Grok On The Reilly Baty Collaboration
Peter J. Reilly and Robert Baty’s collaboration is a dynamic interplay of Reilly’s storytelling and tax expertise with Baty’s IRS experience and critical focus on tax law abuses. Their work together, particularly on clergy housing allowances, Scientology, and the Kent Hovind case, has enriched tax-related journalism and public understanding of complex tax issues.
The End of ‘Smelly’ Arguments? Tax Court Targets Conservation Easement Abuses
But enough is enough. The courts are FINALLY starting to say “what part of ‘willing buyer willing seller based on comparable sales in the relevant marketplace’ don’t you understand?””
Follow Me
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.