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Biden Releases 10 Years of Tax Returns

Posted on September 12, 2008
Joe Biden today released ten years of his personal income tax returns, drawing further attention to the tax issues raised by Sarah Palin's tax problems associated with her per diem reimbursements while governor of Alaska. I wonder, though, if the...

Buckles Presents The Separation of Church and State and the Denial of Tax Exemption to Churches that Engage in Partisan Political Speech Today at Kansas

Posted on September 12, 2008
Johnny Rex Buckles (Houston) presents Does the Constitutional Norm of Separation of Church and State Justify the Denial of Tax Exemption to Churches that Engage in Partisan Political Speech?, 84 Ind. L.J. ___ (2009), today at Kansas as part of...

African-American Women Most Likely to Veer Off Tenure Track

Posted on September 12, 2008
Chronicle of Higher Education: Many Black Women Veer Off Path to Tenure, Researchers Say, by Peter Schmidt Black women appear to be substantially less likely than other segments of the population to get on and stay on academe?s tenure track,...

More on Rangel's Tax Troubles

Posted on September 12, 2008
Following up on Wednesday's post: New York Times: Rangel Tries to Explain Back Taxes on Villa, by David Kocienieewski: Representative Charles B. Rangel said on Wednesday that ?cultural and language barriers? had hindered him from understanding the finances of his...

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Tax Foundation Offers $5k Prize for Best Tax Video

Posted on September 12, 2008
The Tax Foundation has announced a YouTube video contest as part of its CompeteUSA campaign to raise awareness of America's high business tax rates and how those taxes have an impact on our competitiveness, wages, and living standards: The winner...

IRS Reaches Tax Shelter Settlement With Arnold & Porter

Posted on September 12, 2008
The IRS yesterday announced (IR-2008-104) that it has reached a settlement with Arnold & Porter (Washington, D.C.), which has paid a civil tax shelter promoter penalty: The settlement relates to the Firm?s failure in 2000, 2001 and 2002 to comply...

GMAT Cancels Scores of 84 Students Who Cheated

Posted on September 11, 2008
I previously blogged the sordid tale of 6,000 MBA hopefuls who used Scoretop.com to cheat on the GMAT. The GMAC announced on Tuesday that it has canceled the scores of 84 test-takers: Twelve posted live GMAT questions on the Scoretop...

ABA Tax Section Fall Meeting

Posted on September 11, 2008
The three-day ABA Tax Section Fall Meeting kicks off today in San Francisco. A list of TaxProfs with speaking roles today, and their topics, is below the fold:

IRS Helps Bail Out Fannie, Freddie

Posted on September 11, 2008
Fannie, Freddie Get Tax Pass, Too; A Special IRS Rule Written Just For the Beleaguered Mortgage Lenders Will Squelch Their Tax Bill for Years to Come, by Marie Leone: Wouldn't it be nice if the IRS issued a new tax...

Rosanne Altshuler Named Co-Director of Tax Policy Center

Posted on September 11, 2008
Rosanne Altshuler (Rutgers University, Department of Economics) has been named co-director of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center and a principal research associate at the Urban Institute: An economics professor at New Jersey?s Rutgers University since 1992, Altshuler was the top...

NY Times: How to Know When a Tax Deal Isn?t a Good Deal

Posted on September 11, 2008
New York Times: How to Know When a Tax Deal Isn?t a Good Deal, by Lynnley Browning: You have just left the accountant?s office with a plan to keep more of your hard-earned millions of dollars in your hands, rather...

Canadian Law School Rankings

Posted on September 11, 2008
Macleans has issued its second annual ranking of Canadian Law Schools, using methodology developed with Brian Leiter that uses five variables: Placement at Elite Law Firms (20%) National Placement Success (10%) Supreme Court Clerkship Placement (10%) Faculty Hiring (Graduates Hired...

Another Law School Rebranding

Posted on September 11, 2008
I previously blogged Boalt Hall's rebranding of itself as UC Berkeley School of Law. The National Law Journal reports that New England School of Law has rebranded itself New England Law/Boston.

Treasury & IRS Release 2008-09 Priority Guidance Plan

Posted on September 11, 2008
The Treasury Department and IRS yesterday released the 2008-09 Priority Guidance Plan, which contains 314 projects to be completed from July 2008 through June 2009: Joint Treasury-IRS Statement 2008-09 Priority Guidance Plan Update to 2007-08 Priority Guidance Plan

Senate: U.S. Banks Help Wealthy Dodge Taxes on Dividends

Posted on September 11, 2008
In conjunction with today's hearing, the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations has issued a 77-page report, Dividend Tax Abuse: How Offshore Entities Dodge Taxes on U.S. Stock Dividends. From the Introduction: Each year, the United States loses an estimated $100...

Penn, Wharton Launch Three-Year J.D./M.B.A. Degree

Posted on September 11, 2008
National Law Journal: U. of Penn. Law School, Wharton Launch Three-Year Joint J.D./M.B.A Program, by Leigh Jones: The University of Pennsylvania Law School and the Wharton School have launched a three-year joint J.D./M.B.A. degree. Different from typical four-year juris doctor/master...

Tax Court Refuses to Follow 9th Circuit, Says � 162(k) Precludes Deduction for Payment Made to ESOP for Stock Redemption

Posted on September 11, 2008
The Tax Court yesterday refused to follow the Ninth Circuit's decision in Boise Cascade Corp. v. United States, 329 F.3d 751 (9th Cir. 2003), holding that � 162(k) precludes a deduction for Ralston Purina Co.'s payment to its ESOP in...

Tax Court Unveils eAccess Document Service, But Limits Each Party to Three Document Views

Posted on September 11, 2008
The Tax Court yesterday unveiled its new eAccess service, which provides petitioners and practitioners secure, remote access for viewing documents filed after March 1, 2008 through the court's Web site. OIddly, however, a document only may be viewed by each...

Galle & Leahy: Policy Innovation in Decentralized Governments

Posted on September 10, 2008
Brian D. Galle (Florida State) & Joseph Kieran Leahy (Seattle) have posted Laboratories of Democracy? Policy Innovation in Decentralized Governments on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Innovations in government produce positive externalities for other jurisdictions...

CRS: Pension Sponsorship and Participation

Posted on September 10, 2008
The Congressional Research Service has updated its annual report, Pension Sponsorship and Participation: Summary of Recent Trends (RL30122) (Sept. 8, 2008). Here is part of the Summary: According to the Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey (CPS), the number of private-sector...

Sarah Palin's Tax Problem

Posted on September 10, 2008
From today's Washington Post: Palin Billed State for Nights Spent at Home; Taxpayers Also Funded Family's Travel, by James V. Grimaldi & Karl Vick: Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has billed taxpayers for 312 nights spent in her own home during...

Publication Study of Faculty at Non-Top 50 Law Schools

Posted on September 10, 2008
Roger Williams University School of Law has updated its per capita publication study of the faculties at law schools ranked 51 or lower by U.S. News (as well as the New England law schools). The study covers the 1993-2008 period...

TaxProf Blog Crosses 5,000,000-Visitor Mark

Posted on September 10, 2008
After less than 4 1/2 years in operation, TaxProf Blog has crossed the 5,000,000-visitor mark. (We crossed the 4,000,000-visitor mark less than six months ago.) To put that number in perspective, it is the most visitors to any law-focused blog...

Zelinsky: Rangel Episode Shows Need to Automatically Audit Tax Returns of Ways & Means Committee

Posted on September 10, 2008
Following up on my prior coverage of House Ways & Means Chair Rangel's failure to report $75k of rental income from his condo in the Dominican Republic: Edward Zelinsky (Cardozo), Congressman Rangel?s Tax Returns and the Ghost of Wilbur Mills:...

Murphy & Wei: Tax Filing Procedures in the U.S. & China

Posted on September 10, 2008
Ann Murphy (Gonzaga) & Xiong Wei (Wuhan University, China) have published A Comparison of Tax Filing Procedures in the United States and China, 51 Tax Notes Int'l 837 (Sept. 8, 2008).

Law Prof Presidential Campaign Contributions: 95% to Obama, 5% to McCain

Posted on September 10, 2008
FundRace 2008 on The Huffington Post lists 635 "law professors" as having made contributions to candidates in the 2008 Presidential election totalling $623,472. Of this amount, 92.7% ($577,924) has been contributed to Democratic candidates, 7.3% ($45,548) to Republican candidates...

Ainsworth: Solving the Regressivity of Consumption Taxes With "Smart Card" Technology

Posted on September 09, 2008
Richard T. Ainsworth (Adunct Professor, Boston University) has published Biometrics: Solving the Regressivity of VATs and RSTs With "Smart Card" Technology, 7 Fla. Tax Rev. 651 (2006). Here is the abstract: Biometric identifiers embedded in national identity cards puts a...

Death of Dick Speidel

Posted on September 09, 2008
Richard Speidel (San Diego) died on September 6 at the age of 75 after a long bout with cancer. From the San Diego press release: As one colleague put it, Dick was ?a towering figure in the field of contracts,?...

The Shelf Project: 20 Proposals to Strengthen the Tax Base and Raise Revenue

Posted on September 09, 2008
I previously blogged the launch of the ambitious new Shelf Project by Calvin Johnson (Texas) and Tax Analysts: The Shelf Project is a collaboration by professionals in the tax community to develop and perfect proposals that Congress can pull off...

NLJ: Law Schools Increase Hiring of Faculty Couples

Posted on September 09, 2008
National Law Journal: Law Schools Hiring Faculty Pairs; Intense Competition for Talent Prompts Schools to Bring Aboard New Recruits With Their Spouses, by Vesna Jaksic: From Texas and Virginia to New York and California, numerous law schools across the country...

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