I enthusiastically applaud President Biden’s proposal to increase the IRS’s budget by $1.2 billion, or more than 10 percent over this year’s budget. In fact, call me a huge cheerleader for this proposal. Read more »
June 24, 2021
Policy
Military Contractors Working Abroad Taxed Unfairly
Americans who work overseas are entitled to exclude $80,000 of annual income from their tax return. It’s called the “foreign earned income exclusion.” Read more >>
January 19, 2018
Payday Lenders: Predators
Here is a very amusing and outraged report on “payday lenders” from John Oliver, the British reporter who apprenticed with Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert. He’s accurate in presenting the problem Read more >>
August 29, 2014
Tea Party Isn’t A “Social Welfare Organization,” So No Tax-Free Status
A few months ago, the US saw the political theater of Congress outraged at the IRS’s alleged targeting of Tea Party political organizations for scrutiny on whether they qualified for tax-exempt status. It looked like the IRS was politically-biased against conservative causes. Read more »
September 7, 2013
Why We’ll Never See Tax Reform
I’ve always maintained that Congress will never reform the Tax Code toward simplicity. Here is a scholarly article that says just that: the power to tax, and to keep changes in the Tax Code in play, is just too valuable an asset for Congress to give up. Read more »
October 9, 2012
The Rule of Law
Here is an op-ed article that describes why I like being a lawyer. Read more »
September 14, 2012