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WSJ: IRS Makes It Harder To Negotiate Tax Debts

Posted on July 23, 2008
Wall Street Journal: Wiping Out Your Tax Debt Gets Tougher; IRS Tightens Rules, as Firm That Acts as Middleman Settles Cases With 18 States, by Tom Herman: It's getting harder for taxpayers in debt with the IRS to negotiate a...

Case Western Dean: Just Say No to U.S. News

Posted on July 23, 2008
Op-ed in next week's National Law Journal: Say "Enough" to "U.S. News," by Gary J. Simson, Dean at Case Western (which fell ten places in the U.S. News overall rankings last year to #63): Many law school deans are upset...

WSJ: Congress May Revise Restrictions on Fractional Gifts of Art

Posted on July 23, 2008
Wall Street Journal: A Portrait of Art as a Tax Deduction, by Mike Spector: Jon and Mary Shirley used to give artwork by the likes of Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Alberto Giacometti to the Seattle Art Museum. No longer....

Tax Policy Center Hosts Program Today on The McCain and Obama Tax Plans

Posted on July 23, 2008
The Tax Policy Center hosts a lunchtime program today on Dueling Tax Plans: What Would McCain and Obama Do? Senior policy advisers Austan Goolsbee of the Obama campaign and Douglas Holtz-Eakin of the McCain campaign will make the case for...

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Gerzog: Tax Court FLP Confusion: Mirowski

Posted on July 23, 2008
Wendy C. Gerzog (Baltimore) has published Tax Court FLP Confusion: Mirowski, 120 Tax Notes 263(7/21/08). Here is the abstract: The article critiques the Tax Court's latest family limited partnership case, Mirowski [T.C. Memo. 2008-74 (3/26/08)], as well as the court's...

Bamberg: A Different Point of Venue: The Plainer Meaning of Section 7482(b)(1)

Posted on July 23, 2008
James Bamberg has published A Different Point of Venue: The Plainer Meaning of Section 7482(b)(1), 61 Tax Law. 445 (2008). (The Article won first prize in the 2007 Tannenwald Tax Writing Competition sponsored by the American College of Tax Counsel.)....

Are Adjuncts a Benefit or a Detriment?

Posted on July 22, 2008
David A. Lander (Thompson Coburn, St Louis; Adjunnct Professor, St. Louis) has published Are Adjuncts a Benefit or a Detriment?, 33 U. Dayton L. Rev. 285 (2008), Here is the abstract: This article examines the benefits and detriments of the...

Senate Holds Hearing Today on Indian Governments and the Tax Code: Maximizing Tax Incentives for Economic Development

Posted on July 22, 2008
The Senate Finance Committee holds a hearing today on Indian Governments and the Tax Code: Maximizing Tax Incentives for Economic Development. Here are the witnesses are scheduled to testify: Dante Desiderio (Certified Financial Planner and Economic Development Policy Specialist, National...

IRS's 2008 Nationwide Tax Forum Rolls Into Chicago Today

Posted on July 22, 2008
The IRS's 2008 Nationwide Tax Forum rolls into Chicago today: The Tax Forums offer three full days of seminars with the latest word from the IRS leadership and experts in the fields of tax law, compliance and ethics. Attendees can...

Mehrotra: Mergers, Taxes, and Historical Materialism

Posted on July 22, 2008
Ajay K. Mehrotra (Indiana) has published Mergers, Taxes, and Historical Materialism, 83 Ind. L.J. 881 (2008). Here is the abstract: In the last few years, corporate mergers and acquisitions witnessed explosive growth. Although more recent market conditions have halted the...

Jones: Copeland Ministries Responds to Sen. Grassley's Request for Information

Posted on July 22, 2008
Darryll K. Jones (Stetson) of our sister Nonprofit Law Prof Blog has an excellent post on the press release issued by Kenneth Copeland Ministries in response to Senator Grassley's memorandum regarding the status of his investigation of certain Megachurches (blogged...

California Issues Tax Rules for Same-Sex Married Couples

Posted on July 22, 2008
The California Franchise Tax Board has published California Income Tax Treatment and Tax Return Filing Obligations of Same-Sex Married Couples. For more, see Tax Policy Blog.

Yale Smackdown

Posted on July 22, 2008
Brian Leiter (Chicago): "The disproportionate number of YLS grads entering law teaching is clearly having a deleterious effect on scholarship and the academy." Jason Solomon (Georgia): Princeton Review survey (scale from 60 to 99) says: Stanford: Professors Interesting: 98...

Infanti: Unfettering Zealous Advocacy on Behalf of Lesbian and Gay Taxpayers

Posted on July 22, 2008
Anthony C. Infanti (Pittsburgh) has published Deconstructing the Duty to the Tax System: Unfettering Zealous Advocacy on Behalf of Lesbian and Gay Taxpayers, 61 Tax Law. 407 (2008). Here is the abstract: In this article, I consider how the tax...

Law Prof Blog Rankings

Posted on July 22, 2008
Below are the updated quarterly traffic rankings (visitors and page views) of the Top 35 blogs edited by law professors with publicly available SiteMeters for the most recent 12-month period (July 2007 - June 2008): These Law Prof Blog Rankings...

Gore: "Tax What We Burn, Not What We Earn"

Posted on July 21, 2008
Al Gore's Tax Reform Plan: Of course, we could and should speed up this transition by insisting that the price of carbon-based energy include the costs of the environmental damage it causes. I have long supported a sharp reduction in...

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Posted on July 21, 2008
Saturday: The Data Are In: Clickers Work! Oregon Supreme Court Overturns Disbarment of Attorney for Hoyt Tax Shelters Western State Law School Sold for $5-$10 Million CBO: Long-Term Effects of Indexing AMT and Extending the 2001 & 2003 Tax Cuts...

Paul Verkuil Named Interim Dean at Miami

Posted on July 21, 2008
Paul Verkuil, Professor and former Dean at Cardozo and the owner of a condo in Miami, has been named Interim Dean at Miami for a one-year period. See the Miami Herald.

WSJ: Their Fair Share

Posted on July 21, 2008
Editorial in today's Wall Street Journal: Their Fair Share: Washington is teeing up "the rich" for a big tax hike next year, as a way to make them "pay their fair share." Well, the latest IRS data have arrived on...

600 Tax Charts

Posted on July 21, 2008
Those teaching tax courses this fall should check out the 600 wonderful tax charts (in 33 categories) available free of charge on Andrew Mitchel's web site. My favorites remain the charts of the transactions in the cases and transactions featured...

Hoyt Tax Shelter Lawyer: Disciplinary Proceedings Highlight "Disastrous Liability Anomalies" of TEFRA

Posted on July 21, 2008
Montgomery W. Cobb sent me this note in response to my blog post on the Oregon Supreme Court's rejection of the bar association's recommended disbarment for his work on the Hoyt cattle-breeding and tax shelter partnerships (In re Montgomery W....

Ventry: Whistleblowers and Qui Tam for Tax

Posted on July 21, 2008
Dennis J. Ventry, Jr. (UC-Davis) has published Whistleblowers and Qui Tam for Tax, 61 Tax Law. 357 (2008). Here is the abtstract: This Article examines the underexplored IRS whistleblower program, which Congress revamped in December 2006 by, among other things,...

NY Times: University Endowment Spending: Berea v. Harvard

Posted on July 21, 2008
Today's New York Times: With No Frills or Tuition, a College Draws Notice, by Tamar Lewin: Berea College, founded 150 years ago to educate freed slaves and ?poor white mountaineers,? accepts only applicants from low-income families, and it charges no...

Romney Writes-Off $45m Campaign Loans, Also Must Write-Off Any Tax Deduction

Posted on July 21, 2008
Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney will write-off the outstanding $45 million in loans he made to his campaign. (See, e.g., Boston Globe, L.A. Times, Washington Post) That is quite a chunk of change for Romney, given his estimated $190...

Wealthy New Yorkers Face 58% Marginal Tax Rate Under Obama

Posted on July 21, 2008
I previously blogged that Obama's Proposed Tax Hikes Would Hit Blue States Hard. The New York Sun runs the numbers for New York in Tax Rates For New Yorkers Would Top 50% Under Obama, by Julie Satow: New York tax...

County and City Income Taxes Clustered in States with Poor Tax Climates

Posted on July 20, 2008
The Tax Foundation has published County and City Income Taxes Clustered in States with Poor Tax Climates, by Joseph Henchman: [L]ocal-level taxes on wages and income are clustering in areas with poor business tax climates. Philadelphia is one of just...

Two New Law Schools Planned in Boise, idaho: Concordia University and University of Idaho

Posted on July 20, 2008
The Board of Regents of Concordia University, a private Lutheran school in Portland, Oregon, on Wednesday approved plans to open a law school in Boise, Idaho and announced that it has raised most of the needed $7-$10 million to open...

Study: Online Access to Articles Reduces Citation of Older Work

Posted on July 20, 2008
Chronicle of Higher Education: Access to Online Journals Reduces Breadth of Citations, Study Finds, by Lila Guterman: Scholars' access to more and more journal articles online may have had the perverse effect of slowing the steady increase in the number...

A Tale of Two Job Markets for Law School Grads

Posted on July 20, 2008
My co-blogger Bill Henderson (Indiana) has done more than anyone I know to puncture the myth of the rosy job prospects for most law school graduates. His post on the bimodal distribution of starting salaries for the law school class...

Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads

Posted on July 20, 2008
There is a bit of movement in this week's list of the Top 5 Recent Tax Paper Downloads, with a new paper debuting on the list at #2: 1. [260 Downloads] Tax Shelters and Statutory Interpretation: A Much Needed Purposive...

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