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Lederman: A Proposal to Make the U.S. Tax Court More Judicial

Posted on August 23, 2008
Leandra Lederman (Indiana-Bloomington) has published Tax Appeal: A Proposal to Make the U.S. Tax Court More Judicial, 85 Wash. U. L. Rev. 1195 (2007). Here is the abstract: Accountability is a critically important protection for any justice system; its absence...

Leyden: Low Income Taxpayer Clinic Casebook

Posted on August 23, 2008
Diana Leyden (UConn) has published Advocating For Low Income Taxpayers: A Clinical Studies Casebook (Vandeplas Publishing 2008). Here is the publisher's description: This book is designed for a clinical program or pro bono program that assists low income taxpayers with...

Tax Planning in the Fight to Recognize Same-Sex Marriage

Posted on August 23, 2008
Anthony Rickey (J.D. 2006, Columbia) has published Loving Couples, Split Interests: Tax Planning in the Fight to Recognize Same-Sex Marriage, 23 Berkeley J. Gender L. & Just. 145 (2008). Here is the abstract: A fundamental tension exists between the Defense...

San Diego Hosts Summit on Discount for Lack of Marketability

Posted on August 22, 2008
The University of San Diego hosts Business Valuation Conference: Summit on Discount for Lack of Marketability on September 18, 2008: Join U.S. Tax Court Judge David Laro along with leading lawyers, appraisers, and academics in the business valuation profession for...

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Tax Foundation: Obama?s Income Tax Cliff for Senior Citizens

Posted on August 22, 2008
The Tax Foundation today published Obama?s Income Tax Cliff for Senior Citizens, by Mark Robyn: In recent months the Presidential candidates have been busy crafting and promoting their tax plans. In an effort to reduce the tax burden on America's...

Another Group Joins AALS in Moving Convention From Manchester Grand Hyatt

Posted on August 22, 2008
I previously blogged (here, here, here, and here) the AALS's decision to move all AALS events at the January 2009 annual meeting out of the Manchester Grand Hyatt because the owner of the hotel, Doug Manchester, had made a $125,000...

Glenshaw Glass, by the Bottle

Posted on August 22, 2008
I previously blogged (here, here, here, here, and here) about the fate of the venerable Glenshaw Glass Co., known to generations of tax professors, lawyers, and students as the party in the seminal Supreme Court case on the definition of...

Avi-Yonah: The Potential Revival of Territoriality

Posted on August 22, 2008
Reuven S. Avi-Yonah (Michigan) has posted Back to the Future? The Potential Revival of Territoriality on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Until 1993, the United States led the rest of the developed world in strengthening residence-based world-wide corporate and individual...

Barack Obama's Harvard Law Review Student Case Comment

Posted on August 22, 2008
Politico has identified Barack Obama as the student author of the case comment at 103 Harv. L. Rev. 823-28 (1990): [A]n unsigned -- and previously unattributed -- 1990 article unearthed by Politico offers a glimpse at Obama's views on abortion...

2009 U.S. News College Rankings

Posted on August 22, 2008
U.S. News & World Report today released its 2009 College Rankings. Here are the Top 25 National Universities, along with their 2008 ranking [click on chart to enlarge]: Here are the Top 25 Liberal Arts Colleges, along with their 2008...

Texas Law School Rankings

Posted on August 22, 2008
Texas Lawyer has released its annual ranking of the nine Texas law schools, based on a survey completed by 1,132 students enrolled at the school (the response rate ranged from 10%-25% at each school). The ranking equally weighs eight variables:...

Wang Restructuring Legal Education Along Functional Lines

Posted on August 21, 2008
Willam K.S. Wang (UC-Hastings) has published The Restructuring of Legal Education Along Functional Lines, 17 J. Contemp. Legal Issues 331 (2008). Here is the abstract: Currently, law schools tie together five quite distinct services in one package, offered to a...

Dual-Career Academic Couples: What Universities Need to Know

Posted on August 21, 2008
Stanford University's Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research yesterday released Dual-Career Academic Couples: What Universities Need to Know. The report is based on a study of 9,043 faculty at 13 mqjor research universities: Report (108 pages) Executive Summary Press...

Tax Prof Aging

Posted on August 21, 2008
Big Thought for the Day from Tax Prof Dan Shaviro (NYU): Getting older is like managing the retreat of an Army unit. You know you have to give ground and will eventually lose everything. But in the meantime you want...

Fleischer: A Theory of Taxing Sovereign Wealth

Posted on August 21, 2008
Victor Fleischer (Illinois) has posted A Theory of Taxing Sovereign Wealth, 84 N.Y.U. L. Rev. ___ (2009), on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Sovereign wealth funds enjoy an exemption from tax under section 892 of the tax code. This anachronistic...

Hubbard: We Can't Tax Our Way Out of the Entitlement Crisis

Posted on August 21, 2008
R. Glenn Hubbard (Dean, Columbia Business School) has an op-ed in today's Wall Street Journal, We Can't Tax Our Way Out of the Entitlement Crisis: Mr. Obama has revealed his plans in stages. First, on his campaign Web site, he...

Journal of Legal Education to be Edited at Southwestern

Posted on August 21, 2008
The AALS's Journal of Legal Education, edited for the past five years by Georgetown with co-editors Professors Carrie Menkel-Meadow and Mark Tushnet (now at Harvard), will be edited beginning in January 2009 by Southwestern with co-editors Dean Bryant Garth and...

IRS Celebrity Snooper Gets Suspended Sentence

Posted on August 21, 2008
I previously blogged the case of John Snyder, a local IRS examiner who pled guilty last month to illegally looking at the tax returns of 200 celebrities (e.g., Kevin Bacon, Alec Baldwin, Chevy Chase, John Cleese, Sally Field, Randy Quaid,...

The Impact of Tax Rates on Economic Growth and Tax Revenues, From Eisenhower to Bush

Posted on August 21, 2008
The Angry Bear has an interesting post based on a forthcoming book comparing various data series from the Eisenhower Administration through the current Bush Administration. The graphs below compare the impact of tax rates on economic growth and tax revenues...

IRS Publishes Tax Guide for Churches and Religious Organizations

Posted on August 21, 2008
The IRS yesterday released an updated version of Tax Guide for Churches and Religious Organizations (Publication 1828): The IRS offers this quick reference guide of federal tax law and procedures for churches and religious organizations to help them voluntarily comply...

Cincinnati Tragedy

Posted on August 20, 2008
This story will make your heart ache.

WSJ: A State Tax Revolt

Posted on August 20, 2008
Wall Street Journal: A Tax Revolt Is Quietly Brewing In Some States, by Tom Herman: On Election Day, Massachusetts will vote on whether to eliminate its state income tax. Advocates hope victory in a place long thought of as a...

Accused Iowa Prof Reported Missing

Posted on August 20, 2008
Following up my previous posts (here and here) on the accusations that a University of Iowa professor asked to fondle female students in exchange for higher grades: the Des Moines Register and Iowa City Press-Citizen report today that the professor...

Perun: Why Not a 'Super Simple' Saving Plan for the United States?

Posted on August 20, 2008
Pamela J. Perun (Aspen Institute, Initiative on Financial Security) has posted Why Not a 'Super Simple' Saving Plan for the United States? on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Despite decades of significant tax subsidies for pensions and retirement accounts, most...

Leff: A Framework for Constitutionally Enforcing the 501(C)(3) Campaign Intervention Ban

Posted on August 20, 2008
Benjamin M. Leff (Harvard) has posted Sit Down and Count the Cost: A Framework for Constitutionally Enforcing the 501(C)(3) Campaign Intervention Ban on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code prohibits charities from intervening in...

Diamond Reviews Taxing Capital Income

Posted on August 20, 2008
John W. Diamond (Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University) has published Book Review: Taxing Capital Income, 61 Nat'l Tax J. 337 (June 2008) (reviewing Taxing Capital Income (The Urban Institute Press, 2006) (C. Eugene Steuerle, Henry J. Aaron &...

Kotkin: Gender Disparity in Articles Published in "Top Ten" Law Reviews

Posted on August 20, 2008
Minna J. Kotkin (Brooklyn) has posted Of Authorship and Audacity: An Empirical Study of Gender Disparity and Privilege in the 'Top Ten' Law Reviews on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In today's law schools, article placement is a significant consideration...

Tax Policy Center Releases Detailed Analysis of Presidential Candidates' Tax Plans

Posted on August 20, 2008
The Tax Policy Center has published an Executive Summary (6 pages), Updated Analysis (59 pages), and Revenue and Distributional Tables (26 tables) for the 2008 presidential candidates tax plans. From the Executive Summary: Both John McCain and Barack Obama have...

NYSBA Releases Tax Reports

Posted on August 20, 2008
The New York State Bar Association has issued several tax reports: Guidance on Economic Downturn Issues (1163) Formal Guidance for Stock Buy-Backs and "North and South" Transactions (1162) Report on the Proposed Contract Manufacturing Regulations (1161)

Tax Foundation Launches CompeteUSA Website

Posted on August 20, 2008
The Tax Foundation yesterday launched a CompeteUSA campaign to raise the public's awareness of the ways America's high business tax rates affect our competitiveness, wages, and living standards: The CompeteUSA campaign explains that the American worker shoulders a disproportionate amount...

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