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Your Favorite Tax Blogs: The Results are In

December 18th, 2009 · 4 Comments

Everyone got votes and, to be sure, each of the ten tax blogs nominated offers something unique and different from the others. There’s a place for everyone.
So, without further ado, here are your 4 favorite tax blogs:
4. Linda Beale of ataxingmatter – 4%
3. Kay Bell of Don’t Mess With Taxes and Kelly Phillips Erb the Tax Girl  - 5%
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Online Poll: Your Favorite Tax Blog

December 9th, 2009 · 9 Comments

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Education Tax Credits Favored Over Vouchers

September 12th, 2009 · No Comments

Adam Schaeffer of the Cato Institute reports about a poll from Education Next that says Americans overwhelmingly support education tax credits over private school vouchers:
In the nationally representative sample, support for credits is about 50 percent higher than for vouchers. And opposition to credits is more than 50 percent lower. And among public school teachers, support [...]

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Tags: Polls · Tax Policy

Harris Poll: Accountants’ Prestige Falls, Lawyers’ Prestige Rises

September 2nd, 2009 · No Comments

Rick Telberg of CPA Trendlines has an interesting article about a Harris interactive poll that says that only 11% of adults consider accountants to have great prestige.
The poll was conducted over the telephone and participants were asked by the pollers to answer this question:
I am going to read off a number of different occupations. For each, [...]

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Online Tax Poll: Will President Obama Raise Taxes on the Middle Class?

August 28th, 2009 · 2 Comments

President Obama has promised that he will not raise taxes on the middle class, yet several economists, including two members of his own cabinet, have suggested that the promise might not be kept.
Please vote and tell us what you think he’ll do.

Will President Obama and the Democrats Raise Taxes on the Middle Class?

Yes. They have [...]

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Tax Madness: All Time Greatest Code Section

May 8th, 2009 · 5 Comments

TAX MADNESS
All Time Greatest Code Sections
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EAST REGIONAL                               GREAT EIGHT          FINAL FOUR          FINAL
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§     61 – Gross Income                         §    61
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§   162 – Business Expenses                                              §    61
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§   501 – Tax exemptions                     § 1031
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§ 1031 – Like kind exchanges                                                                            §    61            Â
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§   212 – Inv. Expenses                       §   351
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§   351 – Reorganizations                                                    §   [...]

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One More Week Left to Vote: Is Media Doing a Good Job In Covering Obama Economic Plan?

April 19th, 2009 · No Comments

Be heard.
Please vote in our unscientific little poll and tell us why you voted the way you did.

Has the media done its job in covering Obama’s economic policies?

Yes

No

Somewhat

Who’s Obama?

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Online Poll: Is the Media Doing Its Job in Covering President Obama’s Handling of the Economy?

April 13th, 2009 · No Comments

The media came under severe criticism for it’s handling of the Bush administration’s build up to the Iraq war. Many people believe had it done a better job, the war might have been prevented.
President Obama and Congress are pushing through the largest stimulus spending bills in American history.
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Tags: Polls · The Economy

AIG Bonus Poll: Who’s Qualifed to Decide How Bailout Dough is Spent?

March 18th, 2009 · 1 Comment

With all of this amazing angst over the AIG bonuses I thought it would be interesting to see what people think about who is best qualified to make decisions about the expenditure of AIG bailout funds.
Please take a minute to vote and leave a comment.
I will post the results here one week from today:

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