Wonder what big-time tax professionals talk about when they gather at fancy, big-buck tax seminars?
So when Nate Silver takes the rare opportunity to talk tax law, I listen.
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Promoters are exploiting the fact that the income tax people at the IRS don't talk to the estate tax people.
Herman Cain used to be a talk show host and the national sales tax was midwifed in the studios of talk radio.
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With talk of tax code changes bubbling in Washington, Gerald Mandell, 67, is in tax-planning limbo.
That makes it increasingly difficult to argue that any talk of tax-cuts is insanely profligate.
Supply siders talk up tax cuts that ultimately boost revenues as though this is somehow a good thing.
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This has spurred talk of tax reform to boost economic growth and employment.
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When we talk about tax reform, each side wants to paint its own story in the most favorable light.
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In keeping with the Republican orthodoxy, he eschews all talk of tax increases.
They talk about tax cuts, but don't say where they'll find the money.
There had been talk about tax reform during the budget battles as a method for raising revenue that did not require raising tax rates.
Despite all this talk about tax avoidance, the chancellor also gave the green light to a "shares for benefits" scheme which was first suggested earlier in the year.
While Donald Rumsfeld was revamping the Pentagon and masterminding wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Mr Snow was ushered forth only to explain away the lacklustre economy and talk about tax cuts.
But the White House knows that at this stage of the game, it's not about war talk, tax cuts, or even big fund-raising dollars -- now, it's all about voter turnout.
Hearing them talk of tax cuts in a country whose tax take is among the lowest in the Western world likewise has not gone down well under the dour skies of north Europe.
What is missing from all this talk about tax is the fact that although the rich pay higher taxes than the poor, middle-class people actually pay a higher percentage of their income in total taxes.
Of course with politicians falling all over one another in their efforts to talk up tax schemes that will fill depleted government coffers, the result is that government employee unions laugh all the way to the bank.
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Politicians argue endlessly about income tax rates, but we rarely hear them talk about whether we should even have such a tax.
They listened to experts talk about foundation tax-planning, about big causes like wiring up American schools and helping poor kids overseas.
All he would talk about was tax relief for the middle class.
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The Brownback plan goes on to talk about additional tax cuts in future years, if revenues grow at 2% per year or more.
But it left many attendees wondering when Mr. Santorum was going to talk about his tax plan, or his views on national defense.
Folks want to talk about corporate tax reform.
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Kemp, who has been critical of compromising on tax cuts in the name of balancing the budget, said that he will meet with House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott to talk about the tax bill.
As other Europeans talk more about tax harmonisation and complain more about the independence of the new central bank, the British prime minister rediscovers the old dilemma of whether to keep his distance from a project going wrong or plunge in deeper in the hope of making it more congenial to Britain.
So yes, it is fiscally responsible for a community to talk about loss of tax revenue and budget deficits.
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