Wednesday, June 25, 2025

Was This Convicted Tax Return Preparer Courageous or Foolish?

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It’s time to revisit the world of tax return preparers who get into serious trouble because of misdeeds. I have written about tax return pre...
Thursday, June 12, 2025

Tax Cuts for the Wealthy and Corporations: What Else is There to Say?

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I’ve been asked why I haven’t been commenting on the federal legislation that would extend and enlarge tax cuts and tax breaks for wealthy i...
Monday, May 26, 2025

Memorial Day: Honoring Those Who Died for Freedom While Rejecting Those Who Fight for Anti-Freedom

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For some reason I have not always written a Memorial Day essay over the 21-plus years MauledAgain has existed. I don’t know why. I do know t...
Friday, May 16, 2025

Are Tax Professionals Sufficiently Social To Lower Their Dementia Risk?

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Fourteen years ago, in Music and the Tax Brain , I shared some thoughts about the connection between learning and performing music and learn...
Friday, May 02, 2025

Who Should Teach Personal Finance?

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According to a recent survey of college graduates by WalletHub, “2 in 3 students think their school is not doing enough to educate them abo...
Tuesday, April 22, 2025

For Tax Law Issues (and Almost Everything Else), Do the Research and Communicate with an Expert

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It’s been several years since I last wrote about the “size of Internal Revenue Code” – “size of tax law” debate. It gets to the point when I...
Thursday, April 17, 2025

Deciding Who Pays Taxes and If Businesses Should Pay Taxes

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In You Pay ALL the Taxes , Tom Giovanetti of the Institute for Policy Innovation explains that “only people pay taxes.” He argues that in ...
Wednesday, April 09, 2025

When Facts Change, Thinking Should Change

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Reader Morris asked me an important question. It is important because it provides an opportunity to explain how a change in facts can and sh...
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...