The Atlantic Sensationalizes Religious Property Tax Case
My friend Deana Holmes had such a strong reaction to a recent article in The Atlantic - Should Courts Get To Define Religion? that I invited her to write a guest post....
Tax Court Rules That Blogger Is Subject To Self-Employment Tax
The first blogger to ever go to Tax Court, Joshua Pingel, knew all about deductions. Revenue not so much. His was a hobby loss case. He lost. Nik Richie of thedirty.com was there about a missing K-1 and, as you would expect lost. So ]Mr. Clark makes the score IRS 3 – Bloggers 0. Maybe the next one up will be a tax blogger and she’ll win.
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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.