The second unscrupulous player in the tax resolution business has been forced to shut its doors as a result of thousands of consumer complaints and several government investigations. Paul Caron has the story: JK Harris Tax Resolution Firm Closes its Doors Consumer Affairs, JK Harris Suspends Operations, Prepares to Liquidate: Tax-Preparation Firm Swamped by Consumer [...]
Tags: News · Tax Collections · Tax Crimes
Michelle Malkin reports that the transparency President has done another one of his patented Friday afternoon document dumps,¹ this time with the voluminous and highly complex IRS rules for implementing the tax provisions of Obamacare: (footnote is mine). If it’s Friday, it’s another White House dump day. Cue the dump truck horn: Doot! Doot! Doot! While Obama [...]
Tags: Announcements · News · Politics of Taxes
If you wonder why conservatives are so concerned about Democrats stacking the court with liberals, read Eugene Volokh’s blog post reporting that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg appeared on Egyptian television and warned developing nations of the world not to use the U.S. Constitution as a model (emphasis is mine): Liberty Counsel points to these these excerpts of an interview with [...]
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My favorite IRS employee has started a blog. Paul Caron reports: National Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson has started a blog: Welcome to the National Taxpayer Advocate’s blog about taxpayer rights and taxpayer burden. For starters, let me explain that I use the term “taxpayer rights” here to mean not only statutory rights but also the [...]
Tags: News · Tax Blogging · Taxpayer Advocate
Paul Caron reports that nearly 280,000 current and former federal workers are delinquent in their tax obligations: Over 279,000 federal workers and retirees owed more than $3.4 billion in back income taxes in 2010 (up from $3.3 billion in 2009, $3.0 billion in 2008, and $2.7 billion in 2007). The cabinet departments with the largest percentages of [...]
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John Kerry, the Democratic nominee for President in 2004, paid a lower rate of taxes than Mitt Romney paid in 2010. Of course, we didn’t hear much about Mr. Kerry’s low tax rate from the mainstream press even though, unlike Romney, he thinks the rich are undertaxed. It almost seems unfair to point out that unlike Mr. Romney, who [...]
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In a 2007 blog post appearing in The American Stephen Moore reported that the top one percent of American income earners pay 37% of the federal income tax: The latest data show that a big portion of the federal income tax burden is shouldered by a small group of the very richest Americans. The wealthiest 1 percent of the population earn 19 [...]
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