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The Tax Grinch Who Stole Halloween

24 October 2010

My kids are budding entrepreneurs. The list of proposed businesses that my daughters, in particular, have created grows longer every day. My personal favorite – the cat owner finding business – mercifully didn’t get much interest after the initial suggestion. Their latest suggestion is an apple cider stand for the winter; they have to work [...]

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Happy Halloween!

31 October 2008

Happy Halloween to all of my readers! In the spirit of the season (and well, yeah, because I was up too late last night making Halloween costumes for the kiddos) I am reposting an “oldie but goodie” from last year: – Iowa Department is Scrooge for Halloween When Iowa tax officials were looking for ways [...]

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Is Dark Chocolate Really More of a Tax Burden?

5 November 2007

I’m such a sucker for Milky Ways – especially the Milky Way Midnight (note to readers contemplating holiday gifts…). And Iowa has brought to the forefront an issue that I’ve been claiming for years: all candy bars are not created equal. Iowa has stirred up some serious candy tax controversy with its definitions of “candy” [...]

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Iowa Tax Department is Scrooge for Halloween

1 November 2007

When Iowa tax officials were looking for ways to increase revenue, they figured they would strike right at the heart of massive tax fraud: tax evasion on the sale of pumpkins. Maybe that’s a bit overstated. But there is a new policy in Iowa this year to tax pumpkins. The decision came after department officials [...]

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