Kay Bell says that Scott Adams, the creator of the comic strip Dilbert, wants to impose a tax on stupidity: “I’m just curious as to whether tax policy could make a huge difference in the effectiveness of society by directly taxing stupidity,” Adams wrote on his blog. “Suppose science is applied to the task of [...]
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William Baldwin of Forbes gives us some new ridiculous taxes: Herewith, to give you a break from your Form 1040, is a catalog of the country’s looniest taxes. Hat tips to William Barrett, Norml, Ray Squitieri, Stephen Von Worley, Thomson Reuters One Source Tax & Accounting and TurboTax. Arkansas: Body Piercing Tax The state spells [...]
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The New York Times reports that mega-millionaire Larry David of Seinfeld fame can’t curb his enthusiasm about the extension of the Bush tax cuts: There is a God! It passed! The Bush tax cuts have been extended two years for the upper bracketeers, of which I am a proud member, thank you very much. I’m the [...]
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So much for all of the posturing. The Washington Post reports that today the Senate voted to extend the Bush tax cuts for everyone, including the rich, by a whopping 62 vote margin: After a decade of partisan sniping over tax breaks enacted at the dawn of the George W. Bush administration, the Senate overwhelmingly approved a [...]
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I saw a bumper sticker once that said “Accountants have Great Assets.” Perhaps Raymond Devaughn Taylor was trying to prove the veracity of this statement when he disrobed for his accounting class last week: Cobb County Sheriff’s Office said Raymond Taylor, of Kennesaw, was arrested for allegedly exposing himself to [accounting] students he was teaching at Kennesaw State University. [...]
WebCPA tells us how one state has chosen to use your tax money: An Idaho State Tax Commission official has informed a family that their children’s roadside pumpkin stand violates the law and needs to be closed. Dan and Kami Charais told the Lewiston Tribune that an official told them Friday that the stand operated [...]
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