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Conservation Easement Tax Deduction Coverage Round Up
The Senate Finance Committee report on syndicated conservation easement transactions released on August 25, 2020, is a dramatic development. I have been covering conservation easement tax deductions for nearly a decade and think that a summary of that coverage might be timely. Articles are in reverse chronological order with brief explanations where the title is not self-explanatory.
Was Denmark Vesey Framed?
Charleston brings up feelings of both excitement and dread. Parents might want to consider ways to prevent their children from engaging with history, It can seem pretty harmless, but someday they will be old. Even if they lead a very soft life, they will sometimes experience what one of my Teaching Company lectures calls the “terror of history”. Beneath the moonlight magnolias southern hospitality veneer of Charleston, I knew it would be there, so I persuaded Evie that we should dive right in.
The Dinosaur Adventure Land Jeep Heist – A Different Point Of View
It was great talking to Heather. She told me that she was born in Buffalo NY, but her parents moved her to Alabama when she was four. Clearly she learned to speak in Alabama. I would characterize her as feisty.
Robert Baty On The Great Dinosaur Adventure Land Jeep Heist
Robert Baty has probably had more influence on the stories on this blog than anyone. We first bonded over our interest in Kent Hovind’s adventures and moved on to the clergy housing exclusion. He is all over the most recent Hovind lawsuits and has provided me with a guest post.
The Object Of The Game For An Agent Of The Resistance
I sometimes consider renaming this site Your Retired Tax Matters Partner. That is a sort of warning that despite the fact that everything becomes a tax issue eventually, some of the posts will have no discernible tax connection. This one is an example of that.
The Tax Hazards Of Whole Life Insurance Policies
A feature of the game of Monopoly is landing on a space where you get to draw a Community Chest Card. One of them has an image of Mr. Monopoly (formerly Rich Uncle Pennybags) who has a long beard and a cane and is bent with age. The card reads Life Insurance Matures Collect $100. It is sort of like he landed on the Community Chest square in the ghetto between Mediterranean and Baltic and rolled snake eyes on the next turn, which you and I both know puts you on Income Tax. Like many others he was taxed on capitalized interest in addition to the excess of his money out over his money in.
Christmas As A Tax Story
Assist with your spirit of counsel and fortitude the President and other government leaders of these United States. May they always seek the ways of righteousness, justice and mercy.
Revisiting Romney’s 2012 Tax Scandals: From Carried Interest to a Dancing Horse, in Light of His Tax-the-Rich Plea
Well, now there is a spreadsheet with 40 interesting numbers on it which PWC has boiled down to a few percentages. You have 20 years of adjusted gross income and twenty years of total tax. Why not release those two series ? Is it because the twenty years worth of adjusted gross income would be difficult to reconcile with a net worth of $250,000,000 ?
Mitt Romney’s Call to Tax the Rich Like Himself: A Skeptical Take
Image by Flickr - Mark Taylor By Peter J. Reilly Romney Breaks From Republican Orthodoxly Mitt "not a penny more" Romney with a guest essay in the New York Times...
Kent Hovind And Paul Hansen And A Jeep Stolen From Dinosaur Adventure Land
Much of the complaint relies on pseudolegal theories (e.g., distinguishing “People of Alabama” from “STATE OF ALABAMA”; claiming no jurisdiction over non-U.S. citizens; ZIP code brackets; common law “court of record” overriding statutory courts). These are routinely rejected as frivolous