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Inside Higher Ed: If One Professor Gropes, Does Everyone Need Training?

Posted on August 15, 2008
Following up on yesterday's post, University of Iowa Profs Ordered to Undergo Sexual Harassment Training: today's Inside Higher Ed asks: If One Professor Gropes, Does Everyone Need Training?: That what Arthur H. Miller is accused of doing would constitute sexual...

Do Tax Cuts Promote Entrepreneurial Longevity?

Posted on August 15, 2008
Tami Gurley?Calvez (Department of Economics, West Virginia University) & Donald Bruce (Department of Economics, University of Tennessee) have published Do Tax Cuts Promote Entrepreneurial Longevity?, 61 Nat'l Tax J. 225 (June 2008). Here is the abstract: We use a 12?year...

Welcome: Penelope Everett Fleischer

Posted on August 15, 2008
Congratulations to Illinois Tax Profs Vic Fleischer and Miranda Perry-Fleischer, who welcomed Penelope Everett Fleischer into the world on Tuesday (4 weeks early!) at 6 lbs 3 oz. See the great picture here. For TaxProf Blog coverage of their journey,...

WSJ: Corporate Tax Rate Hurts America's Competitiveness

Posted on August 15, 2008
Following up on this morning's post, U.S. Corporate Tax 50% Higher Than Worldwide Average: today's Wall Street Journal has an editorial, America the Uncompetitive: The new international tax rankings are out for 2008, and congratulations to Washington, D...

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Forbes College Rankings

Posted on August 15, 2008
Forbes has launched a new ranking of 569 colleges and universities, based on this methodology: Listing of Alumni in Who's Who in America (25%) Student Evaluations of Professors from Ratemyprofessors.com (25%) Four- Year Graduation Rates (16 2/3%) Enrollment-adjusted numbers of...

U.S. Corporate Tax 50% Higher Than Worldwide Average

Posted on August 15, 2008
Tax Foundation: U.S. Corporate Taxes Now 50 Percent Higher than OECD Average, by Scott A. Hodge: Amid rising concerns about the state of the U.S. economy, new data compiled by economists at the OECD shows that for the 17th consecutive...

Publication Study of Faculty at Non-Top 50 Law Schools

Posted on August 14, 2008
Last fall, I blogged a publication study of the faculties at Tier 3 and Tier 4 law schools (as well as the New England law schools) by Michael J. Yelnosky (Roger Williams). This year, Michael is expanding the study to...

Reactions to Obama's Tax Plan

Posted on August 14, 2008
Following up on this morning's post on the Wall Street Journal op-ed, The Obama Tax Plan, by Obama advisors Jason Furman & Austan Goolsbee: The Obama campaign has released this detailed tax plan, along with this summary, key facts, and...

University of Iowa Profs Ordered to Undergo Sexual Harassment Training

Posted on August 14, 2008
In response to these horrific allegations against political science professor Arthur H. Miller, today's Chronicle of Higher Education reports that the University of Iowa has ordered all professors and staff to undergo training in how to avoid sexual harassment...

Another Tax Comic Book

Posted on August 14, 2008
In my post yesterday on the comic book just published by Jeffrey M. Tolin(Adjunct Professor, Loyola-L.A.; Tax Principal & Senior Tax Advisor for the Entertainment Industry, Ernst & Young) & Michael H. Salama (Vice President, Tax Administration & Senior Tax...

Tax Compliance and Voluntary Public Good Provision

Posted on August 14, 2008
Li?Chen Hsu (Department of Public Finance, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan) has published Experimental Evidence on Tax Compliance and Voluntary Public Good Provision, 61 Nat'l Tax J. 205 (June 2008). Here is the abstract: Existing experimental literature on tax compliance...

WSJ: Defending Obama's Tax Plan

Posted on August 14, 2008
Wall Street Journal: The Obama Tax Plan, by Jason Furman (Economic Policy Director, Obama for America) & Austan Goolsbee (Senior Economic Adviser, Obama for America): Even as Barack Obama proposes fiscally responsible tax reform to strengthen our economy and restore...

SSRN Tax Professor Rankings

Posted on August 14, 2008
SSRN has updated its monthly rankings of 458 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 July 12,...

Henderson: Law Professor Free Agency and "School-Specific" Capital

Posted on August 14, 2008
Last week, I blogged the new article by Clayton Gillette (NYU), Law School Faculty as Free Agents, 17 J. Contemp. Leg. Issues 213 (2008). Louisville Dean Jim Chen correctly notes that Bill Henderson (Indiana) has written the definitive analysis of...

International Tax Arbitration and the Sovereignty Objection

Posted on August 14, 2008
Natalia Quinones Cruz (LL.M. (International Tax) 2008, NYU; Qui�ones Cruz Ltda, Bogot�) has published International Tax Arbitration and the Sovereignty Objection: The South American Perspective, 51 Tax Notes Int'l 533 (Aug. 11, 2008). Here is part of the Introduction: [F]iscal...

SOI Releases Tax Stats 2008-12

Posted on August 14, 2008
The IRS's Statistics of Income Division has released Tax Stats 2008-12 with three reports: Domestic Private Foundations and Charitable Trusts, 2005: Four tables that present statistics for tax year 2005 from Forms 990-PF, Return of Private Foundation (or Section 4947(a)(1)...

Law School 2.0

Posted on August 13, 2008
David I.C. Thomson (Denver) is publishing Law School 2.0 (LexisNexis 2009). Here is an excerpt from the book's introduction (via the book's blog): Legal education is at a crossroads. As a media saturated generation of students enters law school, they...

Effective Marginal Tax Rates Under Obama

Posted on August 13, 2008
The American: The Folly of Obama?s Tax Plan, by Alex Brill (American Enterprise Institute) & Alan D. Viard (American Enterprise Institute): Senator Obama?s proposed ?tax cuts for the middle class? are actually marginal rate hikes in disguise. Senator Barack Obama...

A Tax Comic Book

Posted on August 13, 2008
Jeffrey M. Tolin (Adjunct Professor, Loyola-L.A.; Tax Principal & Senior Tax Advisor for the Entertainment Industry, Ernst & Young) & Michael H. Salama (Vice President, Tax Administration & Senior Tax Counsel, The Walt Disney Company) have published what may be...

Seto: The Taxation of Virtual Worlds

Posted on August 13, 2008
Theodore P. Seto (Loyola-L.A.) has posted When is a Game Only a Game?: The Taxation of Virtual Worlds on SSRN. Here is the abstract: When is a game only a game? To date, articles on the taxation of activities in...

Business Taxes in Massachusetts: Towards Fundamental Reform

Posted on August 13, 2008
James P. Angelini, David G. Tuerck, Frank Conte & Alfonso Sanchez-Penalver (all of Suffolk University) have published Business Taxes in Massachusetts: Towards Fundamental Reform, 49 State Tax Notes 379 (Aug. 11, 2008). Here is the Summary and Conclusions: The Massachusetts...

Using Child Support Data to Improve EITC Compliance

Posted on August 13, 2008
V. Joseph Hotz (Department of Economics, Duke University) & John Karl Scholz (Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin) have published Can Administrative Data on Child Support Be Used to Improve the EITC? Evidence from Wisconsin, 61 Nat'l Tax J...

NFL Joins MLB in Hiding Salaries of Key Employees Other Than Commissioner

Posted on August 13, 2008
I previously blogged Major League Baseball's failure to list the compensation of key employees other than the commissioner on its most recent Form 990. The New York Times reports that the NFL is following MLB's lead on its Form 990:...

Tax Planks in 2008 Democratic Party Platform

Posted on August 13, 2008
Tax planks in the current draft of the 2008 Democratic Party Platform: Restoring Fairness to our Tax Code. We must reform our tax code. It?s thousands of pages long, a monstrosity that high-priced lobbyists have rigged with page after page...

William Wilkins Named New ABA Tax Section Chair

Posted on August 13, 2008
William J. Wilkins, a tax partner of WilmerHale (Washington, D.C.), is the new chair of the ABA Tax Section. From the press release: Prior to joining WilmerHale, Wilkins served on the staff of the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance (1981-1998),...

Southern Federal Tax Institute Offers Free Tuition to Tax Profs

Posted on August 12, 2008
The Trustees of the Southern Federal Tax Institute are again offering full-time tax law professors tuition-free attendance at this year's Institute in Atlanta (September 22-26, 2008). To take advantage of this offer, complete this registration form and fax (1-800-858-9940) or...

GAO: 2/3 of Corporations Pay Zero Federal Income Tax

Posted on August 12, 2008
The Government Accountability Office today released Comparison of the Reported Tax Liabilities of Foreign- and U.S.-Controlled Corporations, 1998-2005 (GAO-08-957), issued in response to a request from Senators Carl Levin and Byron Dorgan. From Sen Levin's press release: Most corporations doing...

Heriot: Affirmative Action in American Law Schools

Posted on August 12, 2008
Gail L. Heriot (San Diego) has published Affirmative Action in American Law Schools, 17 J. Contemp. Legal Issues 237 (2008). Here is the abstract: The United States Commission on Civil Rights recently held a briefing entitled, "Affirmative Action in American...

ABA Permits Law Schools to Offer Bar Exam Prep Courses for Graduation

Posted on August 12, 2008
The ABA House of Delegates yesterday concurred in Resolution 112B of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, which deleted former Interpretation 302-7 of the Standards for Approval of Law Schools, which formerly did not allow law...

Taxing the Stork

Posted on August 12, 2008
Wataru Kureishi (BKC Research Organization of Social Science, Ritsumeikan University) & Midorihas Wakabayashi (Faculty of Economics, Osaka Prefecture University) have published Taxing the Stork, 61 Nat'l Tax J. 167 (June 2008). Here is the abstract: We examine the tax?deduction incentive...

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