Where Is Kent Hovind Now?
Although I have sporadically been following Kent Hovind's website and also Rudy Davis's Lonestar1776 and 1776Lonestar, I have stuck with my decision to consider the...
This CPA Not Rooting For AICPA In Its IRS Lawsuit
The IRS had wanted to put some requirements around who could get a PTIN requiring an exam and continuing professional education for those without an existing recognized credential, but a lawsuit struck that down. So instead, the agency started an optional program – the Annual Filing Season Record of Completion. PTIN holders who jumped through the appropriate hoops would get one of those suckers (I don’t know whether they are suitable for framing) and, here is the big deal, be listed in this database along with the PTIN holders who are qualified to represent taxpayers before the IRS. That would be CPAs, attorneys, enrolled agents, enrolled actuaries and enrolled retirement plan agents.
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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.