by admin | Mar 16, 2024 | Uncategorized
This is a guest post by Robert Baty. You can read about him here. Abilene Christian University led the way for the Churches of Christ, despite the facts and the law. That was back in 1970. Abilene was having tax problems. Rather than simply litigate the unresolved...
by admin | Jan 29, 2024 | Tax
The big news last week for those who follow the controversy around syndicated conservation easements (SCE) is the extremely harsh sentences handed down by Judge Timothy Batten to CPA Jack Fisher and lawyer James Sinnott. Fisher got 25 years and Sinnott 23 years. ...
by admin | Jan 7, 2023 | Tax
I have been a tax writer of sorts for thirteen years. What I write about is stuff that I find interesting. And I have to tell you that 2022 does not rate that high for interesting. Still there were a few things worth remembering. On reflecting on what I find...
by admin | Oct 4, 2022 | Tax
The National Republican Senatorial Committee blasts on its website ICYMI // How Raphael Warnock Dodges Income Taxes. Are they seeking to win some sort of award for hypocrisy? When the Seventh Circuit was considering the constitutionality of the income tax exclusion...
by admin | Feb 1, 2022 | Tax
Clergy housing is back in the news as Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch dissented from the Court’s decision to not hear the appeal in the case of Trustees of the New Life in Christ Church v. City of Fredericksburg. The economic issue was real estate tax...
by admin | Nov 11, 2021 | Tax
Family law attorney Sue Moss thinks that Judge Emin Toro of the United States Tax Court has done a great disservice to women, particularly Orthodox Jewish women, in his decision in the case of the Estate of Semone Grossman. She fears that this decision of a federal...
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 | May 8, 2020 | Tax
Here is a guest post from John Anthony Castro. I don’t agree with everything in it, but I think there are some well-considered arguments. It also ran on his website. See my post on forbes.com on the same topic.- PJR Introduction The Internal Revenue Service...
by admin | Jan 23, 2020 | History, Tax
All I was going to write about was taxes. I hadn’t planned on gay rights, religion, crackpot science and sovereign shenanigans, but as I view the last decade, those things kind of stick out. Go figure. A Decade Comes And Goes The decade just ended corresponds well...
by admin | Jan 17, 2020 | Tax
Concern about the $100 billion Mormon horde, the “scandal” I have dubbed EnsignGate seems to still be a thing. I have a little more to share on it, but I would also like to do a bit of review of my Mormon coverage. I have made an attempt to stake a big claim to the...
by admin | Oct 16, 2019 | Tax
Originally published on Forbes.com. I see from the National Review that Beto O’Rourke’s remarks about revoking tax-exempt status of religious institutions such as colleges, churches, etc. for opposing same-sex marriage is still a thing. …Insert Text AboveI’m not...
by admin | Aug 23, 2019 | Tax
Photo Credit: Nikon 21 Originally published on Forbes.com. The challenge of Samuel and Louise Edelman to the State of New York is a protest against double taxation. I covered it here last month and even came up with a workaround for people in their situation. I had a...
by admin | Jun 20, 2019 | Tax
Originally published on Forbes.com. The Freedom From Religion Foundation is throwing in the towel in its struggle against the exclusion from taxable income granted to “ministers of the gospel”. Code Section 107(2) grants the exclusion: In the case of a...
by admin | Mar 18, 2019 | Guest Post, Tax
YTMP welcomes a new guest blogger – Amanda Retberg. Amanda writes about her experience as a professor at Wisconsin Lutheran College, which is sponsored by the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod. You know how you will run into members of the Sons of...
by admin | Mar 15, 2019 | Tax
Originally published on Forbes.com. In a long-awaited decision, the Seventh Circuit has ruled that Code Section 107(2) is constitutional overturning Judge Barbara Crabb’s 2017 ruling that the section violated the Establishment Clause. Code Sec 107(2) allows the...
