparers who engage in fraud. It is important for taxpayers to understan...
Monday, July 19, 2021

The Mileage-Based Road Fee Is Also Superior to This Proposed “Package Tax” or “Package Fee”

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According to two reports, one from a Philadelphia television station and the other out of one in Pittsburgh , the Transportation Revenue Op...
Friday, July 16, 2021

From Cold Calling to Student Response Systems

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I return to the study conducted by Kathryne M. Young, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Massachuset...
Wednesday, July 14, 2021

Saying Goodbye to Law School Grading Curves?

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Sometimes studies tell us what some people already know. A good example is the collection of results from a study conducted by Kathryne M. Y...
Monday, July 12, 2021

When Anti-Regulators Like Regulation

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Many people in the anti-tax crowd also belong to the anti-regulation crowd. To most, tax is simply another form of regulation. Regulations a...
Friday, July 09, 2021

The Self-Proclaimed Tax Know-It-All Gets Stumped

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He claimed, in August of 2015, by asking, “Who knows taxes better than me?,” that he was more knowledgeable about taxes than anyone else. In...
Wednesday, July 07, 2021

Will the Re-Introduced Legislation Permitting Tax Return Preparer Regulation Be Enacted, and If So, Would It Make a Difference?

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When tax return preparers engage in fraud, they cause damage not only to their clients who end up needing to find funds with which to pay th...
Monday, July 05, 2021

Injunctions Against Fraudulent Tax Return Preparers Help, But Taxpayers Still Need to Be Vigilant

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Tax fraud by tax return preparers happens much too often, and the IRS lists ”unscrupulous tax return preparers” as one of its “Dirty Dozen...
Friday, July 02, 2021

The Mileage-Based Road Fee Is Superior to This Proposed “Commercial Activity Surcharge”

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On at least four dozen times I have written about the need to shift to a mileage-based road fee to fund the repair and maintenance of the na...