by admin | Mar 2, 2022 | History, Tax
1962. It was the only year in which JFK was president for the whole entire year. World events impinged on my family as my big brother onboard an aircraft carrier chasing Soviet submarines when not recovering Mercury astronauts had his four year enlistment extended to...
by admin | Feb 11, 2022 | Tax
Judge James Selna of the United States District Court for the Central District of California has given another win to low income housing credit aggregator Alden Torch in Centerline Housing Partnership V Palm Communities. As I read the filings I may need to...
by admin | Feb 10, 2022 | Tax
When it comes to celebrity gossip Charley Sheen, who I mainly remember as the star of Two And A Half Men, is in a class by himself. You could for example look up the Charlie Sheen Effect, if that sort of thing interests you. At any rate, given all his other issues,...
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 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...