On State Tax Policy, Everyone Has a Formula for Reform

In the PRC, reform generally means higher taxes.

Survivor Assistance

Since I last discussed Mark Colgan’s very useful Survivor Assistance Handbook, he has prepared a new revised edition. My copy of the new version just arrived yesterday and it is very impressive. Mark has definitely made an already excellent reference work even more so. The additional information is even easier to locate, with a much more comprehensive index. Taking care of things after someone passes away is something most of us will have to deal with. Every household should have a copy of this book.

KMK

Articles Related to Nonprofit Law

Interesting information on how charities are supposed to work.

QuickBooks Help

The official QuickBooks website makes it a bit difficult to find local advisors, so I have added a direct link to that page on my website. Even if you’re going to be doing the work yourself, it pays to get some professional help in setting up things properly. I’ve had to spend a lot of very expensive time straightening up QuickBooks for people who should really have used some professional help at the beginning.

Buying Royalty

Since the USA has only one officially acknowledged royal family, and not everyone is fortunate enough to be descended from an Irish-American bootlegger and stock swindler, it seems like there would be a ready market here in the States for this company that sells British titles to anyone anywhere. I have no idea how useful being declared a Lord or Baron can be in real life, this at least sounds more satisfying than naming a star or buying a plot of land on the moon.

Professor Puts Religion in Tax Debate

While I have always considered most kinds of taxes to be immoral from the perspective of capitalism, I have heard people wonder why ten percent of our income is good enough for God, yet our Rulers here on Earth require so much more than that.

Active trading hazardous to your wealth

So true. This is also why, for the umpteenth time, I don’t invest in the stock market or advise others to do so. Over the long haul, most tax returns I have seen have shown net losses from stocks and net profits from real estate.