Wednesday, October 20, 2021

Cutting Gasoline Tax Does Not Address Underlying Problem

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According to this report , as gasoline prices increase, Republicans in New York State are asking the governor to suspend the gasoline tax. T...
Friday, October 15, 2021

There Was Nothing Magical About This Tax Return Preparation Business

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As readers of this blog already know, I have written about fraudulent tax return preparers on many occasions, including posts such as Tax Fr...
Monday, October 11, 2021

Royal Snub Generates Tax Payment Retort

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I don’t follow boxing or auto racing, and I pay little attention to who gets knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. So it was by happenstance that ...
Thursday, October 07, 2021

When Dishonest Tax Return Preparers Are Married

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The list of tax return preparers getting in trouble continues to grow. I’ve written about these situations in posts such as Tax Fraud Is Not...
Monday, October 04, 2021

Is Social Security Theft?

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There is a meme floating around facebook, and elsewhere on social media. Purportedly written by a Todd Hagopian, it reads, “By the time I am...
Thursday, September 30, 2021

Tax as a Deterrent

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Tom Giovanetti of the Institute for Policy Innovation has published an interesting commentary about a likely doubling of the federal exci...
Monday, September 27, 2021

Using a Tax Return Preparer? Take Steps to Verify What Is Filed on Your Behalf

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From time to time I write about tax return preparers who get in trouble. I’ve done so in posts such as Tax Fraud Is Not Sacred , More Tax Re...
Thursday, September 23, 2021

When Tax Evasion is Publicized

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When I saw the headline to this article in this morning’s Philadelphia Inquirer , I read the story because of my interest in technology and ...
Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Those Anti-Tax Folks Don’t Get It But Yet Don’t or Can’t Give It Up

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An interesting headline and article in today’s Philadelphia Inquirer reminded me that the anti-tax folks are hopelessly glued to their irra...
Friday, September 17, 2021

Hyperbolic Tax Ignorance or Hyperbolic Tax Propaganda?

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Seven years ago, in Tax Myths: Part IX: The Tax Rate Confusion , I pointed out that too many people, including some law students enrolled in...
Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Remembering the Unremembered

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As at least some readers of this blog know, I invest a sizeable chunk of my time doing genealogical research. For the past few years I have ...
Monday, September 13, 2021

Here’s An Idea: Limit the Life Insurance Proceeds Exclusion

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An idea popped into my head, and nothing I was doing at the time accounts for why it did. My thought was simply, why are the proceeds of lif...
Thursday, September 09, 2021

More Proof That Relying on Government to Prepare Tax Returns Poses Risks

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The headline caught my eye. It was attached to this story . The headline explained, “Two identical cars, but two very different Massachusett...
Tuesday, September 07, 2021

More Proof Demand-Side Economics is Superior to Supply-Side Economics

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I read a Philadelphia Inquirer article this morning in which the author notes that rebuilding houses and other structures in the wake of Hu...
Saturday, September 04, 2021

Precision and Accuracy Matter When Arguing About Taxes

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Reader Morris directed my attention to a Bloomberg L.P. article by Jared Dillian published as a Washington Post story . The headline caught ...
Thursday, September 02, 2021

To Tax Snitch or Not Tax Snitch?

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For years, the IRS has had in place a tax whistleblower program , under which it makes payments to persons who provide information that the ...
Tuesday, August 31, 2021

Is the Cost of a Postage Stamp a Tax?

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From time to time the question of whether an economic outlay is a tax has been a question posed to me and occasionally mentioned in a commen...
Friday, August 27, 2021

What Appears to Be Criticism of the Mileage-Based Road Fee Isn’t, Though It Is a Criticism of How Congress Functions

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I have written many commentaries about the mileage-based road fee, including posts such as Tax Meets Technology on the Road , Mileage-Based ...