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Kind Christmas Wishes To Those Behind Bars And The Tax Collectors Too

So there might be some universities where Kent Hovind will be unpopular not just with the biologists, astronomers, and geologists, but also the New Testament scholars. I should mention that his tax theories will not endear him to the accounting faculty.  I don’t care.  I still wish him well and hope for his speedy release and join with Nick Lally in encouraging him to move past his tax struggles.

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Tax Lessons From Woody Allen’s ‘Blue Jasmine’

Tax Lessons From Woody Allen’s ‘Blue Jasmine’

You may have this vision, that you and your ex are going to become pals after the wounds have healed. It can happen.  I know of couples who vacation with their exes and their exes’s partners. You might consider this.  Filing a joint return is an irrevocable election while filing separately is not.  File separately to get through the contentious phase, wait a couple of years and amend to a joint return.  You can use the refund to help pay for that cruise the four of you are going to take together.  Or not.

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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.