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5 Jul, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Good morning. In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world. And you will be launching the largest aerial battle in this history of mankind.
Mankind -- that word should have new meaning for all of us today.
We can't be consumed by our petty differences anymore.
We will be united in our common interests.
Perhaps its fate that today is the 4th of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom, not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution -- but from annihilation.
We're fighting for our right to live, to exist.
And should we win the day, the 4th of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day when the world declared in one voice:
"We will not go quietly into the night!
We will not vanish without a fight!
We're going to live on!
We're going to survive!
Today, we celebrate our Independence Day!"

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6 Jul
Of the 6,000 to 8,000 cases appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court each year, fewer than a hundred are accepted. In nearly all the denials, the Court simply states the appeal has been denied with no further comment.

That didn't happen on June 28 with one obscure case.

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That day the Court denied 129 appeals that had been submitted to it. It is rare but not unusual for a justice to write a long statement taking their colleagues to task for declining to hear a case.

That's what Justice Thomas did that day in Standing Akimbo v. United States.

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The case had escaped the notice of most observers: no briefs were filed urging the Court to hear it, and the Court evidently wrestled with it since it appeared on the agenda of 13 successive private conferences of the justices before the denial was announced.

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1 Mar
On Friday, NTUF filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in an important donor privacy and tax administration case. I was honored to co-author the brief with Barnaby Zall of the Public Policy Legal Institute

ntu.org/foundation/det…

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The case, which will be argued this spring, involves a 2010 demand by then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris that non-profit organizations seeking to solicit donations in California first submit IRS Form 990 Schedule B, an obscure tax form that lists donors.

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Our brief explains why this information is neither precise nor effective for legitimate tax administration purposes, to the extent that the IRS has for years been trying to get rid of the form altogether.

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24 Feb
.@wmata saying *again* they'll have to slash all service unless the feds cough up more money

*change rail service from every 6 mins to every 30 mins
*close at 9pm
*shutter 22 stations
*reduce bus service 30% to 50%

*overall 2022 budget would be 2.3% less than 2021 budget
@wmata You may ask why do all that drastic stuff to cut your budget by 2%? Isn't there any easier way to get 2% savings?

I ask that too.
Part of this is pessimistic projections. WMATA brought in $784m in fares in FY 2019, $580m in FY 2020 (half in the pandemic), $180m in FY 2021, and is projecting just $222m for FY 2022 (the year starting July 1, 2021).
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18 Feb
Today, four trade associations filed a lawsuit in federal court against Maryland's newly passed tax on digital advertising services.

My colleagues and I review the case in a new piece:

ntu.org/foundation/det…

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As a reminder, the new law imposes a gross receipts tax ranging from 2.5% to 10% on revenues derived from digital advertising services in MD. The tax applies to companies with global revenues from all sources of $100 million+, and no deductions for expenses are permitted.

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The tax must be paid on a quarterly basis throughout the year, with the first payment due April 15, 2021, and fines and penalties for failure to file up to five years’ imprisonment.

Connecticut, Indiana, Montana, and Oregon, are also considering new digital tax legislation.

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22 Dec 20
MILLIONS of Americans this year telecommuted from their homes for the first time instead of working full-time in an office. Next April, many of those Americans (we at NTUF estimate at least 2.1 million) will be surprised to learn....

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...something that tax professionals generally understand: if you work somewhere for more than a few days, you will owe income tax in that jurisdiction.

Massachusetts seeks a further surprise:...

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abruptly expanding the scope of its income tax to cover people who used to commute to Massachusetts but currently work in another state due to the pandemic. Under that state's regulation, if you were working in Massachusetts last year or in January or February of this year...

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9 Nov 20
How the Berlin Wall fell, November 9, 1989

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Egon Krenz had become East Germany's new - and as it turned out, last - dictator after the Politburo deposed Erich Honecker to try to appease protestors demanding reforms.

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The new leader set about to try to reduce the repressive image of the regime, naming Günter Schabowski to the job of press spokesman, and on Thursday, November 9, 1989, the Politburo voted to allow East Germans to travel in a controlled fashion to the West.

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