Tax Court Cuts No Slack On Strip Joint Fraud Penalty
There are a lot of concerns about the whole “gentlemen’s club” phenomenon. The greatest one is probably the exploitation of the “dancers”. This can be facilitated by the fiction that they are independent contractors. I doubt that there are any statistics on the level of dancer tax compliance, although you can find groups like We Are Dancers, which encourage tax compliance.
The Dog That Did Not Bark – IRS Issues Adverse 501(c)(4) Rulings To Deafening Silence
An interesting question about the whole scandal narrative is how it would look if it turned out that many of the groups that the IRS “targeted” were in fact inappropriately claiming 501(c)(4) status. Tea Party Patriots Inc, for example, spends a lot of energy talking about how all those intrusive questions were harassment, but what if it turns that, in fact, all those phone calls that TPP Inc made telling people that November 2012 was the last chance to stop Obamacare from turning the country into a cradle to grave welfare state could be viewed as political?
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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.