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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...

IRS Nixes Student Loan Payoff Charity

by admin | May 24, 2017 | Tax

Student loans are in the news again. Alan Collinge of StudentLoanJustice.org has a piece in The Hill titled “Republicans can seize on a prime opportunity to reform student loans”. Well, I hope that works out because the IRS has nixed an intriguing...

Housing Industry Panicking About Tax Reform

by admin | May 22, 2017 | Tax

Originally published on Forbes.com. The National Apartment Association and the National Multifamily Housing Council are concerned that looming tax reform might have a bad impact on the rental housing industry. So they have initiated a grassroots program to raise the...

Motion To Stop IRS From Examining Marijuana Dispensary Up In Smoke

by admin | May 18, 2017 | Tax

Originally published on Forbes.com. Just a short update. Last week I wrote about The Green Solution, at least by its own account Colorado’s #1 Marijuana dispensary. It was resisting an IRS summons based on the notion the Code Section 280E, which denies...

IRS Leans On LA Tax Assessors For Land Building Allocation

by admin | May 18, 2017 | Tax

Originally published on Forbes.com. One of the little puzzles that you have when dealing with rental real estate is the problem of allocation between depreciable and non-depreciable property – land and building. In the more advanced classes, we can get into the...

Mississippi Taxing – Nuclear Power And Accusations Of Racism

by admin | May 14, 2017 | Tax

Originally published on Forbes.com. Claiborne County, Mississippi is home to the Grand Gulf Nuclear Generating Station operated by Entergy. Having one of those things in the neighborhood is a little nerve wracking. The Nuclear Regulatory Agency defines a plume...