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Sanchirico Presents The Tax Advantage to Paying Private Equity Fund Managers with Profit Shares Today at Michigan

Posted on February 06, 2008
Chris Sanchirico (Penn) presents The Tax Advantage to Paying Private Equity Fund Managers with Profit Shares: What Is It? Why Is It Bad?, 75 U. Chi. L. Rev. ___ (2008), at Michigan today as part of its Tax Policy Workshop...

Cottage Savings Redux? A Tax "Holy Grail" Amidst the Real Estate Meltdown

Posted on February 06, 2008
Interesting article in today's Wall Street Journal: Lennar's $800 Million Tax Refund, by David Reilly: Lennar Corp. has found a way to salvage something from the huge losses it incurred by overpaying for land during the housing boom. Late last...

Mason Presents Made in America for European Tax: The Internal Consistency Test Today at UConn

Posted on February 06, 2008
Ruth Mason (UConn) presents Made in America for European Tax: The Internal Consistency Test at Connecticut today as part of its Faculty Workshop Series. Here is the abstract This Article offers an explanation for why the European Court of Justice...

Georgia State Seeks Tax Visitor for 2008-09

Posted on February 06, 2008
Georgia State seeks visiting professors for the 2008-09 academic year in a variety of areas, including Tax (Basic Income Tax, Business Tax, and Estate & Gift Tax) and Wills. For more information or to apply, please email Roy M. Sobelson,...

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The UK Tax Gap

Posted on February 06, 2008
Richard Murphy, Founder of Tax Justice Network and Director of Tax Research LLP, has published The Missing Billions: The UK Tax Gap on the Trades Union Congress website. From the press release: New research for the TUC ... reveals that...

Colleges Issue Statement of Principles on Accountability That Eschews Comparative Data

Posted on February 06, 2008
The Association of American Colleges and Universities and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation have released a new report, New Leadership for Student Learning and Accountability: A Statement of Principles, Commitments to Action. An article on Inside Higher Ed, Calling...

Former Kaye Scholer Partner Pleads Guilty to Failing to File NYC Tax Returns

Posted on February 06, 2008
John J.P. Howley, a former Kaye Scholer partner, pleaded guilty Monday to failing to file New York City income tax return. Mr. Howley agreed to pay NYC nonresident income taxes of $154,626 over five years, as well as a $10,000...

A Legal Education Renaissance: A Practical Approach for the Twenty-First Century

Posted on February 06, 2008
John O. Sonsteng (William Mitchell) has published A Legal Education Renaissance: A Practical Approach for the Twenty-First Century, 34 Wm. Mitchell L. Rev. 303 (2007). Here is the abstract: This article presents the history of legal education, criticisms, research, learning...

IRS Releases Tax Filing Projections: 2007-2014

Posted on February 06, 2008
The IRS Office of Research, Projections and Forecasting has published Group Document 6149: Calendar Year Return Projections by State, 2007-2014: This Document contains multi-year projections of the number of tax returns to be filed with the IRS by state as...

Yale Hosts Symposium Today on Gratez's 100 Million Unnecessary Returns: A Simple, Fair, and Competitive Tax Plan

Posted on February 05, 2008
Yale hosts a symposium today on Michael J. Graetz's new book, 100 Million Unnecessary Returns: A Simple, Fair, and Competitive Tax Plan for the United States (Yale Univ. Press, 2007). From the Yale press release: Graetz ... will lay out...

Zelinsky on Tax and the Dormant Commerce Clause

Posted on February 05, 2008
Edward A. Zelinsky (Cardozo) has posted Rethinking Tax Nexus and Apportionment: Voice, Exit and the Dormant Commerce Clause on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The dormant Commerce Clause concept of tax nexus is best understood as a rough, but serviceable,...

Alarie & Duff on The Legacy of UK Tax Concepts in Canadian Income Tax Law

Posted on February 05, 2008
Benjamin Alarie (Toronto) & David G. Duff (Toronto) have posted The Legacy of UK Tax Concepts in Canadian Income Tax Law on SSRN. Here is the abstract: UK tax concepts have had considerable influence in the structure and development of...

$25k Signing Bonuses for Entry-Level Faculty

Posted on February 05, 2008
Brian Leiter reports on one law school that is offering $25,000 signing bonuses to entry-level faculty. Is this different from (and in addition to) the somewhat common practice of schools offering research stipends for the summer before an entry-level candidate...

FY 2009 Budget and Tax Documents

Posted on February 05, 2008
FY 2009 Budget General Explanations of the FY 2009 Budget ("Bluebook") Treasury Department Press Release FY 2009 Budget Tax Proposals FY 2009 Budget-in-Brief FY 2009 IRS Budget FY 2009 Tax Expenditure Budget FY 2009 Tax Receipts FY 2009 White House...

SSRN Tax Professor Rankings

Posted on February 05, 2008
SSRN has updated its new monthly rankings of 455 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 February...

War and Taxes

Posted on February 05, 2008
Steven A. Bank (UCLA), Joseph J. Thorndike (Tax Analysts) & Kirk J. Stark (UCLA) have published War and Taxes (Urban Institute Press, 2008): During World War II, Americans were urged to ration food, raise money, and accept higher taxes for...

The Advantages of Junior Law Faculty: Implications for Teaching and the Future of American Law Schools

Posted on February 05, 2008
Gregory W. Bowman (Mississippi College School of Law) has posted The Comparative and Absolute Advantages of Junior Law Faculty: Implications for Teaching and the Future of American Law Schools, 2008 BYU Educ. & L.J. ___, on SSRN. Here is the...

Treasury Department Releases Bluebook on Revenue Provisions of President Bush's Final Budget

Posted on February 04, 2008
The Treasury Department today released its General Explanations of the Administration's Fiscal Year (FY) 2009 Revenue Proposals -- the "Bluebook." From the press release: The Administration's FY 2009 Budget includes measures to permanently extend the President's tax relief enacted in...

Raskolnikov Presents Beyond Deterrence: Targeting Tax Enforcement with a Penalty Default Today at Temple

Posted on February 04, 2008
Alex Raskolnikov (Columbia) presents Beyond Deterrence: Targeting Tax Enforcement with a Penalty Default at Temple today as part of its Faculty Workshop Series.

Miller & Chevalier Releases Tax Policy Forecast Survey

Posted on February 04, 2008
Miller & Chevalier (Washington, D.C.) has released its 2008 Tax Policy Forecast Survey. From the press release: Miller & Chevalier Chartered today announced the results of their 2008 Tax Policy Forecast Survey measuring the current perspectives and attitudes of leading...

Drink Tax Song

Posted on February 04, 2008
Jim Maule (Villanova) passed along this great song about about Allegheny County, Pennsylvania's new 10% tax on poured drinks: Jim has more here. To listen to other tax songs, see: It's My Money Sales Tax Tained Stock The Tax Man...

Tax News Roundup

Posted on February 04, 2008
New York Times: Closing Income Gap Tops Obama?s Agenda for Economic Change, by David Leonhardt Tax Scheme Is Blamed for Damage to Artifacts, by Matthew L. Wal Tax Girl: Blogger Tax Deductions and Tips Tax Policy Blog: 95 Years Ago...

Illinois Receives $1.3 Million Gift to Honor Tax Prof John Colombo

Posted on February 04, 2008
The University of Illinois College of Law has received a $1.3 million gift from June E. Michael to honor Tax Prof John D. Colombo. The gift will be used to create the John D. Colombo Professorship in Law and several...

Tax Profs Comment on Wesley Snipes' Acquittal

Posted on February 04, 2008
Tax Profs comment below the fold on Friday's acquittal of Wesley Snipes on the most serious tax fraud and conspiracy charges: Linda M. Beale (Wayne State) Neil H. Buchanan (George Washington) Bryan T. Camp (Texas Tech) Calvin H. Johnson (Texas)...

Law Schools in Jeopardy of Failing ABA's New 75% Bar Passage Accreditation Standard

Posted on February 04, 2008
On Saturday, I blogged the ABA's expected approval, at its meeting this week in Los Angeles, of a new objective bar passage standard for law school accreditation. Under the proposal, over a five-year period, 75% of a school's graduates must...

The Days Are Long, But the Years Are Short

Posted on February 04, 2008
Gretchen Craft Rubin, former editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal and law clerk to Justice O'Connor, has produced this wonderful one-minute movie, The Years Are Short -- from the line, the days are long, but the years are short. (Hat...

Video on the Laffer Curve

Posted on February 04, 2008
The Center for Freedom and Prosperity has released the first part of a three-part series on how the Laffer Curve explains the relationship between tax rates and tax revenues: While the theory behind the Laffer Curve is widely accepted, the...

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Posted on February 04, 2008
Saturday: Touro Law School for Sale for $70 Million? ABA to Impose 75% Bar Passage Requirement as Law School Accreditation Standard Toder on Does the Federal Income Tax Favor Small Business? Bogdanski on Foreign Student Tax Filing Rules Charitable Deductions...

Court: Bluetooth Association Does Not Qualify as Tax-Exempt � 501(c)(6) Business League

Posted on February 03, 2008
In Bluetooth SIG, Inc. v. United States, No. C05-1778, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington in Seattle on Friday granted the government's motion for summary judgment and concluded that the Bluetooth Association is not a tax-exempt...

The Worst Year Of My Life?

Posted on February 03, 2008
As regular readers of the blog know, I turned 50 this year (and endured this rite of passage for folks my age). The Weekend Wall Street Journal says this should be the worst year of my life: This week a...

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