But, Olson also warns, taxpayers shouldn't expect a deal simply because, for example, taxing phantom option profits doesn't sound fair.

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Since it's the follow-up to 1999's The Phantom Menace, expectations aren't as high as they were the last time around.

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Others couldn't (or wouldn't) pay the full AMT bill on this phantom income and have spent years fighting IRS collection while their back tax bills--including interest and penalties--grew.

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The result, then, is the kind of spirited, satisfying follow-up that The Phantom Menace should have been but wasn't.

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