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Tax Roundup, 5/9/14: Worst-ever edition. And: It’s Scandal Day 365!
I was grumpy yesterday when I noticed Tax Analysts correspondent @Meg_Shreve’s live-tweeting of a speech by Doug Shulman, the Worst IRS Commissioner Ever. So I tweet-grumpted, adding...
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Tax Roundup, 6/4/14: IRS to ease up on FBAR foot-faulters? And: nanny-state...
Programming note: The Tax Update will take Thursday and Friday off this week to tend to a family wedding. We’ll be back as usual Monday. Former IRS Commissioner Shulman, showing how much he cares for...
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Tax Roundup, 8/11/14: Don’t you dare agree with me edition.
David Brunori notes ($link) some odd behavior by Good Jobs First, a left-side outfit that has been on the side of the angels by highlighting the baneful effects of corporate welfare tax incentives....
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Tax Roundup, 9/22/14: Lerner speaks, sort of. And: a federal tax amnesty?
Lois Lerner, ex-IRS, ex-FEC Lois Lerner gives an interview. The former IRS officer at the center of the Tea Party disclosure scandal won’t testify under oath, but she sat down for a two-hour interview...
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Tax Roundup, 12/24/14: Giving season edition! How to give, avoiding traps,...
The extender bill was signed while I was away, as you have probably figured out already. While the extenders remain awful policy, at least we go into the year-end knowing what the tax law is. We should...
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Tax Roundup, 1/8/15: Tax shelter turned upside down: S Corp – ESOP structure...
Flaky tax shelters are supposed to generate pretend losses. You know a shelter has gone very bad when it generates pretend income instead. Yet that’s how it worked out for an “S corporation ESOP...
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Tax Roundup, 2/12/15: The Federal $21 billion thief subsidy; the Iowa $37...
Accounting Today visitors: click here for the post on the updated auto depreciation limits. Happy Lincoln’s Birthday. President Lincoln signed the first U.S. income tax into law in August, 1861, to...
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Tax Roundup, 6/15/15: IRS declines to make estate tax easy for surviving...
Due Today: Second Quarter estimated tax payments; returns for U.S. citizens living abroad. IRS declines to make the estate tax portability election easy. There’s no such thing as a joint estate tax...
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Tax Roundup, 2/26/16: Gronstal hints at approach to Section 179 coupling...
Interesting, if true. In opening hostage negotiations over the fate of Section 179 coupling, Iowa Senate Majority Leader Gronstal may have hinted at a “Main Street vs. Walnut Street” approach. From...
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Tax Roundup, 3/3/16: IRS sets up ID theft victims for another round. And: if...
The kind of criminal mastermind ID thief that continually outwits the IRS. There is no bottom. Every time I think that the John Koskinen’s IRS couldn’t possibly be less competent, they prove me wrong....
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