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 [...]
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One of my frequent and most well-informed readers, Knox Marlow, has started his own tax blog Tax Didactic. Here is his tag line: A “retired” tax attorney comments on developments in tax law and tax policy — with frequent digressions into politics and economics. If the quality of the comments Mr. Marlow leaves on my [...]
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Sorry for the dearth of posts here this month. We are in the middle of relocating our offices and things have been quite hectic. I expect to make up for it in October. Thanks for your patience. Bookmark & Share:
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Two of my favorite tax bloggers have published posts today that should be read by everyone. They illustrate nicely the tenor of our times. In Taxes and Disgust Professor James Maule illustrates the absurd complexity of our federal and state tax laws. In Aviva Girls in Tax Trouble CPA Joe Kristan sounds a warning about the ubiquitous dangers of the Internet. [...]
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Eight stellar tips from Seth Godin today in How to Lose an Argument Online. I particularly agree with 3, 4, 6 and 7: 3. Use faulty analogies. If someone is trying to make a point about, say, health care, try to make an analogy to something conceptually unrelated, like the space shuttle program, and you’ve lost. 4. Question [...]
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Yesterday we blogged about University of Miami Law School Professor D. Marvin Jones’ $20,000,000 defamation lawsuit against Above the Law (ATL) blog. Well, today Mr. Jones did the wise thing and withdrew his complaint. Here’s what David Lat, a named defendant in the lawsuit, wrote today at ATL: Pursuant to Rule 41(a)(1)(A)(i)(B), the dismissal is without [...]
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