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National Housing Trust Responds To Housing Credit Right Of First Refusal Litigation

National Housing Trust Responds To Housing Credit Right Of First Refusal Litigation

The National Housing Trust and our mission-driven partners intend to challenge “Aggregators” like Alden Torch, which seek windfall returns by demanding the payment of money from the general partner — either from its balance sheet or from the property’s reserves — or to insist the property be sold, stripping resources out of the property and the community. We will fight this battle with every tool available,

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After The Low Income Housing Tax Credits Are Done, Investors Want More

After The Low Income Housing Tax Credits Are Done, Investors Want More

By the end of the Compliance Period, the project owner will have collected all of the Tax Credits, and other tax benefits, and is clear of any risk of recapture, thereby providing the investor limited partner or member with full realization of the economic benefits it bargained for and expected when negotiating admission to the project owner.

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New Class Action Suit Against Conservation Easement Promoters

New Class Action Suit Against Conservation Easement Promoters

The key is to have one or more principal actor defendants who have deep pockets and, at the end of the day, will be concerned that there is some litigation risk that the jury may put the actions on a continuum and decide the case relatively. Sure the taxpayer investors were greedy and should have smelled a rat, but we (the jury) are still going to punish the rat who is the worse actor.

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Kent Hovind Spreads Lie About Dominion To Support His Pardon Claim

Kent Hovind Spreads Lie About Dominion To Support His Pardon Claim

Kent continues asking President Trump to grant a pardon before he leaves – “He may not be leaving”.  That leads right into a discussion of Dominion Voting “changing the way people vote”.  For what it is worth the Dominion logo Hovind shows is not what is on Dominion’s site.  Hovind shows a logo of a red ballot going in and a blue ballot going out.

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Accountants Plead Guilty On $1.2 Billion In Bad Charitable Deductions

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In an interesting note Commissioner Rettig, US Attorney Murray and Deputy Assistant AG Zuckerman thanked special agents of both IRS-Criminal Investigation and US Postal Inspection Service. Many years ago an old timer told me that it was actually Postal Inspectors on loan who got Al Capone. There is something to the story.

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Roots Of The 250% Solution To Charitable Easement Tax Abuse

The 2.5 limit knocks out the most egregious abuse, but it still strikes me as overly generous.  If I was going to put in a limit it would probably be 90% on a three year hold and gradually rise.  Remember the deduction is for an easement on the property.  And unless you drink the Kool-Aid mixed by Partnership For Conservation (P4C), as easement can’t be worth more than the property itself.

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IRS At Supreme Court Over Captive Insurance

IRS At Supreme Court Over Captive Insurance

“Turn their risks into wealth” ??  If the wheels that spin straw into gold are not working, you have to do the best you can.

I spoke with a tax executive for a major life insurance company.  Promoters had been trying to get the company’s sales force to recommend captive insurance deals.  When he examined them he concluded that there was not actually much in the way of insurance going on.  It looked more like alchemy.

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Bob Dylan’s Debt To Nashville – It’s About Taxes

Dylan’s reach was really amazing. Sister Kathleen Reilly, who was a year younger than Dylan, told me that when the older nuns at the Pallotine motherhouse in Harriman, NY were upset about various things that were different from the good old days of habit wearing, the younger nuns would break into a chorus of The Times They Are A Changin’.

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