Lu Gauthier Reports On Important Massachusetts Domicile Case
Lu Gauthier of the Boston Tax Institute has given me permission to reproduce his email blasts. BTI is a great value for live tax continuing professional education....
Here Is Hoping That The First Thousand Posts Are The Hardest
The extra emphasis on Kent Hovind in this round-up post is perhaps a reflection of the way that the immediacy of blogging keeps one in the now. I am actually on the slow side compare to many bloggers and will sometimes pass issues that are intensely covered, because I don’t have anything to add. There are various attributions for the remark that “journalism is the first rough draft of history”. I think that we can now say that blogging has become the first draft of journalism. The tension between the two crafts has become apparent to me as I have worked with a veteran journalist in covering the Kent Hovind story.
The immediacy of blogging is often valuable in the tax area. I received a few kudos from practitioners for being on top of the repair regs and there are quite a few cases, that have been of interest to small groups of people that would have gotten no coverage at all, if I had not noted them. The most recent instance of that is an Oregon Tax Court decision allowing real estate taxation of parish rectory that I see being picked up by the Catholic press.
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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.