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Adam Lent shows two things. First that what they say makes little economic sense. And second that, as a result they may be approaching a period of uncertainty of their own.
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Subject: Estate Tax Exclusion
Mr. Kerstetter,
I found your writeup on estate and gift taxes via google search, and then I read your blog with great interest.
Thank you for publlishing it.
You have this text on your page:
If you do give any one [...]
Looking for a way to get your weekend off to a taxalicous start? Sure you are!
Then you've got to check out The Wandering Tax Pro's WHATâS THE BUZZ? TELL ME WHATâS A HAPPENNINâ.
It's a regular Saturday (and Wednesday) feature from my tax blogging colleague.
And I [...]
Tax Policy Blog has a handy summary of how Harry Reidcare will allegedly be financed. Peter Pappas has a nice summary of some of the more baleful provisions of the bill, including a sexism angle. One of the taxes in the bill applies to cosmetic surgery, which [...]
The new Cavalcade of Risk is up at Healthcare Economist!
Among the many useful insurance and risk management posts there is the InsureBlog's explanation of the hidden link between heart attacks and double-decker buses. I would have suspected double-decker cheeseburgers, myself.
Speaking of risk management, [...]
A commentator on this blog has said, initially quoting me, and overall in response to comment by Dave Hartnett:
âTax compliance is seeking to pay the right amount of tax (but no more) in the right place at the right time where right means that the economic substance of [...]

Great piece by Joe Kristan at Roth & Company PC about FBAR reporting…
Tax Update Blog: ‘Cheat’? I don’t think the word means what they think it means.: “”
Similar Posts: Ask the taxgirl: Foreign Accounts and FBAR Ask the taxgirl: Oh [...]
There's a new roundup of tax blog posts at Robert D. Flach's place. Meanwhile, Kay Bell has a new "Tax Twitter Tuesday" up, with tax tweets from all over.
[...]A commentator on this blog has said:
[T]here is very little Christian theology on the merits, purposes and morality of taxes. There are certainly many mentions in the new Testament of tax collectors/publicans who were widely despised as agents of a foreign state, and ranked alongside âsinnersâ, which many interpret [...]
A commentator on my blog concerning Rowan Williams discussion of tax said:
Interesting that the Archbishop referred to the Greek origins of the word âeconomicsâ to proclaim the virtues of âhousekeepingâ. Presumably the C of E is now officially Thatcherite.
Not at all. You see Rowan Williams talked about what economics [...]
This Blog has engaged in a variety of innovative practices, including the reliance on both faculty and students to write posts. This week and last, for example, have been mostly devoted to student posts. One of the other innovative steps has been trial coverage. This Blog has used faculty and [...]
The Tax Justice Network has blogged the continuing abuse of information exchange by Switzerland.
Carl Levin has said:
While it is good to know that 14,700 people have now disclosed previously hidden offshore bank accounts, the U.S.âSwiss Annex disclosed today, designed to compel disclosure of the names of U.S persons [...]

This morning, a certain sub-sector of the financial blogosphere is abuzz over the press release that Overstock.com (OSTK) put out late yesterday announcing that they had fired its outside auditor, who had just been hired earlier this year, and were filing an “unreviewed” 10-Q. Here’s a [...]
Again, having problems embedding the video - but this is Ann pettifor and me in action at the TUC.
Mine isn’t that easy to follow - I spoke to [...]
My earlier warnings about problems that the Making Work Pay tax credit will cause some folks are now official.
The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) has issued a formal report on the matter that I blogged about back in March.
The credit seemed like such a [...]