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Dorothy Brown Named "Professor of the Year" at Emory

Posted on April 20, 2009
Congratulations to my former colleague Dorothy Brown, who has been named "Professor of the Year" at Emory. Dorothy is an incredible professor -- a prolific and important scholar (e.g., most recently, Critical Race Theory: Cases, Materials and Problems (Thomson-West, 2d...

Block Presents Measuring the Cost of Government Bailouts

Posted on April 20, 2009
Cheryl D. Block (Washington University) presented Measuring the True Cost of Government Bailouts at Brooklyn on Friday as part of its Faculty Workshop Series.

Early Release of 2010 U.S. News Tax Rankings

Posted on April 20, 2009
Although the 2010 U.S. News Law School Tax Rankings will not be released until Thursday, April 23, the Top 10 list appearing in the magazine has been published on the Internet. Perhaps the biggest development is Georgetown moving up to...

Early Release of 2010 U.S. Law School Rankings

Posted on April 20, 2009
Although the 2010 U.S. News Law School Rankings are scheduled for release on Thursday, April 23, the Internet is abuzz with early copies -- these scans of the Top 100 (via The Faculty Lounge) appear legitimate. If so, here are...

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CB&PP: Rich-Poor Gap Tripled Between 1979 and 2006

Posted on April 20, 2009
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has published Income Gaps Hit Record Levels In 2006; New Data Show Rich-Poor Gap Tripled Between 1979 and 2006, by Arloc Sherman: New data from the CBO show that in 2006, the top...

New IRS Appointments

Posted on April 20, 2009
Steven T. Miller (B,A. Maryland, J.D. George Washington, LL.M. (Taxation), Georgetown), Commissioner of the Large and Mid-Size Business (LMSB) Division Sarah Hall Ingram, (B.A. Yale, J.D. Georgetown), Commissioner of the Tax Exempt and Government Entities (TEGE) Division Diane Ryan (B...

Bankman: Using Technology to Simplify Individual Tax Filing

Posted on April 19, 2009
Joseph Bankman (Stanford) has published Using Technology to Simplify Individual Tax Filing, 61 Nat'l Tax J. 773 (2008) (Symposium on Technology, Privacy, and the Future of Taxation). Here is the abstract: Compliance costs of individual tax filing have been estimated...

I Dreamed a Dream

Posted on April 19, 2009
By now, most of you have probably seen the incredibly powerful rendition by Susan Boyle, an unemployed 47 year old Scottish woman, of I Dreamed a Dream from Les Miserables on the Britain's Got Talent television show last Saturday (you...

Bartlett: Tax Tea Party, Part Two

Posted on April 19, 2009
In last week's post, Tax Tea Parties Misstate U.S. Tax Burden, Bruce Bartlett's Forbes' column this week is Tax Tea Party Time, Part Two: Last week, I presented data comparing taxation in the United States to other major countries and...

Obama's College Savings Plan For His Kids

Posted on April 19, 2009
Following up on last week's release of President Obama's 2008 tax return: the Wall Street Journal reports that President and Mrs. Obama took advantage of � 529 by each contributing $120,000 to the highly rated Bright Directions College Savings Program...

The Worthlessness of American Legal Education

Posted on April 19, 2009
The Legal Satyricon has posted a 2,300-word critique of legal education, The Worthlessness of American Legal Education. Here is a taste: When I went to law school, it absolutely shocked me to learn how much the legal academy despises legal...

Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads

Posted on April 19, 2009
There is quite a bit of movement in this week's list of the Top 5 Recent Tax Paper Downloads, with a new #1 paper and new papers debuting on the list at #4 and #5: 1. [250 Downloads]: 2008 Developments...

Jones: Taxation of Profit Interests

Posted on April 18, 2009
Darryll K. Jones (Stetson) hsa published The Taxation of Profit Interests and the Reverse Mancur Olson Phenomenon, 36 Cap. U. L. Rev. 853 (2008). Here is the Epilogue: As of the end of summer, 2007, it became very apparent that...

FutureFirm 1.0

Posted on April 18, 2009
The Law Firms Working Group, a project of the American Bar Foundation and the Indiana University School of Law?Bloomington, today hosts FutureFirm 1.0, a competition to envision the successful law firm model of the future. The event brings together corporate...

Son of the Boss and the Troubling Legacy of Colony, Inc.

Posted on April 18, 2009
Matthew Roche (J.D. 2009, Catholic) has published Comment, Son of the Boss and the Troubling Legacy of Colony Inc. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, 58 Cath. U. L. Rev. 263 (2008). Here is the abstract: This Comment focuses on the...

Impact of Capital Gains Taxes on Asset Prices and Welfare

Posted on April 18, 2009
Marco Sahm (University of Munich, Department of Economics) has published Methods of Capital Gains Taxation and the Impact on Asset Prices and Welfare, 61 Nat'l Tax J. 743 (2008). Here is the abstract: Taxation of capital gains upon realization instead...

18 States Tax iPod Music Downloads; More to Join Them?

Posted on April 18, 2009
CNet News: New Net Taxes Amid Taxing Times?: Because of quirks in many state laws, sales taxes may be levied on CDs sold in storefronts but not on iTunes and other digital downloads. It's a situation that recession-weary, tax-hungry politicians...

D.C. Circuit:

Posted on April 18, 2009
The D.C. Circuit on Friday ruled that IRS documents on settlement strategies in tax shelter cases are exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act. Mayer Brown v. IRS, No. 08-5143 (D.C. Cir. Apr. 17, 2009). The D.C. Circuit...

The W&L Free Alternative to bepress/ExpressO and SSRN

Posted on April 17, 2009
John Doyle of the Washington & Lee Law Library has developed LexOpus, a free article repository and law review article submission system as an alternative to bepress/ExpressO and SSRN: The aim of LexOpus is to assist authors and law journals...

Slate on Taxes

Posted on April 17, 2009
Why Do the Blind Get a Tax Break? And Other Questions About the IRS, With Answers From Our Archives, by Samantha Henig Taxes, Widows, and Orphans: Conservative Hypocrisy About Obama's Proposal to Limit Charitable Tax Deductions for the Rich, by...

UC Irvine Admits Strongest Entering 1L Class of Any Start-Up Law School

Posted on April 17, 2009
UC-Irvine announced yesterday that its inaugural 1L class is the most selective in the country and the entering qualifications of the class place in squarely in the Top 20: The University of California, Irvine School of Law has chosen its...

Colorado Judge Rules Sheriff Improperly Seized Immigrants' Tax Returns

Posted on April 17, 2009
Following up on my prior posts: NY Times: Paying Taxes, and Fearing Deportation (2/12/09) Judge Rules Search of Immigrants' Tax Returns Violated 4th Amendment (3/10/09) The Colorado judge has ruled that the sheriff's office lacked probable cause to seize the...

UCLA Launches 1-Year Transition to Practice LL.M. Program for Jobless 3Ls

Posted on April 17, 2009
UCLA yesterday announced a Transition to Practice LL.M. Program, which will allow jobless and job-deferred 3Ls to take an extra year of classes to teach them the skills and practices they would have learned as first-year associates: A core component....

Mehrotra Leads Tax Scholarship and Teaching Workshops Today at Chase

Posted on April 17, 2009
Ajay Mehrotra (Indiana) leads separate scholarship and teaching workshops at Northen Kentucky-Chase College of Law today as part of its Speakers Series: The Public Control of Corporate Power: Revisiting the Beginnings of the Corporate Income Tax Toward a Socio-historical Approach...

En Banc 3d Cir. Reverses Panel's Rejection of District Judge's Sentence of Probation in Tax Evasion Case

Posted on April 17, 2009
The Third Circuit today issued a divided en banc opinion in United States v. Tomko, No. 05-4997 (3d Cir. April 17, 2009). A divided three-judge panel originally had reversed a sentence of probation in a tax evasion case. United States...

David Walker: Why Your Taxes May Double

Posted on April 17, 2009
Op-ed on CNN: Why Your Taxes May Double, by David M. Walker (President & CEO, Peter G. Peterson Foundation; Former Comptroller General of the United States and Head of the Government Accountability Office): Even under the best of economic circumstances,...

Hellerstein & Swain: State & Local Tax Commentary

Posted on April 17, 2009
Walter Hellerstein (Georgia) & John A. Swain (Arizona) have published State & Local Tax Commentary (March 2009): In this newsletter, Professors Hellerstein and Swain examine a New York case rejecting a taxpayer challenge to New York?s ?Amazon? nexus statute, a...

Taxes and Ex?day Returns: Evidence from Germany and the U.K.

Posted on April 17, 2009
Meziane Lasfer (City University-London, Cass Business School) has published Taxes and Ex?day Returns: Evidence from Germany and the U.K., 61 Nat'l Tax J. 721 (2008). Here is the abstract: I analyze the tax systems and tax reforms in Germany and...

Obama Nominates William J. Wilkins to be IRS Chief Counsel

Posted on April 17, 2009
President Obama today nominated William J. Wilkins to be Chief Counsel for the Internal Revenue Service and Assistant General Counsel in the Department of the Treasury. From the White House press release: William J. Wilkins of Washington, DC has been...

U.S. News Rankings of Part-Time J.D. Programs

Posted on April 16, 2009
U.S. News offers a sneak peak at its first-ever rankings of part-time J.D. programs (the complete rankins are scheduled to be released April 23): Georgetown George Washington Fordham American George Mason (Hat Tip: Above the Law.)

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