SpongeBob SquarePants In A Tax Case!
The Greenbergers also tried an estoppel argument maintaining that since the Department of Justice had notified them that they might be victims of a crime, that the government could not now argue that they were not theft victims. That just didn’t work because Ohio law requires a privity between the thief and the victim.
There is probably not much of a tax planning point here since nobody plans to get defrauded. The fraud story is a really good one, though. I can’t rate it that highly since the basis was simply inflating sales, but I do think they should get some extra credit for including an animated character.
National Park Service Bans Confederate Flag Sales
So here is an interesting development. National Parks Pull Confederate Flag Sales Items WASHINGTON – Confederate Battle Flag sales items are being removed from national...
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