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Boise Presents Breaking Open Offshore Piggybanks: Redux Today at Wake Forest

Posted on February 19, 2009
Craig Boise (Case Western; moving to DePaul) presents Breaking Open Offshore Piggybanks: Redux at Wake Forest today as part of its Faculty Development Program. Here is the abstract: In his 2007 article, Breaking Open Offshore Piggybanks: Deferral and the Utility...

Margalioth Presents Employing Statistical Stigma As a Welfare Ordeal Today at NYU

Posted on February 19, 2009
Yoram Margalioth(Tel Aviv University, Buchanan Faculty of Law) presents Employing Statistical Stigma As a Welfare Ordealat NYU today as part of its Colloquium Series on Tax Policy and Public Finance. The co-convenors are Daniel Shaviro (NYU) & Alan Auerbach (UC-Berkeley,...

Polsky & Hellwig Present Taxing Structured Settlements Today at SMU

Posted on February 19, 2009
Gregg D. Polsky (Florida State) & Brant J. Hellwig (South Carolina) present Taxing Structured Settlements at SMU today as part of its Tax Policy Colloquium Series moderated by Christopher H. Hanna. Here is the Introduction: Section 104(a)(2) provides a tax...

IRS Publishes Updated Publication 17

Posted on February 19, 2009
The IRS has published an updated version of Publication 17 (pdf,html), its comprehensive tax guide for individuals for use in preparing 2008 tax returns.

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The Next Obama Tax Kerfuffle: Rahm Emanuel's Rent-Free Use of Capitol Hill Townhouse

Posted on February 19, 2009
Pressure is building on Barack Obama's Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel surrounding his failure to pay taxes (and disclose on congressional ethics forms) on his rent-free use of a Capitol Hill townhouse. From the New York Post: Emanuel is a...

Zelenak: Can Obama's IRS Retroactively Revoke Massive Bank Giveaway?

Posted on February 19, 2009
Lawrence Zelenak (Duke) has published Can Obama's IRS Retroactively Revoke Massive Bank Giveaway?, 122 Tax Notes 889 (Feb. 16, 2009). Here is the abstract: In this report, Prof. Zelenak considers whether a retroactive revocation of Notice 2008-83 -- which indicated,...

Geier Posts Tax Articles on SSRN

Posted on February 19, 2009
Deborah A. Geier (Cleveland State) has posted a number of her tax articles on SSRN: The Housing Decline: The Extent of the Problem and Potential Remedies (Testimony, Senate Finance Committee (Dec. 2007)) Interpreting Tax Legislation: The Role of Purpose, 2...

UBS Agrees to Pay $780m and Disclose Clients to Settle Tax Fraud Case

Posted on February 18, 2009
UBS this afternoon signed a deferred prosecution agreement under which it will (1) pay $780 million to settle claims that the Swiss bank conspired to defraud the United States by impeding the IRS, and (2) disclose the names of wealthy...

Alaska Concedes Travel Expense Reimbursements Are Taxable to Gov. Palin

Posted on February 18, 2009
As predicted on this blog (see prior posts below), and contrary to the pathetic tax opinion released by the McCain campaign, the Anchorage Daily News reports that state tax authorities now concede that the state erroneously failed to include over...

The Top 10 Tax Blogs

Posted on February 18, 2009
The folks at Blogs.com asked me for my list of the Top 10 Tax Blogs: ataxingmatterDon't Mess With TaxesMauled AgainNonprofit Law Prof BlogRoth & Co.Start Making SenseThe Tax GirlTax Policy BlogTaxProf BlogTaxVox Blog For links to 68 tax blogs, see...

Students Expect Good Grades Just For Showing Up

Posted on February 18, 2009
New York Times: Student Expectations Seen as Causing Grade Disputes, by Max Roosevelt: A recent study by researchers at the University of California, Irvine, found that a third of students surveyed said that they expected B?s just for attending lectures,...

Infanti & Crawford: Critical Tax Theory

Posted on February 18, 2009
Anthony C. Infanti (Pittsburgh) & Bridget J. Crawford (Pace) have posted Critical Tax Theory: An Introduction on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Our forthcoming book Critical Tax Theory: An Introduction (Cambridge University Press 2009) highlights and explains the major themes...

WSJ: IRS to Bailout Madoff Investors?

Posted on February 18, 2009
Wall Street Journal: Madoff Victimes Turn to IRS to Get Relief, by Jane J. Kim & Tom Herman: Many investors burned by accused fraudster Bernard Madoff are hoping to get help from an unlikely white knight: the IRS. Since Mr....

Tax Works?hop for Strip?pers & Sex Worke?rs

Posted on February 18, 2009
As regular readers know, I blog the tax workshop series at thirteen law schools (Boston College, Columbia, Connecticut, Indiana-Bloomington, Loyola, Michigan, NYU, Northwestern, Pennsylvania, San Diego, Toronto, UCLA, and Washington). But I somehow missed this tax workshop sponsored by the...

Foundation Press Publishes Presidential Power Stories

Posted on February 18, 2009
Foundation Press has published Presidential Power Stories (2008), edited by Christopher H. Schroeder (Duke) & Curtis A. Bradley (Duke): This book tells the story of a dozen notable presidential power disputes in our nation's history. Ranging from the Neutrality Controversy...

Ventry: Cooperative Tax Regulation

Posted on February 18, 2009
Dennis Ventry (UC-Davis) has published Cooperative Tax Regulation, 41 Conn. L. Rev. 431 (2008). Here is the abstract: This Article describes a new approach to tax regulation based on cooperation, information sharing, and interest convergence. Currently, tax regulation in the...

Bishop: Reverse Piercing: A Single Member LLC Paradox

Posted on February 18, 2009
Carter G. Bishop (Suffolk) has posted Reverse Piercing: A Single Member LLC Paradox, 54 S.D. L. Rev. ___ (2009), on SSRN. Here is the abstract: All states permit a limited liability company (SMLLC) to be formed with only one member...

Obama Signs Stimulus Bill

Posted on February 17, 2009
President Obama signed the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act this afternoon in Denver.

The New Frontier in Law Faculty Rankings: Facebook Friends?

Posted on February 17, 2009
I have previously written about the four existing methodologies for ranking law faculty: citation counts, download counts, publication counts, and reputation surveys. Ranking Law Schools: Using SSRN to Measure Scholarly Performance, 81 Ind. L.J. 83 (2006)...

McMahon: Rethinking Marital Property for Federal Income Tax Return Filing

Posted on February 17, 2009
My colleague Stephanie McMahon (Cincinnati) has posted To Have and to Hold and to Shift between Us: Rethinking Marital Property for Federal Income Tax Return Filings on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Wealthy taxpayers have always attempted to reduce their...

Best: Law School Student Evaluations Work Well

Posted on February 17, 2009
Arthur Best (Denver) has published Student Evaluations of Law Teaching Work Well: Strongly Agree, Agree, Neutral, Disagree, Strongly Disagree, 38 Sw. U. L. Rev. 1 (2008). Here is the abstract: Academics in the fields of psychology and education generally describe...

Mason: Made in American for European Tax: The Internal Consistency Test

Posted on February 17, 2009
Ruth Mason (UConn) has published Made in American for European Tax: The Internal Consistency Test, 49 B.C. L. Rev. 1277 (2008) Here is the abstract: This Article offers an explanation for why the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has such...

Stanley Fish: Are Academics Different?

Posted on February 17, 2009
New York Times: Are Academics Different?, by Stanley Fish: [Matthew W. Finkin & Robert C. Post, For the Common Good: Principles of American Academic Freedom (2009):] "[A]cademic freedom has in recent decades increasingly come to be conceived of as an...

Brown: Race, Class, and the Obama Tax Plan

Posted on February 17, 2009
Dorothy A. Brown (Emory) has published Race, Class, and the Obama Tax Plan, 86 Denv. U. L. Rev. ___ (2009). Here is the abstract: This Essay examines three areas of federal tax policy: (i) the exclusion for employer provided pensions;...

SSRN Tax Professor Rankings

Posted on February 17, 2009
SSRN has updated its monthly rankings of 562 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 14,...

SOI Releases Papers From 2008 IRS Research Conference

Posted on February 17, 2009
The IRS's Statistics of Income Division has released the 2008 IRS Research Bulletin with the papers from the IRS Research Conference held at Georgetown on June 11-12, 2008.

Avi-Yonah & Uhlmann: Why a Carbon Tax is a Better Response to Global Warming than Cap and Trade

Posted on February 17, 2009
Reuven S. Avi-Yonah (Michigan) & David M. Uhlmann (Michigan) have published Combating Global Climate Change: Why a Carbon Tax is a Better Response to Global Warming than Cap and Trade, 28 Stan. Envtl. L.J. 3 (2009). Here is the abstract:...

Duff Presents Tax Fairness and the Tax Mix at Florida State

Posted on February 16, 2009
David Duff (Toronto) presented Tax Fairness and the Tax Mix at Florida State last Thursday as part of its Faculty Enrichment Series hosted by Joseph Dodge. Here is the abstract: This paper examines the concept of ?tax fairness? as it...

Colombo: The NCAA, Tax Exemption and College Athletics

Posted on February 16, 2009
John D. Colombo (Illinois) has posted The NCAA, Tax Exemption and College Athletics on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The purpose of this article is two-fold. First, it will explain the concepts of federal tax-exemption law as they apply to...

A British Perspective on American Tax Filing

Posted on February 16, 2009
BBC News: Taxing Times for US Tax Payers: As the deadline for completing a US tax return approaches, the BBC's North America business correspondent, Greg Wood, finds the burden getting him down. For the past few weeks I have been...

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