The second part of my look at the recent decision that declared the federal law establishing the National Day of Prayer unconstitutional. Links: 1. Freedom from Religion Foundation, et al. v. Obama and Gibbs www.wiwd.uscourts.gov 2. Lemon v. Kurtzman scholar.google.com 3. Christian activist Tony Perkins talking about the National Day of Prayer (from JesusSavesAtCitibanks channel here on YouTube) www.youtube.com 4. Engel v. Vitale scholar.google.com 5. Marsh v. Chambers scholar.google.com 6. Walz v. Tax Commission of the City of New York scholar.google.com 7. Part 1 of this video www.youtube.com 8. For a classic example of the ignorance of constitutional law that “informs” opposition to this ruling, have a look at the following video by a YouTuber who calls himself TheMoralNation: www.youtube.com
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Ordinarily, you are required to file a state income tax return in every state where you earned an income. There are some exceptions, such as military personnel who are deployed outside of their state of record. Some states will let you slide if you only earned a very small income while you were there, and some states have no income tax whatsoever.
Members of the military services designate their home of record as the state in which they enlisted. Military personnel are usually considered to be residents of their state of record. The Federal Government prohibits other states from taxing the wages of non-resident military personnel stationed there.
If you made a permanent move from one state to another, you are considered a part-year resident of each state.
If you traveled from your home state to take on work in another state and maintained a permanent residence in the state from which you traveled, you are a non-resident of the state in which you were working.
When considering whether your move from one state to another is permanent, tax wise, everything goes to intent. If you intended to take up a permanent residence in a state, then you were a part-year resident. If you were traveling from assignment to assignment and remained in one state until that assignment expired, and then moved on to the next state, you were likely a non-resident.
One of the easiest ways to determine how much money you owe each state in the course of a year of travel is to let a tax software program figure it out. A tax software program will take all of the information that you provide on your federal income tax return, including residency status, and transpose it onto the correct lines in a corresponding state tax form. The software program will even help you decide what income is taxable and what deductions you receive in each state where you earned income. It will also tell you what filing requirements must be met in each state where you had earnings.
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Courtesy FedFlix, courts.gov Equal Justice Under Law McCulloch v. Maryland (2nd in a 4 part series). Dramatizations of historic decisions from the courtroom of America’s great Chief Justice, John Marshall. Can states tax the operations of the federal government? In this unpopular decision, the Supreme Court dealt a great blow to a claim of states’ rights by striking down a state’s attempt to interfere with a legitimate federal activity. The Maryland Bank of the United States refused to buy stamped paper from the state of Maryland or to pay the annual $15.000 tax required by Maryland law. In 1818, the state of Maryland sued James McCulloch, the Bank’s local cashier, for refusing to comply with Maryland law. The Baltimore County Court ruled against the Bank and the case was ultimately brought before the Supreme Court of the United States. The case presented two principle issues to the Court. First, was the federal law that chartered the Bank in conflict with state tax laws? Second, if a conflict did exist, should the federal or the state law take precedence? The Supreme Court held that since the Bank was necessary in order for Congress to meet its constitutional responsibilities, Congress had the implied power to charter a national bank. The states, however, did not have the power to tax the federal government’s activities, and the Maryland law could not constitutionally be applied to the federal bank. This decision greatly restricted the powers of the states and engendered …
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Geithner says to keep dividends tax rates at 20 percent
U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Wednesday that the Obama administration intends to keep the top tax rate on dividends and capital gains at 20 percent as it mulls tax reform.
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The controversy surrounding White House information czar and Harvard Professor Cass Sunsteins blueprint for the government to infiltrate political activist groups has deepened, with the revelation that in the same 2008 dossier he also called for the government to tax or even ban outright political opinions of which it disapproved. prisonplanet.tv An Obama executive order that creates a council of state governors who will work with the feds to expand military involvement in domestic security has stoked fears that the administration is stepping up preparations for martial law..
Tax legislation passage facing difficulty
Austin G. Robertson: HR 4213 was introduced March 1 to restore these tax breaks retroactive to Jan. 1. As I write this column, H.R. 4213 has not made it out of Congress. It is extremely difficult to do tax planning when so many deductions are in question.
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