Unclaimed Property Now a Budget Revenue Source

the word escheat on a book

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 […]

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DoH – Sounds Secure But Watch Out

the words IP Address

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 […]

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The Importance of Self-Reflection in Learning

Self-Reflection in Learning

Reading Time: 4 minutesJanet Mizrahi is a continuing lecturer of professional writing at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is also an author at BizCommBuzz. I was brought into the cult of self-reflection kicking and screaming. I did not want to take time away from teaching course content so students could reflect upon course content. But I […]

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Congress Attacks Identity Theft

Image of the words Identity Theft

Reading Time: 4 minutesBy: William A. Raabe, Co-Editor of the South-Western Federal Taxation series   Issues involving identity theft have plagued citizens for over a decade.  The most frequently encountered tax manifestations of identity theft include buying or stealing a taxpayer’s social security number and then filing a tax return claiming deductions, credits, or refunds that are sent to the […]

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Jeep Awarded to High School Student Is Taxable

the words tax deductions

Reading Time: 2 minutesBy: Annette Nellen, Co-Editor of the South-Western Federal Taxation series   Conyers, Order No. 13969-18 (9/11/19) – This designated order held that Ms. Conyers had to report the value of a Jeep and one year of car insurance she won. While a senior in high school in Tennessee in 2016, her high school entered her in the […]

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