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Madoff Victims Get a Tax Break (or the One Where I Say Things That Make People Mad)

24 March 2009

The IRS has finally developed a strategy for dealing with the victims of Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme. The plan is said to apply to all participants in Ponzi schemes, not just Madoff’s, but clearly would not have been put in place without recent events. A Ponzi scheme operates like this: you put money into a [...]

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