Non-Custodial Parents Out Of Luck When Form 8332 Withheld
If the custodial parent is withholding a signed Form 8332 that you are entitled to, there are a couple of approaches. Filing your return without the required form is not one that I would recommend. My own view which may be of limited applicability is to just forget about it and don’t claim the exemption. This is clearly the best course if both you and your ex are going to end up leaving money to the same kids.
Clergy Out In Force To Defend Their Housing Tax Break
Professor Edward Zelinsky of Yeshiva University. Professor Zelinsky has written that Section 107(2) is constitutionally permissible although not necessarily good tax policy.
Professor Zelinsky has commented that when taxation meets religion, you are always going to have a problem either from the tax authorities looking into the religious organization or from them policing the boundary of the exemption. I am really grateful to Professor Zelinsky for clarifying that.
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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.