by admin | Feb 2, 2022 | Tax
I am pleased to introduce a new guest blogger. Andrew Gradman alerted me to Malta Pension Plans (MPP) an idea that has come and gone without me noticing. What happened with MPP is an illustration of Reilly’s Third Law of Tax Planning – Any clever idea...
by admin | Feb 1, 2022 | Tax
Clergy housing is back in the news as Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch dissented from the Court’s decision to not hear the appeal in the case of Trustees of the New Life in Christ Church v. City of Fredericksburg. The economic issue was real estate tax...
by admin | Jan 24, 2022 | Books, History
It took something really big to tear me away from The Transcendentalists and Their World by Robert Gross. And the big thing was the release of Paradise Atop The Hudson by Sammy Juliano. Fascinating as I find the world Gross writes about – Concord MA in the...
by admin | Jan 20, 2022 | Tax
My trademark as a tax blogger is “stuff I find interesting”. Not surprisingly a bit of that stuff is not that interesting to a very large number of people. Much as I appreciate the discerning elite of my readers, I sometimes like to reflect on what seems...
by admin | Jan 13, 2022 | Tax
The Eleventh Circuit has thrown a monkey wrench into the IRS machinery grinding away at abusive conservation easement deductions. Judge Barbara Lagoa, a Trump appointee, wrote the opinion in David and Tammy Hewitt v Commissioner of IRS issued on December 29, 2021. ...
