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Tax Planning In Bernie Sanders Land Would Feel Familiar To Elderly CPAs

by admin | Jan 21, 2016 | Tax

Doing real serious planning for the contingency of President Sanders enacting his program in the first 100 days is probably a little silly. Still, I find it irresistible to think about what tax practice would be like in Bernie Land. Probably comes from reading too...

Bernie Sanders Tax Plan Moderate On Top Income Tax Rate

by admin | Jan 19, 2016 | Tax

Originally published on Forbes.com. Bernie Sanders has finally dropped the other shoe on his tax plan. I’m pleased that he has not exactly gone crazy with the top marginal rates, although, all things considered, they are steep. Ironically, you could make a case...

Disparate Tax Views At Opening Of Bernie Sanders Worcester Office

by admin | Jan 17, 2016 | Tax

Originally published on Forbes.com. I spent the better part of Saturday morning to get more insight into where the Sanders campaign might end up on marginal income tax rates. I didn’t get very far on my quest, but it still made for an interesting morning. I...

Bernie Sanders Might Drive Bill O’Reilly Away With Nonexistent 90% Threat

by admin | Jan 15, 2016 | Tax

Photo credit Originally published on Forbes.com. I thought I might have been doing a service in a recent piece I did indicating that Bernie Sanders is not proposing a 90% income tax rate. In some ways the Sanders campaign is a little at fault for this rumor,...

Conservation Easement Tax Deductions And Valuation Abuse

by admin | Jan 14, 2016 | Tax

Originally published on Forbes.com. Professor Nancy McLaughlin is something of an idealistic attorney, which really is not an oxymoron. She told me that she practiced law early in her career in Virginia and dealt a bit with conservation easements. She noticed a lot...

How To Cash Your Powerball Winning Ticket Anonymously

by admin | Jan 13, 2016 | Tax

Originally published on Forbes.com. If you win the Powerball tonight, it won’t make you a billionaire, unless you are pretty far along already, but if you take the lump sum, after tax you will probably be close to half a billionaire. My inner child insisted that...