Friday, August 23, 2024

How an Answer to a Tax Question Can Earn Zero Points

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Recently, reader Morris sent me an email with the subject line, “What grade would you give this student?” In the body of the email was a lin...
Monday, August 12, 2024

Some Tips About Tips and Taxes

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Both major party candidates for the presidency have expressed support for the notion of eliminating federal income (and perhaps employment) ...
Tuesday, August 06, 2024

Tax Might Be Boring, But the Underlying Facts Often Are Not

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It’s been a while since I wrote about a television court show. Today reader Morris directed me to an episode of Justice For All with Judge C...
Monday, July 22, 2024

Internal Revenue Code Component (aa) Has Been Given a Name

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More than 14 years ago, in Internal Revenue Code: Small Change, New Feature, New Look , I posed the question of what names should be given ...
Friday, July 12, 2024

So You Want to Pay Zero Taxes?

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The headline in this advice column surely catches the eye of many people as it caught mine. It’s simple and entice. It suggests, “How to ma...
Wednesday, June 26, 2024

A Mileage-Based Road Fee by Any Other Name?

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A pilot “road charge” program is underway in California . It is an implantation of the mileage-based road fee that I have supported for many...
Monday, June 10, 2024

More Attempts to Squash the IRS and the 98 Percent

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The Republican Party continues in its efforts to reduce taxes paid by wealthy individuals and large corporations. One tactic is marketing ta...
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...