by admin | Jul 14, 2020 | Tax
by Joshua Ashman CPA The IRS recently published its annual Data Book, a statistical report providing insights into the workings of the IRS courtesy of a macro-level snapshot of the agency. This year’s 2019 Data Book numbers aren’t alarmingly different than last year’s...
by admin | Jul 10, 2020 | Tax
Originally published on Forbes.com. The way my mind works stimulus checks going to dead people had me first thinking about zombie movies. My second thought was about a fellow I knew who said his estate plan would be to bounce his last check. He would have had to come...
by admin | Jul 6, 2020 | Tax
Back on April 15, which used to be a really important date, I wrote about IR-2020-59 in which the IRS announced that it was suspending collection actions of various sorts until July 15. I spoke with E. Martin Davidoff Partner in Charge-National Tax Controversy at...
by admin | Jul 6, 2020 | Tax
Originally published on Forbes.com. Marty Davidoff of PragerMetis has given me a heads up to accommodations the IRS is making to follow through on the spirit of some of the relief that Congress has given taxpayers under the CARES Act and the SECURE Act. This is about...
by admin | Jul 4, 2020 | Tax
I started covering student loans as part of my Occupy Wall Street coverage in 2011. The coverage was from a big picture policy viewpoint. I have now taken up a different approach. I am going to study student loans from my viewpoint as a tax planner. Frankly, I...
by admin | Jul 3, 2020 | Tax
The more I look at the student loans system, the more perverse it seems. Although I have covered aspects of it off and on over the years I have never looked at it from the point of view of a tax planner. As I dove into that over the last few weeks, I have become more...
