Tax Law 
Reince Priebus, RNC Chairman, Doubles Down On Obamacare Tax Claim – Huffington Post
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus on Tuesday doubled down on his contention that President Barack Obama’s health care law is a tax, despite an equally strong contention from GOP presidential contender Mitt Romney’s campaign …
Romney Calls Mandate a Tax – Wall Street Journal
WOLFEBORO, N.H.—Mitt Romney said Wednesday that the health care law’s penalty is a tax, breaking with one of his top aides and further muddling the lines between the Massachusetts health-care plan he championed and the federal version he …
Romney Adds to Health-Tax Fireworks – Wall Street Journal
Mitt Romney, in a parade Wednesday in Wolfeboro, N.H., said the federal health law’s penalty was a tax. WOLFEBORO, N.H.—Mitt Romney said Wednesday that the U.S. health care law’s penalty is a tax, breaking with one of his top aides … Continue reading
Romney: Individual mandate "is a tax" – CBS News
After the campaign had initially hopped aboard with critics saying the court’s ruling indicated the health care law is a massive tax increase on Americans, Fehrnstrom – no doubt eyeing potential backlash relating to Romney’s own past mandate …
Romney Says Health Law a ‘Tax,’ But Tries to Turn Issue Back on Obama – NationalJournal.com
Contradicting his senior campaign adviser, Mitt Romney said Wednesday that the individual mandate in the health care law upheld by the Supreme Court represents a tax, not a penalty. But in seeking to regain lost political high ground, Romney …
When ‘tax’ becomes a four-letter word – Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
So when the Supreme Court ruled that the penalty for not obtaining health insurance is constitutional because it works like a tax, politicians began squirming over what to call that Thing in President Barack Obama’s health care law.
Obamacare tax backfires on supporters – Washington Times
To point out that it acts as a tax is an act of judicial law-writing, way beyond interpretation. Worse, so many other mandated payments (mandatory auto liability insurance comes to mind) can now be justified as “taxes,” since they work … Continue reading
GOP waits for Romney to pick ‘tax’ or ‘penalty’ – Washington Times
A semantic dispute over what defines “a tax” or “a penalty” has pushed Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign deeply off message as he struggles for the right response to last week’s Supreme Court ruling upholding the health care law.
Medicaid matters. The word “tax” doesn’t. – Washington Post
After the Court called the mandate a tax, Republicans everywhere began calling the law “the biggest tax increase in history,” which, while not true, is the sort of thing that gets covered in an election year. But whether we call … Continue reading
Zombies And The Estate Tax – Law Professor Questions How Dead Are The Undead ? – Forbes
Zombie awareness is finally sinking in. Even tax attorneys are getting it. Professor Adam Chodorow is Chair of the Teaching Tax Committee of the ABA’s Tax Section and on the Council of the Tax Section of the State Bar of … Continue reading
