Hey #lawfedi friends, every day a new person in #law or #legal adjacent fields joints the #fediverse and isn't aware of Lawstodon - the legal community directory for #Mastodon (and eventually the fediverse more broadly).
Feel free to add yourself, claim your profile, etc. I have been using it when I send recommendations for folks looking for practitioners in specific practice areas and it works a treat!
Just in time to read to your children on the eve of whatever December holiday you may or may not celebrate. It literally works equally well for all of them.
"Allowing refundable credits to be treated as income rather than a reduction in taxes paid effectively allows a backdoor for state-sponsored tax avoidance strategies that the OECD’s BEPS project intended to eliminate.”
I got to squeeze a lot of puns in this short piece on the "Chicken Tax" that is actually a ... tax on light pickup trucks.
"The US introduced the tax after negotiations to resolve the rooster ruckus reached a stalemate. The Lyndon B. Johnson administration imposed a 25% tariff on light trucks—specifically to capture the Volkswagen Microbus—as well as other exportable goods where the offending EU states would feel the pinch."
Mornin' #lawfedi folks! This is your semi-regular (but not really) reminder that all of the various federated implementations of ActivityPub and related projects for #law and #legal adjacent professionals can be found in one place.
And, it just happens to look straight out of 2002. Isn't that neat?
Regardless of the outcome in #Moore, the path forward for equitable taxation is through the #estate tax -- at least as long as the #SCOTUS makeup remains as it is.
“A wealth tax would function by creating deemed realization events ... An estate tax system that doesn’t provide a stepped-up basis to inheritors would do the same thing but would collapse the events to just one—at death.”
Preaching to the choir, I guess, but all the people (Andrew Sullivan, etc.) that are raising a hue and cry about the focus on diversity in the Ivy League seem to be ignoring the fact that white males remain the dominant demographic.
Hi! Are you a #lawyer or other #legal professional? Cool, but also, condolences.
We here at https://esq.social want to help. We're a purpose-built #Mastodon instance to provide a home base on the #fediverse for all you looney tunes.
Join us, won't you? We're nice and we've been around for a year -- which is like a decade in fediverse time.
We also have a #Slack-like platform called #Element with about 30 folks popping in and out. I’ll put that link in the next toot.
In this week's Insights I wrote about a fun little fraud (if #tax fraud can ever be fun) in the EU involving shipping #Apple#AirPods in a big loop and exploiting input credit refunds for VAT payments never made. Also known as a "carousel" or "missing trader intra-community" fraud.
Increasingly I'm finding #LinkedIn to be the best of the "normy" social media platforms. #Mastodon is where I have conversations, LinkedIn is where I follow industry trends and try not to become nauseated with the hustle culture nonsense.
I don't see how #Threads or #BlueSky really fit in to my mental conceptions of what I want out of social media. But LinkedIn, eh, it serves a purpose.
If any #lawfedi or @law folks are similarly straddling both worlds, look me up.
LinkedIn for me is just about job hunting, or more specifically, being found. I've got my CV on there and recruiters contact me. And I never even have to check LinkedIn. This works fine for me.
This week I wrote about a more niche subject, but one that comes up frequently in my practice -- electronic sales suppression.
HMRC has begun a crackdown on ESS devices in the UK and has adopted an incredibly broad, unworkable definition of same:
"An ESS tool is a piece of software, computer code script or hardware. It allows a business to hide or reduce the value of individual transactions on its electronic sales records.”
Hey #lawfedi folks, haven't sent out the bat-stodon signal in a bit. We're over here at esq.social, an instance open to any #law or #legal-adjacent professionals, or those that maintain an interest.
If you're on a general-interest instance and have any designs on moving to a Local Timeline that speaks your language, give us a look. We'd be excited to have you.
Any questions or help required, shoot me a message. We have about 500 users, ~120 of which are regularly active.
In this Week in Insights, I vainly attempt to wave the yellow flag (I'm made to understand this means caution) on the coming April 2024 #electricvehicle tax credit cliff.
"The landscape is shifting once more for electric vehicle incentives. We’ve been sounding the alarm on this for more than a year, and now the deadline is upon us—on April 18, 2024, only a handful of EVs will still qualify for the full $7,500 federal EV tax credit.”
I didn't get to share yesterday's episode at the normal time, and its a fantastic one -- so doing so now!
Tues 10/10 - 23andMe Data Breach Class Action, Former Starbucks CEO Labor Law Violation, Sonos Loses Patent Dispute and Column Tuesday on the Sales Tax Gap