by admin | May 24, 2013 | Tax
Originally published on Forbes.com May 24th, 2013 Dependency exemptions seem to take on a role in divorce negotiations that is out of proportion to their economic significance. Given the time that sometimes goes in to negotiating them, it is amazing how often the...
by admin | Sep 25, 2012 | Tax
Orders signed by probate court judges don’t cut a lot of ice with tax court judges. That is what Dylan Moody learned in a memorandum decision last week. He was representing himself, which is understandable given the relatively small stakes in the case,...
by admin | May 12, 2012 | Tax
We had about the softest winter I have ever experienced in New England this year, but it is till nice to look around and see the signs of Spring. If you follow tax blogs, one of those signs is the return of The Wandering Tax Pro. He spends tax season, less the final...
by admin | May 6, 2012 | Tax
Originally published on Forbes.com on May 6th, 2012 You can get bad tax advice or no tax advice in just about any area of life, but from my reading of tax cases and some personal observations, I think that if you want to get really bad tax advice, you should get...
by admin | Dec 24, 2011 | Tax
Originally Published on forbes.com on December 24th, 2011 ______________________________________ Sometimes the IRS and the Courts are wrong even when they are right. The taxpayers in these cases might have had the law against them, but I still think they had right on...
by admin | Jun 7, 2011 | Tax
Originally published on Passive Activities and Other Oxymorons on June 7th, 2011. ____________________________________________________________________________ Boston Tax Alert 2011-27,2011-28, 2011-29 Lu Gauthier of The Boston Tax Institute has given me permission to...
by admin | Dec 31, 2018 | Tax
Originally published on Forbes.com. People who make lists of the best legal dramas like this one by the ABA and this one by IMDB will need to be doing some updating with the release of “On the Basis of Sex”. It is really great on many levels. This post...
