Friday, August 22, 2025

Revisiting “Do IRS Agents Watch Television Court Shows?”

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At the end of July, in Do IRS Agents Watch Television Court Shows? , I explained that reader Morris had found a story that disclosed how an...
Sunday, August 10, 2025

Ride-Share Drivers and the Mileage-Based Road Fee

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It’s time again to look at the mileage-based road fee, a topic that has had my attention for almost 17 years, in posts such as Tax Meets Tec...
Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Do IRS Agents Watch Television Court Shows?

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A little more than eight years ago, in People’s Court: So Who Did the Tax Cheating? , I asked, “Do IRS employees watch television court show...
Thursday, July 17, 2025

The Mileage-Based Road Fee Is Much Better Than a Federal Fuel Tax Increase

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I’ve been writing about the mileage-based road fee for almost 17 years. I have discussed it and other similar proposals, along with argument...
Wednesday, July 02, 2025

A Scheme to Hide Wages from the IRS Does Nothing But Make a Mess

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Another interesting television court show popped up, and, yes, it involved taxes. As readers know, I have addressed tax issues in television...
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...