Did Andie MacDowell’s Mountain Hideaway Require Tax Incentives?
Balsam Mountain Preserve counts itself the lowest density private club community in western North Carolina. Of the 4,400 acres in the community, 3,400 are in permanent conservation easement with North American Land Trust holding the easement. There is also The Balsam Mountain Trust that is dedicated to the stewardship of the preserved land. The architecturally distinctive homes in the preserve currently for sale range from $850,000 to $2,800,000. Available homesites range from $150,000 to $460,000.
Ninth Circuit Rules Against War Tax Resister
Just to be clear, because this can get a bit confusing, Ms. Boardman recognizes that the IRS can legally come and grab her money. Her legal objection is to the practice of identifying war tax resisters as frivolous and attempting to suppress them. In 2013, there was a field attorney advice issued that indicated that a proper return that is accompanied by a protest letter will not be subject to the $5,000 frivolous return penalty, but the frivolous position label still remains. As best I can understand it, if the IRS just treated war tax resister returns the same way they treat any other return that comes in without full payment, there would not be an objection under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
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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.