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Murder, Taxes & Your Right To Rant

Kelly Phillips ErbFebruary 21, 2010May 18, 2020

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.

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Palin Rejects Federal Stimulus Funds In Alaska

Kelly Phillips ErbMarch 22, 2009May 14, 2020

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

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Hurricane Ike Provisional Tax Relief

Hurricane Ike Provisional Tax Relief

Kelly Phillips ErbSeptember 16, 2008May 6, 2020

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

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Texas Governors Gives Texans Affected By Ike A Break

Texas Governors Gives Texans Affected By Ike A Break

Kelly Phillips ErbSeptember 15, 2008May 6, 2020

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

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

Kelly Phillips ErbApril 22, 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

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GOP In Galveston, TX Works To Remove Scientology Status

Kelly Phillips ErbApril 20, 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

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Strippers Everywhere Breathe A Sigh Of Relief: Texas Pole Tax Is No More

Kelly Phillips ErbApril 2, 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

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Texas Institutes Stripper Tax

Kelly Phillips ErbDecember 22, 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

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Do You Owe Uncle Sam For Reading This?

Kelly Phillips ErbSeptember 21, 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

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Tax Talk 2007: Ron Paul

Kelly Phillips ErbMay 21, 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

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