Tuesday, March 25, 2025

When Tax Advice on Facebook is Dangerous

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It is well settled tax law that pets cannot be claimed as dependents for federal income tax purposes. One need only read Internal Revenue Co...
Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Washington State Mileage-Based Road Fee Proposal Changes: Is It Better?

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It’s time once again to visit the mileage-based road fee. I have written about it on numerous occasions, in posts such as Tax Meets Technolo...
Monday, March 03, 2025

The Joys and Sorrows of Teaching

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I have been a teacher for a very long time. I shared this story 16 years ago in How and Why I Became a Law School Professor . What I did not...
Thursday, February 13, 2025

Tax Rates -- Just Two Generations Ago

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A fellow named Josh Rincon is getting a lot of re-posts of his facebook meme, "Just two generations ago you could buy a home, buy a car...
Monday, February 10, 2025

When Allegations Go Unproven: Did a Television Court Show Involve Tax Fraud

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A few days ago, reader Morris alerted me to an interesting television court show from 2017. As readers know, I have addressed tax issues in ...
Friday, January 24, 2025

Will a Revisit of Philadelphia’s Soda Tax Bring Me an Invitation?

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It’s been a while since I’ve written about the Philadelphia soda tax. I wrote many commentaries about the tax from the time it was proposed ...
Tuesday, January 14, 2025

A Foolish Tax Proposal That Surely Isn't Fair

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Representative Earl Carter of Georgia has continued the practice of at least one representative from Georgia introducing the Fair Tax Act wh...
Thursday, January 02, 2025

A New Year, An Old Problem: Misinformation and Lies About Taxes

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Almost a month ago – somehow I missed it – the IRS issued a news release warning people about “the growing threat of bad tax advice on soci...
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...