IRS and the Treasury Department Amend Circular 230 to Promote Ethical Practice by Tax Professionals – What a rip.  We’re not supposed to sell bogus tax avoidance schemes to gullible people with big bucks any more.  Since I’ve stayed away from that lucrative specialty, this won’t affect me; but the Big CPA firms will see a lot of revenue dry up, if they obey this.

IRS Issues Optional Sales Tax Tables

“Taxpayers also may add to the table amount any sales taxes paid on:

A motor vehicle, but only up to the amount of tax paid at the general sales tax rate; and

An aircraft, boat, home (including mobile or prefabricated), or home building materials, if the tax rate is the same as the general sales tax rate.”

My earlier comments on this still apply. 

Treasury Tax Reform Proposal to Reach Bush in Early 2005 – That would be great; but I’m not holding my breath.

Bush Now Proposes to ‘Public-ize’ Social Security

Bush: Social Security Plan Has Safeguards

Bush Considers Domestic Spending Freeze

FDR is dead – And so are the original goals for Social Security.

There will never be a better time to make the tax cuts permanent than now. – If the GOP can’t accomplish this simple task with control of all three houses of government, they’re a disgrace.  

I’ve looked at the application process for these IRS advisory boards and am confident that Bernie Kerik would never have gotten very far in the selection process if he had been applying for a spot on any of them.  It’s a little frightening to know that members of tax policy boards are more closely screened than those in charge of homeland security. 

IRS Selects 12 New Members for IRS Advisory Council

IRS Selects Nine New Members for Information Reporting Program Advisory Committee

 

Thanks to Neal Boortz for the info on this website, Choose The Blue, which supposedly has all of the political donations by businesses broken down by political party.  Their goal is obviously to encourage consumers to patronize supporters of the DemonRat Party.  However, their info is just as useful for those of us who prefer to let our money do the talking in supporting those companies that donated more to the GOP and punishing supporters of the high taxing and regulating Donkeys.  Unfortunately, their data only includes info on donations to the two big parties.  Those of us who support third parties, such as the Libertarians, won’t be able to use these stats to identify our commercial allies. 

New Study Quantifies Lottery Tax Revenue and Questions Government-Sponsored Gambling – It has long been said that lotteries are just a tax on the stupid.  I know it’s heartless to say things like this; but I can’t help being grateful that those people are helping keep the other taxes lower for those of us who understand basic math.