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Why Stimulus For The Dead Might Not Have Been So Bad

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...

IRS May Issue Millions Of Notices With Dates Wrong

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...

New August 31 Deadline To Return Required Minimum Distributions

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...

Round Up Of My Student Loan Coverage

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...

Student Loan Income-Driven Payments- Tax On Forgiveness Should Not Stop You

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...

Paul Hansen Provides Legal Theory Behind Kent Hovind’s Half-Billion Dollar Lawsuit

by admin | Jun 28, 2020 | Kent Hovind, Tax

Originally published on Forbes.com. Kent Hovind’s half -billion dollar lawsuit against the federal government and others has him back preaching, if not practicing the sort of arguments that got him in trouble back in the day. Here you can hear him many years ago...