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The first effort to avoid paying taxes occurred soon after the Revolutionary War in the United States. It took George Washington and a contingent of the United States Army to quell the tax revolt. These forefathers of the tax avoiders had actually believed the revolution was about over-taxation by their English King and that George and the forefathers of a taxing government were betraying the cause that led to U.S. independence. Just as they did then, today’s tax avoidance advocates agree with former first lady, Nancy Reagan: “Just say no!” And, just as George Washington responded with a heavy hand – no one was actually killed and not a single shot was fired – today’s government is ready to take you tax rebels down. Of course, they have to catch you first, and that’s the point in the program the Feds have enhanced, bounty hunting for tax evaders – no degree required.

Tax avoidance snitching is built on the old communist method of discovering non-conformists and party dissidents. The Kamer Rouge used it well. Hundreds of children gave up their mothers and fathers for the glory alone. If you turn in anyone you know is evading taxes, the Feds will pay you a nice percentage of what the offender owes. That’s right, mom, dad, your trusting employer, priest or pastor, your husband or wife, even your children, it doesn’t matter, the IRS doesn’t discriminate. They’ll express their gratitude with a nice fat check. With dollars, that is, not a bag of silver coins. It’s not a betrayal of trust, they’ll tell you. It’s patriotism.

The IRS has been paying this kind of bounty for years, so the paying isn’t new. For the first half of this decade, 428 ‘patriots’ were paid $12 million dollars (that’s $28K each on average), a pretty good take for a few hours of snooping, your report, and a trip to the bank. That $12 million was for $168 million the IRS recouped. Still, most Americans valued their jobs and families more than one year of low income earning. So the U.S. Congress thought, increase the bounty and you’re sure to get more players. You’ve got to make it worth their while. That’s why, in 2006, Congress ordered the IRS to increase the bounty from 7 percent to 15 percent. If the IRS collected more than $2 million from tax avoidance reports, the payouts work out to about 30 percent, amounting to about $600 thousand in total. You could retire off of that! If you’re young, with smart investing, you could get yourself an island in Dubai ($30 million, probably less, what with the cash shortage around the world).

Gone are the days when the unscrupulous rich parent who practiced tax avoidance could easily cut the prodigal son or daughter out of the will. Gone, too are the days when, for a key to the executive’s bathroom and an all-expenses-paid trip to Aruba, a junior accountant remained on the tax evading corporation’s good old boys list. In 2008, the IRS received 1,246 tax avoidance tips; in 2009, these leads tallied to 1,600. Congress sure is smart.

There is one caveat: the IRS is slow to pay. So slow, that, they’ve haven’t paid anyone under the new program yet. It seems we need a new program from Congress, a bounty payment avoidance informants program. Of course, the taxpayer will have to pay for that too. We’ve paid for bridges to nowhere, for hundred dollar hammers and toilet seats, and billions of dollars in cash give-aways to unknown persons in Iraq. It’s our patriotic duty to pay taxes. Tax avoidance is a crime. Don’t think they won’t catch you. They’ve got eyes all around. Care to join? Me, I mind my own business!

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Everyone knows someone who is like this – a certain kind of overcautious person who’ll leave nothing to chance; you’ll see in their closets or in garages or in perhaps paid storage, bags of neatly-organized files with old telephone bills from 30 years ago, tax records, umpteen receipts, every notice or office memo they got, every receipt for groceries they bought, bank statements and, of course, guarantee cards for 30 year old VCRs. Is there a reason why they do this? When any family member confronts them about why on earth anyone would need to do this, they usually have a cautionary tale about what happened to a friend once who got audited, and didn’t have the receipts she needed to back her story up. At a time when we entirely live our lives on computers, is there a point to saving receipts and paper records anymore?

Maintaining a little proof that you actually paid for the things you purchased and that you never failed to pay your taxes actually makes a certain amount of sense. There is no legal limit to when an audit can take place. Three years from now, when you think that your taxes are all paid for and nothing’s been contested, the IRS can pull your records and haul you in to ask for receipts. If the IRS figures that you made a major mistake in your IRS tax filing – that you understated your income by 25% for instance – they can ask you to produce records from six years ago. There is just no limit to the amount of joy that the IRS can bring into your life. So the rule of junk collection should be that you keep all your receipts and check stubs for at least seven years, and keep records of your tax returns for ever. Those would be your 1099 forms, your W-2 forms, and your year-end bank statements.

If you have brokerage statements, you probably need to keep your entire cache of records of what you spent on your investments, and what you received from them. Basically, any kind of investment that brings you a profit or loss that you would need to show on your IRS tax filing in any year, you need to save records of. However there are ways in which you can go too far with the record-keeping, unless you run your own business, and you need to claim your cell phone bills and your gas bills as business expense deductions. Business owners will need to keep their monthly bank statements and credit card statements to be able to prove how much they earn, should the IRS not be happy with what they claim in their IRS tax filing.

What do you do with documents to do with your loans and your insurance? This might have nothing to do with an IRS tax filing, but it will be good practice to hang onto them until you’ve completely paid your loans off. Who knows when they’ll claim that you never paid the installments? Brokerage firm statements and bank statements are easily available on the Internet for free forever. Do you still need to hang onto them? Well, the IRS needs to see paper records. So it looks like the filing cabinet still sticks around.

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So, you have just paid your taxes. Having bitten the bullet, though, you still don’t feel inclined to describe your contribution to the national effort in particularly generous or charitable terms. You would never guess it but you have a corner of sympathy with the economists and the government accountants of the country. They point to the tax laws of the country that often reward people with tax breaks for no reason, and make that up by taxing you, the taxpayer, a lot more than they would otherwise have to.

Let’s say that 30 years ago, you saw a bunch of computer makers with a dozen different computer designs, the Atari, the Commodore, the Apple, and you bet that that last one would probably make it big. You bought in on the ground floor, and today you find that your shares have appreciated ten times. If you sell them today, you’ll make a killing, and so will the IRS, because you’ll pay capital gains taxes. But let’s say that you don’t sell them today and you leave it to your heirs. Whoever inherits your Apple investment is going to cash in for free; financial advisors even recommend that if you’re pushing it a bit, that you don’t sell anything now and just write it off on your will. This really makes no sense if you think about it; a person who is 90 today and wishes to sell his stock portfolio will be hit by the tax laws as far as possible. If he had not sold anything, and he died the following day, his grandson who inherits it could sell it the very same day and he would not pay a dime in taxes. Over the next five years, the government will lose in a third of a trillion to this tax exemption.

It’s about the same way with the energy policy in the country. The government always has various incentives and high taxes to try to encourage or discourage one or the other kind of energy consumption behavior; people get so mixed up over these pretty soon, they give up on trying to understand anything, and do what they would have anyway. Or like some unscrupulous manufacturers, they try to game the system. Five years ago, President Bush signed in a new energy policy that really went for ethanol; and the tax laws were amended to hand out lots of credits and tax breaks to any farmer or manufacturer who helped with the ethanol effort. Ethanol has been a nonstarter, though; it’s been using up so much corn that food prices have shot up, and the production of ethanol uses up so much gas and puts out so much pollution, that it hasn’t been worth it. And still, tax laws have handed manufacturers of ethanol about $12 billion of tax credits in the past four years alone.

You’ve been hearing about those Cadillac health plans for a while and the whole lead-up to the new health care plan, haven’t you? Consider one of the best perks you get at working a regular job – health insurance. Employer-provided health insurance, though, is tax exempted. In the beginning, that tax exemption didn’t really cost the government much, as healthcare was cheap. Healthcare now, though, is rising in cost in such a fearsome way that in about 100 years, it will be using up almost all our national income. Granting a tax exemption on this costs the government $1 trillion right now every five years. So what do employers do, but keep wages frozen, and choose to compensate workers with very pricey health insurance plans. If they compensated workers with regular salary increases, they would pay payroll taxes on them. And part-time workers who don’t have insurance anyway, just suffer in both ways – no salary increases, no free insurance either, and the need to pay a tax when they go out and buy their own personal health insurance.

When employers are so willing to buy the pricey health insurance schemes, insurance companies have no incentive to lower their prices either. There are a bunch of tax laws that work like this – punishing the poor and rewarding the rich. For instance, the mortgage interest deduction plan will give you a better break if you have a really large house. Sometimes the tax laws get so complicated, even the drafters of those laws get mixed up like this.

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I was watching a debate this morning on fox where the democrat was accusing the republicans of deliberately not voting for jobs legislation because they don’t want the democrats to succeed in any way. Well this was almost comical to me because here is a guy who was an adviser to Biden so he is very typical of the left. Anyone who has been watching the news the past 9 years knows that these same democrats voted against everything that President Bush put on the table or the republicans in general. What a hypocrite.

I don’t belong to either party. I am a teapart. As far as I am concerned the republicans are light socialists and the democrats range from moderate socialists to marxists. Now I know a progressive is reading that and saying so what. Well those who realize that the constitution worked great until it began being ignored in the 1960’s, are the people you see on the news attending tea party rally’s. These teaparts are tired of being told what to do by big brother and are rising up before they lose the ability to rise up. If you want to live under an iron fist, then form cult and be happy. But those who treature liberty should not be in-slaved under marxism just because that is your thing.

I am in business for myself. My number one goal, besides making
a profit, is not having employees. I wonder how many other small
business owners feel the same way? It’s no surprise that the
unemployment rate hangs above 10%. The government is smothering
small business. Too bad Obama only hires Ivy League academics
with big business buddies for advisers.

I used to have employees. My business was providing marketing
research, sales consulting, and sales services to small
technology companies. All my employees worked from home and were
located in several states. The work was all on computers and
phones. It seemed so simple.

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Iowa recently passed HF 892 which creates the Film Promotion Program & Tax Credits.  Iowa is known for two films, State Fair, and Bridges of Madison County.  With the creation of this Iowa Film Tax Credit program, the state is aggressively positioning itself as a film location for the shooting of television and movies.

The program provides for the issuance of tax credit certificates that are issued to investors in a movie or television production and the producer of a movie or television production for qualified expenditures made during filming within the state.

These tax credits are transferable which allows them to be bought and sold.  This creates a financing mechanism that helps attract producers to the state while selling the tax credits and utilizing the proceeds to help fund the production of their film.

The word is spreading fast. Anaerobic Digestion is a natural waste composting process. It is simply composting without air. It is the only way to produce methane naturally, and methane is extremely useful as a non-fossil fuel, and non climate-changing fuel, and many govenments especially in Europe are beginning to realise this and subsidise the process for farmers and industrial users.

Why, methane can even be processed into the car fuel “bioethanol” and “bio-diesel”!

It is so much better to make biodiesel from non-food sources, and the best is to use it to make electricty and biofuel from organic wastes, such as farm slurries, sewage sludge etc. These materials are often nowadays still being sent into landfills where they add to the odour problems.

The technology for Anaerobic Digestion is not nearly as well developed as for most other technologies as for so long nobody was willing to invest in it.

Now things are changing especially in Europe and governments are starting to subsidies Anaerobic digestion installations. Plant will soon get much chepaer as thye become of-the shelf items.

Encourage your local politicians to support anaerobic digestion of waste organic materials. Reduce taxes on AD produced biofuel. It makes sense. AD has masses of things about it which are better than composting aerobically.

Get on over to our web site at the Anaerobic Digestion Community here, and find out more about the win, win, win of AD. Listen to the BBC’s Archers (Radio 4 series) where they are running a story on it within this very popular long running UK radio serial.

Principle of Indemnity – Protection against loss and/or damages. The insurance company is bound by contract to pay when a covered event occurs. The goal is to help an insured regain financial position. In some indemnity contracts, the amount payable is limited to actual economic loss. Other contracts may limit or not pay at all if the actual loss is less than a certain amount. Auto insurance is a good example. Assume a contract with $1000 deductible. In the event of a claim, you would be responsible for the first $1000 and the insurance company would pay after that. If the loss is equal to or less that $1000, you would have to cover the entire amount.

Construction services are getting to be harder to find. Most today are filled with red tape and possible lawsuits. If you are considering hiring a engineering company to do work for your organization or company, it very important to first research the company in the better business bureau.

Are current policies promoted by the current democrat controlled congress creating a positive environment for entrepreneurship?  Entrepreneurs and small business are the driving force in new job creation in the United States.

Or will the current democrat congress drive new job creation to a halt and through their policies reduce the competitiveness of the US economy?  Will this result in even greater shifts in economic production to other countries?

Some gifts are exempt from UK Inheritance Tax because of the type of gift or the reason for making it. These include:Wedding gifts/civil partnership ceremony gifts
Wedding or civil partnership ceremony gifts (to either of the couple) are exempt from Inheritance Tax up to certain amounts:

parents can each give £5,000
grandparents and other relatives can each give £2,500
anyone else can give £1,000
You have to make the gift on or shortly before the date of the wedding or civil partnership ceremony. If it is called off and you still make the gift, this exemption won’t apply.

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If you meet certain requirements, the IRS allows you to exclude up to $80,000 of your income from being taxed. You may also be able to deduct certain amounts you paid for your housing.

To qualify for these exclusions and deductions, you must have earned the income abroad and be living abroad. You must also claim residency in a foreign country for the entire tax year or be present in that country for 330 days out of 12 consecutive months. If you meet these fairly simple requirements, you will save a bundle on taxes. Please keep in mind that you must file a tax return with the IRS even if you do not owe any money because of the exclusion.

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Being a finance tax attorney obviously requires thorough knowledge about the tax laws. Tax lawyers not only represent their clients in court for criminal and civil lawsuits but also provide valuable advice to people. Their advice is needed for the issues regarding tax laws as well as minimizing tax liabilities legally.

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When I was injured on the job, my workmans comp lawyer was a godsend. Now this wasn’t one of those really dramatic injuries that you might see in a workmans compensation attorney advertisement on tv. I wasn’t hit by anything falling, cut by anything sharp, run over by anything heavy. And yet, according to my workmans comp lawyer, the type of injury I did suffer was more common than all of those combined. You see, I received what is known as a repeated stress injury, and it ruined months of my life.

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