Monday, May 30, 2022

What Is the Freedom for Which They Paid a Price Far Greater Than a Tax Bill?

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I sat down planning to write another Memorial Day essay. I had some ideas in my head, but before putting finger to keyboard – pen to paper h...
Wednesday, May 25, 2022

Another Misuse of the Word “Tax”

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The headline to this story caught my eye. It read, “Some PS Plus Players Are Seemingly Getting Hit With A Giant Upgrade Tax . Perhaps there...
Friday, May 13, 2022

A Very Bad Reason That Taxes Had to Be Increased

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There are all sorts of reasons that taxes are increased. A taxing authority encounters increased costs for the services it provides. A taxin...
Saturday, May 07, 2022

Tax Law, Inflation, and the Red-Blue Divide

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When the email from the Institute for Policy Innovation arrived, the headline caused me to think that I had missed a Supreme Court tax opin...
Tuesday, May 03, 2022

How Not to Enact Infrastructure Taxes

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About a week ago, reader Morris directed me to story about a proposed tax . Thanks to being busy with other things, it’s just now that I can...
Wednesday, April 20, 2022

Half-Baked Gasoline Tax Reduction Idea

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In previous commentaries, I have explained that suspending liquid fuel taxes in an effort to compensate for market fluctuations is a bad ide...
Wednesday, April 13, 2022

Fuel Tax Reductions and Suspensions: Negative Impacts Even Wider Than Previously Discussed

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I’ve yet to read or see or hear anything that causes me to change my position that suspending liquid fuel taxes in an effort to compensate f...
Wednesday, April 06, 2022

Suspending a State Gasoline Tax Sticks It to the Dealers

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Over the years I have explained why suspending liquid fuel taxes in an effort to compensate for market fluctuations is a bad idea. I have do...
Wednesday, March 30, 2022

Tax Breaks For Starving Team Owners

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Let’s put one and one and one together: 1. New York’s governor, as reported in many sources, including this one , has agreed to take steps...
Wednesday, March 23, 2022

Yet Another Reason Fuel Tax Suspensions and Reductions Are Unwise

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About a month ago, in Suspending the Federal Gasoline Tax Won’t Blunt Inflation And Will Harm Some People , I explained why reducing or sus...
Friday, March 18, 2022

When Income Exceeds $500,000 Annually, Are Vehicle Subsidy Payments Necessary?

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According to this Philadelphia Inquirer report , gubernatorial candidate Josh Shapiro has proposed using “surplus * * * federal pandemic aid...
Monday, March 07, 2022

We Don’t Know How Many People Are Tax Cheats, Do We?

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WalletHub has released its 2022 tax survey . It’s worth a look. A variety of questions were posed to respondents, and six tax law professors...
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...