Incentives for Innovation - my oral testimony and the experience

I have a short article in the AICPA Corporate Taxation Insider this week (9/29/11) about my experience testifying before the Senate Financ...

Buffett Rule - a New Tax Principle?

I think it is interesting to name a principle for tax reform after someone. That is what President Obama did in his recent tax reform propos...

More woes for state film credits

Yesterday's Wall Street Journal (9/23/11) had an entertaining article , " Snooki to Snookered: States' Film Tax Credits Produ...

Incentives for Innovation - Senate Finance Committee Hearing

I was honored to have the opportunity to testify before the Senate Finance Committee this week (9/20) at a hearing on Tax Reform: Incentives...

Registered Tax Return Preparer Exam Coming Soon

The exam that preparers who are not a CPA, attorney or Enrolled Agent (or supervised, non-signing preparer) will need to take to continue to...

New Perspectives on "Small" Business

The Treasury Department issued a study on how to better define "small" business. One purpose seems to be to get a better understan...

So Many Federal Tax Proposals

Len Burman has another great post in Forbes today with a graphic on the number of revenue estimate and other requests the Joint Committee o...