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Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads

Posted on February 03, 2008
This week's list of the Top 5 Recent Tax Paper Downloads is the same as last week's list: 1. [185 Downloads] The Carried Interest Controversy: Let's Not Get Carried Away, by Noel B. Cunningham (NYU) & Mitchell L. Engler (Cardozo)...

Survivor Winner Richard Hatch Loses Appeal of Tax Evasion Conviction in First Circuit

Posted on February 03, 2008
United States v. Hatch, No. 06-1902 (1st Cir. 2/1/08) Richard Hatch, the first winner of the CBS reality tv show "Survivor," appeals from his convictions and sentence on three counts of filing false tax returns, in violation of 26 U.S.C....

Ireland Eliminates Plastic Grocery Bags with 33-Cent Tax; ATM Receipts, Chewing Gum Are Next

Posted on February 03, 2008
Interesting article in the New York Times: Motivated by a Tax, Irish Spurn Plastic Bags, by Elisabeth Rosenthal: In 2002, Ireland passed a tax on plastic bags; customers who want them must now pay 33 cents per bag at the...

CTJ Publishes Tax Justice Digest

Posted on February 03, 2008
Citizens for Tax Justice has published its weekly Tax Justice Digest with a number of interesting pieces on: Senate to Vote Next Week on Stimulus Bill More Generous than the House Version CTJ Paper Finds President Bush Misleading about Tax...

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Toder on Does the Federal Income Tax Favor Small Business?

Posted on February 02, 2008
Eric Toder (Urban Institute) has posted Does the Federal Income Tax Favor Small Business? on the Tax Policy Center web site. Here is the abstract: Small business is the source of our entrepreneurial genius, creativity, and productivity. Nonetheless, a substantial...

Bogdanski on Foreign Student Tax Filing Rules

Posted on February 02, 2008
John A. Bogdanski (Lewis & Clark) has posted Foreign Student Tax Filing Rules: Better, But an Urban Myth Persists, 117 Tax Notes 1236 (12/24/07), on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In recent years, the tax filing burdens on international guests...

Charitable Deductions for Rail-Trail Conversions: Reconciling the Partial Interest Rule and the National Trails System Act

Posted on February 02, 2008
Danaya C. Wright (Florida) & Scott A. Bowman (Tax LL.M. 2008, Florida) have posted Charitable Deductions for Rail-Trail Conversions: Reconciling the Partial Interest Rule and the National Trails System Act, 32 Wm. & Mary Envtl. L. & Pol'y Rev. ___...

Touro Law School for Sale for $70 Million?

Posted on February 02, 2008
ABA Journal: Touro Law For Sale?, by Molly McDonough Associated Press: Talks Could Create a Public Law School on Long Island Long Island Business News: Stony Brook Eyes Touro Law, by David Reich-Hale Newsday: Stony Brook in Talks to Buy...

ABA to Impose 75% Bar Passage Requirement as Law School Accreditation Standard

Posted on February 02, 2008
Interesting article in next week's National Law Journal: ABA May Tighten Rule on Bar Exam Performance; Controversial Move Has Drawn Sharp Criticism From Minority Groups, by Leigh Jones: Amid pressure from the U.S. Department of Education, the ABA is poised...

Mankiw Brings Tax Policy Perspective to Fiscal Stimulus Debate

Posted on February 01, 2008
Greg Mankiw brings a tax policy perspective to the fiscal stimulus debate: When designing a tax system and evaluating tax proposals, policy analysts have at least four goals in mind: Efficiency: The tax system should distort incentives as little as...

ABA Tax Section Submits Comments on Proposed Regs on Tax Strategy Patents

Posted on February 01, 2008
The ABA Tax Section has submitted comments to the IRS on the Proposed �� 6011 and 6111 Regs on Tax Strategy Patents: These Comments provide background information relating to the Proposed Regulations, and make the following observations and recommendations: Tax...

Foundation Press Publishes Family Law Stories

Posted on February 01, 2008
Foundation Press has published Family Law Stories, edited by Carol Sanger (Columbia): This new Law Stories title presents the back stories ? historical, procedural, personal and political ? of eleven significant family law cases. The essays, written by leading family...

Jones on Third-Party Profit-Taking in Tax Exemption Jurisprudence

Posted on February 01, 2008
Darryll K. Jones (Pittsburgh) has published Third-Party Profit-Taking in Tax Exemption Jurisprudence, 2007 BYU L. Rev. 977. Here is part of the Conclusion: This Article began by stating what should be recognized as truism: Charity is not free. To achieve...

Wesley Snipes Acquitted of Tax Fraud, Convicted of Failing to File Return

Posted on February 01, 2008
In a huge victory for the tax protester movement, a Florida jury this afternoon acquitted Wesley Snipes of two felony charges of tax fraud and conspiracy, as well as three misdemeanor charges of failing to file tax returns and to...

Comparing the Presidential Candidates' Tax Positions: Clinton v. Obama & McCain v. Romney

Posted on February 01, 2008
The Tax Foundation has released a new web-based tool for comparing the presidential candidates' tax positions. Check out these head-to-head tax matchups: Clinton v. Obama McCain v. Romney Other tax sites also compare the presidential candidates' tax positions: Americans for...

ABA Tax Section Seeks to Hire Pro Bono Lawyer

Posted on February 01, 2008
The ABA Section of Taxation is looking for a Pro Bono lawyer to join its staff in Washington, D.C.: This position will work with the Section's Pro Bono Committee to coordinate efforts to provide service to the pro bono tax...

Freedman on Financial and Tax Accounting: Transparency and Truth

Posted on February 01, 2008
Judith Freedman (Oxford University) has posted Financial and Tax Accounting: Transparency and Truth, in Tax and Corporate Governance (Springer, 2008), on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In the USA there have been calls for greater conformity between the rules producing...

Same-Sex Couples Can File Joint Returns in Five States & D.C.

Posted on January 31, 2008
Interesting article on Kiplinger: Tax Savings for Domestic Partners: Five States and the District of Columbia Now Allow Same-Sex Couples to File Joint Returns, by Kevin McCormally: In the be-careful-what-you-ask-for realm, many gay and lesbian couples around the country may...

DOJ Tax Division Seeks to Hire Civil Tax Litigators

Posted on January 31, 2008
The DOJ's Tax Division has asked me to post this: The Tax Division of the U.S. Department of Justice has openings for civil litigators to represent the United States in a broad array of tax and tax-related matters in courts...

Today Is EITC Awareness Day

Posted on January 31, 2008
Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson, Jr., U.S. Treasurer Anna Escobedo Cabral, Acting IRS Commissioner Linda Stiff, Senator Max Baucus, and Senator Charles Grassley are marking EITC Awareness Day today with this joint press conference. For more information, see: Invitation to...

Christian Legal Scholarship

Posted on January 31, 2008
David A. Skee, Jr. (Penn) has posted two papers on Christian legal scholarship on SSRN: The Paths of Christian Legal Scholarship: The history of twentieth century Christian legal scholarship -- really, the absence of Christian legal scholarship in America's elite...

Wesley Snipes' Jury Concludes Second Day of Deliberations Without Reaching Verdict; YouTube Video Undercuts Star Prosecution Witness

Posted on January 31, 2008
Associated Press: Jury Goes Home Without Reaching Verdict in Snipes Tax Trial Ocala.com: Judge in Snipes Trial Answers Jury's Question WFTV.com: YouTube Video Casts Doubt On Snipes Trial Witness

Hassett Presents Taxes and Wages Today at NYU

Posted on January 31, 2008
Kevin Hassett (American Enterprise Institute) presents Taxes and Wages at NYU today as part of its Colloquium Series on Tax Policy and Public Finance. Here is the abstract: Using panel data for 72 countries and 22 years, we explore the...

Tax Miscreant Roundup: Wesley Snipes & Stephen Yagman

Posted on January 31, 2008
Wesley Snipes: Associated Press: No Verdict Yet in Snipes Case Wesley Snipes' Trial Offers Perfect Script for IRS to Discourage Activists, by Travis Reed The Daily Dish: Jurors Urged to Acquit "Crazy" Snipes E! Online: Snipes Jury Taxed with Deliberations,...

Weisbach Presents Optimal Tax Theory and Individuals with Disabilities Today at Stanford

Posted on January 31, 2008
David A. Weisbach (Chicago) presents A Welfarist Approach to Disabilities at Stanford today as part of its John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics. Here is the abstract: This paper uses the tools of optimal tax theory to examine...

American Hosts Panel on Tax Law and Cultural Property

Posted on January 31, 2008
American University Washington College of law hosts a panel today on Tax Law and Cultural Property: This program focuses on how the Art Advisory Panel, comprised of members of the art market, academic, and non?profit sectors, functions within the IRS...

Yale Presents Investment Risk and The Tax Benefit of Deferred Compensation Today at Florida State

Posted on January 31, 2008
Ethan Yale (Georgetown) presents Investment Risk and The Tax Benefit of Deferred Compensation at Florida State today as part of its Faculty Enrichment Series. Here is the abstract: Deferred compensation is thought to generate considerable tax savings compared to current...

McCluskey on Economic Inequality, Gender and Marriage Tax Reform

Posted on January 31, 2008
Martha T. McCluskey (SUNY-Buffalo) has posted Razing the Citizen: Economic Inequality, Gender and Marriage Tax Reform on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This chapter links the failure of U.S. social citizenship ideals to a broader weakness in U.S. ideas citizenship...

Graetz Presents A Simple, Fair, and Competitive Tax Plan Today at Toronto

Posted on January 30, 2008
Michael J. Graetz (Yale) presents 100 Million Unnecessary Returns: A Simple, Fair, and Competitive Tax Plan for the United States (Yale Univ. Press, 2007) at the University of Toronto today as part of the James Hausman Tax Law and Policy...

Gerzog on The Strict Rules of Charitable Split Interest Gifts

Posted on January 30, 2008
Wendy Gerzog (Baltimore) has posted The Strict Rules of Charitable Split Interest Gifts, 118 Tax Notes 541 (1/28/08), on SSRN. Here is the abstract: When giving both to your family and to your charity, you must follow the rules carefully...

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