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IRS Revokes Exempt Status Of Charity Focused On Timeshare Donations

IRS Revokes Exempt Status Of Charity Focused On Timeshare Donations

Or you could just take advantage of one of those invitations you get for a cheap weekend somewhere in exchange for spending a couple of hours listening to a sales presentation.  That will allow you to become acquainted with someone who lives and breathes the ABC philosophy.  The critical thing you need to do to avoid being taken in is to look into what you can buy timeshares for on the secondary market.

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Edith Windsor And The Struggle Against DOMA As Seen By A Tax Geek

Edith Windsor And The Struggle Against DOMA As Seen By A Tax Geek

It is a good thing that people were honoring Edith Windsor this week.  Her story was rather compelling.  I’m going to resist the temptation to try to track down Nancy Gill to find out if she is jealous that it is not her name that is on the Supreme Court decision.  I’ll continue to think that conservatives probably should have rolled over on DOMA to show consistency on the issue of states rights.  Of course they don’t seem to be doing that on marijuana either.  On another sad note, my friend Alan Jacobs also recently passed away.  As I noted above he was giving me insight as I followed along.

Looking at it as an amateur historian, I have to say that the triumph of the gay rights movement with Windsor and Obergefell coming back to back in the lifetime of people such as Edith Windsor and my friend Alan Jacobs who had to be, as they used to say, “in the closet” in their youth is rather remarkable when compared to the struggle for racial and gender equality, which have much longer histories.

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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.