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Get Thee To A Nunnery
It is a fascinating story. The government was seeking to foreclose federal tax liens and a judgement lien against parcels of real estate located at 65 and 69 Tompkins Street Pittston PA to collect tax judgements they had obtained against Mr. Kistler. Mr. Kistler had a plentitude of objections and counterclaims for Judge Munley to mull over. The parcels add an interesting element to the story.
How to Build Multiple Income Streams for Financial Stability and Freedom
Income diversification shifts the goal from earning more to building financial stability through multiple income streams that don’t all depend on the same job or client.
Kent Hovind And Donald Trump An Affair To Imagine
The Justice Department was weaponized against Hovind as it was against Trump and Trump should get somebody to investigate Hovind’s case came up eight times. Judge Margaret Casey Rodgers saying Kent’s crimes were worse than rape came up five times. Also five times we hear that he broke no law and that the government broke many laws to convict him. We hear four times that he served nine years in prison, that he is not a tax protester and that he has paid every tax he owed. Three times we hear that eight people signed affidavits that they heard the “worse than rape” statement and that the line was missing from the transcript, which was held back for sixteen months.
August 2026 Final Wrap-up – The Influencer
Assertion of the 75% fraud penalty is rather rare. I’m not saying other Peter J doesn’t deserve the fraud penalty just that there might have been some animus behind the assertion of it.
Like A Limestone Cowboy – More Dixieland Boondockery Shenanigans
Like a limestone easement
Riding out on a valuation in a star-spangled appraisal show
Like a limestone easement
Getting cards and letters from promoters I don’t even know
And offers coming over the phone
August 2026 Tax Developments – Part III – Some Partners Not So Limited
Malibu is something of a return to the good old days. It is not a syndicated financially engineered deal and the highest and best use is a subdivision which was the classic go-to for easements back in the day.
August 2026 Tax Developments – Part II – Fraud Theft Loss Mostly Allowed
The joke was that there were three ways to get out of a burned out tax shelter tax free. You could put it into a defective grantor trust and after crossover cure the defect. It was a great idea, but probably didn’t work. You could die, but that was a little extreme. The one that really worked was to give it to your spouse and get a divorce.
August 2026 Tax Developments – Part I – I Still Hate Crypto
Note that if Ms. Boechler had followed the Seventeenth Law, miscalculating the due date by a day would not have been a problem. There were a lot of other demands on her time, including caring for her mother, but here is one that mystifies me a bit:
“Between August 17th and August 22nd of 2017, Ms. Boechler traveled to New York to assist her son in moving into his college dormitory. While there, she assisted him with his move and attended parent meetings at his new college.”
I have to admit that my ex-wife did that for our son, but I just didn’t get it. I also had a single mother and she helped me pack the trunk that got shipped to the college, but when it came time to go I just went.
Tax Court Attorneys Play The Hand They Are Dealt By Their Clients
“Under the double-entry accounting system developed during the Renaissance, each entry in a general ledger has two sides – a debit and a credit. ” Judge Emin Toro – United States Tax Court
July Developments – Part III – Does IRS Hate Crypto?
“The prosecution of John Caleb Wright represents more than an isolated case of alleged tax evasion—it exemplifies a disturbing pattern of government persecution targeting the very individuals who pioneered the cryptocurrency revolution. This systematic campaign against early adopters reveals a coordinated effort to criminalize the foundational activities that built the digital asset ecosystem we know today.”