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Murder, Taxes and Your Right to Rant

21 February 2010

Over the past couple of days, I’ve received a number of emails, links, tweets and DMs (whew) about the allegedly IRS-related plane crash in Texas. My immediate reaction to the frenzy, as I tweeted, was this:

Now that a few days have passed, my reaction is the same. While I respect the rights [...]

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Palin Rejects Federal Stimulus Funds in Alaska

22 March 2009

Following in the footsteps of a handful of other governors, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has indicated that she will take only 55% of the federal economic stimulus money being offered to Alaska. If that sounds like fiscal responsibility, don’t get too excited. Per capita, Alaska already receives more federal funding than any other [...]

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Hurricane Ike Provisional Tax Relief

16 September 2008

On Monday, I was scrambling to get my own corporate tax returns prepared and filed by the end of the business day. I can’t imagine trying to manage them without any power… Yet, that’s exactly what the victims of Hurricane Ike were facing.
Fortunately, the IRS has announced that taxpayers and tax preparers affected [...]

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Texas Governors Gives Texans Affected By Ike A Break

15 September 2008

Texas Governor Rick Perry offered Texans affected by Hurricane Ike a new kind of tax break: no hotel taxes.
Governor Perry has suspended hotel taxes for 14 days in response to the mandatory evacuations from Hurricane Ike. The emergency proclamation waived all state, city and county hotel occupancy taxes through September 21st. The [...]

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Court Ruling? Court Schmuling. Texas Decides to Collect Stripper Tax Anyway.

22 April 2008

The Texas Entertainment Association (TEA) has announced that adult cabarets (or as most people call them, strip clubs) received notification from the Texas Comptroller that the $5 stripper tax is due despite a court ruling that the tax is unconstitutional.
A Texas judge had ordered that the, “Defendants are permanently enjoined from assessing or collecting the [...]

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GOP in Galveston, TX works to remove Scientology status

20 April 2008

Last month, a delegate from Galveston County, Texas presented a proposal to the Republican National Convention to revoke tax exempt status for the Church of Scientology.
Here is the Resolution:
The Resolution
Initiative for Texas Resolution Calling for the revocation of the Church of Scientology’s status as a Legitimate religion in the sate of Texas.
Be it resolved that [...]

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Strippers Everywhere Breathe a Sigh of Relief: Texas Pole Tax is No More

2 April 2008

On March 28, a Texas court ruled that the government may not impose a $5/customer “pole tax” at strip clubs. The proceeds of the tax were to benefit victims of sexual assault and those who were uninsured in Texas (quite a combination, no?).
In Texas Entertainment Association Inc. v. Combs, Judge Scott Jenkins ruled that [...]

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Texas Institutes Stripper Tax

22 December 2007

As the New Year rings in, Texas will levy a “pole tax” or “stripper tax” on patrons of the state’s strip joints.
That’s right, strip club patrons in Texas, break out your wallets because you will now be charged an extra $5. The proceeds of the tax will benefit rape victims in Texas.
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Do You Owe Uncle Sam for Reading This?

21 September 2007

Not right now. But there’s a chance that you might in the future: the moratorium on an internet tax expires November 1. The moratorium is sometimes referred to as the Internet Tax Freedom Act, or ITFA.
ITFA has been extended twice since 1998. It bans taxes on certain internet transactions at the federal [...]

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Tax Talk 2007: Ron Paul

21 May 2007

Our next presidential candidate to be featured in our series of interviews is Ron Paul, a Republican and Texas Representative.
Here are his unedited answers to my six questions:
1. What’s the single most important tax issue facing Americans today?
Simply put, taxes are too high.
2. If you could only make one “quick fix” in [...]

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