Tax Roundup, 10/7/16: HD Vest and the mystery of the deadly deduction. Also:...
Vested interest. Accountants of a certain age know well the name H.D. Vest. Back in the early 1990s every little accounting firm, including ours, regularly got letters from HD Vest telling us of the...
View ArticleTax Roundup, 9/9/15: Meredith HQ stays in Iowa despite taxes. And: Walter...
A part of the Meredith campus in Downtown Des Moines. Meredith Corporation will keep its headquarters in Des Moines, reports the Des Moines Register. The Des Moines-based media company yesterday...
View ArticleTax Roundup, 8/25/15: Capital losses, your portfolio disaster silver lining....
Flickr Image courtesy donjd2 under Creative Commons License. So how’s the market doing? Recent days have been unkind to many stock portfolios. Can you make tax lemonade out of the sour lemons in your...
View ArticleTraded on the Chicago Board of Betrayal
Markets in everything, as reported in the New York Times: Hedge funds have found a new market to invest in: whistle-blowers. Informants who turn in tax cheats have to wait years to get their share of...
View ArticleWays and Means extender bill hits carried interests, professional S corporations
A summary of newest version of the annual lobbyist shakedown, a/k/a the expiring tax provision extension, has been released by the House Ways and Means Committee. To pay for a one-year renewal of the...
View ArticleHow is reporting your income properly a ‘tax dodge’?
Instapundit notes a Byron York story: BYRON YORK: Treasury Nominee Profited From Offshore Tax Dodge. Nothing wrong with this
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