Friday, October 31, 2025

Are There Tax Consequences to Halloween Costume Swaps?

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Every year since the start of MauledAgain, I have shared a commentary on Halloween that shared something silly or goofy but occasionally mor...
Friday, October 24, 2025

Professional Sports Team Tax Breaks That Promise, But Don’t Provide, the Promised Public Benefits

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It’s no secret that I do not support using tax breaks to finance construction of facilities for, or operations of, professional sports franc...
Saturday, October 11, 2025

An Unfair and Unwise Tax to Fund Roads

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I am an advocate of user fees, to the extent user fees can best suited to the product or service being provided by a government. Not every g...
Monday, October 06, 2025

Age, Economic Status, and Taxation

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Earlier today, while scrolling through my newsfeed, I saw a meme that had a photo of an elderly person, captioned “Give our seniors a tax-fr...
Thursday, September 18, 2025

When There Are No Surplus Proceeds From a Tax Sale Yet Equity Shifts to the Purchaser

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Sometimes when a problem appears to have been solved, it turns out that the problem hasn’t been solved because a way is found to circumvent ...
Friday, September 05, 2025

Can Tax Reductions Encourage People to Do What They Don’t Want to Do?

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Reader Morris sent me an email with the subject line, “Will eliminating taxes increase reading skills in Denmark?” Curious, I clicked on the...
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...