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My Bias

In the interest of transparency and full disclosure, The Tax Lawyer’s Blog admits to the following biases:

  • We believe that taxpayers are foolish if they attempt to represent themselves without the assistance of a qualified tax professional
  • We believe a taxpayer’s qualified tax professional should be either a Tax Lawyer or a CPA (and, even better, both)
  • We believe the federal income tax is consititutional and, therefore, legal
  • We believe that tax protester arguments (see Absurd Tax Protester Arguments) are absurd and, even if rational, are unlikely to succeed
  • We believe that IRS personnel often violate the law and/or the IRS’s procedures as outlined in its own Internal Revenue Manual
  • We believe that income received in the form of cash payments is taxable income and must be reported to the IRS
  • We believe it is unethical as well as illegal to advise taxpayers how to evade taxes
  • We believe it is one of our duties and obligations to assist taxpayers in legally avoiding taxes
  • We believe in telling our clients and potential taxpayers the truth about their tax problems
  • We believe that William Shakespeare – the man from Stratford – wrote the works attributed to him and those who suggest otherwise do so either to sell books or to draw attention to themselves

4 Comments

4 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Rick Darby // Aug 28, 2009 at 10:38 am

    Peter,

    Great site. I hope I never need a tax lawyer but if I do I will look you up.

    I gave you a tip of the hat in my blog the other day in a posting about the income differential between the federal and private sectors, which you cited:

    http://reflight.blogspot.com/2009/08/hard-times-will-be-over-when-everyone.html

    Best wishes,

    Rick Darby

  • 2 Peter // Aug 28, 2009 at 12:42 pm

    Rick,

    Thanks very much for the kind comments and the link.

  • 3 JR // Mar 2, 2010 at 2:45 pm

    The federal income tax is consititutional and legal but the IRS is not in compliance with 5 USC 553 and therefore enforcement using interpretative regulations is without “force and effect of law.” (Chrysler, 441 US 281) Care to research how many substantive regulations have been published in the Federal Register? Zero. So stick that in your tax lawyer pipe and win a few more cases.

  • 4 Peter // Mar 3, 2010 at 9:30 am

    JR,

    In true tax protestor form, you have completely misread the Chrysler case. That case only talks about improperly delegated powers.

    The Courts have consistently held that Congress has the power to delegate the intepretation of the tax laws to the Treasury Department.

    Put that in your conspirowacknut pipe and smoke it.

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