by admin | Sep 11, 2018 | Tax
Originally published on Forbes.com. When the Affordable Care Act was passed, was there any discussion of it being a jobs bill for lawyers? Maybe it just seems that way. The latest is Montana Health Co-op v US which was decided by Judge Elaine D. Kaplan in the Court...
by admin | Sep 9, 2018 | Tax
Originally published on Forbes.com. The statute of limitations can be a beautiful thing. After three years or maybe six years, you no longer have to worry about a mistake or an aggressive position on your tax return being challenged. After ten years from an...
by admin | Sep 5, 2018 | Kent Hovind, Tax
Originally published on Forbes.com. My regular long-term readers will be either sad or dismayed that there is a new Kent Hovind story that belongs on this tax blog. I closed the books on L’affaire Hovind as being Forbes-worthy in August 2015, although I...
by admin | Sep 4, 2018 | Tax
Originally published on Forbes.com. When I wrote about the recent Acera decision here and here, something occurred to me. Whenever I hear about the Cayman Islands, I immediately think something sketchy must be up. Somebody recently said to me “The...
by admin | Aug 26, 2018 | Tax
Originally published on Forbes.com. A couple of thousand news cycles ago (July 30, 2018), a story broke about Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin indicating that the Treasury might allow taxpayers to consider inflation in computing capital gains, without actually, you...
by admin | Aug 12, 2018 | Tax
Originally published on Forbes.com. My coverage of the Pussy Church of Modern Witchcraft has lit up some hot spots on the internet. As is common with many things I cover the story behind the story is more interesting than the tax issue that I want to discuss. ...