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Obama's Tax Policy

Posted on May 22, 2008
A Look at Obama?s Tax Policy (Kansas City Star), by F. Patrick Brown: [I]f Barack Obama is elected president, his tax policies will be enacted and deserve scrutiny. Here?s a summary of what to expect.

Court Grants Wesley Snipes Bail Pending Appeal of Tax Fraud Conviction

Posted on May 22, 2008
The Government suffered yet another setback in the Wesley Snipes case today, as U.S. District Judge William Terrell Hodges agreed to bail pending the appeal of his conviction on three misdemeanor tax fraud counts. From the order: Obviously, having denied...

The Desirability of Temporary Tax Legislation

Posted on May 22, 2008
There is a great debate on Tax Vox Blog over the desirability of temporary tax legislation: Howard Gleckman (Tax Policy Center), The Tax Extenders Ride Again: These tax benefits have become known as extenders?temporary provisions that expire every year or...

Tax Advice for Indiana Jones

Posted on May 22, 2008
A Memo from the Office of Steven R. Lawlor, CPA, to Indiana Jones: Professor Henry "Indiana" Jones Jr. 33 New Montgomery Street San Francisco, California 94118 Dr. Jones, We are in receipt of your Form 1040 for this past year,...

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BNA Tax Management Advisory Board Meets Today on Compensation Planning

Posted on May 22, 2008
The BNA Tax Management Advisory Board meets today at 5:30 p.m. (followed by a reception at 7:00 p.m.) in the Conrad Suite of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City on Compensation Planning to discuss these three papers: Change in...

American Tax Idol? "Peer-In-Your-Face" Legal Scholarship

Posted on May 22, 2008
Cornell issued this press release yesterday, Professor Garvey Helps Create New Interactive Approach to Legal Scholarship: In a radically new interactive approach to legal scholarship, more than 100 leading scholars are debating the fundamental questions of modern criminal law through...

IRS Clears Rev. Wright's Church of Improperly Assisting Obama's Campaign

Posted on May 21, 2008
The United Church of Christ announced today that the IRS has cleared the church of allegations that it engaged in improper political intervention following an address by Barack Obama at its 2007 General Synod. The IRS concluded in its May...

Tax Angle in Numb3rs

Posted on May 21, 2008
The May 2 episode of the TV show Numb3rs (episode Atomic No. 33) involved a "new religious movement" that was trying to become accepted as a church so it could obtain tax-exempt status, in order to increase the take of...

Furman: Health Reform Through Tax Reform

Posted on May 21, 2008
Jason Furman (Brookings Institution) has published Health Reform Through Tax Reform: A Primer, Health Affairs, May/June 2008, Vol. 27, No. 3, p. 622. Here is the abstract: Tax incentives for employer-sponsored insurance and other medical spending cost about $200 billion...

Garman: The New War Between the States: A Look at the Incentives to Recruit Foreign Automakers to the South

Posted on May 21, 2008
John J. Garman (Faulkner University, Thomas Goode Jones School of Law) has published The New War Between the States: A Look at the Incentives to Recruit Foreign Automakers to the South, DaimlerChrysler Corp. v. Cuno, and the European Union's Prohibition...

Jerry Springer's Commencement Address at Northwestern

Posted on May 21, 2008
The Chicago Tribune reprints the text of Jerry Springer's commencement address at Northwestern Law School. Here is my favorite passage: It is perhaps inevitable that we are inclined to always be judging others. But let me share this observation. I...

NLJ: D.C. Tax Practice Hot; Firms Gear Up for Major Tax Law Changes

Posted on May 21, 2008
From this weel's National Law Journal: Law Firms Gear Up for Critical Tax Policy Changes; Top-Level Tax Attorneys Are Recruited in Preparation For Changes, by Lynne Marek: Law firms in Washington are gearing up for what attorneys say could be...

Chicago Grad Accused of Submitting Phony Law School Grades to Sidley Austin

Posted on May 21, 2008
ABA Journal: U of C Law Grad Accused of Submitting Phony Grades to Sidley Austin, by Debra Cassens Weiss: A lawyer who attended the University of Chicago Law School has been accused in an ethics complaint of lying about his...

Former Tax Legislative Counsel Desmond Joins McKee Nelson

Posted on May 21, 2008
Last month, I blogged the news that Michael J. Desmond was leaving his position as Tax Legislative Counsel in the Treasury Department?s Office of Tax Policy. McKee Nelson announced this week that he has rejoined the firm as a partner...

Federal Jury in Chicago Convicts Six in $60 Million Aegis Tax Fraud

Posted on May 21, 2008
Press release from Patrick J. Fitzgerald, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois: Six Principals of Former Aegis Company Comvicted of $60 Million Tax Fraud Conspiracy Following Three-Month Federal Trial: A federal jury today convicted six defendants of a...

More on Davis

Posted on May 21, 2008
Additional press and blogosphere coverage of Monday's 7-2 decision by the Supreme Court upholding Kentucky's exemption of interest on in-state municipal bonds while taxing interest on out of state bonds. Department of Revenue of Kentucky v. Davis, No...

Sweet 16

Posted on May 20, 2008
Jayne, 16 years ago today you entered this world, enriching our lives beyond measure. The years have flown by, and my heart aches that we will never again play basketball in the driveway, hit baseballs in the park, or go...

House Unanimously Passes Military Tax Bill With Revenue Raisers

Posted on May 20, 2008
The House today approved The Heroes Earnings Assistance and Relief Tax Act of 2008 (H.R. 6081) by a 403-0 vote. Bill Press Release Staff Summary Joint Committee on Taxation Summary Joint Committ on Taxation Revenue Estimate

WSJ: The Economy, Not Tax Rates, Drives Tax Revenues; Revenues = 19.5% of GDP, Whether Rates Are 28%-91%

Posted on May 20, 2008
You Can't Soak the Rich (Wall Street Journal op-ed), by David Ranson: Kurt Hauser is a San Francisco investment economist who, 15 years ago, published fresh and eye-opening data about the federal tax system. His findings imply that there are...

Doskow & Marshall: Prosecutorial Interference with the Right to Counsel and the KPMG Prosecution

Posted on May 20, 2008
Charles S. Doskow (La Verne) & Kevin S. Marshall (La Verne) have published Prosecutorial Interference with the Right to Counsel and the KPMG Prosecution: An Analysis from a Constitutional, Ethical, and Economic Perspective, 24 T.M. Cooley L. Rev. 195 (2007)...

Koko Taylor Asks Tax Court to Force IRS to Accept Her Offer in Compromise

Posted on May 20, 2008
From next week's Forbes: Singing Tax Blues, by Janet Novack & William P. Barrett: The Grammy-winning blues singer Koko Taylor turns 80 in September. She?s in extremely poor health, likely exacerbated by decades of the kind of raucous hard living...

Law Professor Hiring: Statistics on JD Placement

Posted on May 20, 2008
Dan Solove (George Washington) has a fascinating post on Law Professor Hiring: Statistics on JD Placement, which calculates the success rates of various schools in sending their graduates into law teaching jobs. He obtaind data from the AALS on how...

Double Dipping in Conference Papers

Posted on May 20, 2008
Inside Higher Ed ask whether it is proper to present the same paper at more than one conference: Double Dipping in Conference Papers, by Scott Jaschik: If you are going to give a talk at a scholarly meeting, do you...

Banks & Diamond: The Case for Direct Taxation

Posted on May 20, 2008
James Banks (MIT, Department of Economics) & Peter A. Diamond (MIT, Department of Economics) have posted The Case for Direct Taxation on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The traditional starting place for a study of tax reform is a definition...

ABA Tax Section Publishes Spring 2008 Issue of News Quarterly

Posted on May 19, 2008
The ABA Tax Section has published 27 News Quarterly No. 3 (Spring 2008): From the Chair (Stanley L. Blend) (pp. 3, 16) "Interview" with Ernest J. Brown (pp. 4-5) Ethics for the Tax Lawyer: Test Your Knowledge of the ABA's...

Hierarchy, History & Happiness in Legal Education

Posted on May 19, 2008
Michael L. Rustad (Suffolk) & Thomas H. Koenig (Northeastern) have posted A Hard Day's Night: Hierarchy, History & Happiness in Legal Education, 58 Syr. L. Rev. 261 (2008), on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This Article presents a social history...

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Posted on May 19, 2008
Saturday: Goodbye, Class of 2008 NTA Spring Symposium Blogging as a Feminist Legal Method The Great Tax Cut Delusion and the Decline of Good Government in America Sunday: Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads Tate: Marilyn Monroe's Legacy: Taxation of Postmortem...

U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Discriminatory Taxation of Municipal Bonds

Posted on May 19, 2008
The Supreme Court today, in a 7-2 decision, upheld Kentucky's exemption of interest on in-state municipal bonds while taking interest on out of state bonds. Department of Revenue of Kentucky v. Davis, No. 06-666 (5/19/08). Gregory Germain (Syracuse) and Bradley...

Tax Papers at American Law & Economics Association Annual Meeting

Posted on May 19, 2008
Here are the tax papers presented at last weekend's American Law & Economics Association 18th Annual Meeting at Columbia Law School: Lily L. Batchelder (NYU) & Surachai Khitatrakun (Urban Institute), Dead or Alive: An Investigation of the Incidence of Estate...

A Tax Prof Dress Code?

Posted on May 19, 2008
I previously have blogged Tax Prof Eric Jensen's call for a dress code for law school faculty. I received an email today with the university's rules for Summer Business Casual Attire: Business casual attire is permissible during the period beginning....

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