1albion
4albion
Thomas Piketty3 360x1000
2confidencegames
George F Wil...360x1000
Margaret Fuller5 360x1000
1trap
Mark V Holmes 360x1000
5albion
Anthony McCann1 360x1000
1theleasofus
Anthony McCann2 360x1000
2jesusandjohnwayne
2lafayette
9albion
Edmund Burke 360x1000
1lookingforthegoodwar
Margaret Fuller2 360x1000
Lafayette and Jefferson 360x1000
1lauber
storyparadox2
2defense
3confidencegames
1transcendentalist
1paradide
Learned Hand 360x1000
Margaret Fuller4 360x1000
Brendan Beehan 360x1000
2theleastofus
Office of Chief Counsel 360x1000
1confidencegames
1falsewitness
2albion
13albion
Margaret Fuller 360x1000
Mary Ann Evans 360x1000
1lafayette
storyparadox3
3paradise
Margaret Fuller3 360x1000
Thomas Piketty1 360x1000
Susie King Taylor2 360x1000
Adam Gopnik 360x1000
Ruth Bader Ginsburg 360x1000
Betty Friedan 360x1000
199
James Gould Cozzens 360x1000
Spottswood William Robinson 360x1000
12albion
Thomas Piketty2 360x1000
lifeinmiddlemarch2
299
14albion
6confidencegames
LillianFaderman
Storyparadox1
10abion
Susie King Taylor 360x1000
5confidencegames
11632
2trap
Stormy Daniels 360x1000
3theleastofus
lifeinmiddlemarch1
Maurice B Foley 360x1000
1gucci
1jesusandjohnwayne
2gucci
2transadentilist
1madoff
4confidencegames
Samuel Johnson 360x1000
2falsewitness
Margaret Fuller1 360x1000
1defense
2paradise
Tad Friend 360x1000
Margaret Fuller 2 360x1000
Gilgamesh 360x1000
7confidencegames
499
11albion
George M Cohan and Lerarned Hand 360x1000
399
2lookingforthegoodwar
8albion'
6albion
Maria Popova 360x1000
Richard Posner 360x1000
AlexRosenberg
3defense
7albion
1empireofpain
3albion
Judicial Watch Reveals That They Read Tax Blogs At IRS

Judicial Watch Reveals That They Read Tax Blogs At IRS

The weight of the “blockbuster documents” seems to support the notion that this was a case of tax geeks stepping on a land mine.  The issue of whether the gift tax applies to 501(c)(4) contributions remains unresolved so one revenue agent in the exempt group making a referral to estates and gifts is hardly shocking.  Whoever got the referral in estates and gifts, when they looked into the matter would find that there was strong support for raising the issue.

There was one email where someone was wondering how it had all happened and whether there needed to be controls over those type of referals to make sure everybody relevant knew what was going on.  I suspect that Frank Wolpe who has written on the baleful effects of the IRS reorganization in the ninetites would attribute the problem to the silo style of management.

read more

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.