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Electing To Capitalize Expenses Can Pay Off On Sale

Electing To Capitalize Expenses Can Pay Off On Sale

What is extraordinary is that’s the whole section.  No sub-sections, paragraphs, sub-paragraphs.  A single sentence.  It has been handed down to us virtually unchanged from the 1954 Code, except that in 1977 they cut three words.  We should get that team working on the rest of the Code.

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Brooklyn Grandmother Wins On Dependency Exemption

Brooklyn Grandmother Wins On Dependency Exemption

The argument that the IRS was putting forward was the “tie-breaker” rule.  If E.P. was claimed by both Ms. Coultman and her daughter, the tie-breaker rule would give the exemption to the parent.  Ms. Coultman did not believe that her daughter, who was not employed during 2008, claimed E.P.  The IRS argued that she had, but was unable to introduce any proof.

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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.