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Hard For Snow Birds To Avoid New York Tax

Hard For Snow Birds To Avoid New York Tax

If you are not going to entirely cut your ties to a high tax state, be prepared for an uphill battle if you try to claim residence in a different state.  Study up on why you love your new home beyond its favorable tax regime and keep a good log.

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Second Circuit WorldCom Decision Evokes Nostalgia For Dialup

Second Circuit WorldCom Decision Evokes Nostalgia For Dialup

I don’t know how much that claim is worth to the government.  Even at pennies on the dollar it would be few hundred grand.  More significantly there was an order for the IRS to refund $38,297,513 in excise tax.  The excise tax is the 3% excise on telephone services that was passed as an emergency war measure.  I

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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.