State Court Can Order Custodial Parent To Release Exemption
In Massachusetts, it seems to be common to alternate the exemption from year to year, which seems to be a formula for fomenting needless bickering. My theory for the emphasis on the dependency exemption in divorce negotiations is that it somehow makes the noncustodial parent feel validated as a parent. The truth is that the IRS and the Tax Court have no interest in what kind of a parent you are and would be ill-equipped to make a determination if they did.
Homeland Security Targets Tea Party ?
I don’t know why it is that the federal government has a wide variety of specialized law enforcement people, but it does. The ones whose job it is to protect federal buildings and the people who work in them are part of the Department of Homeland Security. You start having crowds form outside federal buildings, it is their job to see what is going on. The evidence that they are picking on the right is rather slim, since earlier this week they arrested over twenty people from a variety of groups loosely identified with Occupy Wall Street, who started an encampment in front of the Justice Department.
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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.