Guest post by Christopher Hanford: First of all, I favor income taxes over consumption or value-added taxes because the government is incentivized to maintain a regulatory structure that fosters private sector growth. We make more, they make more. I don’t think they should incentivize us to consume more, for example. My plan for Federal Income…
Guest Post by David S. Miller: The very richest Americans will never pay a dollar of income tax, even if the Bush tax cuts expire. We could fix this very fundamental problem of our income tax system without raising rates or affecting a single small business owner, and we might raise a few hundred billion…
Guest post by Lee Harp: I am 70 yrs old and retired from the railroad industry. My retirement accts. Have devastated the last 3 yrs leaving me with basically Social Security. I am going to start looking for a job to supplement it. I would like to give my opinion on what the country needs…
As I have done for the past few years, I’ll be turning over the reins at taxgirl to my readers for the last week in August. Last year, pieces focused on the expiring Bush tax cuts (like this one and this one); in 2009, I asked readers what kind of tax reform ideas they wanted…
Guest post by Brian Lapidus of Kroll Fraud Solutions 1. Obtain a list of all authorized e-file providers registered with the IRS. This year marks the 21st season of electronic filing with nearly 1 billion returns processed. All taxpayers that count themselves part of the latest trend should ensure they are using a credible provider….
As you probably know, 2010 is a key election year. In the Senate alone, there at least 36 of the 100 seats in the United States Senate up for grabs – talk about your shift of power! The rhetoric is ramping up already and, as you’d expect, many of the real issues are getting lost….