by admin | Apr 21, 2025 | Tax
I have been resisting paying too much attention to AI. When I have fooled with a little bit, I have not been that impressed. Someone mentioned Grok to me, so I decided to give it a whirl. So there was one question I thought of asking that came up with a pretty...
by admin | Apr 20, 2025 | Tax
Tax Court Judge Albert Lauber’s recent opinion in Ranch Springs 164 TC No 6 may be the beginning of the end of the long battle between syndicated conservation easement promoters and the IRS. In 2024 the IRS won a long string of cases and they continued that...
by admin | Apr 12, 2025 | Tax
Lauren Crane is one of the founders of Bender & Crane, a five woman law firm that focuses on divorce. She made it a point to let me know that even though the team is all women, they represent both women and men. We were discussing tax returns and divorce and...
by admin | Mar 22, 2025 | History
On July 25, 1824 Salem Towne Junior of Charlton MA wrote to his wife about the expected reception of Lafayette in Boston – “there never was now nor will be such a meeting in this or any country”, Reflecting on the tour a few years later Edward...
by admin | Mar 12, 2025 | History
his is part of a series on Lafayette’s visit to New England – June 13 to June 29 1825. I was unable to find any mention of Belchertown in any of the sources that I have been using. This is not that surprising as Lafayette was moving pretty quickly on June 14. He was...