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Fifth Circuit Rules Jurisdictional Arguments Frivolous – Bad News For Hansen And Hovind?
The deep thinkers among the Hovindicators, that would be Ernie Land and Paul John Hansen, seem to be focusing on jurisdiction as the winning strategy for the trial next...
Wiley Drake Starts Boots On The Ground Campaign For Kent Hovind In Pensacola
by Ben Sheffler Kent Hovind supporters are gathering this week for "Boots on the Ground for Kent Hovind" at the Red Roof Inn in Pensacola, Fla., led by Wiley Drake,...
Creation Science Hall Of Fame Supports Kent Hovind
Do Hovindicators Now Own The Internet? The most exciting development in Hovindland this week has to be Rudy Davis' announcement (around 12:00) that the people who want...
Evolution Of A Hovindologist
Last week, Sam and Dan of God's Property Radio ran my interview with Kent Hovind with commentary on the front end and the back end. They included the still anonymous,...
Mr. Koskinen’s Last Chance To End The Form 3115 Madness
I did a short survey to an extremely small unscientific sample of tax preparers asking if they expected to do one of more Forms 3115 for virtually every trade or business client. It’s running about half. As it stands now, I’m leaning toward the tree killing side, but I don’t have many returns to do and they almost all extend, so I can pretty much wait and see. I suspect that the people who are saying this is overblown will turn out to be right. It will be like those blurbs we put on our emails that we thought were required by Circular 230, but why take the risk. So realistically, if the IRS does not take action to stem the flow Ogden will only be hit with 5 or 6 million pointless forms, since there are people more courageous than me who will not be intimidated and people more clueless than me, who will miss the whole drama.
Oil Rig Manager Does Not Qualify As Foreign Resident
Petitioner’s ties to Louisiana during 2007-2010 were at least as strong as, if not stronger than, those of the taxpayer in Lemay. Throughout this period petitioner owned a house in West Monroe that he had built. While he was overseas his first wife, his second wife, and his daughter lived in this house or in his parents’ house, also in West Monroe. During his off-duty periods petitioner regularly returned to West Monroe for an average of 23 days per period to be with his family. His business affairs were generally handled by his mother, whose address in West Monroe he used as his mailing address. His driver’s license, voter registration, bank accounts, and motor vehicles were all centered in Louisiana. His ties to Sakhalin Island, by contrast, were entirely transitory and did not extend much beyond the bare minimum required to perform his duties there
An Awesome Critique Of The Prison Industrial Complex By One Who Knows It Well
The Kennel by Elijah Green is a brilliant send-up of the prison industrial complex. It is short, just 41 pages. The work is divided into two parts. The first is a...
Repair Regs And Tax Pros Are Like Headlights And Deer
The regulations totally refer to the physicality of the building and except for some de minimus rules make no reference to dollars. The regs say that if you have 10 roof mounted HVAC units and you replace three of them, you can expense that. CSG takes that and makes the logical leap that if you have carved out $100,000 of the original building cost to HVAC and you have a bill for less than $30,000 you can expense it, more than $40,000 you have to capitalize with a gray area in between. At any rate that is what I understood the rep to have presented. I voiced my objection to that not reflecting what the regulations said and he indicated that might be true, but what else can you do and, of course, their IRS insiders had given the nod to this reasoning.
Don’t Use The IRS To Address Koch Political Spending
In the end the concern about dark money is an ad hominem argument. I’d like to think that we are smart enough to look at the merits of ideas without knowing who is pushing them. Of course from here on in, progressives will be able to use the lack of transparency to attribute any support received by their opponents to the Koch brothers. Play it that way and let the IRS stick to collecting taxes.
Kent Hovind – Trial Delayed – Documents Uncovered
I have been following the tax travails of Kent Hovind, Doctor Dino on forbes.com for over two years. As his trial on new charges approaches he has been rallying...