Tax law out of synch with state pot trends

Darrin T. Mish

Tax Attorney • 32+ Years Experience

IRS problems aren't as complicated as they look once you see the structure. I'm attorney Darrin Mish. I've represented taxpayers before the IRS for three decades — in Florida, Colorado, Texas, and internationally. Here's the plain-English breakdown.

www.abqjournal.com — Oliver Wendall Holmes said “taxes are the price we pay for civilization.” No one likes paying taxes, but Americans actually do agree that taxes are necessary and we have a wonderful system of government that allows us to choose those who represent us in our social compact of how to spend tax dollars.

All we want is for the tax system to be fair. The problem is there are several notions of what a fair system would look like. As Russell Long, one of the last senators to actually understand the tax system, once said, “Don’t tax you, don’t tax me, tax the fellow behind the tree.”

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