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		<title>Income is Taxable if it&#8217;s not Specifically Excluded</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/10/06/income-is-taxable-if-its-not-specifically-excluded/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 22:27:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Court Cases]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[James Maule of Mauled Again has written an excellent post titled Expending Tax Dollars to Litigate Settled Tax Questions. In it he discusses the Eleventh Circuit’s affirmance, in Campbell v. Comr., No. 10-13677 (11th Cir. 2011), of an earlier Tax Court decision (134 T.C. No. 3 (2010)). The Tax Court concluded, following an earlier decision, that a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Just Society Taxes Capital Gains at Lower Rates</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/08/21/a-just-society-taxes-capital-gains-at-lower-rates/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/08/21/a-just-society-taxes-capital-gains-at-lower-rates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2011 15:08:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Transactions]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Politics of Taxes]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[capital gains tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[capital gains tax rate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[income inequality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[james b stewart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paul caron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[soak the rich]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[wealth gap]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[zero capital gains tax]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.pappastax.com/?p=24848</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A columnist for The New York Times believes that the objective of our tax policy should be to enforce equality of results rather than equality of opportunity. James B. Stewart is the latest in a long line of tax-the-richers who suggests that we should tax capital gains at the same rate we tax ordinary income: In the end, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taxing Sale of Jeter Ball is a No Brainer</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/07/18/taxing-sale-of-jeter-ball-is-a-no-brainer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/07/18/taxing-sale-of-jeter-ball-is-a-no-brainer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gross Income]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxes 101]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[james maule]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jeter ball]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lot of people are making a ruckus because the IRS says that the value of what Christian Lopez, the fan who caught Derek Jeter&#8217;s 3,oooth hit, which was a home run, is taxable, but it&#8217;s much ado about nothing. Here&#8217;s David Logan of Tax Policy Blog: On July 9th, Derek Jeter became the 28th [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report Your Cash Receipts or Suffer the Consequences</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/09/10/report-your-cash-receipts-or-suffer-the-consequences/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/09/10/report-your-cash-receipts-or-suffer-the-consequences/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:57:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gross Income]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax Tips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cash receipts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[due diligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fraudulent tax returns]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.pappastax.com/?p=19329</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Boy is this ever a serious problem. Joe Kristan has the story: Even when you get away with tax cheating for a long time, it can come back to bite you. If you are cheating in your business and your prospective buyer wants to see your tax returns, it can be awkward to explain that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Debt Cancellation and the 1099-C</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/09/03/debt-cancellation-and-the-1099-c/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/09/03/debt-cancellation-and-the-1099-c/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:47:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gross Income]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax Tips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1099-c]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[debt cancellation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foreclosure tax]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[tax advice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax court gaffney]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Joe Kristan tells of  a recent Tax Court case (Gaffney v. Commissioner; T.C. Summ. Op. 2010-128) where the Court properly held that a 1099-C alone is insufficient to establish the taxability of debt cancellation income: The Tax Court pointed out that the IRS needs more than just a 1099-C to assess debt cancellation income: In support of [the IRS's] assertion that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senator Landrieu Wants Guidance on BP Oil Spill Tax Questions and I Provide it Free of Charge</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/06/25/senator-landrieu-wants-guidance-on-bp-oil-spill-tax-questions-and-i-provide-it-free-of-charge/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/06/25/senator-landrieu-wants-guidance-on-bp-oil-spill-tax-questions-and-i-provide-it-free-of-charge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 13:04:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gross Income]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago I wrote that the IRS considers BP payments to Gulf Coast fishermen who have suffered losses as a result of the oil spill to be taxable income: This is not a difficult call. The tax code has long considered payments made to individuals in the form of  compensation for lost wages or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BP Payments to Gulf Coast Workers are Taxable</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/06/22/bp-payments-to-gulf-coast-workers-are-taxable/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/06/22/bp-payments-to-gulf-coast-workers-are-taxable/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gross Income]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[back pay]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fox News reports that the IRS considers payments made by BP to Gulf Coast workers to be taxable income: Out-of-work Gulf Coast shrimper Todd Pellegal spent his first $2,500 check from BP quickly, paying off bills and buying groceries for his family. He never even considered putting some of it away for taxes. Now he&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tax Court Update: An IRS Agent Fails to Corroborate her eBay Expenses</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/04/22/ebay-sales-are-taxable-an-irs-agent-fails-to-report-her-income/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/04/22/ebay-sales-are-taxable-an-irs-agent-fails-to-report-her-income/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 12:55:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gross Income]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[tax court]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a summary opinion issued yesterday the Tax Court held that an IRS revenue officer failed to substantiate expenses she claimed in her eBay business.¹  Below is an excerpt from the Court&#8217;s opinion in Orellana v. Commissioner, T.C. Summ. Op. 2010-51 (Apr. 20, 2010). The IRS agent/taxpayer&#8217;s admissions are stunning (emphasis added): Petitioner argues that she was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Killing the Tax Messenger</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/02/17/killing-the-tax-messenger/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/02/17/killing-the-tax-messenger/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:46:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gross Income]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you know that Professor Paul Caron is a Bolshevik for suggesting that the tax code requires that medal-winning Olympic athletes include the value of their gold, silver or bronze medals in their taxable incomes? Joe Kristan writes in Explaining Something Doesn&#8217;t Mean You Agree With It that the good Professor received the following letter calling him a dastardly Muscovite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Bows to Corporate Lobby, Calls for Repeal of Tax on Employer-Provided Cell Phones</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/02/01/obama-bows-to-corporate-lobby-calls-for-repeal-of-tax-on-employer-provided-cell-phones/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/02/01/obama-bows-to-corporate-lobby-calls-for-repeal-of-tax-on-employer-provided-cell-phones/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:51:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gross Income]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[employer provided cell phone]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama wants to repeal a 1989 law that treats employer-provided cell phones as taxable fringe benefits: President Barack Obama will urge Congress to repeal a law requiring workers to pay taxes when they use employer-provided cell phones and similar equipment for personal reasons, a Treasury Department official said. The budget proposal would end the need [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IRS Issues Proposed Stock Basis Reporting Regulations</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2009/12/17/irs-issues-proposed-stock-basis-reporting-regulations/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2009/12/17/irs-issues-proposed-stock-basis-reporting-regulations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 04:58:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The IRS has long imposed an information reporting requirement on stockbrokers to ensure that stock traders report on their income tax returns the proper amount of their gross stock sale proceeds. Only recently, however, has it required those brokers to calculate and report those stock traders&#8217; bases in the stock sold. For honest taxpayers and their tax preparers this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taxation of Barter</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2009/11/29/taxation-of-barter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2009/11/29/taxation-of-barter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gross Income]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[barter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[barter exchange]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robert W. Wood writing for Forbes.com says that the IRS wants to tax your bartering transactions: The IRS starts with a down-home definition. Bartering is trading one product or service for another, whether informally and one-on-one or with multiple parties in a commercial setting.  [Barter] has a storied, even ancient tradition. &#8220;Our ancestors may have exchanged [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cancellation of Debt: Creditor Must Prove it, Tax Court Says</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2009/10/22/cancellation-of-debt-creditor-must-prove-it-tax-court-says/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2009/10/22/cancellation-of-debt-creditor-must-prove-it-tax-court-says/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:47:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Court Cases]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joe Kristan has a very important post today about a Tax Court ruling that says creditors need more than a 1099-C to fix the amount of a debtors debt cancellation income. Here is the post in its entirety: When the credit card company settles your account for less than you owe, the tax law says you have &#8220;cancellation of indebtedness&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Cheats on Their Taxes? The IRS Knows.</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2009/04/11/who-cheats-on-their-taxes-the-irs-knows/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 14:42:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gross Income]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Individual Taxation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax Crimes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tara Siegel Bernard wrote a Column in the Your Money section of the New York Times yesterday in which she considers whether more taxpayers will cheat on their taxes this year because of the bad economy: With just a few more days to file your tax returns, you may be tempted — especially in this down [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Organ Donor Want&#8217;s Kidney Back From Wife or $1.5 Million: Any Tax Consequences?</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2009/01/08/do-human-organs-have-value-for-marital-property-settlement-purposes-tax-purposes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2009/01/08/do-human-organs-have-value-for-marital-property-settlement-purposes-tax-purposes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:20:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gross Income]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes divorce can be a real pissing contest. Listen to this report from the Denver Post: When his wife needed a kidney transplant, Richard Batista gave her one of his, attorney Dominic Barbara said. Now that Dawnell Batista has filed for a divorce, Richard Batista wants his kidney back as part of his settlement demand. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pilin&#8217; on Palin Redux: The Taxation of Employer Provided Clothing</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2008/10/25/pilin-on-palin-redux-the-taxation-of-employer-provided-clothing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2008/10/25/pilin-on-palin-redux-the-taxation-of-employer-provided-clothing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2008 15:07:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Campaign 2008]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[palins tax problem]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Tax-O-Sphere is percolating with some more juicy tax news about Sarah Palin. It was revealed recently that the Republican National Committee spent $150k on giving Mrs. Palin a makeover that included new clothes, hair styling and makeup. Kay Bell of Don&#8217;t Mess with Taxes describes the issues well in Palin&#8217;s Duds. Uniform? Loan? Donation? and posited the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It Ain&#8217;t Braggin&#8217; if You Can Back it Up . . . College Kids Brag Produces 300K Tax Bill</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2008/09/22/it-aint-braggin-if-you-can-back-it-up-college-kids-brag-produces-300k-tax-bill/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2008/09/22/it-aint-braggin-if-you-can-back-it-up-college-kids-brag-produces-300k-tax-bill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:34:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gross Income]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kay Bell of the tax and finance blog, Don&#8217;t Mess with Taxes, reports today in her blog post $320,000 tax bill based on MySpace boast by college kids that, Five current and former University of Central Oklahoma students bragged on MySpace that their party business had served thousands. Actually, a lot more than thousands. And that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Hablas Español, Señor Rangel?</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2008/09/18/no-hablar-espanol-senor-rangel/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2008/09/18/no-hablar-espanol-senor-rangel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:49:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gross Income]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Individual Taxation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Legislative Watch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[charlie rangel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rental income]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[taxation of rental property]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tax Girl blogged yesterday that embattled House Ways and Means Chairman, Charlie Rangel, in Rangel Refuses to Give up Chair Despite Probe.  Here&#8217;s the Girl: Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) has announced that he will not step down as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, despite an ethics investigation into his personal finances. Instead, according to [...]]]></description>
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