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Quelle Horreur! Mitt Romney Pays ‘About 15% Tax Rate’

18 January 2012

Under growing pressure from other GOP candidates, GOP presidential hopeful and frontrunner Mitt Romney has released some limited information about his finances this week. It turns out *gasp* that Romney has done pretty well for himself over the years. But, really, we already knew that . While we don’t know the specifics, Romney’s net worth [...]

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Taxpayers Suggest Resolutions for Congress in 2012

1 January 2012

It’s the New Year and sadly, the same old Congress. With that in mind, I thought that Congress could use a little help with their New Year’s resolutions for 2012, so a couple of days ago, I posed this question on my blog: What’s on your tax and financial #wishlist for Congress in 2012? Here’s [...]

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I’m From The Government And I’m Here To Help

21 October 2011

Twenty five years ago, pop singer Michael Jackson was in the news. Big shoulder pads were all the rage. Libya was under siege. Federal spending outpaced revenues. The U.S. was fighting its way out of a recession. And following a round of tax cuts that didn’t live up to expectations, the words “tax reform” were [...]

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Congress Breaks Out Thesaurus for Super-Committee

17 September 2011

It’s taken the country more than 100 years to make the Tax Code as complicated as it stands today. And yet, in clear DC fashion, Congress is making noise about reforming the code… in a mere two and a half months. Ah, the pandering optimism of Congress. The so-called “super committee” of 12 members of [...]

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When I Said Corporate Tax Reform, I Meant…

25 February 2011

Wow. So, you bandy about a couple of phrases like “corporate tax reform” and you end up waking the sleeping giant… The Obama administration has indicated, through U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, that it’s serious about corporate tax reform. And we’re not just talking about those rules governing multinational companies. That’s good, right? Well, sort [...]

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What’s Next? The KLM Liberty Bell?

22 February 2011

We live in an increasingly branded world. Even the last vestige of truly American sports, football, is now a string of brands thrown together. I don’t know about you but I could barely distinguish between the Tostitos/Starbucks/Pepsi Bowl and the Facebook/Hershey’s/Microsoft Bowl… There has to be a breaking point if, for no other reason, that [...]

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News Flash: Taxes are Complicated

6 January 2011

It’s that time of year again! No, not just tax season opening (that officially happens next week). It’s the time of the year when the National Taxpayer Advocate (NTA), Nina Olson, releases her annual report to Congress. The report, which can be found here, is required under section 7803(c)(2)(B)(ii) of the Internal Revenue Code: each [...]

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An Inconvenient Tax – the Trailer

24 October 2008

Documentary: An Inconvenient Tax – Film Teaser from Life Is My Movie Entertainment on Vimeo.

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The Mother of All Tax Bills

3 November 2007

Rep. Charles Rangel (D – NY) has unveiled what he calls “the mother of all tax bills.” The result would be a sizable “re-shifting” of the current tax burden which has been heavily criticized even among the wealthy as “tilted to the rich.” According to an analysis by the Tax Policy Center, the shift would [...]

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The 4-1-1 on the GOP, tax speak, that is

7 May 2007

digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/The_411_on_the_GOP_talking_tax’; I’ve noted before that nobody likes a partisan tax blogger. But you also can’t talk about tax policy in any meaningful way without considering the political ramifications. So throughout the next year (oh my God, is it really a whole year?), I plan to visit and no doubt, re-visit, the tax stances [...]

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