Tuesday, November 29, 2022

Filing a Fraudulent Tax Return Is Bad, Filing More Than 3,000 Is Outrageously Bad

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Though as I’ve shared not long ago, I don’t write about every tax return preparer who gets into trouble because most of the cases aren’t ver...
Thursday, November 24, 2022

One Day of Thanksgiving, A Year of Thanks

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Today is Thanksgiving. For as long as I’ve been writing this blog, I’ve been sharing a Thanksgiving post to express my gratitude for a varie...
Saturday, November 12, 2022

Alleged Ignorance of the (Tax) Law: A Justification or an Excuse?

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According to various reports, including this one , the controller of the Trump Organization, Jeffrey McConney, testified that “he followed i...
Monday, October 31, 2022

Two Not Very Amusing, But Scary, Halloween Tax Challenges

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From the outset of this blog, I have made it a point to work Halloween into MauledAgain, usually looking for the silly or goofy but occasion...
Tuesday, October 25, 2022

The Death of Trickle-Down Theory in the United Kingdom: Will Americans Learn the Lesson?

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Anyone who reads MauledAgain knows that I am not a fan of supply-side trickle-down economic and tax policy. I have shared my thoughts in num...
Monday, October 17, 2022

When a Tax PIN is Used Without Permission

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Another interesting television court show case involving a tax return popped up today, a rerun of a show that aired several years ago. I’ve ...
Tuesday, October 04, 2022

When An Injunction Doesn’t Stop a Tax Return Preparer from Filing False Returns

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For many of the years that the MauledAgain blog has existed, I have written about tax return preparers who get into trouble because of their...
Friday, September 30, 2022

When Tax Troubles Never Go Away

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It’s been quite some time since I wrote about the tax troubles of former Pennsylvania State Senator Vincent Fumo. In Real Property Tax Asses...
Friday, September 23, 2022

Need a Question for the Exam in a Basic Federal Income Tax Course?

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If I were still teaching a basic federal income tax course, I would use a quotation from this press release to set up one of the examinatio...
Monday, September 12, 2022

Numbers and Logic

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Today I received an email from the utility company that supplies me with electricity and natural gas. The email was titled, “Your monthly en...
Wednesday, September 07, 2022

The Price of Low and Lowering Taxes

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When reader Morris sent me a link to this story , he gave the email an appropriate subject line. He wrote, “You get what you pay for!” He ma...
Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Sadness on Multiple Levels: Financial Literacy, Factual Understanding, Legal Comprehension

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This commentary isn’t about tax law, legal education, the First Amendment, religion, genealogy, theology, music, model trains, or chocolate ...
Friday, August 26, 2022

Who Should Be Sued, and Where, If Employer Fails to Issue Form W-2?

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A recent Southern District of New York decision, the text of which is presently behind a paywall, involved an employee suing his employer be...
Wednesday, August 17, 2022

Fear Mongering, Tax Style

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What happens when someone wants to stop an activity, a proposal, or the consequences of a decision that adversely affects that person? One a...
Tuesday, August 09, 2022

It’s Not Just Law Enforcement That Confronts Misbehaving Tax Return Preparers

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During the past many years, I have written about some of the tax return preparers who have gotten into trouble because of their misdeeds, in...
Tuesday, August 02, 2022

Insufficient Explanation of Estimated Tax Legislation Impacts

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I must admit I was surprised when I saw the headlines claiming that the pending Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 will increase taxes on all o...