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Kaplan: Require 401(k) Plans Only as Supplement to Defined-Benefit Plans

Posted on October 28, 2008
From an Illinois press release: Congress needs to reform flawed 401(k) laws that could push back retirement for millions of Americans whose savings have collapsed along with the stock market, a University of Illinois elder law expert says. Law professor...

Stuart: Taxpayer Procedures and Remedies: The "Net Worth" Limitations

Posted on October 28, 2008
Robert J. Stuart (Fredrikson & Byron, Minneapolis) has published Taxpayer Procedures and Remedies in Tax Controversies: The Elusive Maze of the "Net Worth" Limitations, 61 Tax Law. 941 (2008). Here is the Introduction: There are a number of procedural devices...

Willens: How M.B.A. Students Can Deduct Their Education Expenses

Posted on October 28, 2008
Robert Willens (Robert Willens LLC, New York; Adjunct Professor, Columbia) has published Deducting an MBA Candidate's Education Expenses, 121 Tax Notes 415 (Oct. 27, 2008): Robert Willens examines whether a master's in business administration candidate can deduct his expenses for...

Tax Prof "Power Couple" Vic & Miranda Fleischer Return to Colorado

Posted on October 28, 2008
Tax Prof "power couple" Vic Fleischer and Miranda Perry Flesicher have announced that they are leaving Illinois to return to Colorado.

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CP&PP: U.S. Corporate Tax Burden, Not Rate, Is Key Metric

Posted on October 28, 2008
The Center on Budget & Policy Priorities has published Putting U.S. Corporate Taxes in Perspective, by Chye-Ching Huang: The U.S. corporate tax burden is smaller than average for developed countries. Corporations in the 19 member states of the OECD paid...

A Two-Tiered System of Legal Education?

Posted on October 28, 2008
Bar Passage and Best Practices for Legal Education, by Antoinette Sedillo Lopez (New Mexico): [T]he confluence of bar passage imperatives and the Best Practices/Carnegie movement might result in a kind of ?two-tier? legal education where students with higher LSAT?s and...

Groves: The De-gentrification of New Markets Tax Credits

Posted on October 28, 2008
Roger M. Groves (Florida Coastal) has published The De-gentrification of New Markets Tax Credits, 8 Fla. Tax Rev. 213 (2007). Here is part of the Introduction:The thesis of this article is the following: If tax credits are used as part...

Charles Merrill Raises First Amendment Challenge to DOMA in Tax Court

Posted on October 27, 2008
From a press release: Charles Merrill has filed papers with the U.S. Tax Court objecting to the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) based on the 1st Amendment Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution. He objects to not getting all the...

Cain Presents Taxing Families Fairly Today at Loyola-L.A.

Posted on October 27, 2008
Patricia A. Cain (Santa Clara) presents Taxing Families Fairly, 48 Santa Clara L. Rev. 805 (2008), at Loyola-L.A. today as part of its Tax Policy Colloquium Series. The commentator is Adam Chodorow (Arizona State). Here is the abstract: This article....

Monks: A Tax Practitioner's Primer on Patenting Tax Strategies

Posted on October 27, 2008
Thomas J. Monks (Western Connecticut State University) has published Evereything You Always Wanted to Know About Patents but Were Afraid to Ask: A Tax Practitioner's Primer on Patenting Tax Strategies, 61 Tax Law. 907 (2008). Here is part of the...

IRS Issues New Publication on Per Diem Rates

Posted on October 27, 2008
The IRS has issued a new edition of Publication 1542, Per Diem Rates (for Travel Within the Continental United States) (rev. Oct. 2008). For Law Profs going to the AALS annual meeting in San Diego, the per diem rate is...

McGill Hosts Conference Today on The Impact of International Tax Standards on Low-Income Countries

Posted on October 27, 2008
McGill University Faculty of Law hosts a conference today on Tracking Our Fiscal Footprint: Assessing the Impact of Conventional International Tax Standards on Low-Income Countries. Here are the speakers and their topics: Ilan Benshalom (Northwestern), The New Poor at Our...

Princeton Review's Top 50 Law Schools

Posted on October 27, 2008
Last week, I blogged the lists of the Top 10 law schools in eleven categories posted on Princeton Review's web site in connection with its publication of the 2009 edition of Best 174 Law Schools. The rankings are the result...

State Tax Revenues Fall 5.5%

Posted on October 27, 2008
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has published State Revenues Plummet: July-September Revenue Numbers Are Worst in Years, by Nicholas Johnson & Andrew Nicholas: States are beginning to report revenue collections for the July-September 2008 quarter, and the new...

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Posted on October 27, 2008
Saturday: Financial Meltdown, SILO Tax Shelters Leave Transit Agencies Owing Billions to Banks Princeton Review Law School Rankings: Best (and Worst) Teaching Faculties Liss: Rationalizing the Taxation of Options in the Age of Derivatives Gerzog Posts Tax Papers on SSRN...

WSJ: The Obama & McCain Dueling Tax Plans

Posted on October 26, 2008
Weekend Wall Street Journal: The Election Choice: Taxes; The Difference Between Candidates Is the Widest It's Been in Over Two Decades, by Brian R. Carney: When it comes to taxes, the difference between Barack Obama and John McCain is arguably...

Princeton Review Law School Rankings: Which Students Study the Most (and Least)?

Posted on October 26, 2008
On Monday, I blogged the lists of the Top 10 law schools in eleven categories posted on Princeton Review's web site in connection with its publication of the 2009 edition of Best 174 Law Schools. The rankings are the result...

Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads

Posted on October 26, 2008
There is a bit of movement in this week's list of the Top 5 Recent Tax Paper Downloads, with new papers debuting on the list at #2 and #5: 1. [438 Downloads] An Overview of the "Tax Gap", by Dave...

SNL: Obama, Biden, Murtha

Posted on October 26, 2008
Check out these great bits from last night's Saturday Night Live: Biden and Murtha Campaign in Johnstown, PA Obama's Upcoming 30-Minute TV Spot

Catholic Bishop Asks Congregation to Not Vote for Obama

Posted on October 26, 2008
Americans United for Separation of Church and State has written a letter to the IRS requesting an investigation of Bishop Arthur J. Serratelli of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Paterson, NJ, who wrote a letter asking his congregation not to...

Everson: Tax and Financial Reform Through Public Disclosure of Corporate Tax Returns

Posted on October 26, 2008
Washington Post: A Reform Tool: Tax Returns, by Mark W. Everson (former IRS Commissioner): Policy responses to our financial-sector meltdown have largely been viewed as patches that do little to address the underlying issues, and they have to some extent...

Financial Meltdown, SILO Tax Shelters Leave Transit Agencies Owing Billions to Banks

Posted on October 25, 2008
Over thirty transit authorities across the country (including Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C.) are on the hook to banks for billions of dollars as SILO tax shelter transactions unravel in the financial meltdown. AIG had guaranteed...

Princeton Review Law School Rankings: Best (and Worst) Teaching Faculties

Posted on October 25, 2008
On Monday, I blogged the lists of the Top 10 law schools in eleven categories posted on Princeton Review's web site in connection with its publication of the 2009 edition of Best 174 Law Schools. The rankings are the result...

Liss: Rationalizing the Taxation of Options in the Age of Derivatives

Posted on October 25, 2008
Kevin J. Liss (PriceWaterhouseCoopers) has published Rationalizing the Taxation of Options in the Age of Derivatives, 61 Tax Law. 855 (2008). Here is the the Introduction:Although options are perhaps the best-known and oldest form of derivative, the proper taxation of...

Gerzog Posts Tax Papers on SSRN

Posted on October 25, 2008
Wendy C. Gerzog (Baltimore) has posted several tax papers on SSRN: Contingencies and the Estate Tax, 5 Fla. Tax Rev. 49 (2001) Solutions to the Sexist QTIP Provisions, 35 Real Prop., Prob., & Tr. J. 97 (2000) The Illogical and...

Progressive Taxation and Socialism

Posted on October 25, 2008
ataxingmatter: Progressive Taxation--Socialism? or Just Standard USA Tax Policy?, by Linda Beale The Brandies Hoot: Book of Matthew: Defending a Progressive Tax Plan, by Bret Matthew Fox News: Special Report Panel Discuses Whether Obama's Tax Plan Is Socialism in Disguise...

Boise Presents Hotels and Houses: Playing with Monopoly Money in the States Today at DePaul

Posted on October 24, 2008
Craig M. Boise (Case Western) presents Hotels and Houses: Playing with Monopoly Money in the States at DePaul today. Here is the abstract:Several years after the rash of earnings inflation scandals that rocked Wall Street and resulted in massive earnings...

Santa Clara Hosts Northern California Tax Roundtable

Posted on October 24, 2008
Santa Clara hosts a Northern California Tax Roundtable today with these papers and commentators: Heather Field (UC-Hastings), Choosing Tax: Explicit Elections as an Element of Design in the Federal Income Tax SystemCommentator: Dan Simmons (UC-Davis) Shannon McCormack (UC-Davis), Tax Shelters...

WSJ: Will Obama's IRS Micromanage the Charitable Contribution Deduction?

Posted on October 24, 2008
Wall Street Journal: Nobody Does It Better, by Howard Husock:[The essence of] an expected congressional re-examination of the charitable tax deduction, which in 2009 is expected to total about $32 billion ... : Should the charitable tax deduction be reserved...

Altshuler Presents Reconsidering Tax Expenditure Estimation at Columbia

Posted on October 24, 2008
Rosanne Altshuler (Rutgers University, Department of Economics) presented Reconsidering Tax Expenditure Estimation: Challenges and Reforms (with Robert D. Dietz (National Association of Home Builders) at Columbia yesterday as part of its Tax Policy Colloquium Series...

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