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Lawyer Subject To Injunction Defends Timeshare Charitable Deduction Appraisals

Lawyer Subject To Injunction Defends Timeshare Charitable Deduction Appraisals

Now I enjoy being invited to spend three days at a really nice resort for short money.  Unlike most normal people I enjoy the required sales presentation. I feel like I am inside Glengarry Glen Ross talking to somebody who just heard Alec Baldwin’s “Always be closing” speech (I’m not giving you a link, because, you know, language.  You can find it.)  And I sit and listen to somebody who works for a prestigious brand try to sell me something that is worth maybe $4,000 on the secondary market, if that, for $30,000.

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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.