The IRS no longer automatically issues closing letters to let executors settle estates. It has not said how to request one.
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IRS Makes Executors Ask, ‘Mother May I?’
Updating The Beeb
Britons must pay an annual television license fee to support the BBC or face a stiff fine. So they are abandoning their TVs.
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Europe’s Puerto Rico?
Puerto Rico isn’t America’s Greece, and Greece will be lucky to become Europe’s Puerto Rico.
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Political Medicine
Giving patients access to drugs they demand regardless of the science can be good politics, but it’s bad medicine.
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Planting The Seeds Of Future Kidnappings
The administration says it will not pay kidnappers, but hostages’ families may do so. To a terrorist banker, that’s just as good.
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All Uber, Or Uber Alles?
A business can operate outside the law and succeed – but not indefinitely.
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Four Small Men, One Big Decision
Despite denials, bigotry and hypocrisy permeate the dissents in the Supreme Court action that legalized gay marriage nationwide.
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The Greek Soap Opera Reaches A Climax
The Greek soap opera seems to be reaching its climax, making way for a new tale in which the euro is replaced by the drachma.
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‘SCOTUScare’ Will Be On The 2016 Ballot
The Supreme Court has again saved Obamacare. Now voters will have the last word, in next year’s presidential election.
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Europe Ignores America’s Free Advice
Treasury Secretary Lew says he has lots of ideas to resolve the Greek crisis. Europe doesn’t care.
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