Monday, May 27, 2024

Freedom To Do or Freedom From or Both?

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When I looked back at my blog posts I realized that I have not written a Memorial Day essay every year since MauledAgain came into existence...
Tuesday, May 14, 2024

A Public-Private Partnership Highway Toll Fiasco Narrowly Averted

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As readers of this blog know, I am not a fan of these public-private partnerships. I have explained my objections to public-private partners...
Monday, April 29, 2024

Taxpayer’s Argument in Sales Tax Case Falls Flat

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Most people, when they hear the word “tax,” think not only of their distaste for paying taxes but also think of “numbers.” Sadly, many peopl...
Tuesday, April 23, 2024

When Preparing False Tax Returns Seems to Lack a Financial Motive

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From time to time I have shared my thought about tax return preparers, particularly those who get into trouble. Sometime my focus is on the ...
Friday, April 05, 2024

Are Taxpayers Figuring Out the Games Played by the Starving Oligarchs?

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Those who read MauledAgain are familiar with my opposition to public funding of, and tax breaks for, businesses owned by multimillionaires a...
Sunday, March 24, 2024

The Freedom Caucus Doesn’t Understand that the Mileage-Based Road Fee is “PRO-Freedom,” Not the Opposite

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The concept of a mileage-based road fee continues to get my support and continues to be attacked by people who, in my opinion, either do not...
Thursday, March 21, 2024

The Misinterpretation and Misrepresentation of Economic Information

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It indeed is worrisome that misinformation has infected society. Worse, the ability to critically analyze information is headed into extinct...
Sunday, March 03, 2024

The Genealogy of My House

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Readers of MauledAgain know that one of my “hobbies,” surely overshadowing all the others, is genealogy. Specifically, genealogy of people a...
Thursday, February 22, 2024

Does Anyone at the IRS Read This Blog?

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Reader Morris contacted me with this message, “Maybe the IRS reads your blog posts.” He reminded me of a commentary on this blog from March ...
Wednesday, February 07, 2024

Is the Tax Return Preparer or the Client Responsible For Unjustified Deductions?

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Sometimes I write about tax (and now and then, other) issues popping up in television court shows, in posts such as Judge Judy and Tax Law ,...
Saturday, January 27, 2024

Is There Ever a Free Lunch, Even in the Tax Return Preparation Business?

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Almost always, when I write about tax return preparers who have crossed the line, it involves businesses operated by one or a few individual...
Friday, January 19, 2024

Should Tax Return Preparers Use Their Full Legal Names?

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I have written many times about tax return preparers who have been investigated, indicted, convicted, sentenced, or subjected to an injunct...
Thursday, January 04, 2024

Not That More Proof is Needed, But Here’s Yet Another Example That Taxes Aren’t “Just Numbers”

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Many people, including law students who approach enrollment in a basic federal income tax course, think and often fear that tax is nothing m...
Thursday, December 21, 2023

Should (Will) Implementing the Mileage-Based Road Fee Cause Privatization of Highway Infrastructure?

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I have supported the implementation of the mileage-based road fee for many years in posts such as Tax Meets Technology on the Road , Mileage...