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Tax Goes High Tech… with a little help from Google

22 July 2007

There are all kinds of ways to stave off tax fraud… and technology has landed tax officials yet another weapon in the fight: Google Earth. I’ll confess that I only ever thought of Google Earth as a fun toy to find images, though I know that there are a lot of practical uses for it. [...]

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Fix The Tax Code Friday: Tax on Personal Services?

8 June 2007

Earlier in the week, I reported that Georgia is considering implementing a tax on personal services, meaning that professions like barber shops, law firms and accountants would impose a tax on their services, which would likely be passed through to the consumer. This tax would replace property taxes in Georgia. Now, normally, my Fix the [...]

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The First Thing We Do, Let’s Tax All of the Lawyers…

6 June 2007

Taxes are not popular. And lawyers are not popular. So why not throw the two together and create the most despicable combination imaginable: tax on legal services? That’s what they’re considering these days in Georgia. House Speaker Glenn Richardson, a Republican from Hiram County, is introducing a bill to collect sales taxes on lawyers. Well, [...]

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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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