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AMT and Private-Activity Municipal Bonds

Posted on April 27, 2020 (November 21, 2023) by Michael Britt

image of a pen and the words municipal bond

Reading Time: 2 minutesBy: Kristina Zvinakis, Contributor to the South-Western Federal Taxation series Traditionally, municipal bonds are an appealing investment for high–income taxpayers because, as much of the discussion about them notes, the interest paid by such bonds is “almost always” exempt from Federal income tax. The “almost always” reference relates to private activity municipal bonds. Such bonds are issued to attract private investment for projects that have some type of public […]

My favorite Office 2019 Feature – LinkedIn Resume Assistant for Word

Posted on April 27, 2020 (November 21, 2023) by Michael Britt

Reading Time: < 1 minuteMicrosoft Office 2019 has some neat features that allow your creative juices to flow. Let me start with my personal favorite – Microsoft Word and the LinkedIn Resume Assistant. Microsoft purchased LinkedIn in 2016 for 26.2 billion dollars and now we see why! Microsoft is bringing artificial intelligence to your student’s job search with a […]

Early Results from TCJA Tax Revisions for Multinationals

Posted on April 27, 2020 (November 21, 2023) by Michael Britt

Reading Time: 4 minutesBy: William A. Raabe, Co-Editor of the South-Western Federal Taxation series Late in 2017, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) enacted several changes to the U.S.’s taxation of the taxable income of multinational domestic corporations. The general intent of one of the new rules was to encourage the repatriation to the U.S. of overseas profits by domestic businesses (out of offshore […]

One Way to Prevent Student Cheating

Posted on April 27, 2020 (November 21, 2023) by Michael Britt

image of a student looking at another student's test paper

Reading Time: 2 minutes[Reading Time – 1 minute 52 seconds] Cheating on exams has been around as long as there have been exams. Yet with the use of technology cheating today has become much more rampant. Not only do students sneak in their smartphones to look up answers, they likewise post test questions and answers online for other […]

What is the Dark Web?

Posted on April 27, 2020 (November 21, 2023) by Michael Britt

Reading Time: 4 minutes[Reading Time – 3 minutes 45 seconds] This morning I received an email that an outside company used by our school had suffered a data breach. The names of school employees and their social security numbers were exposed. This is not the first time school employees have been the victim of a data breach. And […]

Unclaimed Property Now a Budget Revenue Source

Posted on April 27, 2020 (November 21, 2023) by Michael Britt

Reading Time: 4 minutesBy: William A. Raabe, Co-Editor of the South-Western Federal Taxation series It is hard to shop for some people at Christmas. The done seems not to have any pressing needs, or the donor does not know the person well enough to come up with “the right gift.” The recommended action according to some etiquette experts […]

DoH – Sounds Secure But Watch Out

Posted on April 27, 2020 (November 21, 2023) by Michael Britt

Reading Time: 4 minutes[Reading Time – 3 minutes 50 seconds] Early in 2020 Mozilla announced that it will turn on DoH DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) for all new U.S. installations of its Firefox web browser, and will soon silently turn it on for all existing installations of Firefox. But DoH is highly controversial, and can even weaken security. First, the […]

Juice-Jacking

Posted on April 27, 2020 (November 21, 2023) by Michael Britt

Reading Time: 4 minutesYou’ve just made it through TSA airport security and are headed to your gate. You notice that your smartphone needs charging so you can binge-watch all those movies on your long flight. But as you search for your phone charger cord suddenly panic sets in! You realize that you left it at home. And you’re […]