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The Ryan Bailey Story As A Tax Tale

The Ryan Bailey Story As A Tax Tale

The way I want to frame the story is similar to the way The Blind Side was done.  Sorry, I can’t find the right clip.  In that movie, football player Michael Oher has to stand up to an NCAA investigation.  The concern is that the family that helped him was acting as boosters for Old Miss.   I knew somebody who told me about working full time for a college managing eligibility issues.  I understand that NCAA compliance can get as complicated as tax law.  The Ryan Bailey story could be framed as a tax story and it would be, as they say in those movies, based on a  true story.

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Hurricane Sandy Tax Planning

Hurricane Sandy Tax Planning

Originally published on Forbes.com Oct 29th, 2012 If you are anywhere near the East Coast, I hope by now you are in a safe place and have a good stock of drinking water...

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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.