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Radio Station Considered House of Public Worship For Ohio Property Tax

Radio Station Considered House of Public Worship For Ohio Property Tax

I’m not sure who I want to root for on this one. On the one hand, property tax exemptions should be construed narrowly, since either the other ratepayers have to pick up the slack or the town has to get by with one less cop or give up that AP English class or something.  On the other hand, there is “meat space” prejudice baked into a lot of statutes that might privilege more traditional forms of gathering.  I’ll probably have to lean with the minority on the basis that any judge who can work Pete Seeger into an opinion must be right.

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TIGTA Pushes IRS To Crack Down On Hobby Loss Deductions

TIGTA Pushes IRS To Crack Down On Hobby Loss Deductions

Apparently a dinky Schedule C is more suspicious than a loss flowing through from an S corporation or partnership.  A lot of practitioners will advise you to put your enterprise in an entity for that purpose.  I am hesitant to give that advice because then there is another return that might get audited.  I have not been able to figure out how to balance those two factors.

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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.