by admin | Feb 7, 2020 | Tax
Image by By Arturo Espinosa SeguirJacques Derrida for PIFALPencil on Fabriano. – This piece really has nothing to do with the kind of deconstruction that Derrida pioneered, but I could not resist the opportunity to upgrade the intellectual standing of the...
by admin | Feb 2, 2020 | Tax
Photo credit: By EraserGirl – Own work, CC BY 2.0, Link Attorney Scott Boyce must be breathing a sigh of relief. The Tax Court ruled on Monday (January 13, 2020) that his client’s petition will be allowed to go forward rather than be stopped by the strict 90-day...
by admin | Jan 29, 2020 | Tax, Uncategorized
I hate it when people lose out by barely missing a deadline. A recent decision in the Western District of Wisconsin has an important lesson about deadlines. The lesson is that if you are going to rely on special rules to cut things close, you better understand how the...
by admin | Jan 24, 2020 | Tax
My recent post titled Tax Court Demolishes Deconstruction Deduction seems to have struck a nerve. The feedback I have gotten indicates that Second Chance Inc., the donee organization is something of an outlier in supporting very high deductions for the donation of...
by admin | Jan 23, 2020 | History, Tax
All I was going to write about was taxes. I hadn’t planned on gay rights, religion, crackpot science and sovereign shenanigans, but as I view the last decade, those things kind of stick out. Go figure. A Decade Comes And Goes The decade just ended corresponds well...
by admin | Jan 17, 2020 | Tax
Concern about the $100 billion Mormon horde, the “scandal” I have dubbed EnsignGate seems to still be a thing. I have a little more to share on it, but I would also like to do a bit of review of my Mormon coverage. I have made an attempt to stake a big claim to the...
