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ABA Tax Section Offers Teleconference & Webcast Today on Tax Treatment of ?Carried? Interests

Posted on August 27, 2008
The ABA Tax Section offers a teleconference and webcast today on Carried Away: A Discussion of the Current Tax Treatment of ?Carried? Interests and the Prospects for Change from 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. EST: This panel will discuss a wide...

Mason: Efficient Management of the Wealth of Nations

Posted on August 27, 2008
Ruth Mason (UConn) has posted Efficient Management of the Wealth of Nations, 120 Tax Notes ___ (2008), on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This comment considers arguments for and against stricter regulation of sovereign wealth funds (SWFs), either by tightening...

Bell: Z-Scores in 2009 U.S. News Law School Rankings

Posted on August 27, 2008
Tom Bell (Chapman), featured in yesterday's front page Wall Street Journal article, Law School Rankings Reviewed to Deter "Gaming," has published the Z-Scores in his model of the 2009 U.S. News Law School Rankings: U.S. News & World Report publishes....

Tax Toilet Paper

Posted on August 27, 2008
If your tax bric-a-brac tastes are more low-brow than yesterday's Form 1040 Puzzle, you can bid on your very own roll of Form 1040 toilet paper: Does it pain you to fill out a tax form each year? Does knowing...

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Roundup of Commentary on WSJ Article on Law School Gaming of US News Rankings

Posted on August 27, 2008
Following up on yesterday's post on the front page Wall Street Journal article, Law School Rankings Reviewed to Deter "Gaming," by Amir Efrati: David Bernstein (George Mason), WSJ Article on Law Schol Rankings Carolyn Elefant (Legal Blog Watch), U.S. News...

California Ballot Initiative to Impose 45% Income Tax, 55% Wealth Tax & 36%-54% Exit Tax

Posted on August 27, 2008
A California activist is trying to gather the 694,354 signatures needed to place a tax initiative on the ballot that would: Impose a new 35% income surtax (in addition to federal taxes and the existing 10.3% top state rate) --...

5th Circuit Sides With 11th Circuit and Taxpayer in Lisle, Orders Tax Court to Adopt Special Trial Judge's Report

Posted on August 27, 2008
The 5th Circuit on Monday sided with the 11th Circuit and the taxpayer in the long-running Ballard - Kanter - Lisle saga in Lisle v. Commissioner, No. 07-60862 (Consolidated with 07-60863 & 07-60864) (5th Cir. Aug. 25, 2008): In this...

Jensen Reviews Making America Work

Posted on August 26, 2008
Erik M. Jensen (Case Western) has published Book Review, 5 Pitt. Tax Rev. 165 (2008) (reviewing Jonathan Barry Forman (Oklahoma), Making America Work (Urban Institute Press, 2006)). Here is the abstract: Except for a few snotty remarks of the sort...

Form 1040: The Puzzle

Posted on August 26, 2008
Thanks to Leandra Lederman, I am the proud owner of a Form 1040 Puzzle, which I have added to my extensive collection of tax bric-a-brac:

Law School Dean to Speak Tonight at Democratic Convention

Posted on August 26, 2008
Franklin Pierce Dean John D. Hutson, a life-long Republican and former Judge Advocate General of the Navy, speaks tonight at the Democratic National Convention at around 7:45 p.m. EST, immediately following the Keynote Speech by Virginia Governor Mark Warner...

Bakija & Heim: How Does Charitable Giving Respond to Incentives and Income?

Posted on August 26, 2008
Jon Bakija (Williams College) & Bradley T. Heim (Office of Tax Analysis, Treasury Department) have posted How Does Charitable Giving Respond to Incentives and Income? Dynamic Panel Estimates Accounting for Predictable Changes in Taxation on SSRN. Here is the abstract:...

Front Page WSJ Story on Law School Rankings

Posted on August 26, 2008
Riveting front page story in today's Wall Street Journal: Law School Rankings Reviewed to Deter "Gaming," by Amir Efrati: The most widely watched ranking of U.S. law schools may move to stop an increasingly popular practice: schools gaming the system...

Biden to Left of Obama on Tax Policy

Posted on August 26, 2008
Chuck O'Toole, Biden Seen as Traditional Democrat on Tax Policy, 2008 TNT 166-3 (Aug. 26, 2008): [O]n taxes, Biden has followed a path more overtly populist than the one Obama has walked, pushing for a more progressive tax code that...

The Ethics and Economics of American Legal Education Today

Posted on August 25, 2008
The Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues has published a symposium issue on The Ethics and Economics of American Legal Education Today: University legal education, like higher education generally in the United States, has become sharply more expensive in the past...

Tax Prof Movie Recommendation: Henry Poole Is Here

Posted on August 25, 2008
It is rare that our high schoolers will consent to being seen with their parents on a Saturday night. For a variety of reasons, that turned out to be the case last Saturday, and we saw the new movie Henry...

The Tax Advisors' Guide to the Canada - U.S. Tax Treaty

Posted on August 25, 2008
David Kerzner, Vitaly Timokhov & David Chodikoff have published The Tax Advisors' Guide to the Canada - U.S. Tax Treaty (Thomson-Carswell, 2008): This book is a unique cross border tax service that comprises ?three books? in one. The service combines...

Firefox: The Researcher?s Browser of Choice

Posted on August 25, 2008
Great post on Res Ipsa Blog: Become an Efficient Researcher: Top Twenty Firefox Add-ons that Make Firefox the Researcher?s Browser of Choice: Firefox was introduced in 2004 as a free open-source replacement for Microsoft?s Internet Explorer. Firefox offered improved security...

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Posted on August 25, 2008
Saturday: 20 Reasons to Kill the Corporate Tax Lederman: A Proposal to Make the U.S. Tax Court More Judicial Leyden: Low Income Taxpayer Clinic Casebook Tax Planning in the Fight to Recognize Same-Sex Marriage Florida State University Business Law Review...

Hasen: Legal Transitions -- Reliance Redux

Posted on August 25, 2008
David Hasen (Michigan) has posted Legal Transitions -- Reliance Redux on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The recent literature on legal transitions is noted for its welfarist approach to the analysis of legal change. This approach tends to efface, and...

National Jurist Law School Rankings: Attrition Rates & Clinical Opportunities

Posted on August 25, 2008
The September 2008 issue of the National Jurist is out, with two new rankings of law schools: by (1) 1L attrition rates, and (2) clinical opportunities available per student: Dropping Like Flies: 1L Attrition Numbers Top 30% at Some Law...

Bibliography of Books and Articles on Active Learning and Other Techniques for Teaching Law

Posted on August 25, 2008
Paula M. Young (Appalachian) has created this very helpful 34-page Bibliography of Books and Articles on Active Learning and Other Techniques for Teaching Law.

Karen Burke Posts Tax Papers on SSRN

Posted on August 25, 2008
Karen C. Bruke (San Diego) has posted a number of her tax papers on SSRN: Cobra Strikes Back: Anatomy of a Tax Shelter (2008) Collapsible Real Estate Partnership Proposal (2008) Is the Corporate Tax System "Broken"? (2008) Stobie Creek: To...

Analyzing Venture Capital's Defense Against Increased Carried Interest Taxation

Posted on August 24, 2008
Andrew Kirkpatrick (J.D. 2009, Brooklyn) has published Note, The Shield of "Unintended Consequences": Analyzing Venture Capital's Defense Against Increased Carried Interest Taxation, 2 Brook. J. Corp. Fin. & Com. L. 483 (2008). Here is part of the Introduction: To understand...

How the Non-transferability of Tax Credits Harms Indian Tribes

Posted on August 24, 2008
Mark Shahinian (J.D. 2009, Michigan) has published The Tax Man Cometh Not: How the Non-transferability of Tax Credits Harms Indian Tribes, 32 Am. Indian L. Rev. 267 (2008). Here is the abstract: It is commonly thought that Indian tribes enjoy...

Sad Ending in Case of Iowa Prof

Posted on August 24, 2008
Sad ending to the bizarre tale of Unviersity of Iowa political science professor Arthur H. Miller, who was accused of offering female students higher grades if they would let him fondle their breasts: police report that a body found in...

AP: The Accountant Behind the Policyholders' Win in "Demutualization" Case

Posted on August 24, 2008
Today's Associated Press (Lone Accountant Takes on IRS and Wins) has an interesting story about C. D. Ulrich, the Minnesota accountant behind this month's big victory by policyholders of over thirty big mutual insurance companies which "demutualized" and became publicly...

Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads

Posted on August 24, 2008
This week's list of the Top 5 Recent Tax Paper Downloads is the same as last week's: 1. [491 Downloads] A Guide to Starting Social Security Benefits, by Richard L. Kaplan (Illinois) [blogged here] 2. [303 Downloads] Toward a New...

Obama & Biden on Taxes

Posted on August 24, 2008
Here are the tax references in the speeches by Barack Obam and Joe Biden in their joint appearance yesterday in Springfield, IL Obama: That's what it's going to take to win the fight for good jobs that let people live...

Florida State University Business Law Review Publishes Two Tax Articles

Posted on August 23, 2008
The Florida State University Business Law Review has published two tax articles: Alison Battiste (Strasburger & Price, Frisco,TX), Why Congress Should Codify the Economic Substance Doctrine: A Discussion on the Virtues of a Predictable Test, 7 Fla. St...

20 Reasons to Kill the Corporate Tax

Posted on August 23, 2008
U.S. News & World Report: 20 Reasons to Kill Corporate Taxes, by James Pethokoukis: What to do about corporate tax rates represents a key difference between Obamanomics and McCainomics. John McCain wants to cut them. Barack Obama wants to raise...

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