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Lessons From Gene Bicknell’s Victory Over Kansas In Domicile Dispute

Lessons From Gene Bicknell’s Victory Over Kansas In Domicile Dispute

It turned out that the questionnaire had been handled by a senior wealth advisor who had a team reconstruct the days from information they had available.  Gene was able to establish that he had not really paid any attention to it and had his assistant sign it.  At trial Gene testified that he didn’t average more than 30 days per year in Kansas in 2005 and 2006.  Friends, family and colleagues corroborated this claim.

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Supreme Court Boechler Decision Cuts Some Slack In Tax Court Deadline

Now they can petition late, play the equivalent hearing game, and when the game is up, ask for equitable tolling. Or even better, file late and then decide which card to play. Judge Albert G (“Scholar Al”) Lauber can expect a bushel basketful of cases from rounders, defiers, protesters, wits, wags, and wiseacres, all playing the Boechler gambit, with variations.

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Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one’s affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant.