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A discussion about whether states should tax Internet or other kinds of remote sales, and if so, how. Should states pursue "Amazon" laws that New York and Rhode Island have adopted and other states are considering? Or should Congress enact legislation to enable states to pursue a multistate solution?
"Both the IRS's actions and her reactions are typical, says Christopher Bergin, president of Tax Analysts, a group that fights for tax-system transparency and since 1972 has won a series of freedom-of-information cases against the IRS. 'Without doing anything illegal, they muscled her. That's what they do. The pressure can be terrifying.' he says."
"Will Congress end the estate-tax mess next year? 'Based on the Senate's child-like behavior over health care, I wouldn't accept 50-50 odds [that it will act],' says Christopher Bergin, president and publisher of Tax Analysts, a leading provider of tax news. He thinks the lawmakers have disgraced themselves: 'They've allowed a law on the books since 1916 to expire and allowed the estate-tax area to fall into absolute chaos.'"
"Tax Analysts has named its Tax Person of the Year: Bradley Birkenfeld, the whistleblower in the UBS offshore tax shelter case."
"As Martin A. Sullivan explains in his cover piece in this week's Tax Notes, the weekly journal on federal taxation, those with adjusted gross incomes (AGIs) of over $10 million a year actually pay a lower effective rate than those with AGIs between $1 million and $2 million."
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