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You Can’t Get Tax Advice From Your Spirit Guide

You Can’t Get Tax Advice From Your Spirit Guide

Things did not go well for Christopher Dufresne, son of famous psychic Sylvia Browne and himself a psychic,  in the Tax Court decision that came out last week.  Judge Kerrigan confirmed the IRS notices of deficiencies of over $500,000 and accuracy penalties that tack on another hundred thousand plus. You would have thought that he would have seen it coming, but that is not how it works according to his book.

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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.