by admin | Feb 11, 2021 | Kent Hovind, Tax
Glen Stoll has entered into a plea agreement that may spell the end of a long trail of tax shenanigans. The agreement dated January 15, 2021 has Stohl pleading guilty to conspiracy to defraud the United States and evading the payment of federal income taxes. The...
by admin | Jan 17, 2021 | Kent Hovind, Tax
Prospect of Pardons in Final Days Fuels Market to Buy Access to Trump reads the headline in the New York Times this morning. The story is about people paying large sums to get their pardon applications considered. The most vocal pardon seeker I know of is Kent...
by admin | Sep 11, 2020 | Tax
Originally published on Forbes.com. In the wake of last week’s damning report from the Senate Finance Committee, the IRS is crowing over the first opponent to throw in the towel in a Tax Court brawl over a syndicated conservation easement based on the IRS offer...
by admin | Aug 7, 2020 | Kent Hovind, Tax
At my 45th high school reunion, which I discuss near the end of this piece, a high point was a remark that somebody who I did not know that well made to me. He talked about having read my stuff, but the piece he mentioned was on my alternative blog. It was one of...
by admin | Jun 28, 2020 | Kent Hovind, Tax
Originally published on Forbes.com. Kent Hovind’s half -billion dollar lawsuit against the federal government and others has him back preaching, if not practicing the sort of arguments that got him in trouble back in the day. Here you can hear him many years ago...
by admin | Jun 24, 2020 | Kent Hovind, Tax
Originally published on Forbes.com. Independent Baptist minister and Young Earth Creationist Kent Hovind (Doctor Dino) has been loudly and publicly promising to sue the United States for what he considers unjust imprisonment and theft of his property for many years....
by admin | Jun 19, 2020 | Tax
Originally published on Forbes.com. The New York TimesNYT piece The Quiet Demise of the Separation of Church and State characterizes the Paycheck Protection Program’s protection of clergy paychecks as a disaster for church state separation. The opinion piece is by...
by admin | Jun 15, 2020 | Kent Hovind, Tax
Kent Hovind has finally followed through on the lawsuit that he promised to bring to seek compensation for what he sees as unjust imprisonment and theft of his property. He had always indicated it was going to be a lot, but frankly I hadn’t expected anything nearly...
by admin | May 26, 2020 | History, Tax
What is with tax attorneys throwing themselves into a religious liberty Covid-19 dispute where Holy Communion gets compared with pizza delivery? According to Nathan MacPherson it is the same sensitivity to liberty and the Constitution that informs the approach to tax...
by admin | Nov 6, 2019 | Kent Hovind, Tax
Originally published on Forbes.com. Over four years ago I called an end to L’affiare Kent Hovind on this platform as his co-defendant (Paul John Hansen) in his 2015 trial received a below guidelines sentence. Something told me he would be back. There is a new...
by admin | May 9, 2019 | Tax
Originally published on Forbes.com. Panic reigns in countless accounting firms across the nation as one of the top providers of tax software, CCH, a subsidiary of Wolters Kluwer, a Dutch company, has gone dark this week. Here is what they have to say about it. On...
by admin | Jan 2, 2019 | Tax
Originally published on Forbes.com. Looking back on 2018, during which I wrote quite a bit on the implications of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, I was surprised to see that in terms of reader interest (measured in pageviews), my top two stories were not TCJA related. The...
by admin | Sep 5, 2018 | Kent Hovind, Tax
Originally published on Forbes.com. My regular long-term readers will be either sad or dismayed that there is a new Kent Hovind story that belongs on this tax blog. I closed the books on L’affaire Hovind as being Forbes-worthy in August 2015, although I...
by admin | Aug 4, 2018 | Kent Hovind, Tax
So this will be a longish introduction to a really long piece. I will start with the disclaimer that the views expressed by Johnny Cirucci (below the dotted line) are not the views of Peter J Reilly or Your Tax Matters Partner. There is stuff down there I agree with,...
by admin | Jul 28, 2018 | Kent Hovind
Lamar Smith is back from an assignment. I asked him to look into the odd interaction of Kent Hovind and flat earth. The way this connects with tax is kind of intriguing. The people who are commonly called tax protesters, a term they dislike, have a pretty...
