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Making Money is Taxing

  • Written by The Conversation

Income tax returns are back in the news but as Herman Wouk, the prizewinning author of the Caine Mutiny quipped

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

A little thought experiment.

Imagine if you went to your employer and said that you would be willing to forgo this year’s pay increase. Instead you offered to...

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