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Tax Rate Of 137% On Net Disability Settlement

by admin | Jun 12, 2017 | Tax

Originally published on Forbes.com. Disability income is one of those things that creates knotty tax problems for regular people. Often the results are unfair. That is the way it seemed in the recent Tax Court decision in the case of Michael Nordloh. He had to...

IRS Offers Estate Tax Relief To Widows And Widowers

by admin | Jun 10, 2017 | Tax

Originally published on Forbes.com. The IRS has provided some regulatory relief to the class of people I call moderate millionaires. Revenue Ruling 2017-34 eases the process for an executor to get relief from having failed to make a timely “portability...

How To Know Your Electronically Filed Income Tax Return Was Really Filed

by admin | Jun 7, 2017 | Tax

Originally published on Forbes.com. I think it is a good thing that people tend to be loyal to their tax preparers. Reilly’s Second Law Of Tax Practice, as modified for family audiences, is ” When the prospect tells you his last two accountants were...

Judge Cites Rapper In Wrap Ruling

by admin | Jun 4, 2017 | Tax

Originally published on Forbes.com. At the risk of making my blog less edifying, I find that I want to make note of a Colorado Supreme Court decision – Colorado Department of Revenue v Creager Mercanitile Co, Inc. It concerns blunts. I believe that I have a...

Tax Woes Of The Marijuana Business Where Conservatives Lose Their Enthusiasm For States Rights

by admin | Jun 3, 2017 | Tax

Another day, another IRS summons enforced against a marijuana dispensary. I have to give the pot shops credit. They come up with really cool names. The LLC unsuccessfully fighting the IRS summons in District Court was called Futurevision LTD, which is pretty neat,...

Hole Opens In Tax Blogosphere – Say It Ain’t So Joe

by admin | May 28, 2017 | Tax

Originally published on Forbes.com. If tax blogging can be viewed in epochs, few tax blogs are BC (Before Caron. That would be Paul Caron – the Tax Prof.) So when one of the early bloggers hangs up his keyboard and rides off to the sunset of an upstream...