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		<title>IRS Uses Twitter, Facebook and Google Street Map to Catch Tax Cheats</title>
		<link>http://blog.pappastax.com/index.php/2010/03/17/irs-uses-twitter-facebook-and-google-street-map-to-catch-tax-cheats/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:38:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[IRS Audits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IRS procedure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax Collections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IRS collections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IRS crimes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[irs fraud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[irs social networking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax collection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax Crimes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in 2008 I wrote about a group of Oklahoma college students who had bragged on MySpace about how much money they were making in their party business. Unfortunately for them, a state tax investigator was one of their &#8220;friends&#8221;:
Five current and former University of Central Oklahoma students bragged on MySpace that their party business had served thousands. Actually, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Dirty Dozen</title>
		<link>http://blog.pappastax.com/index.php/2010/03/17/the-dirty-dozen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:06:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tax Crimes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IRS crimes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[irs dirty dozen]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The IRS has published its annual list of the Dirty Dozen tax scams. Read about them in more detail at IR 2010-32:

Return Preparer Fraud 
Hiding Income Offshore 
Phishing 
Filing False or Misleading Forms 
Nontaxable Social Security Benefits with Exaggerated Withholding Credit 
Abuse of Charitable Organizations and Deductions 
Frivolous Arguments 
Abusive Retirement Plans 
Disguised Corporate Ownership 
Zero [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 4 Cent Tax Bill: Urban Myth or Reality?</title>
		<link>http://blog.pappastax.com/index.php/2010/03/16/the-4-cent-tax-bill-urban-myth-or-reality/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.pappastax.com/index.php/2010/03/16/the-4-cent-tax-bill-urban-myth-or-reality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[IRS procedure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax Collections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[harv's car wash]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IRS collections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IRS harassment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[irs notices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sacramento bee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax debt]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In a story that&#8217;s been getting a lot of attention in the taxosphere, Bob Shallit of the Sacramento Bee tells about a car wash business that was visited by two IRS agents demanding payment of 4 cents of delinquent taxes:
It was every business person&#8217;s nightmare.
Arriving at Harv&#8217;s Metro Car Wash in midtown Wednesday afternoon were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taxpayers Want Preparers to Meet Ethical and Competency Standards</title>
		<link>http://blog.pappastax.com/index.php/2010/03/15/taxpayers-want-preparers-to-meet-ethical-and-competency-standards/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.pappastax.com/index.php/2010/03/15/taxpayers-want-preparers-to-meet-ethical-and-competency-standards/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:35:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Regulation of Tax Preparers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[preparer regulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax return preparation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[webcpa]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.pappastax.com/?p=15280</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[WebCPA reports that taxpayers want their tax preparers to meet prescribed ethical and core competency standards:
Taxpayers&#8217; opinions of tax preparers seem to chime with the Internal Revenue Service&#8217;s plans to require tax preparers to meet competency and ethical standards, according to a new report by the IRS Oversight Board.
In the report, 78 percent of those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crucifixion of the Soul in Maryland</title>
		<link>http://blog.pappastax.com/index.php/2010/03/15/maryland-wealth-flight-redux/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.pappastax.com/index.php/2010/03/15/maryland-wealth-flight-redux/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:27:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[State Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[delegate ivey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[maryland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oregon tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[soak the rich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[state tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax the rich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wealth flight]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the eighth verse of Maryland&#8217;s state song, Maryland, My Maryland:
Thou wilt not yield the Vandal toll, 
Maryland! 
Thou wilt not crook to his control, 
Maryland! 
Better the fire upon thee roll -
Better the blade, the shot, the bowl, 
Than crucifixion of the soul, 
Maryland! My Maryland! 

Rob Shrum of Tax Policy Blog reports on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charateristics of Extreme Anti-IRS Wackos</title>
		<link>http://blog.pappastax.com/index.php/2010/03/14/charateristics-of-extreme-anti-irs-wackos/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.pappastax.com/index.php/2010/03/14/charateristics-of-extreme-anti-irs-wackos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Absurd Tax Protester Arguments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax Crimes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anti government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anti tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[austin tax bomber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[domestic terrorism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[irs employees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[irs threats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[joe stack]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax protestors]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I am no fan of big government and inefficient bureacracy, but I loath to the core anti-government maniacs who would do harm to federal employees. They are terrorists of the worst kind &#8211; even worse than the Islamofascist true believers formerly hunkered down in the caves of Damadola.
But as disturbing as it is, I really can&#8217;t say I&#8217;m surprised that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IRS Audits the Uber-Wealthy</title>
		<link>http://blog.pappastax.com/index.php/2010/03/13/irs-audits-the-uber-wealthy/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.pappastax.com/index.php/2010/03/13/irs-audits-the-uber-wealthy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:11:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[IRS Audits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IRS procedure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax Collections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax Crimes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[earned income credit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foreign bank account]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IRS crimes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[irs evasion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[irs fraud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[irs targets the rich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[offshore accounts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[offshore tax evasion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax audits]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reporter: Hey, Willie, why do you rob all them banks?
Willie Sutton: &#8216;Cause that&#8217;s where the money is.
The New York Times reports that the Internal Revenue Service has lived up to its word and is intensifying its scrutiny of wealthy Americans:
The federal agency increased its audits of taxpayers who earned $1 million to $5 million by 33 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tax on Salt</title>
		<link>http://blog.pappastax.com/index.php/2010/03/12/tax-on-salt/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.pappastax.com/index.php/2010/03/12/tax-on-salt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:08:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[State Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[felix ortiz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nanny state]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new york salt tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax Policy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t tell New York assemblymen Felix Ortiz, Margaret Markey and Nick Perry that they are do-nothing legislators.
Overlawyered.com reports that this ingenious triumvirate has drafted a proposed law that would make it illegal for restaurant chefs to use salt in their recipes:
Assembly members Felix Ortiz (D-Brooklyn), Margaret Markey (D-Queens) and Nick Perry (D-Brooklyn) have filed a bill that would hit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rich Folks Flee Maryland, Say Goodbye to High Taxes</title>
		<link>http://blog.pappastax.com/index.php/2010/03/12/rich-marylanders-strongly-flee-the-state-while-gently-saying-goodbye-to-high-taxes/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.pappastax.com/index.php/2010/03/12/rich-marylanders-strongly-flee-the-state-while-gently-saying-goodbye-to-high-taxes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:12:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Legislative Watch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[class warfare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[soak the rich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[state budgets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax hikes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax the rich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wealth flight]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Maryland should change it&#8217;s state motto from Fatti Maschii Parole Femine ¹ to &#8220;we hate rich people, please don&#8217;t leave.&#8221;
The Wall Street Journal reports in an op-ed titled Maryland&#8217;s Mobile Millionaires that soaking the rich, instead of creating revenue for states, actually loses revenue (emphasis added):
We reported in May that after passing a millionaire surtax nearly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OECD Recommends Tax Increases to Stimulate Growth</title>
		<link>http://blog.pappastax.com/index.php/2010/03/12/oecd-recommends-tax-increases-to-stimulate-growth/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.pappastax.com/index.php/2010/03/12/oecd-recommends-tax-increases-to-stimulate-growth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:06:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[State Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[capitalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[consumption tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[government waste]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nationalization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OECD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[property taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[socialism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax increases]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax Policy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ &#8220;I will cut taxes &#8211; cut taxes &#8211; for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.&#8221;
- Barack Obama -
You rarely see anyone, even Democrats, offer up the idea of tax increases as a solution to economic contraction, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Corey Haim</title>
		<link>http://blog.pappastax.com/index.php/2010/03/11/corey-haim/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.pappastax.com/index.php/2010/03/11/corey-haim/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:32:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Movie Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corey haim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lucas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[movie review]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Corey Haim is one of the best child actors of all time all on the strength of one movie: Lucas.
If you haven&#8217;t seen it, Netflix it. Not for the plot or for the direction or for the performances of the other actors (the barely pubescent Charlie Sheen, Wynona Ryder and Jeremy Piven are in it), but for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Warning to Sheep: IRS Invites Settlement Offers Again</title>
		<link>http://blog.pappastax.com/index.php/2010/03/11/warning-to-sheep-irs-invites-settlement-offers-again/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.pappastax.com/index.php/2010/03/11/warning-to-sheep-irs-invites-settlement-offers-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:22:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Announcements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Offers in Compromise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doug shulman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[irs bait and switch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[irs financial statements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[irs payment plan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[irs payment plans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[irs settlements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax settlements]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[About a year ago we questioned the sincerity of the IRS&#8217;s Offer in Compromise program in a post titled Is IRS Offer in Compromise Program a Sham? 
We said then that it was our experience and the experience of other tax professionals that the program as currently operated was someone of a bait and switch: The IRS entices taxpayers to come [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Illinois to Raise Income Taxes?</title>
		<link>http://blog.pappastax.com/index.php/2010/03/11/illinois-to-raise-income-taxes/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.pappastax.com/index.php/2010/03/11/illinois-to-raise-income-taxes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:11:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[State Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[government waste]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Legislative Watch]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times reports that Illinois has joined the growing list of states that are trying to raise taxes to cover budget shortfalls:
Gov. Patrick J. Quinn on Wednesday proposed raising the state income tax rate, just one in a long list of painful measures aimed at closing a budget deficit that some now estimate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tax Confiscation Ain&#8217;t Progress</title>
		<link>http://blog.pappastax.com/index.php/2010/03/10/confiscation-is-not-progress/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.pappastax.com/index.php/2010/03/10/confiscation-is-not-progress/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:28:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Legislative Watch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[healthcare reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[confiscatory taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[darwin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[law of the jungle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[medicare tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[medicare tax increase]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obamacare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[payroll tax hike]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[s corporation distribution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[slate]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama&#8217;s healthcare plan raises the 1.45% Medicare payroll tax to 2.35% for families with more than $250,000 of earned income. 
Spread-the-wealther Timothy Noah of Slate wonders why Republicans aren&#8217;t making a bigger stink about this tax increase:
Maybe the recession has made solicitude on the part of the rich less plausible to the electorate. Maybe squawking too [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York Lawyer Guilty of Tax Fraud</title>
		<link>http://blog.pappastax.com/index.php/2010/03/10/new-york-lawyer-guilty-of-tax-fraud/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.pappastax.com/index.php/2010/03/10/new-york-lawyer-guilty-of-tax-fraud/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:41:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tax Crimes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bonnie strunk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IRS crimes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[irs fraud]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joel Stashenko of the New York Law Journal reports that a prominent New York gay rights lawyer pleaded guilty Monday to a felony tax fraud charge that will result in her disbarment:
Bonnie Strunk, 62, of DeWitt, N.Y., admitted to fourth-degree criminal tax fraud before Supreme Court Justice John Brunetti in Syracuse. Strunk acknowledged in court that she failed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colorado Tax Law Causes Amazon.Com to Flee; Governor Ritter Passes Buck</title>
		<link>http://blog.pappastax.com/index.php/2010/03/10/colorado-tax-law-causes-amazon-com-to-flee-state-governor-ritter-passes-buck/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.pappastax.com/index.php/2010/03/10/colorado-tax-law-causes-amazon-com-to-flee-state-governor-ritter-passes-buck/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:11:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[State Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[amazon.com tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[colorado internet tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corporate Tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[internet taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rich flight]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[tax the rich]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taxes have consequences.
WebCPA reports that Amazon.com has severed ties with affiliates in Colorado in response to a Colorado law that requires Web retailers to send statements to their customers apprising them of their use tax liability on online purchases:
“The regulations are burdensome and no other state has similar rules,” the company wrote in an e-mail to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Civil Disobedience and Race Questions on the Census Form</title>
		<link>http://blog.pappastax.com/index.php/2010/03/09/civil-disobedience-and-race-questions-on-the-census-form/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.pappastax.com/index.php/2010/03/09/civil-disobedience-and-race-questions-on-the-census-form/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:14:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[affirmative action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[census form]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[civil disobedience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[man for all seasons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[michelle malkin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[race based policies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sir thomas more]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[us census bureau]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In A Man for All Seasons, Robert Bolt&#8217;s award winning play about Sir Thomas More&#8217;s opposition to Henry the Eighth&#8217;s annulment of his marriage to his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, there occurs this exchange between More and his friend the Duke of Norfolk:
Norfolk:  Oh confound all this. I&#8217;m not a scholar, I don&#8217;t know whether the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Save America, Outlaw Pizza</title>
		<link>http://blog.pappastax.com/index.php/2010/03/09/save-america-outlaw-pizza/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.pappastax.com/index.php/2010/03/09/save-america-outlaw-pizza/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:49:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nanny state]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pizza tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sin tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[soda tax]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Newsflash: None of us is getting out of here alive.¹
From Reuters here are the latest sin tax shenanigans:
U.S. researchers estimate that an 18 percent tax on pizza and soda can push down U.S. adults&#8217; calorie intake enough to lower their average weight by 5 pounds (2 kg) per year.
The researchers, writing in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peter&#8217;s Principles: How to Deal With Demon Clients</title>
		<link>http://blog.pappastax.com/index.php/2010/03/08/peters-principles-how-to-deal-with-demon-clients/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.pappastax.com/index.php/2010/03/08/peters-principles-how-to-deal-with-demon-clients/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:22:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business advice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bad clients]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax advice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax preparation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax preparers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax return pricing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Kay Bell makes some excellent points about bad tax clients who deliver to their tax preparers shoeboxes full of coffee stained tax receipts just days before the filing deadline:
Failure to provide all necessary information to your tax preparer is a major complaint from those who make their livings doing taxes and tax planning for others.
Being very late in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Federal Government is One Quarter of U.S. Economy</title>
		<link>http://blog.pappastax.com/index.php/2010/03/07/federal-government-is-a-full-quarter-of-entire-u-s-economy/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.pappastax.com/index.php/2010/03/07/federal-government-is-a-full-quarter-of-entire-u-s-economy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:06:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[big government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[government waste]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[james maule]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[orin kerr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[size of government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax Policy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, in response to a post written by Jim Maule of Mauled Again, I wrote:
If we were honest with ourselves, we would admit that we are all socialists. We all believe that there should be at least some communal pooling of resources to achieve certain national aims that cannot or should not be left to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opposition to Increased Taxes is Not Opposition to All Taxes</title>
		<link>http://blog.pappastax.com/index.php/2010/03/06/opposition-to-increased-taxes-is-not-opposition-to-all-taxes/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.pappastax.com/index.php/2010/03/06/opposition-to-increased-taxes-is-not-opposition-to-all-taxes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 18:32:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics of Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anarchism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[big government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[james maule]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marxism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[role of government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[small government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[socialism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax increases]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent post titled Snow, Budgets, and User Fees, Professor James Maule, to drive home a point, regales us with a bit of rhetorical brinkmanship:
[I]f the anti-tax crowd continues to influence the unwitting and uninformed by appealing to emotional distaste for taxation, it might persuade the entire nation to eliminate all taxes and user fees.
What must be understood [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taxpayer Representative Disbarred While Federal Tax Scofflaws Keep Their Jobs</title>
		<link>http://blog.pappastax.com/index.php/2010/03/05/taxpayer-counsel-disbarred-while-federal-tax-scofflaws-keep-their-jobs/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.pappastax.com/index.php/2010/03/05/taxpayer-counsel-disbarred-while-federal-tax-scofflaws-keep-their-jobs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:47:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Legislative Watch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxpayer Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal tax deadbeats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kevin kilduff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OPR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[right to counsel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax scofllaws]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Kevin Kilduff has been stopped by the IRS from making a living for two years because he filed a few tax returns late, but real tax scofflaws get to keep their federal jobs. 
From Justin Higginbottom of Tax Policy Blog:
From Politico:
Chaffetz will introduce legislation Thursday that would allow Hill offices to get rid of the hundreds of Senate and House staffers who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Tax Lawyer Suspended from Practice, Accuses IRS of Retaliation</title>
		<link>http://blog.pappastax.com/index.php/2010/03/05/top-tax-lawyer-suspended-from-practice-accuses-irs-of-retaliation/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.pappastax.com/index.php/2010/03/05/top-tax-lawyer-suspended-from-practice-accuses-irs-of-retaliation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:08:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[IRS procedure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Regulation of Tax Preparers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxpayer Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[irs representatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[irs retaliation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kevin kilduff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[office of professional responsibility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OPR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paul caron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxpayer bill of rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxpayer right to counsel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Clarence Earl Gideon must be turning over in his grave.
Imagine a judicial system where criminal prosecutors had the power to disbar criminal defense lawyers. How long do you think it would take the United States Supreme Court to issue a unanimous decision declaring that system unconstitutional?
Yet the IRS is empowered to punish with the full force of its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Houses Passes Jobs Bill: Good Legislation or Political Ploy?</title>
		<link>http://blog.pappastax.com/index.php/2010/03/04/houses-passes-jobs-bill-good-legislation-or-political-ploy/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.pappastax.com/index.php/2010/03/04/houses-passes-jobs-bill-good-legislation-or-political-ploy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:17:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Employer Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Legislative Watch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jobs bill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jobs tax credit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pascrell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[payroll tax credit]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Andrew Taylor of the Associated Press reports:
Despite doubts among many lawmakers that it&#8217;ll create many jobs, the House on Thursday passed legislation giving companies that hire the jobless a temporary payroll tax break. The measure passed 217-201 on a mostly party-line vote. The bill also extends federal highway programs through the end of the year.
Some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Musical Chairmen: Stark Out, Levin In</title>
		<link>http://blog.pappastax.com/index.php/2010/03/04/musical-chairmen-stark-out-levin-in/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.pappastax.com/index.php/2010/03/04/musical-chairmen-stark-out-levin-in/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:35:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Legislative Watch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[charlie rangel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[house ways & means]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pete stark]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sander levin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax writer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Associated Press reports that Pete Stark (D-CA) has been removed as temporary chairman of the House Ways &#38; Means Committee after serving just one day:
Rep. Sander Levin of Michigan was chosen Thursday as acting chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, a post that plays a major role in health care and billions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pete Stark (Raving Mad) is Your New Top Tax Writer</title>
		<link>http://blog.pappastax.com/index.php/2010/03/04/pete-stark-raving-mad-is-your-new-top-tax-writer/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.pappastax.com/index.php/2010/03/04/pete-stark-raving-mad-is-your-new-top-tax-writer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:14:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Legislative Watch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics of Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[charlie rangel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[house ways & means]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pete stark]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax code]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[top tax writer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This guy makes me ashamed my name is Pete.
Fortney Pete Stark (D-CA) is the new Chairman of the House Ways &#38; Means Committee and in one fell swoop has become one of the most powerful men in Congress. If you are queasy about this prospect, ponder these Starkisms. They&#8217;ll send you straight to the vomitorium:
Stark slanders a sitting President of the United States [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Capitol Hill Tax Scofflaws</title>
		<link>http://blog.pappastax.com/index.php/2010/03/04/capitol-hill-tax-scofflaws/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.pappastax.com/index.php/2010/03/04/capitol-hill-tax-scofflaws/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Legislative Watch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[irs procedre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[joe kristan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax deadbeats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax evasion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax fraud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax procedure]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Joe Kristan tells us that at least 600 Congressional staffers are delinquent in their taxes:
And that doesn&#8217;t even count the Congresscritters.

Bookmark &#038; Share:
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		<title>Cato: 6 Reasons to Reduce the Size of Federal Government</title>
		<link>http://blog.pappastax.com/index.php/2010/03/04/cato-6-reasons-to-reduce-the-size-of-federal-government/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.pappastax.com/index.php/2010/03/04/cato-6-reasons-to-reduce-the-size-of-federal-government/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:09:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[big government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[government waste]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[private sector]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[privatization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[size of government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax increase]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax Policy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Chris Edwards of Cato gives us Six Reasons to Downsize the Federal Government. I was going to re-publish only my favorite of the six reasons, but they are all so important I couldn&#8217;t choose among them.
Here&#8217;s all six:
1. Additional federal spending transfers resources from the more productive private sector to the less productive public sector of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Democrat Says Tax Increases Needed to Reduce Deficit</title>
		<link>http://blog.pappastax.com/index.php/2010/03/03/top-democrat-says-tax-increases-needed-to-reduce-deficit/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.pappastax.com/index.php/2010/03/03/top-democrat-says-tax-increases-needed-to-reduce-deficit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:18:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Legislative Watch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics of Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deficts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[government waste]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grover norquist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[soak the rich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[starve the beast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[steny hoyer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax increases]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax the rich]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Walter Alarkon of The Hill reports that House Majority leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md) says that the U.S. must increases taxes to curb the deficit:
Tax increases may be necessary to rein in $12 trillion in federal debt, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said Monday.
“No one likes raising revenue, and understandably so,” Hoyer said in an address [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IRS has $1.3 Billion in Unclaimed Refunds</title>
		<link>http://blog.pappastax.com/index.php/2010/03/03/irs-has-1-3-billion-in-unclaimed-refunds/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.pappastax.com/index.php/2010/03/03/irs-has-1-3-billion-in-unclaimed-refunds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:05:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[IRS procedure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unfiled Returns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[irs credits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[irs refunds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[statute of limitation on refunds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax refund]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here is the full text of IR-2010-24, dated March 2, 2010:
Washington — Unclaimed refunds totaling more than $1.3 billion are awaiting nearly 1.4 million people who did not file a federal income tax return for 2006, the Internal Revenue Service announced today. However, to collect the money, a return for 2006 must be filed with [...]]]></description>
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