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Gerzog: From the Greedy to the Needy
Posted on September 17, 2008Wendy C. Gerzog (Baltimore) has posted From the Greedy to the Needy, 87 Or. L. Rev. ___ (2008), on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In some instances when the taxpayer makes a charitable donation, the loss of revenue to the...
IRS Oversight Board Meeting in Washington, D.C.
Posted on September 17, 2008The IRS Oversight Board yesterday released a press release reporting on its September 9-10 meeting in Washington, D.C. to discuss the IRS?'s five-year strategic plan for 2010-2015. Among the highlights: The Board reviewed results from the IRS annual Employee Engagement...
Desai & Dharmapala: Taxing the Bandit Kings
Posted on September 16, 2008Mihir A. Desai (Harvard Business School) & Dhammika Dharmapala (UConn, Department of Economics) have posted Taxing the Bandit Kings on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The rise of significant inbound capital flows originating from sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) has occasioned...
Raskolnikov: Beyond Deterrence: Targeting Tax Enforcement with a Penalty Default
Posted on September 16, 2008Alex Raskolnikov (Columbia) has posted Beyond Deterrence: Targeting Tax Enforcement with a Penalty Default, 108 Colum. L. Rev. ___ (2009), on SSRN. Here is the abstract: People pay their taxes for many different reasons. Some try to game the system,....
IRS Issues Guidance on First-Time Homebuyer Tax Credit
Posted on September 16, 2008The IRS today issued detailed guidance (IR-2008-106) on the application of the new § 36 first-time home buyer's credit: First-time home buyers Home purchased after April 8, 2008 and before July 1, 2009 Credit of 10% of cost of home,...
Morse, Karlinsky & Bankman: Cash Businesses and Tax Evasion
Posted on September 16, 2008Susan C. Morse (Santa Clara University School of Law), Stewart Karlinsky (San Jose State University, Lucas Graduate School of Business) & Joseph Bankman (Stanford Law School) have posted Cash Businesses and Tax Evasion, 30 Stan. L. & Pol'y Rev. ___...
Rangel Refuses to Step Down as Ways & Means Committee Chair
Posted on September 16, 2008Charles Rangel announced today that he will not step down as Chair of the House Ways & Means Committee despite the tax and ethics charges that have dogged him in recent days (blogged here, here, and here). Associated Press Bloomberg...
Infanti Presents Taxing Civil Rights Gains at Pace
Posted on September 16, 2008Anthony C. Infanti (Pittsburgh) presented Taxing Civil Rights Gains at Pace yesterday as part of its Faculty Workshop Series. Here is the abstract: In this article, I take a novel approach to the question of what constitutes a "tax." I...
GAO: Tax Preparers: Oregon's Regulatory Regime May Lead to Improved Federal Tax Return Accuracy and Provides a Possible Model for National Regulation
Posted on September 16, 2008The Government Accountability Office yesterday released Tax Preparers: Oregon's Regulatory Regime May Lead to Improved Federal Tax Return Accuracy and Provides a Possible Model for National Regulation (GAO-08-781): To help Congress better understand the potential costs and revenue effects of...
Johnston: Maybe Tax Cuts Are Not the Road to Economic Salvation
Posted on September 16, 2008David Cay Johnston has published The Prospering Swedes, 120 Tax Notes 1085 (Sept. 15, 2008): Sweden is the epitome of high taxes. It is one of only two modern countries where taxes account for more than half of the GDP...
SSRN Tax Professor Rankings
Posted on September 16, 2008SSRN has updated its monthly rankings of 546 American and international law school faculties and 1,500 law professors by (among other things) the number of paper downloads from the SSRN data base. Here is the new list (through September 12,...
TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup
Posted on September 15, 2008Saturday: More on the Presidential Candidates' Tax Plans An Overview of the AMT and its Expansion to the Middle Class ABA Tax Section Fall Meeting Sunday: Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads Proskauer Rose, Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell in DOJ...
Knoll Presents International Competitiveness, Tax Incentives, and Tax Sparing Today at Loyola-L.A.
Posted on September 15, 2008Michael S. Knoll (Penn) presents International Competitiveness, Tax Incentives, and a New Argument for Tax Sparing: Preventing Double Taxation by Crediting Implicit Taxes at Loyola-L.A. today as part of its Tax Policy Colloquium Series. Eric M. Zolt (UCLA) is the...
Men in Legal Occupations Earn 95.6% More Than Women
Posted on September 15, 2008The Census Bureau reports that men in legal occupations earned a median salary 95.6% higher than their women counterparts -- $105,233 v. $53,790. (Hat Tip: ABA Journal.)
Weisbach Presents Climate Change and Discounting the Future Today at Columbia
Posted on September 15, 2008David A. Weisbach (Chicago) presents Climate Change and Discounting the Future: A Guide for the Perplexed (with Cass R. Sunstein (Harvard)) today at Columbia as part of its Law & Economics Workshop Series. Here is the abstract: Some of the...
New Evidence on Taxes and Income: The Poor Are Getting Richer
Posted on September 15, 2008Wall Street Journal op-ed: New Evidence on Taxes and Income, by Arthur B. Laffer & Stephen Moore: The new Census Bureau data on income and poverty reveal that many of the economic trends in this country are a lot more...
NY Times: Rangel Should Resign as Ways & Means Chair
Posted on September 15, 2008The New York Times today called for Charles Rangel to step down as Chair of the House Ways & Means Committee in light of the tax issues I previously blogged here and here: Mr. Rangel has hurt his case with...
The IRS Office of Chief Counsel -- A Great Place to Start Your Tax Career
Posted on September 15, 2008I previously blogged the Wall Street Journal's front page story on the efforts by Donald Korb, Chief Counsel of the IRS, to recruit law students to begin their tax careers at the IRS. I also blogged the Chief Counsel's release...
IFA Hosts Student Tax Writing Competition
Posted on September 15, 2008The International Fiscal Association (USA Branch) is hosting a tax writing competition open to full or part-time students pursuing a graduate tax degree (J.D., L.L.M., S.J.D, M.S.T., etc.), on a topic involving the application of U.S. tax rules to international...
Obama's Bill to Close Safe Harbor Provisions in Section 530
Posted on September 14, 2008Bridgette M. Miller (J.D. 2008, Denver) has published Obama's Bill to Close Safe Harbor Provisions in Section 530: The Proposed Impact on the Motor Carrier Industry and Current Status of the Law, 35 Transp. L.J. 189 (2008). Here is the...
Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
Posted on September 14, 2008There is a quite a bit of movement in this week's list of the Top 5 Recent Tax Paper Downloads, with new papers debuting on the list at #4 and #5: 1. [984 Downloads] A Guide to Starting Social Security...
Proskauer Rose, Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell in DOJ Tax Shelter Crosshairs
Posted on September 14, 2008AmLaw: Tax Shelter Case that Snared Arnold & Porter Partner Not Done Yet, by Zach Lowe: A year ago, the legal community was abuzz over news that a federal investigation of illegal tax shelters for multi-millionaires had homed in on...
Cockfield Publishes Two Tax Papers and Receives Two Grants
Posted on September 14, 2008Arthur J. Cockfield (Queen's University Faculty of Law) has published: Use Taxes to Open Up U.S. Border, National Post, Sept. 6, 2008: Finding Silver Linings in the Storm: An Evaluation of Recent Canada-U.S. Cross-border Tax Developments, C.D. Howe Commentary No...
An Overview of the AMT and its Expansion to the Middle Class
Posted on September 13, 2008Michael D. Kim (J.D. 2007, DePaul) has published Comment, The Downward Creep: An Overview of the AMT and its Expansion to the Middle Class, 6 DePaul Bus. & Com. L.J. 451 (2008). Here is the abstract: The AMT was first...
ABA Tax Section Fall Meeting
Posted on September 13, 2008The three-day ABA Tax Section Fall Meeting concludes today in San Francisco. A list of TaxProfs with speaking roles today, and their topics, is below the fold:
More on the Presidential Candidates' Tax Plans
Posted on September 13, 2008Citizens for Tax Justice, Obama?s Tax Cuts Would Go to the Middle-Class, McCain?s Would Go to the Wealthy, and Neither Proposes to Increase Federal Revenue Tax Foundation: CBS News Report on Taxes Doesn't Explain Tax Bills Very Well Intrade: Not...
Gamage: Coping Through California's Budget Crises in Light of Proposition 13
Posted on September 12, 2008David Gamage (UC-Berkeley) has posted Coping Through California's Budget Crises in Light of Proposition 13 and California's Fiscal Constitution, in Proposition 13 at 30 (Jack Citrin & Isaac Martin, eds.) (2009), on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This chapter reflects...
ABA Tax Section Fall Meeting
Posted on September 12, 2008The three-day ABA Tax Section Fall Meeting continues today in San Francisco. A list of TaxProfs with speaking roles today, and their topics, is below the fold:
Syracuse Seeks to Hire Tax Prof
Posted on September 12, 2008Syracuse is looking to make an entry level or lateral tax appointment, For more information or to apply, contact Tax Prof Terry L Turnipseed.
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