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Tax Planning For The High Salary Pauper

by admin | Dec 15, 2019 | Tax

One of the greatest confusions in discussions of inequality is that between income and wealth. This struck me recently when somebody with a very high W-2 (low seven figures) asked me what sort of things they could do to manage the income tax that, federal and state...

Major Crackdown On Conservation Easements Or IRS Bluff?

by admin | Nov 28, 2019 | Tax

Originally published on Forbes.com. The IRS wants us to know that it is getting really serious about abuse in the area of the syndication of conservation easements. IR-2019-182 issued on November 12 tells us: “The Internal Revenue Service announced today a significant...

Syndicated Conservation Easements – Mining Concepts For Tax Dollars

by admin | Nov 9, 2019 | Tax

Originally published on Forbes.com. The recent Tax Court decision Coal Property Holdings is a good illustration of Reilly’s Fourth Law of Tax Planning – Execution isn’t everything but it’s a lot. This is a conservation easement syndication deal and the facts...

Kent Hovind Trying To Undo His 2006 Conviction

by admin | Nov 6, 2019 | Kent Hovind, Tax

Originally published on Forbes.com. Over four years ago I called an end to L’affiare Kent Hovind on this platform as his co-defendant (Paul John Hansen) in his 2015 trial received a below guidelines sentence. Something told me he would be back. There is a new...

President Trump Now A Florida Man

by admin | Nov 1, 2019 | Tax

Originally published on Forbes.com. According to a story first reported by the New York Times, our President has decided that he is no longer a New Yorker, but rather a Floridian. I doubt very much that President Trump reads my stuff. Nonetheless, in response to his...

Ed And Elaine “Show Me The Law” Brown May Be Released Soon

by admin | Oct 27, 2019 | Tax

According to the Bureau of Prison Inmate Locator, Edward Brown, age 77, has a release date of 7/26/2045 and Elaine Brown, age 78, has a release date of 11/8/2042. Clearly, the sentences that they received in 2009 were virtually life sentences. They had been prosecuted...