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Fix the Tax Code Friday: Tax Breaks for Investments

5 June 2009

It’s Fix the Tax Code Friday! Yesterday, I blogged about NC’s efforts to woo Apple and Google to the Tarheel state by passing corporate tax breaks directed at each of them. This is nothing new. In my own state of Pennsylvania, a new film tax credit is being touted in an effort to bring more [...]

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Ask the taxgirl: Common Law Marriage Accepted by IRS?

20 November 2008

Taxpayer asks: Hello Taxgirl, My girlfriend and I were common law married in 2005. We filed our own taxes for 2006. In 2007, we went to a tax accountant. He says we cannot file as married on our tax return. I say we can since we’re common law married. Who’s right? We live in Pennsylvania. [...]

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Ask the taxgirl: Sales tax

16 November 2008

Taxpayer asks: Hello Taxgirl, I appreciate you taking my question. Is there any ruling, statute, or law of any kind in the state of Pennsylvania that states that retailers must charge tax (apply rate) on total purchases versus applying the tax rate line item by line item? Example: Total purchases: $40.45 Rate: 0.0675% Total Tax: [...]

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Use Tax on iTunes? It Doesn’t Make Sense.

14 July 2008

Another Tax Geek asked me whether I pay Use Tax on my iTunes purchases (you can answer him, too, by voting in our poll in the sidebar). I do not. I started to reply in the comments and felt that my comment was a bit wordy (as I tend to be) and I felt that [...]

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Have Federal Tax Charges Made Fumo An Angry Man?

30 April 2008

Pennsylvania State Senator Vincent J. Fumo is facing charges on 139 indictments including 2 counts each of filing false tax returns and aiding and assisting in the filing of false tax returns. Gilbert Coleman, Jr., senior pastor of Freedom Christian Bible Fellowship in Philadelphia, believes that those charges have made Fumo an angry man. Gilbert [...]

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Million Dollar Baby

19 October 2007

Pennsylvania State Senator Vincent Fumo has lately found himself in a whole heap of trouble. He is facing a whopping 139 indictments including 2 counts each of filing false tax returns and aiding and assisting in the filing of false tax returns. To pay for some of his massive legal bills in conjunction with the [...]

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The 3R’s: Reading, ‘Riting and Ripping Off Taxpayers

26 September 2007

Whoops. The folks in Harrisburg are calling it an honest mistake but taxpayers aren’t buying it. They approved a property-tax increase that was higher than allowed by a 2006 law aimed at cutting homeowners’ property taxes. The state Education Department has ordered the district to return about $60,000 in excess taxes which were paid under [...]

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And…. Roll ‘Em!

11 July 2007

I will admit to being more than a little biased about film making in Pennsylvania. I love movies. I love movie stars. And the thought of both in my home state? Sigh. And yes, maybe it has to do with the dreams that I secretly harbored of becoming a movie star after I was an [...]

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She Doesn’t Want Your Stinkin’ Money…

6 December 2006

During my first year of law school, one of my professors told us that the B students become judges.  Maybe he was right.  You see, it’s been reported that a Pennsylvania Superior Court Judge has taken a stand on statutory pay for judges – but her tax analysis seems to be a little off. Out [...]

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More Election Year Tax Bills (Oops, I meant simply “Property Tax Relief”)

1 July 2006

What good is an election year property tax bill if the folks at home can’t understand it?  So, Governor Rendell of Pennsylvania has launched a web page explaining the new bill and its impact for seniors who own homes (since seniors, reputedly get the lion’s share of "relief" from the new bill).  Those of us [...]

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