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Tax

Apr. 11, 2013

Tax avoidance dos and don'ts (mostly don'ts)

If Wesley Snipes is dispensing tax advice -- and I doubt that he is -- I imagine that today he might be more likely to give some stern warnings like these.

Robert W. Wood

Managing Partner
Wood LLP

333 Sacramento St
San Francisco , California 94111-3601

Phone: (415) 834-0113

Fax: (415) 789-4540

Email: wood@WoodLLP.com

Univ of Chicago Law School

Wood is a tax lawyer at Wood LLP, and often advises lawyers and litigants about tax issues.

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By Robert W. Wood


It is hard not to revel in celebrity tax gaffes. In part, perhaps they make us all feel a little better. And as many a lawyer knows, having high income does not mean happiness or even orderly financial affairs. So we read TMZ, follow Perez Hilton, watch E! and shake our heads (but we smile a little, too).


Even so, there are both professional and personal lessons we can glean - and some are important. One is about the sometimes arbitrar...

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