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Posted by taxguru on September 24, 2004

John Kerry’s Social Security plan is to ignore it and hope a fairy godmother comes down, waves her magic wand, and makes it all work out.

Hill panel OKs tax-cut extension

Conferees Pass $146 Billion Tax Cut Extension Bill

Many Fortune 500 Firms Paid No Tax During Bush Administration, CTJ Finds – And of course, that’s inherently bad because we’re all supposed to understand that corporations are evil.

Congress gives president pre-election win with tax cuts

DemonRats Blast GOP National Sales Tax Proposal – Sales taxes don’t allow as much social engineering and control as income taxes do.

New $50 Note Available Beginning September 28 – Ulysses Grant has had his gay makeover.

Congress Sends $146 Billion Tax Cut Package to President Bush

Lawmakers OK Extension of Tax Cuts

John Kerry: Fiscally Disciplined? Not even close

Social Insecurity

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Posted by taxguru on September 23, 2004

Sherry has posted another warning for our Realtor clients on how important it is to be aware of when a client should consider disposing of a property as a tax deferred 1031 exchange. It is not an exaggeration to say that sellers who are not informed of 1031s will be upset next tax time and could actually sue the Realtor, and even their tax advisor, for not recommending it.

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Posted by taxguru on September 23, 2004

Schedule C-EZ Change Means Time Savings for Small Businesses – While more small businesses will now qualify for this EZ form, I will continue to suppress the form from my software. Just as with my opposition to e-filing, it is my firm belief that being able to itemize detailed descriptions of expenses on a tax return, rather than having to lump them together, is a way to minimize the potential for a return to be selected by IRS for an audit.

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Posted by taxguru on September 23, 2004

Federal Bake Sale to Pay for Tax Cut Extension

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Posted by taxguru on September 22, 2004

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Posted by taxguru on September 22, 2004

The media are making such a big deal about these poor people who have to pay taxes on the free car they received from GM. All they have to do is sell the car and they will have plenty of cash to use for the taxes if there are any. Lottery and other gambling losses can be used to offset this income. If they still need a new car, they can buy a more affordable used one.

Oprah’s car giveaway not totally ‘free’

Recipients In Oprah’s Car Giveaway Face Hefty Taxes

Pressing issue of Social Security

The Specter of Poverty in America – Many big government programs are built on the foundation of dire poverty in the populace, with the ridiculous impression given that low income people in the USA are equivalent to starving dirt farmers in Africa.

How to Minimize Taxes And Control Your Estate Without Trusts

Court Orders Halt To Texas Man’s Tax Promotions – And those people foolish enough to fall for this scammer’s “corporation sole” and “claim of right” schemes will be hearing from IRS as well.

GOP crafting tax-cut package

Chirac Touts Plans For Worldwide Anti-Poverty Tax – I’m sure John Kerry’s all in favor of France setting American tax policy, just as he want to turn over all of our military decisions to those cheese eating surrender monkeys and the United Nations

Productive inequality – Basic supply & demand concepts explain why a few people earn millions times more than most people.

The Candidates’ Tax Plans: Comparing the Economic and Fiscal Effects of the Bush and sKerry Tax Proposals

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Posted by taxguru on September 21, 2004

Snopes.com has some more explanation of the upcoming Check 21 procedures for banks processing checks.

Simplify, Simplify, Simplify – Let’s not all hold our breath for this to ever happen.

FBI: Mortgage Fraud Is Rampant in U.S. – Michelle Malkin has an interesting theory that the uncontrolled borders have allowed a lot of illegal residents to scam the banking industry in this country.

The Revenue Effects of Reinstating the Top Tax Rates

Liberal Democrats plan to tax SUVs off city streets in UK – The libs haven’t given up their efforts trying to do the same thing here in the USA. As I’ve tried to explain on numerous occasions, SUV owners are already punished for exercising their free market right to buy their vehicle of choice by the higher price of gas.

How Tax Cuts Feed the Beast – This is a ridiculous ass-backwards assessment of Bush’s tax cuts. This numbskull calls the tax rate cuts wealth redistribution, when the reality is that the entire purpose of using graduated tax rate schedules is to redistribute wealth from the producers to the non-producers. Bush’s rate cuts have allowed more people to keep the results of their own efforts and reduced the amount of Marxist redistribution that is still very inherent in the tax rate structure in this country.

Congress Considers Extending Tax Relief with Significant Benefits to Middle-Income Taxpayers

Florida Property Tax Bills Hit Hurricane-Damaged Homes at Full Force

Judges need lessons about power to raise taxes – Much of the growth in the size and cost of government is due to activist judges overstepping their legal authority and nobody doing anything about it. Impeachments aren’t just for perjuring presidents.

John Kerry’s A man without a plan – And luckily for the USA, without a snowball’s chance in Hell of coming even close to being elected.

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Posted by taxguru on September 19, 2004

This happens a lot, with financial planners and tax advisors. They learn at their clients’ expense.

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Posted by taxguru on September 19, 2004

Viacom’s Redstone dumps stock during Rathergate – Even the top dogs can see how Dan Blather is pulling their network into the toilet. You can’t blame them wanting to bail out before the financial losses become too much. Protecting their investment by kicking old Danny boy’s butt out would take too much integrity and offend their fellow DemonRat travelers too much.

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Posted by taxguru on September 19, 2004

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