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Senate Cancels Labor Secretary Nominee's Confirmation Hearing Because of Her Husband's Tax Problems

Posted on February 05, 2009
The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee abruptly canceled today's 2:00 p.m. scheduled meeting to consider President Obama's nomination of Rep. Hilda Solis to be Secretary of Labor after USA Today reported that her husband yesterday paid $6,400 to...

Tax Court Says Comedian Not in Comedy Business (But At Least His Argument Was Funny)

Posted on February 05, 2009
The Tax Court yesterday held that Gabriel Loup, a comedian with a number of appearances in L.A. comedy clubs to his credit, could not deduct $13,761 of claimed business expense deductions on his 2003 return because he failed to prove...

Law School Admissions Data by Race

Posted on February 05, 2009
David Bernstein (George Mason) reports the median LSAT scores and undergraduate GPAs for law school applicants and matriculants in the Fall 2007 entering class: Asian Americans had very similar scores to whites, on average, and Hispanics' scores were very close...

Mintz Presents Restructuring the Federal Fuel Excise Tax Today at UCLA

Posted on February 05, 2009
Jack Mintz (University of Calgary, Department of Economics) presents A Simple Approach for Bettering the Environment and the Economy: Restructuring the Federal Fuel Excise Tax at UCLA today as part of its Tax Policy and Public Finance Colloquium Series moderated...

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The View Weighs in on Daschle, Geithner & Tax Policy

Posted on February 05, 2009
(Hat Tip: Bridget Crawford.)

Tax News Roundup

Posted on February 05, 2009
Bloomberg: Senate Adds Homebuyers' Tax Cut to Stimlus Measure, by Brian Faler Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate for Senate Stimulus Bill Macroeconomic Impact of Senate Bill Heritage Foundation: Obama's Broken Tax Cut Promise, by J.D. Foster Mauled Again: Tax Problem...

Finkelstein Presents EZ-Tax: Tax Salience and Tax Rates Today at NYU

Posted on February 05, 2009
Amy Finkelstein (MIT, Department of Economics) presents EZ-Tax: Tax Salience and Tax Rates at 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, Department of...

NY Times: How to Avoid a Tom Daschle Problem

Posted on February 05, 2009
New York Times: How to Avoid a Tom Daschle Problem, by Ron Lieber: Don't Forget Your Driver The Case for Getting Help The Nanny Tax Check Your Work (Hat Tip: Ann Murphy.)

Student Tax Writing Competition -- $3,000 Prize

Posted on February 05, 2009
The Center for Tax Law and Employee Benefits at The John Marshall Law School Chicago sponsors the Paul Faherty Tax Law Writing Competition: Scope: The scope of permissible topics for the writing competition is broad -- any aspect of Tax...

Johnston: Why Was Geithner Treated So Much Better Than IRS Employees?

Posted on February 05, 2009
David Cay Johnston has published Tim "Not to My Recollection" Geithner and Justice Wilson, 122 Tax Notes 661 (Feb. 2, 2009): Timothy Geithner is one lucky man ... because when he cheated the government on his payroll taxes, he wasn't...

What Makes for a Good CEO? Interpersonal and Team Skills Are Overrated

Posted on February 05, 2009
I have previously offered my views on what characteristics make for successful law faculty and law deans (What Law Schools Can Learn from Billy Beane and the Oakland Athletics, 82 Tex. L. Rev. 1483 (2004)). The February NBER Digest has...

Drennan: Section 409A Should be Scuttled

Posted on February 05, 2009
WIlliam A. Drennan (Southern Illinois) has published The Pirates Will Party On! The Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Rules Will Not Prevent CEOs From Acting Like Plundering Pirates and Should Be Scuttled, 33 Vt. L. Rev. 1 (2008). Here is the abstract:...

Is Kwame Kilpatrick's Lawyer Angling for a Cabinet Appointment?

Posted on February 04, 2009
The Detroit News reports that Willie Gary, former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's new lawyer, was the subject of $3.8 million in IRS tax liens for the 1998-2000 tax years: The Web site of the so-called "Giant Killer" is wallpapered with...

Dorf: Why Didn't the Questionnaire Catch the Tax Issues?

Posted on February 04, 2009
I previously blogged the the extensive questionnaire that the Obama transition team asked job applicants to complete. In light of the Daschle-Geithner-Killefer tax trifecta, Michael Dorf (Cornell) asks Why Didn't the Questionnaire Catch the Tax Issues?: I did not expect...

Call for Tax Papers: AALS Annual Meeting

Posted on February 04, 2009
Call for Papers: The Property and Taxation Sections of the AALS are seeking to co-sponsor a half day session at the annual AALS meeting next year (January, 2010) in New Orleans. If you are working on the intersection of these...

I Want Some TARP

Posted on February 04, 2009

Obama Considers Tax on Cabinet

Posted on February 04, 2009
The Borwitz Report: Obama Considers Tax on Cabinet; Would Create Budget Surplus, Experts Believe: President Barack Obama is mulling a controversial new tax program that would require members of his Cabinet to pay taxes owed under the Federal tax code,...

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Posted on February 04, 2009
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WaPo: Daschle Not a "Victim" of the Tax Code

Posted on February 04, 2009
Today's Washington Post: Victims of the Tax Code? Not So Fast; Nominee Trouble Preventable, Experts Say, by Michael S. Rosenwald: The tax system is complicated. It is, according to many lawyers and tax preparers, in need of sweeping reform. But...

3d Circuit: Employment Discrimination Awards Can be Increased to Take Account of Adverse Tax Consequences

Posted on February 04, 2009
The Third Circuit last Friday heightened a split in the circuits by giving trial judges the power to increase employment discrimination awards to compensate for the adverse tax consequences of receiving a backpay award in a lump sum in a...

Stimulus Bills Would Amend � 265(b)(3) to Provide More Tax-Exempt Financing for Small Colleges

Posted on February 04, 2009
Inside Higher Ed reports that both the House and Senate versions of the stimulus bill would amend � 265(b)(3) to provide more tax-exempt financing for capital projects at small colleges (Stimulating Boon for Small Colleges, by Doug Lederman): [A] comparatively...

ABA Tax Section Submits Comment Letters

Posted on February 04, 2009
The ABA Tax Section has submitted comment letters on: Notice 2008-19 and Segregated Arrangements That Do Not Involve Insurance Transfer Pricing as Related to Enhancing Canada?s International Tax Advantage

Death of Donald Alexander

Posted on February 03, 2009
I am sorry to bring you that news that Donald C. Alexander, IRS Commissioner from 1973 to 1977 and a tax partner at Akin Gump, died Monday night at the age of 87 after a hard-fought battle with cancer. From...

Tom Daschle: It Is Time to Go

Posted on February 03, 2009
Update: He went.

Obama's Pick for Chief Performance Officer Withdraws Because of Nanny Tax Issue

Posted on February 03, 2009
Nancy Killefer, President Obama's selection to be the federal government's inaugural Chief Performance Officer, withdrew her candidacy after press reports surfaced that the D.C. government had slapped a $946.69 lien on her home for nonpayment of $298 of employment taxes...

Using the Tax Code to Get Back the $18b Wall Street Bonuses

Posted on February 03, 2009
The Daily Kos proposes the use of the Tax Code to retrieve the $18 billion in bonuses paid out by Wall Street firms, which President Obama characterized as "shameful"": Any employee, consultant or officer of any entity that was the...

More on Dividend Repatriation

Posted on February 03, 2009
Following up on last week's post on the debate over whether to bring back the 2004 Act's dividend repatriation provision: Press Release, Levin, Dorgan Question Repatriation Lobbying Effort ataxing matter: Corporate Lbbying for "Repatriation Tax Break", by Linda Beale Bloomberg:...

Daschle and Public Opinion About Tax Compliance

Posted on February 03, 2009
The IRS Oversight Board has released the results of its 2008 Taxpayer Attitude Survey of 1,005 respondents. This is the eighth year the board has conducted the survey. Among the results showing a disconnect between the Washington, D.C. cognoscenti's acceptance...

NY Times Daschle Debate: Tax Dodge or Honest Mistake?

Posted on February 03, 2009
The New York Times Room for Debate asked various tax experts to weigh in on Tom Daschle's tax problem in A Tax Dodge or an Honest Mistake?: Should personal tax problems be grounds for disqualification from cabinet and other high-level...

GM Lobbies for $7 Billion Tax Break in Stimulus Bill

Posted on February 03, 2009
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