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Tax Roundup, 1/16/2013: Iowa legislators to push Alternative Maximum Tax?...
Kraig Paulsen It looks like the Republican leadership in the Iowa House of Representatives will be pushing income tax changes this year. Unfortunately, it looks like they are pushing the plan I call...
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Tax Roundup, 2/11/2013: Suing the driver of the getaway car for not going...
When a convicted criminal feels he has been ill-used by an accomplice, the normal recourse tends to involve unpleasant events in the prison gallery. Lawyers are rarely consulted. But when...
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Tax Roundup, 3/1/2013: Apocalypse, Day 1. Also: Iowa “flat tax” advances.
Post-sequester commuting. So the sequester takes effect. That made my commute like “Mad Max,” where I threaded my car between craters on shattered, lawless roadways before picking up the office Friday...
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Tax Roundup, 4/12/2013: Friday frenzy edition
We’re down to the wire, so we’re going with a bare-bones roundup today. Filing deadline is Monday, kids! Kay Bell, 3 ways to e-pay your tax bill Peter Reilly, April 15 What To Do If You Don’t Have...
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Tax Roundup, 4/24/2013: Maxed Out. And: Internet sales tax vote looms.
Max Baucus Depart, I say; and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go! Chief Senate taxwriter Max Baucus won’t run for re-election. (Dealbook, via Going Concern). Sen. Baucus has been...
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Tax Roundup, 5/10/2013: Pork and Tequila edition.
Politicians advance plan to allow politicians to give more tax money to private businesses. From TheGazette.com: Iowa communities would be able to designate special 25-acre development zones and use a...
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Tax Roundup, 5/14/2013: Worst Acting Commissioner Ever? And a career tip.
Acting Commissioner Steven T. Miller Steven Miller, acting head of the IRS since Doug Shulman left office, apparently hasn’t been any more honest than The Worst Commissioner Ever about IRS harassment...
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Tax Roundup, 5/23/2013: Iowa property taxes improve, income tax gets worse....
If Iowa’s income tax were a car, it would look like this. The Iowa General Assembly nears the end of its annual rampage. While it finally did something to improve a bad commercial property tax system,...
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Tax Roundup, 5/31/2013: Obama and Shulman, buddies. And the hidden path to...
Megan McArdle, Boy, the Head of the IRS Went to the White House A Lot I believe Megan is correct when she says that it is unlikely that Shulman was spending his time there conspiring against the...
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Tax Roundup, 6/6/2013: Omaha Beach edition. And if you like new taxes, you...
Just in case you’re having a bad day… They hit Omaha Beach 69 years ago today. I don’t know about you, but I’m pretty sure nothing I face today will be hard compared to that. TaxProf, The IRS...
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Tax Roundup, 7/2/2013: Apologies, newlyweds and civil wars!
Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olsen Kay Bell doesn’t much care for the Taxpayer Advocate’s “apology payment” proposal, where the IRS would pay $1,000 as a token of apology to taxpayers who had gotten the...
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Tax Roundup, 7/9/2013: IRS identity-theft assistance edition.
Social Security numbers make the world of identity theft tax fraud go around. Grifters get them from published lists of dead taxpayers, from stolen medical records — anywhere they can. They use them...
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Tax Roundup, 7/19/2013: You can run a red light edition. And saving the...
The first central Iowa town to install revenue cameras has turned them off. The Des Moines Register reports: The Clive City Council on Thursday night voted to discontinue the use of red-light cameras...
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Tax Roundup, 7/24/2013: Iowa corporate tax cuts? And a Carbondale caper.
Todd Dorman, Another view on corporate income tax cuts: I wrote yesterday about Gov. Terry Branstad’s call for corporate income taxes, and how I’d be OK with a deal that cuts rates but also eliminates...
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Tax Roundup, 8/6/2013: Iowa preparer gets prison for reporting too much...
Sometimes a big refund isn’t a good thing. A Shellsburg, Iowa man went too far to get his clients big refunds. The AP reports that Keith Rath was sentenced last week to 21 months after pleading...
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Tax Roundup, 8/14/2013: Tax Court Trifecta: IRS agent gets creative on her...
More reasons we should trust the IRS to regulate preparers. The Tax Court yesterday addressed the charitable deductions of a revenue agent with the IRS Manhattan office. The Tax Court judge found...
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Tax Roundup, 9/6/2013: The IRS is losing the S corporation comp war? And Tax...
If they’re losing the war, I’d hate to see how they’d act if they won. The TaxProf today offers Schwidetzky: The ‘John Edwards S Corp Tax Shelter’: Is the IRS Winning the Battles But Losing the War? :...
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Tax Roundup, 9/10/2013: If your S corporation numbers aren’t perfect, zero...
As we approach the October 15 extended deadline for 1040s, some taxpayers face a tough call: they still haven’t received all of their K-1s. Yes, the extended K-1 deadline is normally September 15, but...
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Tax Roundup, 10/1/2013: Shutdown edition. And two weeks left for 2012 1040s!
Extended 1040s are due two weeks from today! Sorry for not posting yesterday, but I’m sure many of you understand. I was laying in canned goods and ammo for the government shutdown. Wikipedia image...
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Tax Roundup, 10/16/2013: Extension season is over, now what? And the joy of...
I hope you don’t have to. Filing Tax Returns after the October 15th Deadline (William Perez): You’ll need to mail in your return to the IRS, whether you prepare the return yourself or hire an...
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