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Fix the Tax Code Friday: Buffett’s Tax Advice

26 August 2011

Tweet It’s Fix the Tax Code Friday! This week, Warren Buffett continued to be all over the news for his statements about taxes for the very wealthy. In case you’ve missed it, Buffett has amped up the rhetoric on tax reform by suggesting that those in higher brackets benefit disproportionately from existing breaks in the [...]

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Fix the Tax Code Friday: Tinkering With the Gas Tax

19 August 2011

Tweet This week, from Bachmann to Obama, the focus has been on prices at the pump. It’s been suggested that a steep drop in gas prices would kick start an economic recovery. If that’s true, the question is how to make that happen. Realistically, the U.S. government only has so much control over the price [...]

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Fix the Tax Code Friday: Lesser of Tax Evils?

25 June 2011

Tweet This month, Philadelphia voted to raise property taxes rather than impose a controversial sales tax on soda and sugary drinks, while New York won another round on its efforts to collect excise taxes from cigarettes sold by Indian nations. Other cities and states have struggled with similar questions when it comes to raising revenue. So [...]

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Fix the Tax Code Friday: Lower Tax Rates

10 June 2011

Tweet It’s the return of Fix the Tax Code Friday! Earlier this month, executives from Boeing Co., Sears Holding Management Corp., Emerson Electric Co. and Perrigo Co., told members of Congress that they would will be willing to give up tax breaks in exchange for a lower corporate tax rate. This is consistent with a [...]

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Fix the Tax Code Friday: Spending or Tax Cuts?

4 March 2011

Tweet Over the past few weeks, there has been a lot of talk about states cutting spending. For example, in Wisconsin, there’s been a very public battle over labor union contracts while in New Jersey, the police force was cut in a city formerly referred to as the “murder capital of the U.S.” California has [...]

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Fix the Tax Code Friday: Corporate Tax Breaks and Reputations

18 February 2011

Tweet This week’s Fix the Tax Code Friday is related to last week’s question – but with a twist. Earlier in the week, I posted about the potential for corporate tax breaks for companies who are repatriating funds to the U.S. Among the companies which appear to have interest in such a move is Apple, [...]

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Fix the Tax Code Friday: Tax Breaks for Companies

11 February 2011

Tweet It’s Fix the Tax Code Friday! On yesterday, I reported on a potential tax break for companies in San Francisco (clearly directed towards Twitter) meant to encourage companies to invest in a specific part of the city. We have similar breaks in Philadelphia and indeed across the country. But is it a good thing? [...]

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Fix the Tax Code Friday: How Rich is Rich?

3 December 2010

Tweet The latest point of contention in the “will they or won’t they?” session of Congress is whether to extend tax cuts to the “rich.” There seems to be a lot of discussion about what constitutes rich. Some in Congress have indicated that taxpayers making more than $200,000 per year are rich with others suggesting [...]

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Fix the Tax Code Friday: Excise Taxes

5 November 2010

Tweet I have to say that I remain fascinated by the vote in Washington state that would have transferred a majority of the tax burden onto the upper wage earners (those earning more than $200,000 as individuals and $400,000 as married couples). Despite the fact that most Washington taxpayers would be financially better off under [...]

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Fix the Tax Code Friday: Social Security Benefits

22 October 2010

Tweet If you follow me on Social Media at all (I’m on twitter here and Facebook here), you’ve probably heard me grumbling about the riots in France this week. I’ll admit it: it’s not about the French, I’m totally being selfish. My husband and I have been planning a trip to France for awhile (it [...]

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