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12 Days of Charitable Giving: Texas Wildfire Relief

29 December 2011

Our eighth charitable organization is Texas Wildfire Relief. The mission of the organization is listed on its website as “committed to generating awareness and garnering support for Texas volunteer firefighters.” According to the National Fire Protection Association, just over 70% of the firefighters in America are volunteers. In Texas, the percentage is over 80. As [...]

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Death and Taxes: The Real Cost of the Death Penalty

22 September 2011

On September 21, 2011, at exactly 11:08 p.m. EST, Troy Davis was put to death by the state of Georgia after the U.S. Supreme Court failed to grant him a stay. His execution by legal injection became the 1,268th recorded execution in the United States since 1976. Later that same day, Lawrence Brewer of Texas [...]

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Texas Rules Tax On Strip Clubs Constitutional

26 August 2011

You can leave your hat on. But bring your wallet. The Texas Supreme Court has determined that a $5 entrance fee to strip clubs in the Lone Star State is constitutional. The ruling comes after a protracted fight between strippers (I’m sorry, I meant “adult entertainers”) and the state. Three years ago, a Texas court [...]

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Texas Sized Tax Break for Yacht Owners

30 April 2011

It seems like most states these days are crying poor, claiming that lower revenues mean that taxes must be raised and cuts may be had. Apparently that is not the case in Texas. One day after I saw this CNN report about the $60 million high school football stadium being built outside of Texas (yes, [...]

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Even Sales Tax Bills Are Bigger in Texas

26 October 2010

Everyone has that moment when they get a bill and think, “Oh my gosh, how am I going to pay for this?” Just imagine how Amazon.com felt when it received a bill in August of this year for – wait for it – $269 million from the state of Texas. The bill represents what the [...]

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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 of other [...]

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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 state in [...]

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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 by [...]

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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 waiver is [...]

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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 [...]

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