Saturday, December 20, 2025

Taxes on Condoms and Contraceptives

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Reader Morris directed me to a recent article about China’s attempts to raise its birth rate. He then asked a question and answered it. Fi...
Saturday, December 06, 2025

How Much Prison Time Should Be Imposed on a Tax Return Preparer Convicted of Preparing and Filing Fraudulent Returns?

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I have written many times about the non-ending stream of tax return preparers who disregard the law and end up being caught. I’ve done so in...
Thursday, November 27, 2025

Thanksgiving Is More Than Thanks for People and Things Past and Present

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Almost all Thanksgiving messages that I read focus on gratitude for people and things that bring or have brought happiness into our lives....
Friday, November 21, 2025

Is Lab-Grown Chocolate Considered Candy for Pennsylvania Sales Tax Purposes?

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Recently, reader Morris sent me a link to a story about chocolate being grown in a laboratory in Switzerland. The article is worth reading ...
Tuesday, November 11, 2025

One-Stop Shopping for Tax Return Preparation and Unrelated Merchandise?

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A new wrinkle has pooped up in the world of tax return preparers who run afoul of the tax law. Readers of MauledAgain know that I have writt...
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...