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Republicans Want IRS To Target Hillary Clinton

by admin | Nov 7, 2015 | Reporting, Tax

Originally published on Forbes.com. Given the outrage that Republicans have expressed about the “targeting” of the Tea Party by the IRS, you would think that they would be slow to advocate IRS political targeting. Apparently it is more a matter of whose ox...

Taxing The Virtual World

by admin | Nov 4, 2015 | Tax

Originally published on Forbes.com. Byron M. Huang’s recent article in the Yale Journal of Law and Technology- Walking the Thirteenth Floor: The Taxation of Virtual Economies has me feeling vindicated. Taxation of transactions within virtual worlds may have been...

Democratic Presidential Candidate Drops Out Without Releasing Tax Plan

by admin | Nov 2, 2015 | Tax

Lawrence Lessig Originally published on Forbes.com The Republican Presidential candidates have been doing a good job for us tax bloggers coming up with their tax plans. I’m still waiting for Carly Fiorina’s three-page tax code, but all things come...

Redstone Family Saga Writ Large In Favorable Tax Court Decision

by admin | Oct 31, 2015 | Tax

This post was originally published on Forbes Oct 31, 2015 The Estate of Edward Redstone, brother of Viacom Chairman Sumner Redstone, received a favorable ruling from the Tax Court in its challenge of an IRS assertion of a gift tax deficiency. The tax was $737,625 and...

IRS Commissioner Koskinen Impeachment Trial Would Be Historic

by admin | Oct 28, 2015 | History, Tax

This post was originally published on Forbes Oct 28, 2015 Unless, like a sensible person, you have been shielding yourself from learning about developments in the interminable, never-ending IRS scandal, now on Day 902 by Tax Prof count, you are aware that impeachment...

Interview With Student Loan Activist Alan Collinge On Bankruptcy Protection

by admin | Oct 28, 2015 | Tax

This post was originally published on Forbes Oct 28, 2015 I recently wrote about an article by Professor Victoria Haneman concerning the interaction of student debt planning with joint income tax filing. One of the things I discussed with her is a disturbing trend of...