Posts Tagged Maine tax lawyer
Musings On IRS Scandal
by Brian Mahany The recent scandal involving the IRS and politically targeted audits has been well covered by mainstream media. I wasn’t even going to write about but for 3 emails from past and present clients. The details of the present scandal are fairly easy to summarize: 1) The IRS targeted conservative and “Tea Party” [...]
Here Come The Vultures – FATCA Post
by Brian Mahany It didn’t take very long. Like vultures circling a dying carcass, shortly after the meltdown of Cyprus’ financial industry, competing tax havens have began soliciting investors. With the implementation of FATCA just months away, there are some important lessons in this story. Cyprus was long a tax haven. Many Russians opened accounts [...]
Trickle Down Economics? – Maryland Debate’s “Rain Tax”
by Brian Mahany While serving as Maine’s state revenue commissioner in the 90′s I had to deal with hospital taxes (the so called “sick tax”) and taxes on snack food (often called the Girl Scout cookie tax). Lobbyists can get pretty creative with labels, usually in an effort to defeat a tax proposal or at [...]
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