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WSJ: What Congress Is Likely to Do to Your Taxes

Posted on May 14, 2008
Today's Wall Street Journal Tax Report: What Congress Is Likely To Do to Your Tax Bill, by Tom Herman: It's going to be a tricky year to do your tax planning. Look for Congress to revive several popular tax breaks...

Leviner Presents A New Era of Tax Enforcement -- From "Big Stick" to Responsive Regulation Today at Tel Aviv Law School

Posted on May 14, 2008
Sagit Leviner (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) presents A New Era of Tax Enforcement -- From "Big Stick" to Responsive Regulation at Tel Aviv University, Buchanan Faculty of Law, as part of its Tax Policy Colloquium. Here is the abstract: Recent developments...

Stephen Gey: A Dying Law Professor's Last Class

Posted on May 14, 2008
I previously have blogged (here and here) the tragic news that one of the true giants and nicest people in our business, Steven G. Gey, David and Deborah Fonvielle and Donald and Janet Hinkle Professor of Law at Florida State,...

Two Professors Urge Students to Lie on Survey to Increase School's Ranking

Posted on May 14, 2008
See the details, including this audio of Fiona Barlow-Brown, at Times On Line: ?If Kingston comes down the bottom, no one?s going to want to employ you because they?re going to think your degree is shit,? she added. ?Although this...

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SSRN Tax Professor Rankings

Posted on May 14, 2008
SSRN has updated its new monthly rankings of 457 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 May...

Government Wins 5th Circuit Son of BOSS Tax Shelter Case

Posted on May 14, 2008
The Fifth Circuit on Monday handed the government another victory in a Son of BOSS tax shelter case.Kornman & Assoc., Inc. v. United States, No. 06-11422 (5th Cir. 5/12/08): In these consolidated TEFRA partnership proceedings, the Government argues that the...

Cain: Taxing Families Fairly

Posted on May 14, 2008
Patricia A. Cain (Santa Clara) has posted Taxing Families Fairly, 48 Santa Clara L. Rev. 805 (2008), on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This article focuses on the historical role of state marital property law in shaping the current federal...

Feds Indict Two in UBS Tax Evasion Case

Posted on May 13, 2008
The feds today indicted a former UBS banker (Bradley Birkenfeld) and a co-conspirator (Mario Staggl) for tax evasion in a scheme that allowed a wealthy American client to use overseas trusts to avoid paying taxes on $200 million in assets....

Oregon Names Gary, Shurtz to Professorships

Posted on May 13, 2008
Oregon has announced several professorship appointments, including: Susan Gary, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, as Orlando J. and Marian H. Hollis Professor of Law: Professor Gary's research examines the way inheritance laws apply to changing family structures, regulation of nonprofit...

Leviner Presents A New Era of Tax Enforcement - From "Big Stick" to Responsive Regulation Today at Haifa University

Posted on May 13, 2008
Sagit Leviner (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) presents A New Era of Tax Enforcement - From "Big Stick" to Responsive Regulation at Haifa University in Israel today as part of its Faculty Workshop Series. Here is the abstract: Recent developments in regulation...

More on The Future of the Tax Academy

Posted on May 13, 2008
I previously blogged The Future of the Tax Academy, sparked by a series of blogosphere posts on the future of law and economics launched by Josh Wright. In the most recent installment, former George Mason Dean Henry Manne writes: I...

CTJ: State-by-State Data Show Majority of Bush Tax Cuts for Capital Gains & Dividends Go to the Richest 1%

Posted on May 13, 2008
Citizens for Tax Justice today released a report, Capital Gains and Dividends Tax Cuts Offer Almost No Benefit to Middle-Income Americans and Add to the Nation?s Fiscal Problems. Among the findings: The state-by-state data shows how the benefits of these...

Lefty College Seeks Right-Wing Prof

Posted on May 13, 2008
Interesting front-page article in today's Wall Street Journal: Help Wanted: Lefty College Seeks Right-Wing Prof; CU-Boulder Bid to Endow A "Conservative" Chair Leaves Both Sides Uneasy, by Stephanie Simon: How liberal is the University of Colorado at Boulder? The campus...

Senate Holds Hearing Today on Tax Reform for Individuals

Posted on May 13, 2008
The Senate Finance Committee holds a hearing today on Cracking the Code--Tax Reform for Individuals. From the hearing announcement: The hearing will examine how social policy is implemented through the Code -- for instance, with efforts to lift low-income, working...

Tax Evasion Kills 1,000 Children Every Day

Posted on May 13, 2008
Christian Aid: Death and Taxes: The True Toll of Tax Dodging: Christian Aid has concluded that the necessary money, and more, is already available ? if only those who owe it would pay up. We are talking about tax. This...

Jensen: Taxation and Doing Business in Indian Country

Posted on May 13, 2008
Erik M. Jensen (Case Western) has published Taxation and Doing Business in Indian Country, 60 Me. L. Rev. 1 (2008). Here is the abstract: Furthering investment in Indian country (a term that includes, but is not limited to, reservations) is...

Goodwin: Robertson v. Princeton Provides Liberal-Democratic Insights into Cy Pres Reform

Posted on May 13, 2008
Iris J. Goodwin (Tennessee) has posted Ask Not What Your Charity Can Do for You: Robertson v. Princeton Provides Liberal-Democratic Insights into Cy Pres Reform, 50 Ariz. L. Rev. ___ (2008), on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This article centers...

Brown: "Complete" Accrual Taxation

Posted on May 12, 2008
Fred B. Brown (Baltimore) has posted "Complete" Accrual Taxation, 33 San Diego L. Rev. 1559 (1996), on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Under the realization rule, accrued gains and losses generally are not taken into account for income tax purposes...

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Posted on May 12, 2008
Saturday: AP: Al Sharpton Owes $1.5 Million in Taxes ABA Tax Section May Meeting Student Notes in ABA Tax Lawyer New Issue of Real Property, Probate & Trust Journal Sunday: Pastors to Challenge Ban on Political Activity by Endorsing Candidates...

Kane & Rock: Corporate Taxation and International Charter Competition

Posted on May 12, 2008
Mitchell Kane (Virginia, moving to NYU) & Edward B. Rock (Penn) have published Corporate Taxation and International Charter Competition, 106 Mich. L. Rev. 1229 (2008). Here is the abstract: Corporate charter competition has become an increasingly international phenomenon...

Joint Committee on Taxation: A Reconsideration of Tax Expenditure Analysis

Posted on May 12, 2008
Following up on last week's post: the Joint Committee on Taxation today released A Reconsideration of Tax Expenditure Analysis (JCX-37-08). Here is the summary: This document ... reconsiders the utility of the JCT Staff?s current implementation of tax expenditure analysis...

Tax Court Issues Phishing Warning

Posted on May 12, 2008
The Tax Court has posted this notice on its web site: The United States Tax Court has received many telephone calls regarding an email which purports to originate from the Court being sent by and a member of the Tax...

Why Don't Some Faculty Write? It's the Law Reviews' Fault

Posted on May 12, 2008
Why I Don't Write, by Geoffrey Rapp (Toledo): Three years ago, Paul Horwitz started a wonderful discussion about the value of scholarship by law professors, Why I Write. ... An equally interesting, and perhaps more troubling question, is why some...

Oral Argument in Tax Strategy Patent Case

Posted on May 12, 2008
I previously blogged In re Bilsky, No. 2007-1130, which the Federal Circuit, on its own motion, agreed to hear en banc. In its amicus brief, the AICPA has asked that the court deny patent protection to tax strategies. Patently-O covers...

Is the Marriage Penalty Unconstitutional?

Posted on May 12, 2008
Point of Law: The Marriage Penalty, by Ted Frank: The death of Mildred Loving this week reminds us of the landmark decision of Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967), which struck down appalling anti-miscegenation laws. ... Zablocki v. Redhail,...

New Issue of Journal of Taxation of Investments

Posted on May 11, 2008
The Journal of Taxation of Investments has published its Spring 2008 issue (Vol. 25, No. 3), with these articles: Gerald Nowotny, Captive Insurance Companies Provide Tax and Economic Advantages for Hedge Funds, 25 J. Tax'n Inv. 3 (2008): This article...

Borden: Tax-Free Like-Kind Exchanges

Posted on May 11, 2008
Bradley T. Borden (Washburn) has published Tax-Free Like-Kind Exchanges (Civic Research Institute, 2008): Section 1031 of the tax code, providing for tax-free like-kind exchanges, has become a very popular planning tool. Investors can use � 1031 exchanges to defer capital...

Pastors to Challenge Ban on Political Activity by Endorsing Candidates From Pulpit on Sept. 28

Posted on May 11, 2008
Wall Street Journal: Pastors May Defy IRS Gag Rule; Legal Group Urges Ministers to Preach About Candidates, by Suzanne Sataline: A conservative legal-advocacy group is enlisting ministers to use their pulpits to preach about election candidates this September, defying a...

Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads

Posted on May 11, 2008
There is a bit of movement on this week's list of the Top 5 Recent Tax Paper Downloads, with new papers debuting on the list at #4 and #5: 1. [390 Downloads] Deduction Ad Absurdum: CEOs Donating Their Own Stock...

Tax Prof Joins Wash. U. Protest Against Honory Degree to Phyllis Schlafly

Posted on May 11, 2008
Tax Prof Cheryl Block has joined other Washington University law faculty in opposing the award of an honory degree to Phyllis Schlafly.

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