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September 17 Remember America’s Bloodiest Day
Originally published on Forbes.com on September 10th, 2012 What could motivate as hard-core a tax geek as me to to take the day off on a major due date for the first...
Larry The Cable Guy Needs To Turn In Receipts
Unreimbursed expenses you have to incur as an employee are deductible, but only kind of. They are miscellaneous itemized deductions subject to the 2% floor. You...
Phil Driscoll To Supreme Court – Enough Not Enough
I really promise to not turn my blog into "All Parsonage Exclusion All The Time", but there is one more development in August that has not received much attention. Phil...
In Defense Of Special Tax Treatment For Clergy
Ministers are allowed to exclude the portion of their compensation designated as a housing allowance from their taxable income. Quite a few people question the...
Pitney Bowes Passes Go From Boardwalk But Lands On Income Tax
Originally published on Forbes.com on September 6th, 2012 When playing Monopoly it was great to land on Boardwalk, as long as somebody else did not already own it. ...
Google Plays Bess Truman To Jill Stein As Harry
Originally published on Forbes.com on September 4th, 2012 There is a story that a friend of Bess Truman once asked her why she did not get her husband, Harry, to stop...
Will Warren Buffett Be Endorsing Jill Stein For President?
Jill Stein
Southern Baptists Against Clergy Tax Abuse
Originally published on Forbes.com on September 2nd, 2012 Southern Baptists Against Clergy Tax Abuse (SBACTA) is not a real organization. I just made it up. There is...
Where Do Romney And Obama Stand On Special Tax Status For Ministers ?
The decision by a federal district court in Wisconsin to allow the Freedom From Religion Foundation and its officers to have standing to challenge the constitutionality...
Sometimes You Should Just Pay The Tax
Originally published on Forbes.com on August 31st, 2012 Some time in the far future, scholars will study my body of work and compile the definitive list of Reilly's...