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• Have a great Thanksgiving!
  Southern Iowa corn harvest Drive safely!...
• Ask what you can do for your country.
  V.P.-elect Biden famously linked patriotism and the payment of taxes during the recent presidential campaign. Now it looks like a...
• S corporation health insurance and relatives
  We recently discussed the treatment of company health insurance for S corporation owners, which has prompted some reader questions: If...
• Johnny Depp says 'Thanks, Wisconsin chumps!'
  Wisconsin is learning that subsidizing Hollywood stars isn't the economic boon they thought it would be: While the big-budget, locally...
• 2009 business mileage rate: 55 cents.
  The IRS has announced the standard mileage rates for 2009. From IR-2008-131: Beginning on Jan. 1, 2009, the standard mileage...
• Macho Macho tax blogs
  So just how manly is tax blogging? So manly that it brings out the testosterone even on the distaff side,...
• The warm and the vertical
  Why it's not such a great idea to give the government more to do: US elected officials scored abysmally on...
• Hope and changing positions
  This could be good news: In light of the downturn, Mr. Obama is also said to be reconsidering a key...
• Frozen fraud
  The chilly Upper Midwest has its share of tax fraud. Last week a Minnesota jury convicted a Montana man of...
• The benefits of travel
  Russ Fox's regular roundup of tax miscreants has an unusual story this week: a hotel executive who fled the country...
• UBS clients trying to cut deal?
  Americans with Swiss bank accounts at UBS are trying to work out a deal with the IRS, reports the Wall...
• Hong Kong on $312.30 per day
  The IRS has updated the amount of housing allowances for computing the foreign earned income exclusion for overseas employees for...
• IRS 'Fact Sheet' on S corporation compensation and health insurance
  The IRS has issued a Fact Sheet (FS-2008-25) on salary requirements for S corporation officers. The main point of the...
• Tracking your car expenses
  There are two good new posts up on tracking car expenses. As Bruce the TaxGuy points out: Mileage should be...
• Congress eyes reversal of Sec. 382 bank notice
  Ways and Means Democrats introduced legislation to repeal the IRS notice (Notice 2008-83) that exempts bad loans from the Section...
• Who's on first?
  The high-schooler was named first-chair bass for the All-state Orchestra. Way to go, Dan! The All-state concert is tomorrow night...
• $2.8 million of Ozark Mountain tax trouble
  A Missouri entrepreneur faces some serious tax trouble: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — A southwest Missouri businessman pleads guilty to failing to...
• Our eyes met from across the desk. I blushed...
  Robert Flach remembers "My First 1040."...
• Got cash?
  Bruce the TaxGuy has an excellent little personal finance primer up. It talks about how you should use any future...
• What does it cost to Taser a 53-year-old accountant?
  $60,000. Because we accountants are worth it! Via the TaxProf....
• What a nice way to be called 'boring'
  According to Typalyzer, the author of the Tax Update is "A Duty Fulfiller": Via Mankiw....
• Senator Mikulski wants to pimp your ride
  A Maryland Senator says that if carmakers can't afford to offer a rebate, Congress should step in. Barbara Mikulski has...
• Community Bankers call for Treasury bailout rules to fit S corporations
  The Treasury TARP program for equity investments in banks should be tweaked to fit the needs of S corprorations, according...
• Et tu, Principal?
  Maybe there's a good reason the stock of Des Moines stalwart Principal Financial Group has skidded from over $70 to...
• IRS issues Applicable Federal Rates (AFR) for December 2008
  The IRS has issued (Rev. Rul. 2008-503 the minimum required interest rates for loans made in December 2008: -Short Term...
• Johnston: allow temporary dividend deduction
  In his piece in today's electronic Tax Notes ($link) David Cay Johnston says that allowing corporations to deduct dividends for...
• Doh! HOMER comes to grief
  Perhaps naming a tax shelter for Homer Simpson was a mistake. Certainly John B. Ohle III is wishing he never...
• Now that Health Savings Accounts are growing in popularity, will they be snuffed?
  Benefitsblog passes on a report that HSAs are becoming more widespread. Unfortunately, according to Benefitsblog, they may fall victim to...
• Treasury issues term sheet for purchases of bank stock; S corporations left out for now
  S corporation banks have to keep waiting to find out if they will be invited to sell equity to the...
• Not to be confused with those perfectly honest tax evasion schemes
  "Carey man convicted in bogus tax-evasion scheme" So did somebody sell a scheme purporting to be tax evasion - a...