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Bob Dylan’s Debt To Nashville – It’s About Taxes

Dylan’s reach was really amazing. Sister Kathleen Reilly, who was a year younger than Dylan, told me that when the older nuns at the Pallotine motherhouse in Harriman, NY were upset about various things that were different from the good old days of habit wearing, the younger nuns would break into a chorus of The Times They Are A Changin’.

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Vacation Home Conversion, Debt Discharge And Partnership Issues All In One Tax Court Case

Vacation Home Conversion, Debt Discharge And Partnership Issues All In One Tax Court Case

When you borrow money secured by property whether the debt is recourse or nonrecourse can have tremendous tax significance.  From an economic viewpoint, you want the debt to be nonrecourse. The idea is that if you can’t pay, you hand the bank keys and you are done.  Sometimes though you can get that deal with recourse debt.  It is called a “short sale”, which has a different meaning in real estate than it does on Wall Street.

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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.