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Editor at @tax, proud steward at @GuildatBIG. Formerly @ICI, @WSJBankruptcy. Fan of: running, yoga, coffee, cocktails, K-dramas. Can I pet your dog?
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Week in Insights: Fraud Turns Back California’s Sales Tax Clock

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By Daniel Xu, Melanie Cohen Verified
| Bloomberg Law Verified
Statutes of limitations are supposed to close the books on claims. But in California sales tax cases, that finality comes with a major asterisk, as fraud can pry the books back open and reset the clock. That’s a useful reminder courtesy of the California Office of Tax Appeals’ pending precedential opinion in two cases involving a Palm Springs restaurant and adjacent nightclub.
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Week in Insights: The Rich Fear Tax Instability, Not Just Costs

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By Daniel Xu, Melanie Cohen Verified
| Bloomberg Law Verified
Italy appears poised to become a tax haven. Although the country isn’t traditionally known for administrative simplicity, its government has found one service it can deliver with efficiency: reassuring millionaires. Wealthy residents of France and other European countries are increasingly moving to the Italian Republic. The rich may be moving for lower taxes, but that isn’t the whole story.
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Week in Insights: Data Center Breaks Should Drop ‘Jobs’ Pretext

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By Daniel Xu, Melanie Cohen Verified
| Bloomberg Law Verified
A data center project in Orangeburg, N.Y., received $77 million in tax breaks in exchange for creating exactly one job, according to reporting by New York Focus. That sounds ridiculous. But maybe the real problem with data center incentives isn’t that they fail the jobs-per-dollar test; it’s that policymakers keep using one. Data centers simply aren’t job creation engines.
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