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Lunch At The Drowsy Poet With Eric Hovind

by admin | Mar 15, 2019 | History, Kent Hovind, Tax

I hadn’t planned on writing about my get together with Eric Hovind or even telling anybody about it other than my partner. At the end of our time together, though, he indicated that he didn’t mind if I wrote about it, so here is my report. I’m going...

Seventh Circuit Blesses Tax Free Housing Payments To Clergy

by admin | Mar 15, 2019 | Tax

Originally published on Forbes.com. In a long-awaited decision, the Seventh Circuit has ruled that Code Section 107(2) is constitutional overturning Judge Barbara Crabb’s 2017 ruling that the section violated the Establishment Clause. Code Sec 107(2) allows the...

Tax Court Petition: Just Go To The Post Office

by admin | Mar 14, 2019 | Tax

Originally published on Forbes.com. Another postmark case! This time it is Endicia.com , which according to its website has sold $14 billion in postage. Teri Jordan was counting on an Endicia label to save her Tax Court petition from being considered untimely. It...

Don’t Wrestle With The IRS Robots

by admin | Mar 10, 2019 | Tax

Originally published on Forbes.com. If a human being decides you should be subject to a 20% accuracy penalty for understating your tax, it is not valid unless another human being, one at a higher paygrade, approves it in writing. On the other hand, if a machine...

TIGTA Documents The Wreck Of Tax Compliance

by admin | Mar 7, 2019 | Tax

Originally published on Forbes.com. Expansion of the Gig Economy Warrants Focus on Improving Self-employment Tax Compliance, a recent report from the Treasury Inspector General For Tax Administration (TIGTA) has me demoralized. I think I have finally come to a major...

Historian Argues Ronald Reagan’s 1981 Tax Cut Led To Trumpism

by admin | Feb 26, 2019 | Tax

Originally published on Forbes.com. Is it possible that the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981, followed by the Tax Reform Act of 1986, the legacy of Ronald Reagan is where it all went wrong? That is the case that John Komlos makes in his paper recently...