Weekly Tax Roundup

 

• Bloomberg, To Roth, or Not to Roth, by Megan McArdle
• Citizens for Tax Justice, Credit Suisse Gets Off Easy for Aiding Tax Evasion
• Citizens for Tax Justice, Dozens of Companies Admit Using Tax Havens
• Forbes, Owe IRS? Dog the Bounty Hunter May Collect
• Forbes, Scoring Damages In NFL Painkiller Lawsuit, by Robert W. Wood
• Forbes, Tax Court Threatens to Sanction Courtroom Commando Mac MacPherson, by Peter J. Reilly
• Institute on Taxation & Economic Policy, STAMP Is an Unsound Tool for Gauging the Economic Impact of Taxes
• Mauled Again, The Continued Assault on the Tax Foundations of American Civilization, by Jim Maule
• New York Times, There’s No Such Thing as a Free Tax Cut
• Procedurally Taxing, Recent Developments in the IRS Regulation of Return Preparers, by Larry Gibbs
• Reason, Is the IRS Imposing "Voluntary" Continuing-Education Requirements for Tax Preparers?
• Tax Analysts Blog, The Punishment of Credit Suisse Is Not Enough, by Christopher Bergin
• Tax Update Blog, IRS Teams Up With Bernie Madoff, by Joe Kristan
• Tax Vox Blog, Don’t Turn Over IRS Debt Collections to Private Contractors, by Howard Gleckman
• Tax Vox Blog, Tax Chauvinism: Who Cares Where a Firm is Incorporated?, by Howard Gleckman
• U.S. PIRG, Taxpayers Win, as Justice Department Blocks Credit Suisse Tax Write Off
• Wall Street Journal, Skirting the New Investment Tax: 'Active' Business Owners Can Escape the 3.8% Investment Tax—If They're Truly Active
• Washington Examiner, IRS Workers Spent 521,725 Hours on Union Activities; Cost Taxpayers $23.5m