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AuditCongress.com

Posted on February 16, 2009
A new web site, blog, and social network have been launched in support of a petition drive to compel an annual IRS audit of members of Congress and senior government officials: www.auditcongress.com. (Hat Tip: InstaPundit.)

Camp: The Failure of Adversarial Process in the Administrative State

Posted on February 16, 2009
Bryan Camp (Texas Tech) has published The Failure of Adversarial Process in the Administrative State, 84 Ind. L.J. 57 (2009). Here is the abstract: In a series of hearings in 1997 and 1998, Congress heard allegations that the IRS was...

Vice Dean of Research Earning $375k Steals Student's Bike

Posted on February 16, 2009
What you should not do if you are a Vice Dean of Research earning a $269,280 salary with an $115,000 administrative stipend: steal a student's bike in full view of a security camera: MSNBC Orlando Sun-Sentinel St. Petersburg Times

76% of Young Lawyers Are Happy With Their Career Decision

Posted on February 16, 2009
The American Bar Foundation?s After the J.D. study of 4,160 individuals who became lawyers in 2000 reports that 76% are either extremely or moderately satisfied with their decision to become an attorney, based on interviews conducted in 2007. One wonders...

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Shaviro: Decoding the U.S. Corporate Tax

Posted on February 16, 2009
Daniel N. Shaviro (NYU) has published Decoding the U.S. Corporate Tax (Urban Institute 2009). Here is the publisher's description: ?The corporate tax could soon be headed in new directions,? Dan Shaviro writes in Decoding the U.S. Corporate Tax, wherein he...

The Role of Collegiality in Faculty Hiring and Promotion

Posted on February 16, 2009
The Chroncile of Higher Education has picked up on a Moneylaw debate over the role of collegiality in faculty hiring and promotion. Jim Chen (Dean, Louisville) blogs a wonderful comment from the Chronilce of Higher Education piece in You Like...

Call for Co-Authors: Energy Tax Credits and Educational Tax Credits Guides

Posted on February 16, 2009
Victor Thuronyi (Senior Tax Counsel, International Monetary Fund; Adjunct Professor, Georgetown) has asked me to post this: It might be useful to put together a user-friendly guide to how to claim credits for energy efficiency improvements that are contained in...

Scott Taylor's Advice to Dean Candidates: Check Out School's Form 990

Posted on February 16, 2009
Tax Prof Scott Taylor (St. Thomas University) is guest blogging at The Faculty Lounge. His first post offers this advice to the candidates for the 27 open deanships: check out the Form 990 for the school on the Foundation Center's...

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Posted on February 16, 2009
Saturday: Former BDO Seidman Partner Pleads Guilty to Tax Shelter Fraud ABA: Law Professors Begin Feeling Economic Pinch Third-Party Tax Administration: The Case of Low-and-Moderate-Income Households The 5th and 16th Amendments: Is Taxation an Uncompensated Taking? Tax Stimulus Report Card:...

Who Is the Shane Battier of Your Faculty?

Posted on February 15, 2009
Continuing my interest (obsession?) with the application of Moneyball principles to law schools (which began in What Law Schools Can Learn from Billy Beane and the Oakland Athletics, 82 Tex. L. Rev. 1483 (2004)), the Sunday New York Times Magazine...

Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads

Posted on February 15, 2009
There is a bit of movement in this week's list of the Top 5 Recent Tax Paper Downloads, with a new paper debuting on the list at #5: 1. [389 Downloads] The Virtual Tax Library: A Comparison of Five Electronic...

IRS Should Not Credit Current Year's Tax Overpayment Against Prior Year's Tax Deficiency

Posted on February 15, 2009
Jessica Kuester (J.D. 2009, Syracuse) has published Note, Revenue Ruling 2007-51: Why the IRS Keeping Your Money, 59 Syr. L. Rev. 311 (2008). Here is the Conclusion: Rev. Rul. 2007-51 is against the current policies and practices of the IRS....

The 2006 Telephone Excise Tax Refund

Posted on February 15, 2009
Timothy Deering (J.D. 2009, Cardozo) has published Note, A Taxing Statute: Costly Conjuncts and Their Logical Fallout, 7 Cardozo Pub. L. Pol'y & Ethics J. 207 (2008). Here is the Introduction: Taxpayers may have felt surprised to find that the...

Former BDO Seidman Partner Pleads Guilty to Tax Shelter Fraud

Posted on February 14, 2009
Michael Kerekes, former senior tax partner in the L.A. office of accountign firm BDO Seidman, pled guilty on Friday to criminal charges arising out of a bogus tax shelter plan marketed by BDO Seidman and the Jenkens & Gilchrist law...

ABA: Law Professors Begin Feeling Economic Pinch

Posted on February 14, 2009
Following up on Thursday's post, Law Faculty Furloughs, Pay Cuts, Pay Freezes, and Hiring Freezes: the ABA Journal picks up the story in Law Professors Begin Feeling Economic Pinch, by Debra Cassens Weiss: The budget crisis is affecting law school...

Barr & Dokko: Third-Party Tax Administration: The Case of Low-and-Moderate-Income Households

Posted on February 14, 2009
Michael S. Barr (Michigan) & Jane K. Dokko (Economist, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) have published Third-Party Tax Administration: The Case of Low-and-Moderate-Income Households, 5 J. Empirical Legal Stud. 963 (2008). Here is the abstract: Using a...

The 5th and 16th Amendments: Is Taxation an Uncompensated Taking?

Posted on February 14, 2009
Mark R. Jundt (Blackwell Burke, Minneapolis) & Vernon R. Pederson (Retired Justice, North Dakota Supreme Court) have published A Vexatious Problem Among Many: In Light of the Conflict Between the Fifth and Sixteenth Amendments, Is Taxation an Uncompensated Taking? 84...

Tax Stimulus Report Card: Gentleman's C

Posted on February 13, 2009
The Tax Policy Center has graded the key tax provisions of the Conference stimulus bill: Our grades reflect how well these measures would boost the economy in the short run per dollar of budget cost (sometimes called ?bang for the...

David Brennen Is Dean Finalist at Memphis

Posted on February 13, 2009
Tax Prof David A. Brennen (Georgia), currently completing a two-year stint as Deputy Director of the Association of American Law Schools, is one of four finalists for the Memphis Deanship. According to the student newspaper, "[t]he search for a permanent...

Gerzog: Family Limited Partnership Practice Pointers

Posted on February 13, 2009
Wendy C. Gerzog (Baltimore) has published Hurford: Family Limited Partnership Practice Pointers, 122 Tax Notes 799 (Feb. 9, 2009). Here is the abstract: Sometimes a case offers practice pointers: Hurford [v. Commissioner, T.C. Mem. 2008-278 (Dec. 11, 2008)] is one...

Tax Provisions of Stimulus Bill

Posted on February 13, 2009
Updated: The House voted today to approve the $787.2 billion stimulus bill, 246-183. Not a single Republican voted in favor of the bill, and only 7 Democrats voted against it (down from 11 on the original House passage). The bill...

Call for Editors: ABA Annual Reports on Important Tax Developments

Posted on February 13, 2009
The ABA Tax Section produces an Annual Reports on Important Developments, which tracks the key legislative changes, regulations, cases, and rulings over the past year, as well as forecasts upcoming developments, in over thirty substantive areas of the tax law...

Shaviro on Shades of the American Dream

Posted on February 13, 2009
Dan Shaviro has an extended discussion of yesterday's NYU Colloquium on Dorothy Brown's paper, Shades of the American Dream (blogged here). He critiques the paper and offers his prescription for fixing housing tax policy.

Stephen Colbert's Colonoscopy

Posted on February 13, 2009
For those who enjoyed the post on my colonoscopy when I turned 50 (and the subsequent colonoscopy-related material sent in by readers (here, here, and here)): check out Stephen Colbert's colonscopy on Wednesday's Colbert Report: The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs...

TIGTA: IRS's $345b Tax Gap Estimate Ignores International Tax Evasion

Posted on February 13, 2009
The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration yesterday released A Combination of Legislative Actions and Increased IRS Capability and Capacity are Required to Reduce the Multibillion Dollar U.S. International Tax Gap, which reports that the IRS's $345 billion estimate of...

Madoff Investors Face Mounting Tax Troubles

Posted on February 13, 2009
From next week's National Law Journal: Next Headache for Madoff Investors: Tax Troubles, by Pamela A. MacLein. Prior TaxProf Blog posts: More Tax Planning for Madoff Victims (1/13/09) More on Tax Planning for Madoff Victims (12/30/08) Tax Law to Provide...

AICPA Offers Free Online Job Finder for Out-of-Work CPAs

Posted on February 13, 2009
CPA Job Finder: CPA Job Finder is the official job board of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). The job board was created to help: Employers looking for qualified CPAs and senior financial professionals CPAs and senior financial...

Tax Foundation: State Budget Shortfalls Present a Tax Reform Opportunity

Posted on February 13, 2009
The Tax Foundation has published State Budget Shortfalls Present a Tax Reform Opportunity. From the press release: While many states that have budget shortfalls are seeking federal bailouts, proposing targeted tax increases and calling for hiring freezes, these shortfalls are...

Brown Presents "Shades of the American Dream" Today at NYU

Posted on February 12, 2009
Dorothy A. Brown (Emory) presents Shades of the American Dream at NYU today as part of its Colloquium Series on Tax Policy and Public Finance. The co-convenors are Daniel Shaviro (NYU) & Alan Auerbach (UC-Berkeley, Department of Economics). Here is...

Dharmapala Presents "Investor Taxation in Open Economies" Today at Northwestern

Posted on February 12, 2009
Dhammika Dharmapala (University of Connecticut, Department of Economics; moving to Illinois) presents Investor Taxation in Open Economies at Northwestern today as part of its Advanced Topics in Taxation Series organized by Tom Brennan and Charlotte Crane...

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