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11/20/2009 5:37:11 PM EST
Martin A. Sullivan
Posted by Martin A. Sullivan
Contributing Editor, Tax Analysts
The Obama economic team knows it needs to reduce the deficit and it knows that a minimally credible budget policy must have "fiscal sustainability" as its goal. In the U.S. economy that means getting the deficit down to about 3 percent of GDP ...
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11/18/2009 11:39:30 AM EST
Richard Niles
Posted by Richard Niles
In a press release issued November 17, 2009, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) announced that millions of taxpayers may owe taxes due to the effect of the Making Work Pay Credit (MWPC). The MWPC is advanced to ta ...
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11/19/2009 10:02:21 AM EST
Richard Niles
Posted by Richard Niles
In Caldwell v. Commissioner , TC Summary Opinion 2009-169, November 18, 2009, the Tax Court ruled that an individual was entitled to an alimony deduction after the IRS conceded the issue. However, the court also decided that the individual was ...
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11/19/2009 9:06:34 AM EST
Christopher Bergin
Posted by Christopher Bergin
Tax Analysts' President and Publisher
Today, the hot tax story is that almost 15,000 American crooks – I mean taxpayers – have disclosed their offshore accounts to the IRS and will now pay back billions of tax dollars. IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman was absolutely ecstatic in re ...
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11/18/2009 12:20:10 PM EST
David Brunori
Posted by David Brunori
Executive Vice President of Editorial Operations, Tax Analysts
A new study shows that one third of all property in Providence, Rhode Island is exempt from property taxes .
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11/17/2009 9:27:39 AM EST
Peter Miller
Posted by Peter Miller
At least somebody is looking ahead in Ohio!  It isn't our political leaders... They're still stewing over the $851 million gap in the current biennial budget.  But that's chump change compared to the $7 billion shor ...
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11/16/2009 11:58:17 AM EST
Peter Miller
Posted by Peter Miller
ZURICH – (AP) Swiss banks are considering asking some foreign clients to sign a pledge declaring they aren't breaking tax la ...
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11/16/2009 8:09:41 AM EST
Martin A. Sullivan
Posted by Martin A. Sullivan
Contributing Editor, Tax Analysts
To save the economy from collapse the Fed has printed money and cut interest rates like never before. But the benefits of this policy are not spread evenly over the economy.
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11/13/2009 12:39:20 PM EST
Neil Aragones
Posted by Neil Aragones
The IRS has announced a free webinar on November 18 on the merits of E-File (IR-2009-103, “No ...
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11/13/2009 9:16:19 AM EST
Marc Soss
Posted by Marc Soss
Attorney
Qualified and Nonqualified Retirement Plans (“Plans”) are today one of the most valuable assets that an individual owns at their time of retirement and death. Participation in Plans is subject to guidelines and rules that must be strictly a ...
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11/13/2009 8:49:41 AM EST
David R. Schoenhaar
Posted by David R. Schoenhaar
Associate, Ruskin Moscou Faltischek
A grantor retained annuity trust (GR ...
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11/12/2009 1:21:35 PM EST
Joseph J. Thorndike
Posted by Joseph J. Thorndike
Contributing Editor, Tax Notes
A couple of weeks ago, the blogosphere saw a flurry of indignation over the notion of "death taxes." Here at tax.com, Chris Bergin chastised Rep. Sam Graves for his insistence that "death should not be a taxable event." Elsewhere, B ...
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11/11/2009 9:29:00 AM EST
Peter Miller
Posted by Peter Miller
Predictably, Republican pushback is challenging Ohio Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland's proposal to delay a 4.2 percent income tax cut that took effect the beginning of 2009. The state is in a bind -and Strickland is in a political one - as ideas pe ...
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11/11/2009 8:17:29 AM EST
David Brunori
Posted by David Brunori
Executive Vice President of Editorial Operations, Tax Analysts
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities released a study on November 4, that everyone should read. The study found that of the 42 states with an income tax in 2008, 16 states tax families of four with incomes below the federal poverty line.
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11/11/2009 8:31:40 AM EST
Martin A. Sullivan
Posted by Martin A. Sullivan
Contributing Editor, Tax Analysts
Savvy politicians are instinctively anti-intellectual. To win elections, emotion trumps reason every time. That's why in their crafting of financial reforms, Washington types are more likely to pay attention to Yankee fans chanting "Wall Street su ...
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