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Time To Purge The Draft Posts

Time To Purge The Draft Posts

I swear if they ever have a machine to test for tax geekiness where they attach and insert all sorts of devices that monitor your reactions and then flash things on the screen that will be one of the things they use. If you just had a WOW – That’s really interesting, you are a total tax geek (Maybe some sort of highly specialized business broker just to be open to other possibilities. ). If you just had a WTF (That stands for What The ?) you are a normal human being.

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IRS More Liberal Than Tax Court on Home Mortgage Interest

IRS More Liberal Than Tax Court on Home Mortgage Interest

Which brings us to residence interest. There are two types. Acquisition indebtedness is used to purchase one or two residences. In addition to tracing the indebtedness to an acquisition of a personal residence the debt must be secured by “such” residence. There is a limit, not on the amount of interest but rather on the amount of indebtedness. $1,000,000 – not indexed for inflation. Then there is home equity indebtedness.

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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.