Something to Fight About!

Whiskey Played a Role in Tax Protest Fall is officially here, and that means whiskey season is back. Most drinkers probably don’t think much about taxes when they visit their favorite bar or spirits shop. Liquor levies are generally based on volume, not price,...

All Fun and Games

Transfer Pricing: The Game Some of the world’s most popular board games give players the chance to live out professional fantasies. Aspiring property sharks can cheat each other with the classic Monopoly. Would-be Sherlock Holmeses can track down killers...

R-E-S-P-E-C-T the Plan

Why It’s Important to Create a Will Aretha Franklin left this world with a musical legacy for the ages. The Queen of Soul started singing for her father’s “gospel carnival tours” at 12, cut her first record at 18, and scored her first hit a...

Floating Palace, Indeed!

DeVos Family Yacht Flies Foreign Flag and Avoids US Taxes This week’s story is a briny chowder of petty vandalism, tax avoidance, partisan posturing, and flat-out misinformation. There’s probably something in here to offend everyone. So buckle your seat...

Can You Imagine the Smell?

Regulations Eliminate Charitable Deductions for Gifts The Infinite Monkey Theorem holds that if you sit an infinite number of monkeys down at an infinite number of typewriters, eventually one of them will bang out the complete works of William Shakespeare — or, at the...

IRS Loves “New” Math

Dewayne Johnson awarded $289 MILLION in damages! Parenting is full of all sorts of milestones. Some of them are precious, like your child’s first steps, their first words, and their first day of school. Some of them are less welcome, like a first broken bone, or...
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