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Happy 175th Birthday, University of Cincinnati College of Law

Posted on January 25, 2008
Happy 175th birthday to my school, the University of Cincinnati College of Law -- the fourth oldest continuously operating law school in the United States. We are celebrating tonight with a gala dinner featuring John Grisham and Cris Collinsworth (Class...

NLJ: A Tale of Two [Law School] Tiers

Posted on January 25, 2008
Tying together several recent posts (here, here, and here): the National law Journal has released advance copies of two articles from next Monday's issue that highlight very different law school worlds: Donations to Law Schools Soaring; Top Schools Bolster Specialized...

Tax Court Judge Wherry Speaks Today at Florida

Posted on January 25, 2008
Tax Court Judge Robert A. Wherry Jr. delivers a lecture at Florida today as part of its Graduate Tax Program Lecture Series.

IRS Releases Guidance on Adequate Disclosure

Posted on January 25, 2008
The IRS today released an advance copy of Rev. Proc. 2008-14, 2008-7 I.R.B. ___ (2/19/08), which defines what constitutes adequate disclosure on a tax return to avoid the § 6662(d) substantial understatement of income penalty and the § 6694(a) preparer...

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Tax News Roundup

Posted on January 25, 2008
New York Times: Strains on the IRS Could Delay Rebate Checks for Months, by David Cay Johnston Wall Street Journal: Bush's Economic Surrender (op-ed), by Kimberly A. Strassel Citigroup and Morgan Stanley Embrace Taxman's Loophole, by Jesse Drucker The Giuliani...

Senate Asks Why Colleges Earn 17.6% on Endowments But Spend Only 4.6% on Students

Posted on January 25, 2008
The Senate Finance Committee yesterday sent a letter to the 136 U.S. colleges and universities with endowments of $500 million or more, requesting the schools to respond within thirty days to more than fifty questions dealing with finances and tuition...

Tax in the First Year

Posted on January 25, 2008
From a survey on the TaxProf Discussion List: here are the law schools that offer income tax in the first year, as either a required or elective course: Arizona State (elective) Connecticut (elective) Iowa (elective) NYU (elective) Northwestern (elective) Rutgers-Newark...

Details of Tax Cuts in Economic Stimulus Plan

Posted on January 25, 2008
President Bush and House leaders agreed yesterday on $146.3 billion in tax cuts intended to stimulate the economy. More than $100 billion is in the form of tax rebate checks of up to $600 for individuals or $1,200 for couples,...

Henderson on Benchmarking Law School Performance: Why Law Professors and Deans Should Care

Posted on January 25, 2008
Bill Henderson (Indiana) has a detailed, thoughful post on Benchmarking Law School Performance: Why Law Professors and Deans Should Care: For those law faculty who would dismiss such detailed market intel in favor of their own vision of a great...

"Cuddly" Law Firms

Posted on January 25, 2008
Interesting article in the New York Times: Who?s Cuddly Now? Law Firms, by Lisa Belkin: Inthe last two decades, as working schedules became flexible, and even accounting firms, of all places, embraced the mantra of work-life balance (at least on...

Odds Posted on Outcome of Wesley Snipes Tax Fraud Trial; Counsel Spar Over Whether His Tax Views Are "Crazy or Criminal"

Posted on January 24, 2008
Odds have been posted on the outcome of the Wesley Snipes tax fraud trial: Will Wesley Snipes be convicted of tax fraud? YES ? 1/10 NO ? 3/1 Wesley Snipes' tax fraud sentence will be: Convicted 1 to 5 years...

NY Governor Proposes $200-a-Gram Tax on Cocaine

Posted on January 24, 2008
New York Times: A $200-a-Gram Tax on Cocaine, by Sewell Chan: Among the hundreds of proposals contained in Gov. Eliot Spitzer?s second executive budget, which he unveiled on Tuesday in Albany, is a provision that would impose a $3.50-a-gram tax...

Blogs v. Peer-Review

Posted on January 24, 2008
Interesting article in the Chronicle of Higher Education: Blog Comments and Peer Review Go Head to Head to See Which Makes a Book Better, by Jeffrey R. Young: What if scholarly books were peer reviewed by anonymous blog comments rather...

Ranking of Online Colleges

Posted on January 24, 2008
Online Education Database has released a ranking of 41 online colleges, which equally weights eight variables: Acceptance Rate Financial Aid Graduation Rate Peer Web Citations Retention Rate Scholarly Citations Student-Faculty Ratio Years Accredited Here are the Top 25 online colleges...

Senate Holds Hearing Today on Tax Rebates

Posted on January 24, 2008
The Senate Finance Committee holds the second of a two-part hearing today on Strengthening America?s Economy: Stimulus That Makes Sense. The witnesses scheduled to testify are: Martin Feldstein, Baker Professor of Economics, Harvard University; President and CEO, National Bureau of...

Halperin Presents Deferred Compensation Revisited Today at NYU

Posted on January 24, 2008
Daniel I. Halperin (Harvard) presents Deferred Compensation Revisited at NYU today as part of its Colloquium Series on Tax Policy and Public Finance. Here is the abstract: The tax rules governing deferred compensation, codified at section 409A, are harsh and...

Schenk Presents The Political Economy of Tax Reform: The Case for Retaining the AMT Today at BC

Posted on January 24, 2008
Deborah H. Schenk (NYU) presents The Political Economy of Tax Reform: The Case for Retaining the AMT at Boston College today as part of its Tax Policy Workshop Series. Here is the part of the Introduction: Three significant issues in...

Avi-Yonah Presents A Proposal to Adopt Formulary Apportionment for Corporate Income Taxation Today at Northwestern

Posted on January 24, 2008
Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan) presents A Proposal to Adopt Formulary Apportionment for Corporate Income Taxation (with Kimberly A. Clausing, Wellesley College, Department of Economics) at Northwestern today as part of its Advanced Topics in Taxation Series organized by Charlotte Crane...

Fleming Presents Some Perspectives from America on the Worldwide Taxation vs. Territorial Taxation Debate Today in Australia

Posted on January 24, 2008
J. Clifton Fleming, Jr. (BYU) presents Some Perspectives from America on the Worldwide Taxation vs. Territorial Taxation Debate (with Robert J. Peroni (Texas) and Stephen E. Shay (Ropes & Gray, Boston)) at the 20th Annual Australasian Tax Teachers Association Conference...

Winners of 7th Annual ABA Law Student Tax Challenge

Posted on January 23, 2008
Congratulations to the winners of the 7th Annual ABA Law Student Tax Challenge, determined through oral and written arguments in semi-final and final competition rounds at the ABA Tax Section Midyear Meeting last week in Lake Las Vegas, NV: J.D....

Hines Presents The Last Best Hope for Progressivity in Tax Today at Michigan

Posted on January 23, 2008
James R. Hines, Jr. (Michigan) presents The Last Best Hope for Progressivity in Tax (with Edward McCaffery (USC)) at Michigan today as part of its Tax Policy Workshop Series. Here is part of the Introduction: While tax bases and tax...

Camp on A Theory of Taxing Virtual Worlds

Posted on January 23, 2008
Bryan Camp (Texas Tech) has published The Play's the Thing: A Theory of Taxing Virtual Worlds, 59 Hastings L.J. 1 (2008). Here is the abstract: Taxation is shadow life. As our culture monetizes more and more life activities, the shadow...

1L Grades Are In -- Should You Quit Law School?

Posted on January 23, 2008
From the New York Lawyer: Q: I am a first-year law student at a fourth-tier regional law school and I got my grades about a week ago. They were below average for my class, and I have been very depressed...

NY Times: Make the Tax Cuts Work

Posted on January 23, 2008
Interesting op-ed in today's New York Times: Make the Tax Cuts Work, by Len Burman (Director, Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center): Since 2001, Washington?s answer to every policy question has been the same. What should we do with a big surplus?...

Zelenak Is Finalist for Washington Deanship

Posted on January 23, 2008
Tax Prof Lawrence A. Zelenak (Duke) is one of four finalists for the University of Washington deanship. See the official announcement and CVs of the four finalists here. After law school, Larry worked as an associate at a Seattle law...

NYU Pays $4.2m for Condo to Lure Columbia Prof

Posted on January 23, 2008
From the New York Times: Recruiting With Real Estate, by Josh Barbanel: Columbia University, in a never-ending search for a larger campus, has long had an outpost for faculty housing at 455 Central Park West ? 53 apartments in an...

ABA Offers Webcast Interview Today with Lee Sheppard on Current Tax Topics

Posted on January 23, 2008
The ABA is offering a live video webcast interview with Lee Sheppard (Contributing Editor, Tax Analysts) today from 3:00 - 4:40 p.m. EST on Current Tax Topics: Meet Lee Sheppard, a Tax Analysts contributing editor for 20+ years, in this...

Federal Circuit Affirms Classification of Product of "Caron Process" Under Tariff Schedule

Posted on January 23, 2008
Howard Bashman was kind enough to send me the Federal Circuit's decision yesterday in Metchem, Inc. v. United States, No. 2007-1138 (Fed. Cir. 1/22/08): The subject merchandise is known commercially as basic nickel carbonate. It is obtained from the Yabulu...

Senate Holds Hearing Today on Tax Rebates

Posted on January 22, 2008
The Senate Finance Committee holds the first of a two-part hearing today on Strengthening America?s Economy: Stimulus That Makes Sense. Peter Orszag, Director of the Congressional Budget Office, is scheduled to testify. The hearing takes place at 10:00 a...

Abrams on Taxation of Carried Interests

Posted on January 22, 2008
Howard Abrams (Emory) has posted two papers on the taxation of carried interests on SSRN: Carried Interests: The Past is Prologue A Close Look at the Carried Interest Legislation, 117 Tax Notes 961 (12/3/07)

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