Monday, May 25, 2026

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

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Sometimes I decide that what I have written doesn't need to be modified. So it is with what I wrote on Memorial Day last year. The cicum...
Saturday, May 23, 2026

What Solves the Affordability Challenge? Eliminating Taxes or Raising Wages?

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According to this report from yesterday , Jeff Bezos, one of the world's wealthiest individuals, has proposed eliminating federal income...
Tuesday, May 12, 2026

The Federal Fuel Tax Suspension Reverse Lottery

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Everyone knows how a lottery works. A bunch of people each pay a small amount of money for a chance to be one of the few winners of much lar...
Tuesday, May 05, 2026

What Sort of Tax or Fee Should Fund Local Street and Sidewalk Maintenance?

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Portland, Oregon, has a problem. Its streets, sidewalks, street lights, and related infrastructure is deteriorating at a rapid rate. The rea...
Thursday, April 23, 2026

Finding the Connection Between Philadelphia's Proposed Rideshare Tax and the Funding of Public Schools

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As reported in numerous stories, including this one , the Mayor of Philadelphia has proposed raising an earlier proposed 20-cent tax on a ri...
Sunday, April 12, 2026

When "Death and Taxes" Meet AI

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Ten days ago, in Using AI When Preparing Tax Returns: Avoid the Trap , I explained why I am not a fan of AI. I consider AI not ready for pri...
Thursday, April 02, 2026

Using AI When Preparing Tax Returns: Avoid the Trap

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The headline I asked ChatGPT for tax help—experts say I fell into a classic trap almost says it all. The story elaborates on what happened ...
Monday, March 23, 2026

"Pot [Tax] for Potholes" Is Just Another Cute Slogan with Ugly Results

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Back in October, in An Unfair and Unwise Tax to Fund Roads , I commented on the Michigan wholesale tax on the sale of marijuana from growers...
Tuesday, March 17, 2026

Does a Temporary Tax Suspension Solve the Underlying Problem?

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About a week ago, Pennsylvania State Senatore Lisa M. Boscola described her plan to suspend the state's liquid fuel taxes for 60 days. ...
Saturday, March 07, 2026

Tax Return Preparer Not Satisfied With Just Tax Fraud

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I have written so many times about tax return preparers who disregard the law that I refrain from commenting every time a tax return prepare...
Wednesday, February 25, 2026

Estimated Tax Payment Challenges

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So this situation was posed to me. A brokerage provides financial information to its clients during the calendar year. However, it does not ...
Wednesday, February 11, 2026

The Things People Do To Avoid Paying Taxes

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No one enjoys paying taxes. But without taxes civilization is impossible. So just as people who need root canals pull themselves together an...
Thursday, January 29, 2026

So Is Tax Fraud Less Reprehensible Than FEMA Fraud?

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This morning I saw an article in the Philadelphia Inquirer about a woman being sentenced for committing FEMA fraud. After a bit of research,...
Saturday, January 17, 2026

International Aspects of the Mileage-Based Road Fee

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As readers of MauledAgain know, I am an advocate of the mileage-based road fee, as a replacement for and not an addition to, liquid fuel tax...
Friday, January 02, 2026

How U.S. Individual Taxpayers Prepare Their Income Tax Returns

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As another tax filing season will soon begin, it’s instructive to see how individual taxpayers in this country prepare their federal income ...
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....