Here is another outrageous story of how far taxing bureaucrats will go to enforce taxes: A woman was stunned and embarrassed when police arrested her Feb. 19 in front of her children. Her alleged offense: failure to appear in court on a charge of failure to file a 2001 city income tax form. She says she owed the city only 96
Here is a Wall Street Journal article (July 6, 2005; Page B1) about Jack McCall, who won an American Airlines contest but turned down the prize of 12 round-trip coach tickets for two (for U.S. or international travel) because of tax considerations . American valued the tickets at $2,200 each, or $52,800 total. Mr. McCall lives in New York City and
Three scholars at the Urban Institute have published a paper entitled “ The Expanding Reach of the Individual AMT .” It shows the harm done to a growing number of families by this stealth parallel tax system. It started out as a “ soak the rich “ scheme, but has evolved into much more than that. President Bush proudly points to his supposed tax
Japan’s lower house of Parliament approved legislation to create the world’s largest bank by privatizing the state-run postal savings and insurance system by 2017 (The Japanese Post Office offers savings accounts in addition to mail service). If it can happen in Japan, why not
Stephen Stubbs (with the law firm Jeffrey Burr , Las Vegas) sent in his original song to TaxProf Blog , “Taxes Are Best When You Pay Nothing At All” , sung to “You Say It Best When You Say Nothing At All” (Copyrighted. All Rights Reserved. This song is not to be used for financial gain.) (The song opens in Windows Media.) I hope you enjoy it as I
Web Entrepreneur Banks on ‘Bum-vertising’ - Homeless Advocates Say He’s Exploiting the Poor : A budding Seattle entrepreneur looking for a low-cost marketing campaign says he’s found an inexpensive and highly visible tool to publicize his Web site — he calls it “bum-vertizing.” Ben Rogovy, a 22-year-old University of Washington graduate, says the
Following up on last week’s post on the tax song “Taxes Are Best When You Pay Nothing At All” , the Tax Guru (a libertarian tax professional) has made available an mp3 recording of the Beatles’ The Tax Man (this link has the lyrics to the song), as performed by bluegrass group Nickel Creek on PBS’s Austin City Limits show. For a clip of the show,
The Pew Research Center has released “A Barometer of Modern Morals: Sex, Drugs, and the 1040” . Here are the results of a poll of 745 people, with the percentages of people classifying each behavior as morally wrong: 85% Married People Having an Affair 79% Not Reporting All Income on Taxes 61% Drinking Alcohol Excessively 52% Having an Abortion
Interesting conclusion to an editorial in today’s Wall Street Journal: [T]he best thing gay activists could do for themselves at the federal level would be to support repeal of the death tax, since under current law gay couples often lack inheritance rights. That would accomplish more than anything that will emerge from this week’s political
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