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Appeal Of $90 Tax Court Decision Shows Passion Of Pro Bono Attorneys

Appeal Of $90 Tax Court Decision Shows Passion Of Pro Bono Attorneys

Ms. Grajales filed form 1040EZ, which has no place to report income form pension plans.  It is understandable since she figured she had just borrowed money. If I had been doing the return I would have tried to have the argument with New York State about taxability before filing.  I’d like to think that I would have ended up reporting the gross distribution on 1040 with a lower taxable amount maybe attaching something to go with it.  That homage to computer matching might have avoided the problem entirely.

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Peter Hendrickson Responds To Lauber Opinion In Clarkson v Commissioner

Peter Hendrickson Responds To Lauber Opinion In Clarkson v Commissioner

The fact is, to the degree that it is not simply an escape hatch from the inappropriateness of the entry in which it is placed, this reference to “Zero Returns” is nothing more than a cheap effort to smear the inconvenient filings which the IRS so desperately wishes to discourage, by suggesting that they are of a kind with returns filed in years past by adherents of various misunderstandings who did indeed fill in 1040s as described above. (

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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.