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TurboTax Glitch Leads To Long Battle With IRS
Somebody once told me that my problem is that being an Aquarian, I want everybody to get along, so that bias might be behind my theory that there might be a more benign explanation for Mr. McNaughton’s difficulties. I think he really threw the IRS for a loop by dusting off that 301.6511 (g)-1. His decisions are the only time that regulation is mentioned in case law and there are no rulings of any kind that mention it. Furthermore, the IRS has been trying to get more time to root out partnership shenanigans, so it is possible that the Service would have been happy if he turned out to be right, hence the chief counsel involvement. Regardless, there is hardly anybody still working for the IRS that would have any reason to know about that regulation.
Limits Of Hobby Lobby – Priests For Life Denied Rehearing On Contraception Mandate
The majority of the DC district held that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act provides robust protection for religious liberty, regardless of how irrational, trivial or wrong others might view particular religious beliefs. The step that the Court will not take is to credit a religious groups sincerely held misunderstanding of how federal law works.
The Grand Review Of 2015 And Why Black History Is History
Overall I really liked the 150th anniversary of the Grand Review in Washington on Sunday May 17. It was about a week off from being "real time" but I can live with...
Full Fathom Five – A Daughter Finds The Story Of The Father She Never Knew – Perfect For Memorial Day
I think the best book ever for Memorial Day might be Full Fathom Five - A Daughter's Search by Mary Lee Coe Fowler. It was one of my typical museum impulse purchases....
Memorial Day Reading – Donald Cook – Xavier Graduate With Greatest Military Distinction
So I've got two books I want to recommend for Memorial Day. I know it is probably too late for you to read them for this Memorial Day, but you can order them. One of...
Kent Hovind To Be Free In August – Maybe Sooner
There is just a bit of murkiness about who managed the excellent legal work that won Kent’s acquittal. The way Kent’s legal defense funds were channeled changed a few times, with the last stop being the United States Justice Foundation, which according to Ernie for unknown reasons has backed away from the case. Nonetheless, the attorneys hired by them continued assisting Kent’s federal public defender Thomas Keith. I have reached out to those attorneys, but have not heard back. At the hearing Monday Keith apparently apologized for not making the motion sooner.
Tax Girl Challenges Homeownership And You Should Really Listen To Her
As far as my personal view on the ownership issue goes, I have to say that if you are mobile, homeownership is extremely risky but if you are confident that you will stay in the same area for a long time, it is probably a prudent move, although my post-marital experience with condominiums has me a little skeptical whether they are all they are cracked up to be.
Report On Kent Hovind Court Proceedings Monday May 18, 2015
Dee Holmes who has been following the Kent Hovind case when not busy with her knitting took the plunge and made a trip to Pensacola for the trial that was not held this...
Free Kent Hovind Movement Has Big Win
The question though is whether Hovind’s conduct –particularly, the filing of the lis pendens–was clearly prohibited by the Forfeiture Order. The Forfeiture Order does not specifically prohibit Hovind from filing lis pendens against the forfeited properties; indeed, the Order does not prohibit any conduct at all. Instead, it simply forfeited the real property in partial substitution for the money forfeiture judgment.The Government has not cited any authority for the proposition that Hovind can be guilty of contempt for interfering with or evading an Order that did not speak directly to his conduct. Thus, the guilty verdict on Count Three cannot stand,
Kent Hovind Remains In Custody – Judge Would Have Ruled Against Motion To Dismiss
People who have been following the Kent Hovind trial were taken by surprise this weekend as the federal government moved to drop, without prejudice, the remaining charges against Hovind and Hansen (In March they were convicted on charges of contempt of court, but the jury did not reach a verdict on more serious fraud and conspiracy charges. Jury selection for retrial on those charges was scheduled to begin this morning.)
More or less at the eleventh hour, the United States Justice Foundation assisted Hovind’s attorney Thomas Keith and Hansen, who is pro se on this round, in submitting a motion to have the charges dropped. The United States requested a continuance to respond to the motion. Judge Rodgers indicated that she was not inclined to grant a continuance and scheduled oral arguments on the motions this morning with jury selection to follow, if the motions were not allowed. Then came the big surprise. The United States moved to dismiss the remaining charges without prejudice. (Meaning, as I understand it, that the charges can be refiled).