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Property Taxes: High in Blue States, Low in Red States

Posted on September 29, 2008
The Tax Foundation has published New Census Data on Property Taxes on Homeowners, by Gerald Prante, along with the underlying data (by state, by county). Below are the Top 10 and Bottom 10 states in the three categories: Median Real...

WSJ: Consumer Groups Push Tax Relief for Homeowners in Bailout

Posted on September 29, 2008
Wall Street Journal: Consumer Groups Push Tax Relief for Homeowners in Bailout, by Ruth Simon: Consumer groups are pressing Congress to extend tax relief to a broader group of troubled homeowners as part of any financial industry bailout plan. Homeowners...

Tax Gaffes in First McCain-Obama Presidential Debate

Posted on September 29, 2008
The Tax Foundation lists the tax misstatements made by both Sen. McCain and Sen. Obama in friday night's debate.

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Posted on September 29, 2008
Saturday: Tax Papers at Today's Canadian Law & Economics Ass'n Meeting Brother of Former Philadelphia Mayor Gets 30 Months for Failure to File Tax Returns Johnson: Use and Abuse of "Plain Meaning" What Is the Net Present Value of a...

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Did � 121 Contribute to the Financial Meltdown?

Posted on September 28, 2008
The Tax Foundation, Cafe Hayek, and Don't Mess With Taxes all finger � 121, which was enacted in 1997 and allows married taxpayers to exclude $500,000 of gain (single taxpayers can exclude $250,000 of gain) on the sale of a...

Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads

Posted on September 28, 2008
There is not much movement in this week's list of the Top 5 Recent Tax Paper Downloads, with the #3 and #4 papers trading places: 1. [1121 Downloads] A Guide to Starting Social Security Benefits, by Richard L. Kaplan (Illinois)...

Mayer: The Pulpit, Politics, RFRA, and Institutional Free Exercise

Posted on September 28, 2008
Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer (Notre Dame) has posted The Pulpit, Politics, RFRA, and Institutional Free Exercise on SSRN. Here is the abstract: More than fifty years ago, Congress enacted with little deliberation a prohibition against political campaign intervention for all charities,...

Thirty Churches to Endorse Presidential Candidate From Pulpit Today

Posted on September 28, 2008
The Alliance Defense Fund is sponsoring Pulpit Freedom Sunday today: [F]or the last 54 years, out of fear of losing their tax-exempt status, our nation?s pastors and priests have largely remained silent. Rather than risk confrontation, pastors have often self-censored...

The UBS Summons and IRS Voluntary Disclosure

Posted on September 28, 2008
William M. Sharp Sr. and Larry R. Kemm (both of Sharp & Associates, Tampa) have published The UBS Summons and IRS Voluntary Disclosure, 51 Tax Notes Int'l 1043 (Sept. 22, 2008): On June 30 the U.S. Department of Justice filed...

Tax Papers at Today's Canadian Law & Economics Ass'n Meeting

Posted on September 27, 2008
The taxation panel at today's 2008 Meeting of the Canadian Law & Economics Association meeting at the University of Toronto consists of these papers: Bradley T. Borden (Washburn), Public Tenancies in Common David Duff (Toronto), Towards an Exemption Regime for...

Brother of Former Philadelphia Mayor Gets 30 Months for Failure to File Tax Returns

Posted on September 27, 2008
I previously blogged the trial of T. Milton Street Sr., brother of former Philadelphia mayor John F. Street (2000-2008), who was found guilty of failing to file income tax returns for 2002-2004 but was acquitted of mail fraud, wire fraud...

Johnson: Use and Abuse of "Plain Meaning"

Posted on September 27, 2008
Steve R. Johnson (UNLV) has published Use and Abuse of "Plaing Meaning", 49 State Tax Notes 831 (Sept. 22, 2008): Among the most frequently encountered devices or explanations of interpreting legal texts is "plain meaning." Decisions beyond number have recited...

What Is the Net Present Value of a J.D.?

Posted on September 27, 2008
$470,000, says Karl Okamoto (Drexel): Is law school a good value? ... Using crude numbers, the answer looks like a resounding ?yes.? As they say in the investment business, it looks like a ?three bagger.? Even if you have to...

Churches, Campaign Intervention, and the IRS

Posted on September 27, 2008
Eric R. Swibel (J.D. 2009, Emory) has published Comment, Churches and Campaign Intervention: Why the Tax Man Is Right and How Congress Can Improve His Reputation, 57 Emory L.J. 1605 (2008). Here is part of the Introduction: This Comment demonstrates....

Harvard Adopts Pass-Fail Grades Like Yale & Stanford

Posted on September 26, 2008
The Harvard Law Record reports that Harvard has adopted a pass-fail grading system like Yale and Stanford. See also Above the Law and Brian Leiter.

Jones Presents Does the Private Benefit Doctrine Preclude Tax Exemption for HMOs? Today at Iowa

Posted on September 26, 2008
Darryll K. Jones (Stetson) presents Does the Private Benefit Doctrine Preclude Tax Exemption for Health Maintenance Organizations? at Iowa today as part of its Faculty Workshop Series. Here is the Conclusion of the argument made in the Supreme Court Amicus...

Career Satisfaction of Lawyers

Posted on September 26, 2008
John Monahan (Virginia) & Jeffrey W. Swanson (Duke), Lawyers at Mid-Career: A 20-Year Longitudinal Study of Job and Life Satisfaction, 5 J. Empirical Legal Stud. ___ (2008): This study is the first to our knowledge to simultaneously measure the predictors...

Brennen & Moran Speak on Barriers to Wealth Creation in the African American Community at CBC Conference

Posted on September 26, 2008
Tax Profs David A. Brennen (Georgia) & Beverly I. Moran (Vanderbilt University) are participating today in an Issues Forum on Living in the Black: Barriers to Wealth Creation in the African American Community at the Annual Legislative Conference of the...

College Speaks: An Anti-Rankings Alternative to U.S. News

Posted on September 26, 2008
In today's Inside Higher Ed: Creating the Anti-Rankings, by Scott Jaschik: College Speaks [is] a tool being created by the Education Conservancy, an organization that has been fighting the many commercial forces that have become big players in college admissions...

Kentucky Law School Files for Bankruptcy

Posted on September 26, 2008
I previously blogged (here and here) the troubles at the American Justice School of Law, a non-accredited for-profit law school in Paducah, Kentucky. Today's National Law Journal reports that the school filed for bankruptcy protection on Tuesday. The American Justice...

LexisNexis Publishes Tax Crimes

Posted on September 26, 2008
On behalf of LexisNexis and the Graduate Tax Series Board of Editors (Ellen Aprill (Loyola-L.A.), Elliott Manning (Miami), Philip Postlewaite (Northwestern) & David Richardson (Florida)), I am delighted to announced the publication of Tax Crimes, by Steve Johnson (UNLV), Scott...

Gerzog: Holman: The FLP's New Clothes

Posted on September 26, 2008
Wendy C. Gerzog (Baltimore) has posted Holman: The FLP's New Clothes, 120 Tax Notes 1215 (Sept. 22, 2008), on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The article discusses Holman [130 T.C. No. 12 (May 27, 2008)], a recent Tax Court decision...

Conference on Attaining Fiscal Sustainability: State & Local Perspectives and the Federal Outlook

Posted on September 26, 2008
The National Tax Association, the Institute of Government and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois, Tax Analysts, and The Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center are hosting a conference today on Attaining Fiscal Sustainability: State & Local Perspectives and the Federal...

Southern Federal Tax Institute Concludes Today in Atlanta

Posted on September 26, 2008
The Southern Federal Tax Institute concludes today in Atlanta. Tax Profs with speaking roles during the conference include: Martin J. McMahon, Jr. (Florida) & Ira B. Shepard (Houston), Recent Federal Income Tax Developments

Recent and Pending Cases at the ECJ on Direct Taxation Conference Kicks Off Today in Vienna

Posted on September 25, 2008
The three-day conference on Recent and Pending Cases at the ECJ on Direct Taxation kicks off today in Vienna. The conference is sponsored by the Institute for Austrian and International Tax Law (Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration), in...

Zolt Presents Technology and Taxation in Developing Countries Today at Columbia

Posted on September 25, 2008
Eric M. Zolt (UCLA) presents Technology and Taxation in Developing Countries: From Hand to Mouse (with Richard M. Bird (University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management) at Columbia today as part of its Tax Policy Colloquium Series. Here is the...

Attention Sarah Palin: IRS Issues New Rules on Reimbursement of Per Diem Travel Expenses

Posted on September 25, 2008
The IRS today released an advance copy of Rev. Proc. 2008-59, 2008-41 I.R.B. ___ (Oct. 14, 2008): This revenue procedure updates Rev. Proc. 2007-63, 2007-42 I.R.B. 809, and provides rules under which the amount of ordinary and necessary business expenses...

Wolfman: Patenting Tax Strategies

Posted on September 25, 2008
Bernard Wolfman (Harvard) has posted Patenting Tax Strategies, 86 Taxes 33 (March 2008), on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The United States Patent and Trademark Office has undertaken a practice of granting patents on so-called "tax strategies," legal plans for...

Tax Credits Bring More TV Shows to New York City

Posted on September 25, 2008
New York Times: Tax Credits Bring More TV Shows to New York City, by Dave Itzkoff: The city expects 19 prime-time television series (up from 12 last year) to be produced in New York for the 2008-9 season, according to...

Terry: Separate and Still Unequal? Taxing California Registered Domestic Partners

Posted on September 25, 2008
Keeva Terry (Roger Williams) has posted Separate and Still Unequal? Taxing California Registered Domestic Partners, 39 U. Tol. L. Rev. 633 (2008), on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This article analyzes whether the IRS has a cogent legal basis to...

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