Tax Court Exposes Financial Engineering Of Conservation Easements
Judge David Gustafson injected a good dose of common sense into the ongoing struggle between the IRS and the syndicators of conservation easements. His opinion in Mill...
Are You Really Sure Your Electronic Form 1040 Was Filed?
Still if I were running a family office I would start pulling transcripts of each return and comparing them with what the accounting firm gave us with Form 8879. There must be people who do that, even though I was today years old when the idea occurred to me.
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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.