Lancaster Law Blog

The Internal Revenue Service has announced a new standard mileage rate for 2011, which is generally used to estimate the costs of operating an automobile for tax purposes. The new rate, effective January 1, 2011, is 51 cents...

Christmas came a little early for many taxpayers in the enactment last week of the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization and Job Creation Act of 2010(the "Act"), which extended the Bush tax cuts for two...

Recently I wrote about the expansion of the adoption tax credit for 2010. The credit was raised to $13,170.00 for 2010 and is generally available to cover qualified expenses incurred as a result of the legal adoption of...

Recently, I had the privilege of becoming a preferred consultant for the Nonprofit Resource Network (NRN). The mission of the NRN is to enhance the effectiveness of local nonprofit organizations in carrying out...

Last week, I argued on behalf of a taxpayer in the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Philadelphia against the United States Department of Justice. I originally became involved in the appeal as a law...