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Comment for the Cure: Breast Cancer Awareness and Tax

20 October 2011

If you read the blog regularly, you probably already know a little bit about my maternal grandmother. If you don’t, let me fill you in… She made the best vegetable soup in the world. She raised eight children, including an invalid son whom she refused to institutionalize even though everyone told her different. She dyed [...]

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Does this Apartment Make my Tax Return Look Big?

2 August 2007

There’s lots going on in the tax world this week. And much of it bores me, so take from that what you will. But the case of Finzer v. United States, No. 06-C-2176, about medical expenses and assisted living facilities caught my eye because, well, lots of folks that I know are considering assisted living [...]

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He Sued, She Sued.

25 July 2007

It seems like something out of “Ally McBeal” (yes, I’m dating myself here) but this Boston legal battle is the real deal. In US Tax Court in Boston, 63 year old Rhiannon O’Donnabhain, pictured above, is challenging a decision not to allow the $25,000 cost of her 2001 sex-change and breast augmentation surgeries as a [...]

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