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Taxpayer Floats Like a Butterfly With Substantiation – Tax Court Still Stings Like a Bee

by admin | Oct 15, 2011 | Tax

Originally Published on forbes.com on October 15th, 2011 ______________________________________ I really hate it when the Tax Court is right, but I still think the taxpayer should have won. Tawana L. Bradley really deserved a break, even though she was not technically...

Occupy Wall Street – The Unfinished Business of 19th Century Reform

by admin | Oct 15, 2011 | History, Tax

____________________________________________________________________________ I have two consuming intellectual interests. Title 26 of the United States Code and the history of the United States from 1830 to 1870. My first bit of poking around about Occupy Wall...

Blended Family Not Like the Brady Bunch – At Least in Probate Court

by admin | Oct 14, 2011 | Tax

Originally Published on forbes.com on October 14th, 2011 ______________________________________ Pre-nuptial agreements are fairly common in second marriages (third, fourth etc marriages also). They are particularly important when each spouse has children. Everybody...

Same Sex Couples and Community Property – What a Mucking Fess

by admin | Oct 11, 2011 | Tax

Originally Published on forbes.com on October 11th, 2011 ______________________________________ This is an example of one of the most annoying types of original source federal tax material. Congress makes cofusing contradictory laws. Constituents write in to...

Is Income Based Repayment a Solution to Crushing Student Debt ?

by admin | Oct 11, 2011 | Tax

Originally Published on forbes.com on October 11th, 2011 ______________________________________ Based on the comments I see that I need to either rework or supplement this piece. The main point is that there is an existing program Income Based Repayment that might...

Is Income Based Repayment A Solution To Crushing Student Debt?

by admin | Oct 10, 2011 | Tax

Originally published on forbes.com on October 10, 2011. I don’t know to what extent Occupy Wall Street is responsible for bringing the student debt crisis to public attention. It was responsible for me getting it anyway. Before OWS, the voices crying out in...