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A tax bee?
How do you think a quiz show of tax preparers — a “tax bee” — would go over? Mary O’keeffe floated the idea, and Kay Bell is moving the ball. My guess is that the ratings would be somewhere between the...
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Should taxpayers get paid for being audited?
Mary O’Keeffe thinks maybe so; Peter Pappas thinks not. It probably is unwise to compensate for normal audits. They’re a cost of doing business. If the IRS audits you twice in a short period with no...
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Turbotax tweaks for Timmy
As a service for future Treasury Secretaries, Turbotax has updated its data entry screens. Mary O’Keeffe, proprietor of the Bed Buffaloes tax blog, provides screen shots. Turbotax then: Turbotax now:...
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New York Buffaloes Bed Buffaloes
New York goes after a tax blogger’s dependent deduction. Bureaucracy ensues.
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Fleeing Jersey
The Wall Street Journal looks at a study implying that New Jersey’s high tax rates drive away high-income taxpayers. Mary O’Keeffe draws the logical conclusion: Many of the wealthy have lots of options...
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Scenes from a regulated restaurant.
Mary O’Keeffe demurs on my conclusions about the unwisdom of further tax preparer regulations: We regulate restaurants for health code reasons, and perhaps that regulation causes restaurants to have...
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The art of tax-free living
From the New York Times In addition to her $877,000 compensation package, Ellen V. Futter, president of the American Museum of Natural History, lives rent free in a $5 million East Side apartment that...
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No H&R Block refund anticipation loans this season
Kansas City-based tax prep giant H&R Block finds itself without one of its profitable businesses just as tax season is about to start. From their press release: As a result of a regulatory...
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Well, you can’t have a wallet amputation without anesthesia
A liquor store that offers tax preparation. I understand the synergy there.
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The President and the Teacher, revisited
FactCheck.org and the Tax Policy Blog say that the President was wrong to say that he pays a lower tax rate than a schoolteacher, as I noted approvingly last week. Tax blogger Mary O’Keeffe says I...
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