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New Jersey Tax Court Cuts A Break To Madoff Victim
There are some taxpayer wins that I feel particularly good about. The refund claim of the Estate of Theodore Warshaw is one of them. Theodore Warshaw died in...
Pennsylvania Court Gives No Relief To Investor In Tax Shelter From Hell
Several months ago, I wrote about the Marshall decision in the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania. Now we have Marshall II and the Court is still not cutting him a...
Weekend Slot Player Wins A Dandy Yankee Doodle Victory In Tax Court
I always like it when a taxpayer wins using the Cohan rule. Fortunato Gonzalez, who liked to play the slots on weekends recently took advantage of the rule. He had...
Will Student Loans Delay A Major Housing Recovery?
Tim Smith consults with companies on how to reach members of the Echo Boom generation, also referred to as Millenials and Gen Y (Americans born between 1982 and 1995. ...
Real Reason Romney Returns Not Being Released ?
Originally published on Forbes.com on August 21st, 2012 My friend James thinks he may have "doped out", as he puts it, why we aren't getting another decade's worth of...
Should We Care About Romney’s Unreleased Tax Returns ?
Originally published on Forbes.com on August 18th, 2012 I have gone on the record as hoping that Mitt Romney will not do a data dump of 10 or more years of...
How Would Warren Buffett Feel About Paying A Billion Per Year ?
Almost exactly a year ago, I, along with the rest of the tax blogosphere, was writing about Warren Buffett complaining that he wasn't paying enough taxes. He had paid...
Paul Ryan’s Return Should Have Gone On Extension
I just finished looking at Paul Ryan's returns. They were pretty unexciting. The return showed a little over 1,000 bucks for tax preparation in both 2010 and 2011...
Can We Prevent An Education Bubble?
Timothy Smith writes The Echo Boom Bomb, a blog featuring financial, economic and socioeconomic analysis of the Millennial generation (also known as Echo Boom...
American Working Abroad Gets Nasty State Income Tax Surprise
It is a big interconnected world we live in. Some of our taxing concepts, though, are better suited to a time when we were less mobile. State income taxes are an...