Why Filing Taxes for Your Client, Even When They Aren't Required, Might Be a Good Thing!

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Most all tax preparers understand how income levels and filing requirements are contingent upon filing status, age and the type of income clients receive. What is often overlooked, however, even when clients aren't required to file with Uncle Sam, is the fact that it may indeed advantage them to do so.

Not surprisingly, the Irs provides definitive instructions on the requirements for filing Forms 1040, 1040A, or 1040Ez. With all of the new prestige tax revisions and exceptions, some tax preparers are turning to Tax Cpe procedure materials or Ea Cpe curriculum to brush up on how these new revisions stand to advantage clients. Some continuing instruction tax courses are even focused exclusively on these new tax laws, showing tax preparers how to clients who fit into this scenario to get the greatest bang out of their tax returns.

Form 1040 Instructions

Quick Tips on Non-Required Filing Benefits

Why Filing Taxes for Your Client, Even When They Aren't Required, Might Be a Good Thing!

Homebuyer Credit

First time homebuyers are eligible for a maximum 00 or 00 if filing married status separately. To qualify, a someone must have entered into a compact on or before April 30th 2010 and have accomplished by September 30th 2010.

Tax Withheld

For taxpayers who have estimated their tax payments, had a former years overpayment, or had income tax withheld, they may be eligible for a refund.

Child Tax Credit

If a taxpayer has at least one child that qualifies and they didn't receive the full estimate of the current Child Tax prestige originally, they could get a refundable credit.

American occasion Credit

Given the newly renamed and vast Hope credit, taxpayers can claim this prestige for tuition and positive fees for undergraduate and post-secondary education. The maximum prestige per student is ,500.

Earned income Tax Credit

For those individuals who worked but earned dinky in 2010, this tax prestige may prove beneficial in considering to file because it may qualify them for a refund.

Health Coverage Tax Credit

This prestige is primarily for individuals who have received Adjustment aid (either Trade or Reemployment Trade). Further, those receiving Pbgc pension payments may also qualify and receive a credit.

Quick Tips of Non-Required Filing for Losses

Two Scenarios

When taxpayers have suffered an whole loss because of an speculation losses:

• Only if filed in 2010 can they carry that loss transmit and offset dutible capital gains in future years
• They can carry these losses as far back as 2008 and perhaps ask a reimbursement of carry forward, but, again, only if they filed in 2010.

When taxpayers have company losses that experienced a net operating loss (Nol) for 2010:
There are a plethora of resources ready that cover these details and the types of taxpayers that fall into this unique category. The key for enrolled agents, certified collective accounts and other tax professionals is to do the research, sign up for an enrolled agent class or look on the tax Cpe sites that showcase this information.

Irs Circular 230 Disclosure

Pursuant to the requirements of the Internal income aid Circular 230, we forewarn you that, to the extent any guidance relating to a Federal tax issue is contained in this communication, together with in any attachments, it was not written or intended to be used, and cannot be used, for the purpose of (a) avoiding any tax connected penalties that may be imposed on you or any other someone under the Internal income Code, or (b) promoting, marketing or recommending to another someone any transaction or matter addressed in this communication.

Why Filing Taxes for Your Client, Even When They Aren't Required, Might Be a Good Thing!Is the IRS lying and defrauding the American people? Hear from the man who beat Video Clips. Duration : 45.58 Mins.

Robert Lawrence challenged the IRS claim that he is required to file a 1040 Income Tax Confession Form and pay a Federal Income Tax. The US Government charged him with committing “tax crimes”, but later dismissed these charges! The IRS dropped the case when they found out that Robert relied on the instructions within the IRS' 1040 booklet and the law. Robert had proof from these sources that he was not required to file. Hear how this living “David” won his victory over the paper-tiger “Goliath” (the IRS). Freedom Law School Speaker: Robert Lawrence Host: Peymon Mottahedeh
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Teens, Young Adults and President Obama's Minimum Wage

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What effect might President Obama's 2013 State of the Union address proposal to increase the U.S. federal minimum wage from $7.25 per hour to $9.00 per hour have upon teens and young adults?

That question is especially relevant because teens and young adults between Age 15 and 24 represent approximately half of all minimum wage earners in the United States, not to mention making up a disproportionate share of individuals who earn wages just above that level.

To find out, we tapped the U.S. Census Bureau's detailed income data for the Age 15-24 population that it collected in 1995, when the U.S. federal minimum wage was $4.25 per hour, so we can see what effect raising the minimum wage to today's $7.25 per hour had on this age group through the data the Census Bureau collected in 2012 [1].

Our first chart adds up all the income earned by individuals between the ages of 15 and 24 in the United States in both 1994 and 2011 [2], both in originally reported values and in terms of constant 2011 U.S. dollars:

This result is pretty remarkable. In nominal terms, the aggregate income earned by all 15-24 year olds in 1994 adds up to more than $236.8 billion, while the aggregate income of those Age 15-24 in 2011 adds up to over $358.8 billion. But when we adjust for the effect of inflation, we see that the total amount of money paid out to 15-24 year olds in each year is almost identical!

In a sense, it is almost as if the employers of U.S. teens only have a fixed amount of revenue that they can use to pay them.

Next, we determined what the minimum wage for 1994, 2011 and the President Obama's proposed minimum wage in 2013 would be in terms of constant 2011 U.S. dollars:

Here, we find that although the U.S. federal minimum wage has grown by 70.6% from 1994's $4.25 per hour to 2011's $7.25 per hour, in inflation-adjusted dollars, it has really only increased by 12.4%, from $6.45 constant 2011 U.S. dollars in 1994 to $7.25 per hour today.

Meanwhile, President Obama's proposed increase to $9.00 per hour would represent a raw increase of 24.1%, which works out to be a 21.7% increase (to $8.82 in constant 2011 U.S. dollars) after we adjust for inflation.

In our next chart, we answer a hypothetical question by dividing the aggregate income of all 15-24 year olds in the U.S. by dividing it by the minimum wage for each year: how many equivalent hours of work would it take to earn all the aggregate income earned by all individuals Age 15-24 in each year if it was all earned at the federal minimum wage that applied in each year?

This is where that remarkable result we illustrated earlier comes into play. Because the employers of 15 to 24 year old Americans don't have any more money available in real terms to pay their workers than they did in 1994, an increase in the minimum wage forces a reduction in the number of hours in which those Age 15-24 can be employed below their 1994 level.

In the chart above, we see that the 12.4% real increase in the minimum wage from 1994 to 2011 results in an 11.2% reduction in the number of hours that U.S. employers had available for teens and young adults to work. If President Obama's 21.7% real increase in the minimum wage were to go into effect today, the fixed amount of money that the employers of teens and young adults have available would reduce the number of equivalent minimum wage hours by 17.8% below the 2011 figure.

We should also note that the number of hours shown for each year in our chart above would represent the hypothetical maximum number of hours that U.S. employers would have available for all teens and young adults to work. Teens and young adults who earn more than the minimum wage would reduce the amount of money and hours available for those who earn less than they do, forcing many out of the job market altogether. The more who make more than the minimum wage, the more who will be locked out from even being able to be employed.

So how did that 12.4% real increase in the federal minimum wage play out in real life for 15-24 year olds in the United States? Our final chart shows the changes in the number of teens and young adults both with and without income in 1994 and 2011:

Here, we should first note that the population of 15-24 year olds in the United States increased by 6,823,000, from 36,294,000 in 1994 to 43,117,000 in 2011.

With that noted, we find that there are some 1,012,000 fewer teens and young adults with incomes in 2011 than there were in 1994, as the number of income earning teens and young adults fell from 27,026,000 to 26,014,000. Meanwhile, the number of teens and young adults without incomes skyrocketed by 7,835,000, rising from 9,268,000 in 1994 to 17,103,000 in 2011.

That 84.5% increase in the number of teens and young adults without any kind of measurable income in 2011 should not be surprising, given that over 89% of teens and young adults who do have incomes earned more than the federal minimum wage in this year - that high figure means that most of the impact will be felt by teens who are blocked by the minimum wage from entering the job market. In this case, that includes the entire increase in the teen population from 1994 to 2011. Remember our point about the "more who make more" than the minimum wage above!

In the absence of real economic growth boosting the revenues for the employers of teens and young adults, which would be what is needed to effectively counteract this effect, we can expect the same scenario to play out if President Obama's proposed minimum wage ever goes into effect.

In an upcoming post, we'll take on how much of a deadweight loss that would be imposed on the economy for just Age 15-24 year olds by implementing President Obama's poorly considered proposal. In the meantime, see the comments here for more insight on the outcomes that this proposal would really achieve.

Notes

[1] We selected 1995 because the U.S. Census Bureau only makes detailed income data for that year easily available in a digital-friendly format). We selected 2012 because it is the most recent year.

[2] The U.S. Census Bureau collects in March of each year, so its reported income figures really apply for the previous year, which is why we've indicated 1994 and 2011 in our charts.

[3] We've deliberately introduced a flaw in our analysis above (not the math, mind you!), so it conforms with how President Obama and many of his supporters see the world - we think that they should really have to explain why they are out to hurt teens and young adults so much if what they believe about income inequality is really true.

References

U.S. Census Bureau. Current Population Reports. Consumer Income. Series P60-189. Table: PINC-01. Selected Characteristics of Persons 15 Years and Over,By Total Money Income in 1994, Work Experience in 1994 and Sex (Numbers in thousands). September 1995.

U.S. Census Bureau. Current Population Survey. 2012 Annual Social and Economic Supplement. Table: PINC-01.Selected Characteristics of People 15 Years Old and Over, by Total Money Income in 2011, Work Experience in 2011, Race, Hispanic Origin, and Sex, Total Work Experience, Both Sexes, All Races. [Excel Spreadsheet]. September 2012.

Sahr, Robert. Inflation Conversion Factors for Years 1774 to Estimated 2022. [PDF Document].

The Rejection of America's Volunteer Military

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Today, we're revisiting the topic of the ages of those who served in the U.S. armed forces during World War 2, because we have new information to add to it!

Before we go any further, the reason we're doing this is because this information plays a key part in one of the projects we're developing behind the scenes here at Political Calculations, which we'll be presenting in bits and seemingly unrelated pieces throughout this year.

So what information are we adding today? Well, it's about the end of volunteerism and the institutionalization of mandatory conscription for filling the ranks of the U.S. Army, Army Air Corps, Navy and Marines during the Second World War.

Air Force Magazine's John T. Correll explains more about how the American tradition of volunteering for military service came to be rejected by the executive order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt:

In 1936, an obscure Army major, Lewis B. Hershey, was appointed the executive officer of the Joint Army-Navy Selective Service Committee, set up to prepare for possible mobilization. The panel consisted of two officers and two clerks. Hershey was a former schoolteacher who joined the National Guard in 1911 and transferred to the regular Army after World War I. Nobody, least of all Hershey, dreamed the job would last for decades....

When Germany in 1940 invaded the Low Countries and France, Congress authorized the first peacetime draft in American history. Inductions began in November 1940. The following year, Hershey was promoted to brigadier general and named director of the Selective Service.

A total of 10.1 million men were drafted during World War II. At the beginning of the war, men rushed to enlist, but, from Hershey’s perspective, that ruined orderly conscription. He persuaded President Roosevelt in December 1942 to end voluntary enlistments except for men under 18 and over 38.

Prior to President Roosevelt issuing Executive Order 9279 on 5 December 1942, American men between the ages of 21 and 36 were subject to the military draft. In his executive order, in addition to eliminating volunteerism and fixed-term enlistments, President Roosevelt also took advantage of legislation passed by the U.S. Congress on 11 November 1942 to expand the eligible age range to be subject to the draft to include all men from the ages of 18 through 37. Volunteering for service was only permitted for those under the age of 18 and up to the age of 45 who claimed they could satisfy the military's enlistment requirements.

The birth years that coincide with these age ranges are shown in our updated chart below:

The end of volunteerism with the draft explains why the average age of those who served in World War 2 is 26 - it is the middle of the range from which the pool of those conscripted were drawn into service in the years from 5 December 1942 through the end of the war in 1945.

But more importantly, with how the draft worked during World War 2, by lottery, the age distribution of those conscripted into military service in a given year would be fairly even, rather than being heavily concentrated around a given age. The size of any bell-curve that might normally have formed was therefore minimized as a result of the policy.

That evenness of age distribution among those who served in the armed forces during World War II, in turn, explains a lot of things that turn up repeatedly in various datasets after the war. And that is something we'll be revisiting throughout the year....

A Little More Room To Run in the Near Term, And Then ???

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Our favorite chart, updated through the futures for 25 February 2013:

Where Did the More Room to Run in the Near Term Come From?

The actions last week by Wellpoint (NYSE: WLP), Halliburton (NYSE: HAL) and Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO) to boost their dividends, which offset earlier moves in February by Diamond Offshore Drilling (NYSE: DO), Cliffs Natural Resources (NYSE: CLF), Exelon (NYSE: EXC), and CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) to cut their dividends. The net increase in dividends expected for 2013-Q2, where investors are currently focusing their attention, provides a little more room for the rally to run, as the change in the growth rate of stock prices will continue to move upward to converge with the change in the growth rate of dividends per share expected in 2012-Q3.

By the way, it's really unusual to have more than three S&P 500 companies act to cut their dividends in a single month outside a period of recession.

What Does "After That" Mean?

Hypothetically, what would it mean if investors were to suddenly change their focus from 2013-Q2 to 2013-Q3? Or to some other more distant quarter in the future?

Well, in terms of today's stock market, that would mean shaving about 30% from today's stock prices. But then, there is no guarantee that investors will focus on 2013-Q3. They could choose to focus on 2013-Q4 which is considerably worse. Or they could opt to focus on 2014-Q1, which initially looks to be similar to 2013-Q2, but about which we'll know more in a about a month.

That, by the way, would be the best case scenario for stock prices in 2013 provided that wild card factors like a really amped up quantitative easing program by the Federal Reserve don't inject a lot of noise into the market.

The latest that investors might shift their forward-looking focus away from 2013-Q2 will be 21 June 2013, but they will become increasingly likely to shift their focus to a more distant future quarter after 15 March 2013, when the futures contracts for the S&P 500's dividends in the first quarter of 2013 expires.

Why Filing Taxes for Your Client, Even When They Aren't Required, Might Be a Good Thing!

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Most all tax preparers understand how income levels and filing requirements are contingent upon filing status, age and the type of income clients receive. What is often overlooked, however, even when clients aren't required to file with Uncle Sam, is the fact that it may indeed advantage them to do so.

Not surprisingly, the Irs provides definitive instructions on the requirements for filing Forms 1040, 1040A, or 1040Ez. With all of the new prestige tax revisions and exceptions, some tax preparers are turning to Tax Cpe procedure materials or Ea Cpe curriculum to brush up on how these new revisions stand to advantage clients. Some continuing instruction tax courses are even focused exclusively on these new tax laws, showing tax preparers how to clients who fit into this scenario to get the greatest bang out of their tax returns.

Form 1040 Instructions

Quick Tips on Non-Required Filing Benefits

Why Filing Taxes for Your Client, Even When They Aren't Required, Might Be a Good Thing!

Homebuyer Credit

First time homebuyers are eligible for a maximum 00 or 00 if filing married status separately. To qualify, a someone must have entered into a compact on or before April 30th 2010 and have accomplished by September 30th 2010.

Tax Withheld

For taxpayers who have estimated their tax payments, had a former years overpayment, or had income tax withheld, they may be eligible for a refund.

Child Tax Credit

If a taxpayer has at least one child that qualifies and they didn't receive the full estimate of the current Child Tax prestige originally, they could get a refundable credit.

American occasion Credit

Given the newly renamed and vast Hope credit, taxpayers can claim this prestige for tuition and positive fees for undergraduate and post-secondary education. The maximum prestige per student is ,500.

Earned income Tax Credit

For those individuals who worked but earned dinky in 2010, this tax prestige may prove beneficial in considering to file because it may qualify them for a refund.

Health Coverage Tax Credit

This prestige is primarily for individuals who have received Adjustment aid (either Trade or Reemployment Trade). Further, those receiving Pbgc pension payments may also qualify and receive a credit.

Quick Tips of Non-Required Filing for Losses

Two Scenarios

When taxpayers have suffered an whole loss because of an speculation losses:

• Only if filed in 2010 can they carry that loss transmit and offset dutible capital gains in future years
• They can carry these losses as far back as 2008 and perhaps ask a reimbursement of carry forward, but, again, only if they filed in 2010.

When taxpayers have company losses that experienced a net operating loss (Nol) for 2010:
There are a plethora of resources ready that cover these details and the types of taxpayers that fall into this unique category. The key for enrolled agents, certified collective accounts and other tax professionals is to do the research, sign up for an enrolled agent class or look on the tax Cpe sites that showcase this information.

Irs Circular 230 Disclosure

Pursuant to the requirements of the Internal income aid Circular 230, we forewarn you that, to the extent any guidance relating to a Federal tax issue is contained in this communication, together with in any attachments, it was not written or intended to be used, and cannot be used, for the purpose of (a) avoiding any tax connected penalties that may be imposed on you or any other someone under the Internal income Code, or (b) promoting, marketing or recommending to another someone any transaction or matter addressed in this communication.

Why Filing Taxes for Your Client, Even When They Aren't Required, Might Be a Good Thing!Is the IRS lying and defrauding the American people? Hear from the man who beat Video Clips. Duration : 45.58 Mins.

Robert Lawrence challenged the IRS claim that he is required to file a 1040 Income Tax Confession Form and pay a Federal Income Tax. The US Government charged him with committing “tax crimes”, but later dismissed these charges! The IRS dropped the case when they found out that Robert relied on the instructions within the IRS' 1040 booklet and the law. Robert had proof from these sources that he was not required to file. Hear how this living “David” won his victory over the paper-tiger “Goliath” (the IRS). Freedom Law School Speaker: Robert Lawrence Host: Peymon Mottahedeh
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Teens, Young Adults and President Obama's Minimum Wage

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What effect might President Obama's 2013 State of the Union address proposal to increase the U.S. federal minimum wage from $7.25 per hour to $9.00 per hour have upon teens and young adults?

That question is especially relevant because teens and young adults between Age 15 and 24 represent approximately half of all minimum wage earners in the United States, not to mention making up a disproportionate share of individuals who earn wages just above that level.

To find out, we tapped the U.S. Census Bureau's detailed income data for the Age 15-24 population that it collected in 1995, when the U.S. federal minimum wage was $4.25 per hour, so we can see what effect raising the minimum wage to today's $7.25 per hour had on this age group through the data the Census Bureau collected in 2012 [1].

Our first chart adds up all the income earned by individuals between the ages of 15 and 24 in the United States in both 1994 and 2011 [2], both in originally reported values and in terms of constant 2011 U.S. dollars:

This result is pretty remarkable. In nominal terms, the aggregate income earned by all 15-24 year olds in 1994 adds up to more than $236.8 billion, while the aggregate income of those Age 15-24 in 2011 adds up to over $358.8 billion. But when we adjust for the effect of inflation, we see that the total amount of money paid out to 15-24 year olds in each year is almost identical!

In a sense, it is almost as if the employers of U.S. teens only have a fixed amount of revenue that they can use to pay them.

Next, we determined what the minimum wage for 1994, 2011 and the President Obama's proposed minimum wage in 2013 would be in terms of constant 2011 U.S. dollars:

Here, we find that although the U.S. federal minimum wage has grown by 70.6% from 1994's $4.25 per hour to 2011's $7.25 per hour, in inflation-adjusted dollars, it has really only increased by 12.4%, from $6.45 constant 2011 U.S. dollars in 1994 to $7.25 per hour today.

Meanwhile, President Obama's proposed increase to $9.00 per hour would represent a raw increase of 24.1%, which works out to be a 21.7% increase (to $8.82 in constant 2011 U.S. dollars) after we adjust for inflation.

In our next chart, we answer a hypothetical question by dividing the aggregate income of all 15-24 year olds in the U.S. by dividing it by the minimum wage for each year: how many equivalent hours of work would it take to earn all the aggregate income earned by all individuals Age 15-24 in each year if it was all earned at the federal minimum wage that applied in each year?

This is where that remarkable result we illustrated earlier comes into play. Because the employers of 15 to 24 year old Americans don't have any more money available in real terms to pay their workers than they did in 1994, an increase in the minimum wage forces a reduction in the number of hours in which those Age 15-24 can be employed below their 1994 level.

In the chart above, we see that the 12.4% real increase in the minimum wage from 1994 to 2011 results in an 11.2% reduction in the number of hours that U.S. employers had available for teens and young adults to work. If President Obama's 21.7% real increase in the minimum wage were to go into effect today, the fixed amount of money that the employers of teens and young adults have available would reduce the number of equivalent minimum wage hours by 17.8% below the 2011 figure.

We should also note that the number of hours shown for each year in our chart above would represent the hypothetical maximum number of hours that U.S. employers would have available for all teens and young adults to work. Teens and young adults who earn more than the minimum wage would reduce the amount of money and hours available for those who earn less than they do, forcing many out of the job market altogether. The more who make more than the minimum wage, the more who will be locked out from even being able to be employed.

So how did that 12.4% real increase in the federal minimum wage play out in real life for 15-24 year olds in the United States? Our final chart shows the changes in the number of teens and young adults both with and without income in 1994 and 2011:

Here, we should first note that the population of 15-24 year olds in the United States increased by 6,823,000, from 36,294,000 in 1994 to 43,117,000 in 2011.

With that noted, we find that there are some 1,012,000 fewer teens and young adults with incomes in 2011 than there were in 1994, as the number of income earning teens and young adults fell from 27,026,000 to 26,014,000. Meanwhile, the number of teens and young adults without incomes skyrocketed by 7,835,000, rising from 9,268,000 in 1994 to 17,103,000 in 2011.

That 84.5% increase in the number of teens and young adults without any kind of measurable income in 2011 should not be surprising, given that over 89% of teens and young adults who do have incomes earned more than the federal minimum wage in this year - that high figure means that most of the impact will be felt by teens who are blocked by the minimum wage from entering the job market. In this case, that includes the entire increase in the teen population from 1994 to 2011. Remember our point about the "more who make more" than the minimum wage above!

In the absence of real economic growth boosting the revenues for the employers of teens and young adults, which would be what is needed to effectively counteract this effect, we can expect the same scenario to play out if President Obama's proposed minimum wage ever goes into effect.

In an upcoming post, we'll take on how much of a deadweight loss that would be imposed on the economy for just Age 15-24 year olds by implementing President Obama's poorly considered proposal. In the meantime, see the comments here for more insight on the outcomes that this proposal would really achieve.

Notes

[1] We selected 1995 because the U.S. Census Bureau only makes detailed income data for that year easily available in a digital-friendly format). We selected 2012 because it is the most recent year.

[2] The U.S. Census Bureau collects in March of each year, so its reported income figures really apply for the previous year, which is why we've indicated 1994 and 2011 in our charts.

[3] We've deliberately introduced a flaw in our analysis above (not the math, mind you!), so it conforms with how President Obama and many of his supporters see the world - we think that they should really have to explain why they are out to hurt teens and young adults so much if what they believe about income inequality is really true.

References

U.S. Census Bureau. Current Population Reports. Consumer Income. Series P60-189. Table: PINC-01. Selected Characteristics of Persons 15 Years and Over,By Total Money Income in 1994, Work Experience in 1994 and Sex (Numbers in thousands). September 1995.

U.S. Census Bureau. Current Population Survey. 2012 Annual Social and Economic Supplement. Table: PINC-01.Selected Characteristics of People 15 Years Old and Over, by Total Money Income in 2011, Work Experience in 2011, Race, Hispanic Origin, and Sex, Total Work Experience, Both Sexes, All Races. [Excel Spreadsheet]. September 2012.

Sahr, Robert. Inflation Conversion Factors for Years 1774 to Estimated 2022. [PDF Document].

The Rejection of America's Volunteer Military

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Today, we're revisiting the topic of the ages of those who served in the U.S. armed forces during World War 2, because we have new information to add to it!

Before we go any further, the reason we're doing this is because this information plays a key part in one of the projects we're developing behind the scenes here at Political Calculations, which we'll be presenting in bits and seemingly unrelated pieces throughout this year.

So what information are we adding today? Well, it's about the end of volunteerism and the institutionalization of mandatory conscription for filling the ranks of the U.S. Army, Army Air Corps, Navy and Marines during the Second World War.

Air Force Magazine's John T. Cornell explains more about how the American tradition of volunteering for military service came to be rejected by the executive order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt:

In 1936, an obscure Army major, Lewis B. Hershey, was appointed the executive officer of the Joint Army-Navy Selective Service Committee, set up to prepare for possible mobilization. The panel consisted of two officers and two clerks. Hershey was a former schoolteacher who joined the National Guard in 1911 and transferred to the regular Army after World War I. Nobody, least of all Hershey, dreamed the job would last for decades....

When Germany in 1940 invaded the Low Countries and France, Congress authorized the first peacetime draft in American history. Inductions began in November 1940. The following year, Hershey was promoted to brigadier general and named director of the Selective Service.

A total of 10.1 million men were drafted during World War II. At the beginning of the war, men rushed to enlist, but, from Hershey’s perspective, that ruined orderly conscription. He persuaded President Roosevelt in December 1942 to end voluntary enlistments except for men under 18 and over 38.

Prior to President Roosevelt issuing Executive Order 9279 on 5 December 1942, American men between the ages of 21 and 36 were subject to the military draft. In his executive order, in addition to eliminating volunteerism and fixed-term enlistments, President Roosevelt also took advantage of legislation passed by the U.S. Congress on 11 November 1942 to expand the eligible age range to be subject to the draft to include all men from the ages of 18 through 37. Volunteering for service was only permitted for those under the age of 18 and up to the age of 45 who claimed they could satisfy the military's enlistment requirements.

The birth years that coincide with these age ranges are shown in our updated chart below:

The end of volunteerism with the draft explains why the average age of those who served in World War 2 is 26 - it is the middle of the range from which the pool of those conscripted were drawn into service in the years from 5 December 1942 through the end of the war in 1945.

But more importantly, with how the draft worked during World War 2, by lottery, the age distribution of those conscripted into military service in a given year would be fairly even, rather than being heavily concentrated around a given age. The size of any bell-curve that might normally have formed was therefore minimized as a result of the policy.

That evenness of age distribution among those who served in the armed forces during World War II, in turn, explains a lot of things that turn up repeatedly in various datasets after the war. And that is something we'll be revisiting throughout the year....

Why Filing Taxes for Your Client, Even When They Aren't Required, Might Be a Good Thing!

To contact us Click HERE

Most all tax preparers understand how income levels and filing requirements are contingent upon filing status, age and the type of income clients receive. What is often overlooked, however, even when clients aren't required to file with Uncle Sam, is the fact that it may indeed advantage them to do so.

Not surprisingly, the Irs provides definitive instructions on the requirements for filing Forms 1040, 1040A, or 1040Ez. With all of the new prestige tax revisions and exceptions, some tax preparers are turning to Tax Cpe procedure materials or Ea Cpe curriculum to brush up on how these new revisions stand to advantage clients. Some continuing instruction tax courses are even focused exclusively on these new tax laws, showing tax preparers how to clients who fit into this scenario to get the greatest bang out of their tax returns.

Form 1040 Instructions

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First time homebuyers are eligible for a maximum 00 or 00 if filing married status separately. To qualify, a someone must have entered into a compact on or before April 30th 2010 and have accomplished by September 30th 2010.

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If a taxpayer has at least one child that qualifies and they didn't receive the full estimate of the current Child Tax prestige originally, they could get a refundable credit.

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Given the newly renamed and vast Hope credit, taxpayers can claim this prestige for tuition and positive fees for undergraduate and post-secondary education. The maximum prestige per student is ,500.

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This prestige is primarily for individuals who have received Adjustment aid (either Trade or Reemployment Trade). Further, those receiving Pbgc pension payments may also qualify and receive a credit.

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Two Scenarios

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• Only if filed in 2010 can they carry that loss transmit and offset dutible capital gains in future years
• They can carry these losses as far back as 2008 and perhaps ask a reimbursement of carry forward, but, again, only if they filed in 2010.

When taxpayers have company losses that experienced a net operating loss (Nol) for 2010:
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Robert Lawrence challenged the IRS claim that he is required to file a 1040 Income Tax Confession Form and pay a Federal Income Tax. The US Government charged him with committing “tax crimes”, but later dismissed these charges! The IRS dropped the case when they found out that Robert relied on the instructions within the IRS' 1040 booklet and the law. Robert had proof from these sources that he was not required to file. Hear how this living “David” won his victory over the paper-tiger “Goliath” (the IRS). Freedom Law School Speaker: Robert Lawrence Host: Peymon Mottahedeh
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Teens, Young Adults and President Obama's Minimum Wage

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What effect might President Obama's 2013 State of the Union address proposal to increase the U.S. federal minimum wage from $7.25 per hour to $9.00 per hour have upon teens and young adults?

That question is especially relevant because teens and young adults between Age 15 and 24 represent approximately half of all minimum wage earners in the United States, not to mention making up a disproportionate share of individuals who earn wages just above that level.

To find out, we tapped the U.S. Census Bureau's detailed income data for the Age 15-24 population that it collected in 1995, when the U.S. federal minimum wage was $4.25 per hour, so we can see what effect raising the minimum wage to today's $7.25 per hour had on this age group through the data the Census Bureau collected in 2012 [1].

Our first chart adds up all the income earned by individuals between the ages of 15 and 24 in the United States in both 1994 and 2011 [2], both in originally reported values and in terms of constant 2011 U.S. dollars:

This result is pretty remarkable. In nominal terms, the aggregate income earned by all 15-24 year olds in 1994 adds up to more than $236.8 billion, while the aggregate income of those Age 15-24 in 2011 adds up to over $358.8 billion. But when we adjust for the effect of inflation, we see that the total amount of money paid out to 15-24 year olds in each year is almost identical!

In a sense, it is almost as if the employers of U.S. teens only have a fixed amount of revenue that they can use to pay them.

Next, we determined what the minimum wage for 1994, 2011 and the President Obama's proposed minimum wage in 2013 would be in terms of constant 2011 U.S. dollars:

Here, we find that although the U.S. federal minimum wage has grown by 70.6% from 1994's $4.25 per hour to 2011's $7.25 per hour, in inflation-adjusted dollars, it has really only increased by 12.4%, from $6.45 constant 2011 U.S. dollars in 1994 to $7.25 per hour today.

Meanwhile, President Obama's proposed increase to $9.00 per hour would represent a raw increase of 24.1%, which works out to be a 21.7% increase (to $8.82 in constant 2011 U.S. dollars) after we adjust for inflation.

In our next chart, we answer a hypothetical question by dividing the aggregate income of all 15-24 year olds in the U.S. by dividing it by the minimum wage for each year: how many equivalent hours of work would it take to earn all the aggregate income earned by all individuals Age 15-24 in each year if it was all earned at the federal minimum wage that applied in each year?

This is where that remarkable result we illustrated earlier comes into play. Because the employers of 15 to 24 year old Americans don't have any more money available in real terms to pay their workers than they did in 1994, an increase in the minimum wage forces a reduction in the number of hours in which those Age 15-24 can be employed below their 1994 level.

In the chart above, we see that the 12.4% real increase in the minimum wage from 1994 to 2011 results in an 11.2% reduction in the number of hours that U.S. employers had available for teens and young adults to work. If President Obama's 21.7% real increase in the minimum wage were to go into effect today, the fixed amount of money that the employers of teens and young adults have available would reduce the number of equivalent minimum wage hours by 17.8% below the 2011 figure.

We should also note that the number of hours shown for each year in our chart above would represent the hypothetical maximum number of hours that U.S. employers would have available for all teens and young adults to work. Teens and young adults who earn more than the minimum wage would reduce the amount of money and hours available for those who earn less than they do, forcing many out of the job market altogether. The more who make more than the minimum wage, the more who will be locked out from even being able to be employed.

So how did that 12.4% real increase in the federal minimum wage play out in real life for 15-24 year olds in the United States? Our final chart shows the changes in the number of teens and young adults both with and without income in 1994 and 2011:

Here, we should first note that the population of 15-24 year olds in the United States increased by 6,823,000, from 36,294,000 in 1994 to 43,117,000 in 2011.

With that noted, we find that there are some 1,012,000 fewer teens and young adults with incomes in 2011 than there were in 1994, as the number of income earning teens and young adults fell from 27,026,000 to 26,014,000. Meanwhile, the number of teens and young adults without incomes skyrocketed by 7,835,000, rising from 9,268,000 in 1994 to 17,103,000 in 2011.

That 84.5% increase in the number of teens and young adults without any kind of measurable income in 2011 should not be surprising, given that over 89% of teens and young adults who do have incomes earned more than the federal minimum wage in this year - that high figure means that most of the impact will be felt by teens who are blocked by the minimum wage from entering the job market. In this case, that includes the entire increase in the teen population from 1994 to 2011. Remember our point about the "more who make more" than the minimum wage above!

In the absence of real economic growth boosting the revenues for the employers of teens and young adults, which would be what is needed to effectively counteract this effect, we can expect the same scenario to play out if President Obama's proposed minimum wage ever goes into effect.

In an upcoming post, we'll take on how much of a deadweight loss that would be imposed on the economy for just Age 15-24 year olds by implementing President Obama's poorly considered proposal. In the meantime, see the comments here for more insight on the outcomes that this proposal would really achieve.

Notes

[1] We selected 1995 because the U.S. Census Bureau only makes detailed income data for that year easily available in a digital-friendly format). We selected 2012 because it is the most recent year.

[2] The U.S. Census Bureau collects in March of each year, so its reported income figures really apply for the previous year, which is why we've indicated 1994 and 2011 in our charts.

[3] We've deliberately introduced a flaw in our analysis above (not the math, mind you!), so it conforms with how President Obama and many of his supporters see the world - we think that they should really have to explain why they are out to hurt teens and young adults so much if what they believe about income inequality is really true.

References

U.S. Census Bureau. Current Population Reports. Consumer Income. Series P60-189. Table: PINC-01. Selected Characteristics of Persons 15 Years and Over,By Total Money Income in 1994, Work Experience in 1994 and Sex (Numbers in thousands). September 1995.

U.S. Census Bureau. Current Population Survey. 2012 Annual Social and Economic Supplement. Table: PINC-01.Selected Characteristics of People 15 Years Old and Over, by Total Money Income in 2011, Work Experience in 2011, Race, Hispanic Origin, and Sex, Total Work Experience, Both Sexes, All Races. [Excel Spreadsheet]. September 2012.

Sahr, Robert. Inflation Conversion Factors for Years 1774 to Estimated 2022. [PDF Document].

The Rejection of America's Volunteer Military

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Today, we're revisiting the topic of the ages of those who served in the U.S. armed forces during World War 2, because we have new information to add to it!

Before we go any further, the reason we're doing this is because this information plays a key part in one of the projects we're developing behind the scenes here at Political Calculations, which we'll be presenting in bits and seemingly unrelated pieces throughout this year.

So what information are we adding today? Well, it's about the end of volunteerism and the institutionalization of mandatory conscription for filling the ranks of the U.S. Army, Army Air Corps, Navy and Marines during the Second World War.

Air Force Magazine's John T. Cornell explains more about how the American tradition of volunteering for military service came to be rejected by the executive order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt:

In 1936, an obscure Army major, Lewis B. Hershey, was appointed the executive officer of the Joint Army-Navy Selective Service Committee, set up to prepare for possible mobilization. The panel consisted of two officers and two clerks. Hershey was a former schoolteacher who joined the National Guard in 1911 and transferred to the regular Army after World War I. Nobody, least of all Hershey, dreamed the job would last for decades....

When Germany in 1940 invaded the Low Countries and France, Congress authorized the first peacetime draft in American history. Inductions began in November 1940. The following year, Hershey was promoted to brigadier general and named director of the Selective Service.

A total of 10.1 million men were drafted during World War II. At the beginning of the war, men rushed to enlist, but, from Hershey’s perspective, that ruined orderly conscription. He persuaded President Roosevelt in December 1942 to end voluntary enlistments except for men under 18 and over 38.

Prior to President Roosevelt issuing Executive Order 9279 on 5 December 1942, American men between the ages of 21 and 36 were subject to the military draft. In his executive order, in addition to eliminating volunteerism and fixed-term enlistments, President Roosevelt also took advantage of legislation passed by the U.S. Congress on 11 November 1942 to expand the eligible age range to be subject to the draft to include all men from the ages of 18 through 37. Volunteering for service was only permitted for those under the age of 18 and up to the age of 45 who claimed they could satisfy the military's enlistment requirements.

The birth years that coincide with these age ranges are shown in our updated chart below:

The end of volunteerism with the draft explains why the average age of those who served in World War 2 is 26 - it is the middle of the range from which the pool of those conscripted were drawn into service in the years from 5 December 1942 through the end of the war in 1945.

But more importantly, with how the draft worked during World War 2, by lottery, the age distribution of those conscripted into military service in a given year would be fairly even, rather than being heavily concentrated around a given age. The size of any bell-curve that might normally have formed was therefore minimized as a result of the policy.

That evenness of age distribution among those who served in the armed forces during World War II, in turn, explains a lot of things that turn up repeatedly in various datasets after the war. And that is something we'll be revisiting throughout the year....

Teens, Young Adults and President Obama's Minimum Wage

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What effect might President Obama's 2013 State of the Union address proposal to increase the U.S. federal minimum wage from $7.25 per hour to $9.00 per hour have upon teens and young adults?

That question is especially relevant because teens and young adults between Age 15 and 24 represent approximately half of all minimum wage earners in the United States, not to mention making up a disproportionate share of individuals who earn wages just above that level.

To find out, we tapped the U.S. Census Bureau's detailed income data for the Age 15-24 population that it collected in 1995, when the U.S. federal minimum wage was $4.25 per hour, so we can see what effect raising the minimum wage to today's $7.25 per hour had on this age group through the data the Census Bureau collected in 2012 [1].

Our first chart adds up all the income earned by individuals between the ages of 15 and 24 in the United States in both 1994 and 2011 [2], both in originally reported values and in terms of constant 2011 U.S. dollars:

This result is pretty remarkable. In nominal terms, the aggregate income earned by all 15-24 year olds in 1994 adds up to more than $236.8 billion, while the aggregate income of those Age 15-24 in 2011 adds up to over $358.8 billion. But when we adjust for the effect of inflation, we see that the total amount of money paid out to 15-24 year olds in each year is almost identical!

In a sense, it is almost as if the employers of U.S. teens only have a fixed amount of revenue that they can use to pay them.

Next, we determined what the minimum wage for 1994, 2011 and the President Obama's proposed minimum wage in 2013 would be in terms of constant 2011 U.S. dollars:

Here, we find that although the U.S. federal minimum wage has grown by 70.6% from 1994's $4.25 per hour to 2011's $7.25 per hour, in inflation-adjusted dollars, it has really only increased by 12.4%, from $6.45 constant 2011 U.S. dollars in 1994 to $7.25 per hour today.

Meanwhile, President Obama's proposed increase to $9.00 per hour would represent a raw increase of 24.1%, which works out to be a 21.7% increase (to $8.82 in constant 2011 U.S. dollars) after we adjust for inflation.

In our next chart, we answer a hypothetical question by dividing the aggregate income of all 15-24 year olds in the U.S. by dividing it by the minimum wage for each year: how many equivalent hours of work would it take to earn all the aggregate income earned by all individuals Age 15-24 in each year if it was all earned at the federal minimum wage that applied in each year?

This is where that remarkable result we illustrated earlier comes into play. Because the employers of 15 to 24 year old Americans don't have any more money available in real terms to pay their workers than they did in 1994, an increase in the minimum wage forces a reduction in the number of hours in which those Age 15-24 can be employed below their 1994 level.

In the chart above, we see that the 12.4% real increase in the minimum wage from 1994 to 2011 results in an 11.2% reduction in the number of hours that U.S. employers had available for teens and young adults to work. If President Obama's 21.7% real increase in the minimum wage were to go into effect today, the fixed amount of money that the employers of teens and young adults have available would reduce the number of equivalent minimum wage hours by 17.8% below the 2011 figure.

We should also note that the number of hours shown for each year in our chart above would represent the hypothetical maximum number of hours that U.S. employers would have available for all teens and young adults to work. Teens and young adults who earn more than the minimum wage would reduce the amount of money and hours available for those who earn less than they do, forcing many out of the job market altogether. The more who make more than the minimum wage, the more who will be locked out from even being able to be employed.

So how did that 12.4% real increase in the federal minimum wage play out in real life for 15-24 year olds in the United States? Our final chart shows the changes in the number of teens and young adults both with and without income in 1994 and 2011:

Here, we should first note that the population of 15-24 year olds in the United States increased by 6,823,000, from 36,294,000 in 1994 to 43,117,000 in 2011.

With that noted, we find that there are some 1,012,000 fewer teens and young adults with incomes in 2011 than there were in 1994, as the number of income earning teens and young adults fell from 27,026,000 to 26,014,000. Meanwhile, the number of teens and young adults without incomes skyrocketed by 7,835,000, rising from 9,268,000 in 1994 to 17,103,000 in 2011.

That 84.5% increase in the number of teens and young adults without any kind of measurable income in 2011 should not be surprising, given that over 89% of teens and young adults who do have incomes earned more than the federal minimum wage in this year - that high figure means that most of the impact will be felt by teens who are blocked by the minimum wage from entering the job market. In this case, that includes the entire increase in the teen population from 1994 to 2011. Remember our point about the "more who make more" than the minimum wage above!

In the absence of real economic growth boosting the revenues for the employers of teens and young adults, which would be what is needed to effectively counteract this effect, we can expect the same scenario to play out if President Obama's proposed minimum wage ever goes into effect.

In an upcoming post, we'll take on how much of a deadweight loss that would be imposed on the economy for just Age 15-24 year olds by implementing President Obama's poorly considered proposal. In the meantime, see the comments here for more insight on the outcomes that this proposal would really achieve.

Notes

[1] We selected 1995 because the U.S. Census Bureau only makes detailed income data for that year easily available in a digital-friendly format). We selected 2012 because it is the most recent year.

[2] The U.S. Census Bureau collects in March of each year, so its reported income figures really apply for the previous year, which is why we've indicated 1994 and 2011 in our charts.

[3] We've deliberately introduced a flaw in our analysis above (not the math, mind you!), so it conforms with how President Obama and many of his supporters see the world - we think that they should really have to explain why they are out to hurt teens and young adults so much if what they believe about income inequality is really true.

References

U.S. Census Bureau. Current Population Reports. Consumer Income. Series P60-189. Table: PINC-01. Selected Characteristics of Persons 15 Years and Over,By Total Money Income in 1994, Work Experience in 1994 and Sex (Numbers in thousands). September 1995.

U.S. Census Bureau. Current Population Survey. 2012 Annual Social and Economic Supplement. Table: PINC-01.Selected Characteristics of People 15 Years Old and Over, by Total Money Income in 2011, Work Experience in 2011, Race, Hispanic Origin, and Sex, Total Work Experience, Both Sexes, All Races. [Excel Spreadsheet]. September 2012.

Sahr, Robert. Inflation Conversion Factors for Years 1774 to Estimated 2022. [PDF Document].

The Rejection of America's Volunteer Military

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Today, we're revisiting the topic of the ages of those who served in the U.S. armed forces during World War 2, because we have new information to add to it!

Before we go any further, the reason we're doing this is because this information plays a key part in one of the projects we're developing behind the scenes here at Political Calculations, which we'll be presenting in bits and seemingly unrelated pieces throughout this year.

So what information are we adding today? Well, it's about the end of volunteerism and the institutionalization of mandatory conscription for filling the ranks of the U.S. Army, Army Air Corps, Navy and Marines during the Second World War.

Air Force Magazine's John T. Cornell explains more about how the American tradition of volunteering for military service came to be rejected by the executive order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt:

In 1936, an obscure Army major, Lewis B. Hershey, was appointed the executive officer of the Joint Army-Navy Selective Service Committee, set up to prepare for possible mobilization. The panel consisted of two officers and two clerks. Hershey was a former schoolteacher who joined the National Guard in 1911 and transferred to the regular Army after World War I. Nobody, least of all Hershey, dreamed the job would last for decades....

When Germany in 1940 invaded the Low Countries and France, Congress authorized the first peacetime draft in American history. Inductions began in November 1940. The following year, Hershey was promoted to brigadier general and named director of the Selective Service.

A total of 10.1 million men were drafted during World War II. At the beginning of the war, men rushed to enlist, but, from Hershey’s perspective, that ruined orderly conscription. He persuaded President Roosevelt in December 1942 to end voluntary enlistments except for men under 18 and over 38.

Prior to President Roosevelt issuing Executive Order 9279 on 5 December 1942, American men between the ages of 21 and 36 were subject to the military draft. In his executive order, in addition to eliminating volunteerism and fixed-term enlistments, President Roosevelt also took advantage of legislation passed by the U.S. Congress on 11 November 1942 to expand the eligible age range to be subject to the draft to include all men from the ages of 18 through 37. Volunteering for service was only permitted for those under the age of 18 and up to the age of 45 who claimed they could satisfy the military's enlistment requirements.

The birth years that coincide with these age ranges are shown in our updated chart below:

The end of volunteerism with the draft explains why the average age of those who served in World War 2 is 26 - it is the middle of the range from which the pool of those conscripted were drawn into service in the years from 5 December 1942 through the end of the war in 1945.

But more importantly, with how the draft worked during World War 2, by lottery, the age distribution of those conscripted into military service in a given year would be fairly even, rather than being heavily concentrated around a given age. The size of any bell-curve that might normally have formed was therefore minimized as a result of the policy.

That evenness of age distribution among those who served in the armed forces during World War II, in turn, explains a lot of things that turn up repeatedly in various datasets after the war. And that is something we'll be revisiting throughout the year....

The Difference Between Being Pro-American and Anti-American at the U.S. Box Office

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It's not often that we can measure something like pro or anti-American political bias in American movies, but we can today because of a unique experiment conducted by Hollywood!

The reason why is because of the uneven level of quality of most movies, which can make it extremely difficult to make direct comparisons of a characteristic like political bias between them using the measure of how well they do at the box office. For example, one movie in a given genre might have good acting, but suffers from bad writing or poor direction. Another movie might have only okay acting and direction, but features really good writing.

That's often because different movies get made by different people, which introduces a lot of random elements into their production that can affect their quality, which in turn, affects their money-making potential. And then there's the matter of what audience the movie is aimed at - a movie targeted for teens will have a different box office performance than a movie targeted toward a older segment of the movie-going public.

But what happens when you put the same creative team to work behind movies that target the same basic audience demographic in the U.S., but are very different in their pro or anti-American political sentiment?

What happens is that you take out a lot of the randomness that might otherwise make a comparison between the movies produced by the same team invalid. You get a consistency of quality in all the other elements that can affect box office performance that makes it possible to measure just how much having a pro or anti-American political bias can have at the U.S. box office.

And that's exactly what we have today, thanks to the former Academy Award for Best-Picture winning The Hurt Locker and the current Academy Award Best-Picture nominee Zero Dark Thirty!

Both movies were made by same production team, including the director and screenwriter. Although they feature different actors, the overall quality of acting in The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty is also consistent, as measured by Academy Award nominations for the lead characters in each film.

Where they differ is in their political bias in how they present their stories, in which the post 9/11 U.S. war against terror is the backdrop. The Hurt Locker suggests that U.S. military servicemen conducting operations against terrorists are psychologically-impaired, irresponsible rogue elements who are dangers to themselves and others. Zero Dark Thirty portrays American spies and secret military operatives as devoted avengers of a horrific act of terror against the United States.

Same quality movie, made the most of the same people, different political bias. Our chart below shows the cumulative U.S. box office receipts as reported by Box Office Mojo for both The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty against the number of days since release in their original theater runs. We also show the inflation-adjusted box office for The Hurt Locker in terms of constant 2012 U.S. dollars:

Through their first 65 days of release, Zero Dark Thirty has made over seven times as much in U.S. box office receipts as did The Hurt Locker, with nearly $90 million in receipts just in the United States. That figure then represents the real difference between being pro and anti-American at the U.S. box office.

As for why Hollywood keeps making anti-American movies even though it would appear to cost them so much at the U.S. box office, well, when it comes to America, it seems they have other values....

Why Filing Taxes for Your Client, Even When They Aren't Required, Might Be a Good Thing!

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Most all tax preparers understand how income levels and filing requirements are contingent upon filing status, age and the type of income clients receive. What is often overlooked, however, even when clients aren't required to file with Uncle Sam, is the fact that it may indeed advantage them to do so.

Not surprisingly, the Irs provides definitive instructions on the requirements for filing Forms 1040, 1040A, or 1040Ez. With all of the new prestige tax revisions and exceptions, some tax preparers are turning to Tax Cpe procedure materials or Ea Cpe curriculum to brush up on how these new revisions stand to advantage clients. Some continuing instruction tax courses are even focused exclusively on these new tax laws, showing tax preparers how to clients who fit into this scenario to get the greatest bang out of their tax returns.

Form 1040 Instructions

Quick Tips on Non-Required Filing Benefits

Why Filing Taxes for Your Client, Even When They Aren't Required, Might Be a Good Thing!

Homebuyer Credit

First time homebuyers are eligible for a maximum 00 or 00 if filing married status separately. To qualify, a someone must have entered into a compact on or before April 30th 2010 and have accomplished by September 30th 2010.

Tax Withheld

For taxpayers who have estimated their tax payments, had a former years overpayment, or had income tax withheld, they may be eligible for a refund.

Child Tax Credit

If a taxpayer has at least one child that qualifies and they didn't receive the full estimate of the current Child Tax prestige originally, they could get a refundable credit.

American occasion Credit

Given the newly renamed and vast Hope credit, taxpayers can claim this prestige for tuition and positive fees for undergraduate and post-secondary education. The maximum prestige per student is ,500.

Earned income Tax Credit

For those individuals who worked but earned dinky in 2010, this tax prestige may prove beneficial in considering to file because it may qualify them for a refund.

Health Coverage Tax Credit

This prestige is primarily for individuals who have received Adjustment aid (either Trade or Reemployment Trade). Further, those receiving Pbgc pension payments may also qualify and receive a credit.

Quick Tips of Non-Required Filing for Losses

Two Scenarios

When taxpayers have suffered an whole loss because of an speculation losses:

• Only if filed in 2010 can they carry that loss transmit and offset dutible capital gains in future years
• They can carry these losses as far back as 2008 and perhaps ask a reimbursement of carry forward, but, again, only if they filed in 2010.

When taxpayers have company losses that experienced a net operating loss (Nol) for 2010:
There are a plethora of resources ready that cover these details and the types of taxpayers that fall into this unique category. The key for enrolled agents, certified collective accounts and other tax professionals is to do the research, sign up for an enrolled agent class or look on the tax Cpe sites that showcase this information.

Irs Circular 230 Disclosure

Pursuant to the requirements of the Internal income aid Circular 230, we forewarn you that, to the extent any guidance relating to a Federal tax issue is contained in this communication, together with in any attachments, it was not written or intended to be used, and cannot be used, for the purpose of (a) avoiding any tax connected penalties that may be imposed on you or any other someone under the Internal income Code, or (b) promoting, marketing or recommending to another someone any transaction or matter addressed in this communication.

Why Filing Taxes for Your Client, Even When They Aren't Required, Might Be a Good Thing!Is the IRS lying and defrauding the American people? Hear from the man who beat Video Clips. Duration : 45.58 Mins.

Robert Lawrence challenged the IRS claim that he is required to file a 1040 Income Tax Confession Form and pay a Federal Income Tax. The US Government charged him with committing “tax crimes”, but later dismissed these charges! The IRS dropped the case when they found out that Robert relied on the instructions within the IRS' 1040 booklet and the law. Robert had proof from these sources that he was not required to file. Hear how this living “David” won his victory over the paper-tiger “Goliath” (the IRS). Freedom Law School Speaker: Robert Lawrence Host: Peymon Mottahedeh
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Why Filing Taxes for Your Client, Even When They Aren't Required, Might Be a Good Thing!

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Most all tax preparers understand how income levels and filing requirements are contingent upon filing status, age and the type of income clients receive. What is often overlooked, however, even when clients aren't required to file with Uncle Sam, is the fact that it may indeed advantage them to do so.

Not surprisingly, the Irs provides definitive instructions on the requirements for filing Forms 1040, 1040A, or 1040Ez. With all of the new prestige tax revisions and exceptions, some tax preparers are turning to Tax Cpe procedure materials or Ea Cpe curriculum to brush up on how these new revisions stand to advantage clients. Some continuing instruction tax courses are even focused exclusively on these new tax laws, showing tax preparers how to clients who fit into this scenario to get the greatest bang out of their tax returns.

Form 1040 Instructions

Quick Tips on Non-Required Filing Benefits

Why Filing Taxes for Your Client, Even When They Aren't Required, Might Be a Good Thing!

Homebuyer Credit

First time homebuyers are eligible for a maximum 00 or 00 if filing married status separately. To qualify, a someone must have entered into a compact on or before April 30th 2010 and have accomplished by September 30th 2010.

Tax Withheld

For taxpayers who have estimated their tax payments, had a former years overpayment, or had income tax withheld, they may be eligible for a refund.

Child Tax Credit

If a taxpayer has at least one child that qualifies and they didn't receive the full estimate of the current Child Tax prestige originally, they could get a refundable credit.

American occasion Credit

Given the newly renamed and vast Hope credit, taxpayers can claim this prestige for tuition and positive fees for undergraduate and post-secondary education. The maximum prestige per student is ,500.

Earned income Tax Credit

For those individuals who worked but earned dinky in 2010, this tax prestige may prove beneficial in considering to file because it may qualify them for a refund.

Health Coverage Tax Credit

This prestige is primarily for individuals who have received Adjustment aid (either Trade or Reemployment Trade). Further, those receiving Pbgc pension payments may also qualify and receive a credit.

Quick Tips of Non-Required Filing for Losses

Two Scenarios

When taxpayers have suffered an whole loss because of an speculation losses:

• Only if filed in 2010 can they carry that loss transmit and offset dutible capital gains in future years
• They can carry these losses as far back as 2008 and perhaps ask a reimbursement of carry forward, but, again, only if they filed in 2010.

When taxpayers have company losses that experienced a net operating loss (Nol) for 2010:
There are a plethora of resources ready that cover these details and the types of taxpayers that fall into this unique category. The key for enrolled agents, certified collective accounts and other tax professionals is to do the research, sign up for an enrolled agent class or look on the tax Cpe sites that showcase this information.

Irs Circular 230 Disclosure

Pursuant to the requirements of the Internal income aid Circular 230, we forewarn you that, to the extent any guidance relating to a Federal tax issue is contained in this communication, together with in any attachments, it was not written or intended to be used, and cannot be used, for the purpose of (a) avoiding any tax connected penalties that may be imposed on you or any other someone under the Internal income Code, or (b) promoting, marketing or recommending to another someone any transaction or matter addressed in this communication.

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