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To Attack Abortion, Kansas Mucks Up Its Tax Code
One of my great wishes is that taxation should be declared the Switzerland of the culture war. Setting tax policy to raise the right amount of revenue without distorting the economy is challenging enough without bringing other issues into it. Also, it is more or less likely that you will do more harm to your cause than good by attacking the other side with tax provisions. It seems though that fighting the culture war with tax provisions is an irresistible impulse. Kansas has just succumbed.
How 38 Studios LLC Turned A CPA Into A Warrior
The 38 Studio MMO was going to be so much better than WOW because it would have all these features a passionate gamer, who was excellent at his own profession, would want. Sadly, it would never float.
How To Shatter The Public Accounting Glass Ceiling ?
Why haven’t 100 or 200 women senior managers, directors, principals and income partners with 10 to 20 years experience not just walked out and started a firm ? It would be a power house and the culture it created would transform the industry.
Do Land Patents Trump Property Taxes ?
The real point is NOT that courts are deciding en masse in favor of people seeking to have their property taken off the tax rolls, but that our courts are deeply corrupt and are ignoring the lawful principle of stare decisis by IGNORING U.S. Supreme Court decisions consistently upholding the power of the land patent in decisions that ruled in favor of those claiming the “forever” benefit of the land patent.
Could Repairman Jack Come In From The Cold ?
Jack would go to a country in which there had been extreme strife and much destruction of records. He would come to the United States as a refugee. Citizenship would be a piece of cake, since he would marry Gia, which was the point of the exercise. It would be too much of a spoiler to get into what happened, but I thought the plan had quite a bit of merit and might well have worked. Something to think about if you have been living off the grid and have a lover who would like you to legalize things. Maybe if you don’t have as much baggage as Jack, you might want to try the hard-core hippy parent story first.
IRS Not Screening Informant Reports Well
You may think that the IRS will never see through your brilliant deception, but that will be of no help if your disgruntled ex-employee, ex-spouse or ex-covivant knows all the details and is motivated by public spiritedness or spiteful malevolence to rat you out.
Tax Court Tells Man He Is A Mensch But Alimony Deduction Denied
Letters which do not show a meeting of the minds between the parties cannot collectively constitute a written separation agreement.
Any amounts paid in excess of that required by a written instrument are not considered deductible alimony payments.
How Not To Care About IRS E-mail Snooping
Here is why I don’t care. I never put anything in an e-mail that I would care about the IRS seeing and neither should you. When you send an e-mail, you should go on the assumption that within a few days there will be a gazillion copies of it. The system you send it from probably has multiple back-ups as does the system of the recipient and the systems of the unlimited number of people the recipient might forward it to.
Sales Tax Class Action Suits Seem Frivolous
Both those suits also lost. There does not seem to be a broad federal principle at work. The cases turn on nuances of state law. So I wonder if one class action firm or other other will end up trying this in each of the other 42 states that have sales tax.
According to this story somebody is going after Hertz on a similar theory to the Rite Aid case. Apparently Dell lost in a California case on the service contracts. There has also been a successful suit against AT&T Mobility.
A Dirty Stinking Business And No Charitable Contribution
When it comes to charitable contributions of $250 or more, though, there is a sine qua non. That would be an acknowledgment from the done organization that there was a contribution and a statement that there was either no quid pro quo or its value if there was one.