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Proposed Bill Will Not End Conservation Easement Tax Abuse

The reason the number is 2.5 is that assuming you have a 40% marginal rate that would be your break-even multiple. That is the multiple that the IRS used when it identified deals as listed transactions in 2017. It is possible that the ultimate source of the 2.5 is Stephen Small, an attorney who has crusaded against abusive deals and supported the more benign deals.

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Four Months To Eternity In Prison If Trump Tax Data Leaker Caught

It will probably be a while before we are at cocktail parties or conferences or the like, but if you are at one and the subject of the New York Times disclosures comes up and people start getting into the Trump crimes that might be inferred, you can segue to “But what about the federal crimes the leaker might have committed?” By having actual statutes in mind, you can sound very knowledgeable. Here is what we identified:

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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.