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Americans Replace Student Loan Bills With Tax Bills

22 December 2012

Tweet Americans now owe an astonishing $956 billion in student loan debt. The rate of student loan debt outpaced inflation last year – and keeps climbing. I should know: I am one of those still working to pay off student loan debt. I borrowed to pay for my education because I couldn’t afford to go [...]

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Attorney Disbarred For Submitting Falsified Tax Returns For Financial Aid

27 November 2012

Tweet Paying for private school can be painful. Losing the right to ever practice law again has to be worse. And yet, Bruce Paul Golden apparently weighed the two and opted for the latter. The former securities lawyer, who graduated from Harvard Law School in 1969, was recently disbarred by the Supreme Court of Illinois [...]

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When Is A Penalty A Tax? Sorting Through The SCOTUS Health Care Decision.

28 June 2012

Tweet So first things, first. The Supreme Court upheld the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (a little background on the Act can be found here). It was a close decision, with the final vote being 5-4. The opinion was delivered by Chief Justice Roberts, who affirmed the decision along with (generally) Justices Breyer, Sotomayor [...]

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Sunday Mailbag: The Traveling Edition

10 June 2012

Tweet Occasionally my mind is blown by what we can do with technology. Today is totally one of those days. I’m currently on a USAirways flight headed for Las Vegas where I’ll be speaking and mingling with about 1,400 other tax professionals at the Practitioners Symposium and TECH+ Conference in partnership with the Association for [...]

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Legal Meltdown: Was Dewey Too Big to Fail?

4 May 2012

Tweet Guaranteed $5 million pay packages with no strings. Borrowing from a number of banks to stay afloat. Lavish corporate offices. Unchecked spending. Questionable financials. Another [entity display="Wall Street" type="section" active="true" key="/wall-street"]Wall Street[/entity] meltdown? Not quite. This one is a law firm. And it’s huge. Until recently, Dewey & LeBouef, LLP, (formerly the separate firms [...]

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Punishing Excellence: Transfer Pricing of Outright Sales

27 April 2012

Tweet Michelle Phillips just won an A… or at least a nice note to her professor. Michelle’s entry on transfer pricing is one of two winning entries in my legal writing contest. Michelle is currently an LL.M. Taxation candidate at Boston University. Her transfer pricing tax prof is Richard Ainsworth. As you may know from [...]

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IRS Lacks Statutory Authority to Extend Time to Assess Tax

26 April 2012

Tweet Charles J. Sigerseth just won an A… or at least a nice note to his professor. Charles’ entry on the statute of limitations issue is one of two winning entries in my legal writing contest. Charles received his paralegal cert of graduation this year from Blackstone Career Institute and is now studying to take [...]

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Win an A in Tax Law

21 March 2012

Tweet That’s right, I said ‘Win an A in Tax [entity display="Law" type="section" active="true" key="/law"]Law[/entity].’ My popular contest for law and paralegal students is back. So let’s get right to the good stuff… Here’s how it works: simply write a guest post to be posted on taxgirl for Forbes.com about any hot tax policy issue. [...]

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Tax Trivia Giveaway #2: Prostitution and Tax Evasion

30 January 2012

Tweet Our next tax trivia question is: Cristina Warthen (née Cristina Schultz), now married to Ask Jeeves founder David Warthen, is a Stanford Law School grad who grossed more than $300,000 working as a hooker in California under the name “Brazil.” She escaped prosecution for prostitution but admitted to hiding money from the taxing authorities by stashing [...]

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Why Justice Matters

16 January 2012

Tweet Today, we celebrate the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. To honor the day, I am reposting something that I wrote around this time three years ago. It remains one of my favorite posts. Enjoy! — I’ll be frank. I don’t always love being a lawyer. When I was a little girl, I used to [...]

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