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Noise on the Hill: Estate Tax Update

9 December 2009

Wow, they did it. The House really did vote on a federal estate tax bill. And it passed.
The vote was narrow and partisan: in the end, 225 for, 200 against (see how your Representative voted here).
The bill, HR 4154, was, as I blogged earlier, a compromise bill introduced by Rep [...]

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Hey Congress, Why Don’t You…? Estate Tax and Dividends

1 September 2009

Scott Lovingood writes:
Two specifics that should be addressed immediately.
Stop double taxation
1) Eliminate the estate tax. You pay taxes on everything you make and then you get taxed again when you die? Tell me that makes any sense.
2) Stop taxing Dividends on personal accounts- Companies have already paid taxes on the profit [...]

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Fix the Tax Code Friday: A Year From Now

14 August 2009

It’s Fix the Tax Code Friday!
Over at Only3Years, Iz contemplated the question of where she might be a year from now. The more I thought about this, the more I thought that it would make a superb Fix the Tax Code Friday…
I’m constantly asked what I think will happen with respect to a number [...]

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More Tax Haiku

13 August 2009

Maybe it’s summer.
Maybe it’s my grief over the UBS saga finally ending.
Or maybe I’ve just been inspired by 1LPoet to find my inner poet.
But it’s that time again. I feel some tax haiku coming on…
In honor of today’s post:
Oh Connecticut.
Your tax burden is so high.
Thank God for Jersey.
Re the UBS settlement:
It’s done, Switzerland.
No more [...]

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More Money to Buy Shoes!

14 June 2007

No doubt Imela Marcos is sleeping peacefully tonight, dreaming of Prada and Fendi shoes…
A Philippine court has acquitted her on five counts of tax evasion filed 16 years ago. Marcos allegedly failed to file a tax return and to pay $730 US in income taxes for 1985. But more seriously, she was accused [...]

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