Wednesday, February 23, 2022

Suspending the Federal Gasoline Tax Won’t Blunt Inflation And Will Harm Some People

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Inflation is running rampant, though not quite as outrageous as it was in the 1970s. Almost everyone – more on that in a few paragraphs – is...
Saturday, February 19, 2022

Unintended Consequences in the Soda Tax World Present Questions

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I have been writing about the soda tax for about 14 years, though I haven’t written very much in recent years, perhaps because I have said a...
Tuesday, February 15, 2022

When Fraudulent Tax Return Preparation Becomes a National Enterprise

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From time to time I write about the antics of tax return preparers who commit fraud, though I don’t write about every indictment, conviction...
Wednesday, February 09, 2022

Fun With Math, Or How Failure to Compute Threatens All of Us

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While doing some background research after reading an article that Reader Morris invited me to read, the subject of which is not the focus o...
Monday, January 31, 2022

The IRS is Not Ready for Ready Return And Won’t Be Without Drastic Changes to the Income Tax Law

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I know that in many instances headlines are not written by the author of the story to which the headline is attached. Sometimes the story au...
Thursday, January 20, 2022

When Establishing A Business Relationship, Be Consistent, as the Alternative Can Be Unpleasant Litigation

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It’s been about a year since I last wrote about a television court show. The ones I watched during that period either had nothing related to...
Wednesday, January 12, 2022

Biennial Tax Filing: An Idea As Impractical as ReadyReturn

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Reader Morris brought my attention to a proposal advanced by an economics professor at the University of South Carolina and one of his stud...
Wednesday, January 05, 2022

The Slippery Slope of Tax Return Preparation Fraud

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Readers of MauledAgain know that I have written a series of commentaries on the antics of tax return preparers who commit fraud. Those comme...
Friday, December 31, 2021

Wishes for 2022, and Not Just Tax

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So with a new year heading our way very soon, and aware that 2022 is pronounced 2020, too, I extend to everyone a wish that 2022 not be like...
Thursday, December 23, 2021

Overused Fraudulent Tax Return Preparation Ploys

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One thing that strikes me as bewildering about tax return preparation fraud is that preparers will try the very same stunt that brought othe...
Friday, December 17, 2021

It’s Not Just Tax Return Preparers Assisting in the Preparation of Fraudulent Tax Returns

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The parade of tax return preparers trying to get away with a crime and then getting caught continues. If you’ve missed the parade, some port...
Monday, December 13, 2021

Sharing a Tax Refund? Put the Details in a Written Agreement and Save the Evidence

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Over the years, television court shows have been supplying me with material for this blog. Some of my commentaries about these episodes incl...