Friday, December 13, 2024

Analyzing the Federal Income Tax Consequences of a Crappy Barter Proposal

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Reader Morris directed my attention to a story about Hunter Biden, his alleged failure to pay rent, and his alleged offer to settle the debt...
Wednesday, December 04, 2024

When Tax Fraud Is Admitted in a Civil Arbitration Proceeding Known As a Television Court Show

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It’s time to look at another television court show. As readers know, I have addressed tax issues in television court shows many times, in po...
Thursday, November 28, 2024

On Thanksgiving, There Always Are Reasons to Be Thankful

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This year Thanksgiving is, for me, strange and conflicted. Yes, I am thankful for many things, as I will describe in a subsequent paragraph....
Tuesday, November 12, 2024

It Turns Out the Supreme Court Didn’t Put An End to a Bad Tax Practice

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A little more than four years ago, in Who Gets Surplus Proceeds From a Tax Sale? , I explained that I had learned about a dozen states seize...
Friday, November 01, 2024

Is Tax Neutrality an Achievable Goal?

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Tom Giovanetti at the Institute for Policy Innovation has written an interesting commentary that is A Reminder about Tax Neutrality . He ma...
Thursday, October 31, 2024

A Sad Task: Computing the Halloween “Parent Tax”

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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...
Saturday, October 19, 2024

Does the Mileage-Based Road Fee Work for Local Road Maintenance?

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Reader Morris has directed my attention to the solution enacted by the City of Rock Island to deal with the fact its local gas tax collectio...
Monday, October 07, 2024

Can We Find Tax Forms In “The Tax Code”?

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Recently, reader Morris alerted me to a post on the AWS Machine Learning Blog . According to the post, “The tax code includes 15,000+ federa...
Thursday, September 26, 2024

Lies About Tax Increases on Social Security Benefits

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One of the traits that erodes a person’s character, that erodes institutions, that erodes governments, and that erodes civilization is disho...
Wednesday, September 11, 2024

The Price of Ignorance

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There’s a meme circulating on social media. Here is what it claims: JUST ONE LITTLE EXAMPLE OF UNREALIZED CAPITAL GAIN: ....your mom purcha...
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...