Estate Case Drives Another Nail Into DOMA’s Coffin
The last few weeks have not been good for DOMA. DOMA is the Defense of Marriage Act. Section 3 of DOMA, the part under attack, holds that: In determining the...
Churches And Other NFPs Need To Send Better Acknowledgments
At the end of the year I do a roundup of the year's most unfair tax decisions. The case of David Durden will be number 2. To be clear, I do not think the Tax Court is...
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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.