Tax Court Tells Man He Is A Mensch But Alimony Deduction Denied
Letters which do not show a meeting of the minds between the parties cannot collectively constitute a written separation agreement.
Any amounts paid in excess of that required by a written instrument are not considered deductible alimony payments.
How Not To Care About IRS E-mail Snooping
Here is why I don’t care. I never put anything in an e-mail that I would care about the IRS seeing and neither should you. When you send an e-mail, you should go on the assumption that within a few days there will be a gazillion copies of it. The system you send it from probably has multiple back-ups as does the system of the recipient and the systems of the unlimited number of people the recipient might forward it to.
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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.