Underbelly

My friend Ken the maven of Chapter 13 bankruptcies brings it back to mind: In mid-April of 1987, our government’s records showed that mo...

I remember reading years ago how the aristocrats among tax evaders were the sheep farmers.  They lived in the crummiest houses, maybe up o...

The Wichita Bureau reminds us of what we overlooked in the lottery/tax inquiry: The real reason an 84 year old takes the lump sum payme...

This is probably old stuff to tax pros, but I just noticed a curious inconsistency in the way we treat lottery winnings for tax purposes.  ...

My first thought when I saw the story about the Romney tax data drop was "this is going to be huge." Within moments I had click...

Taxation of Income Impractical The tax would fall with its full weight upon men of integrity, while the millionaire of “easy virtue” wou...

Martin Sullivan, author of Corporate Tax Reform , can be excused if he feels like the folks who make the Samsung tablet computer.   He's...

I join the general chorus of enthusiasm for Bruce Bartlett's new tour d'horizon  of the American tax system .   It's the kind of...

I didn't realize anyone had the stomach to tackle this one any more: here's David Cay Johnston, " Three Big Tax Lies ," r...

I note the reappearance of the story that half of all Americans pay no taxes--what Kevin Drum calls " the zombie lie ."  It is cle...

I've written before about our friend Lester, the world's greatest handyman and inter alia , the proprietor of the guerrilla redwood...

I don't know how much can be credited to the reviewer, how much to the  book under review, but please make time for David Runciman's...

Oh, for pity sakes.  Somebody needs to construct a "Third-World Index," to measure just how close the United States is coming to r...

I'm perusing yesterday's USA Today story (I picked it up in a restaurant! Honest!) about tax delinquents. A former treasurer of ...

Via TigerHawk, I stumbled on this realization of an idea whose time had to come--liveblogging tax preparation ( link ). The author is in a ...

I must remember to tell my pal Taxmom : coming out of the supermarket parking lot the other night, I pulled in bethind a GMC Yukon, the colo...