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Symposium on Humanizing Legal Education

Posted on July 16, 2008
Humanizing Legal Education Symposium, 47 Washburn L.J. 235-469 (2008): Editor's Note Michael Hunter Schwartz, Humanizing Legal Education: An Introduction to a Symposium Whose Time Has Come, 47 Washburn L.J. 235 (2008) Lawrence S. Krieger, Human Nature as a New Guiding...

Zhiyong An Posts Tax Papers on SSRN

Posted on July 15, 2008
Zhiyong An (Fannie Mae) has posted four tax papers on SSRN: Geographic Variation in Schedule H Filing Rates: Why Should Location Influence the Decision to Report 'Nanny' Taxes? Identity and Tax Evasion Regressive State Tax Systems: Facts, Several Possible Explanations,...

Tax Law Gives AL an Edge in Tonight's All-Star Game

Posted on July 15, 2008
Wall Street Journal: The Decline of the National League, by Darren Everson: By just about every measure, the 16 teams in Major League Baseball's National League are inferior to the 14 in the American League. The AL has won 11...

Becker & Posner Debate Helmsley's $8 Billion Bequest to Dogs: Limit Charitable Deduction, Sunset Private Charities?

Posted on July 15, 2008
I previously blogged Leona Helmsley's $8 billion bequest to care for dogs. Gary Becker and Richard Posner debate the social desirability of such bequets: Posner: Should Dogs Get $8 Billion from the Helmsley Estate? The possibility that dogs will receive...

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Why Law Prof Supports Obama: "He's One Of Us"

Posted on July 15, 2008
Kyron Huigens (Cardozo) published an op-ed on law.com today: Barack Obama, Legal Scholar: I think I know Obama's mind. He's like me -- a legal scholar. Obama is a graduate of one of the best law schools in the country...

Car Donations to Charities Fall 80%

Posted on July 15, 2008
Grant Thornton issued a press release yesterday, New Tax Laws Dry Up Car Donations: Car donations have plummeted since Congress in 2004 tightened the tax rules for claiming charitable deductions, according to a Grant Thornton analysis of new IRS data...

African-American Tax Lawyer & IRS Attorney Held at Gunpoint by Police After Buying Pizza Proceed With Lawsuit

Posted on July 15, 2008
National Law Journal: African-American Attorney Held at Gunpoint Will Get His Day in Court, by Leigh Jones: An African-American tax attorney who was held at gunpoint and handcuffed by police officers after a Papa John's employee allegedly accused him of...

LexisNexis Publishes U.S. International Taxation

Posted on July 15, 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 United States International Taxation (2008), by Allison...

Nonpartisan Group Blasts McCain's Charge That Obama Would Raise Taxes on 23 Million Small Business Owners

Posted on July 15, 2008
The nonpartisan FactCheck.org has issued a report criticizing John McCain's oft-repeated charge (blogged yesterday) that Barack Obama's tax plan would raise the taxes of America's 23 million small business owners: McCain's Small-Business Bunk: McCain has repeatedly claimed that Obama would...

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Posted on July 14, 2008
Saturday: Why Hasn't McCain Reported His Gambling Gains and Losses on His Tax Returns? Taking Back the U.S. News Rankings: Value-Added Law Schools Khachaturian: Reforming U.S. Export Tax Policy Sunday: Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads European Ass'n of Tax Profs...

Hasen: Unwinding Unwinding

Posted on July 14, 2008
David Hasen (Michigan) has published Unwinding Unwinding, 57 Emory L.J. 871 (2008). Here is the abstract: "Unwinding" is a common, if not ubiquitous, feature of tax practice. In a successful unwind, parties to a prior transaction or arrangement back out...

Henderson: The Data Behind the Part-Time Law Student Rankings Loophole

Posted on July 14, 2008
I previously blogged (here, here, here, here, and here) the announcement (here and here) by Robert Morse, Director of Data Research at U.S. News & World Report, that the magazine is considering counting both full-time and part-time entering student admission...

I Have a Dream ... That My Kids Won't Fight Over My Estate

Posted on July 14, 2008
Two of Martin Luther King Jr.'s children have sued their brother, Dexter Scott King, for taking money out of the estate of their late mother without authorization, and for not providing details about how he's managing the MLK estate. Bernice...

Eight Issues Economists Agree on in the Presidential Campaign

Posted on July 14, 2008
Sunday New York Times: What if the Candidates Pandered to Economists?, by N. Gregory Mankiw (Harvard University, Department of Economics): On many issues, from universal health insurance to increased taxes on the rich, economists do not speak with a single...

How Many Law Professors Make $338,000?

Posted on July 14, 2008
Empirical Legal Studies Blog asks: Law School Professors Make Over $338,000? My previous answer: no, based on my listing of the top law faculty salaries (not including summer research stipends) at the University of California, Michigan, and Virginia. Here are...

Women for John McCain Criticize Fiorina's Tax Views

Posted on July 14, 2008
Women for John McCain criticize the tax policy views of one of the candidate's leading advisors, Carly Fiorina: ?In the Bush tax cuts, if they are repealed, 23 million small businesses will have their taxes raised. Why? Because 23 million...

Johnson: A Consensus Perspective on the Tax-Versus-Cap Debate

Posted on July 13, 2008
Kenneth C. Johnson has posted Beware of the Dogmatist: A Consensus Perspective on the Tax-Versus-Cap Debate on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The ongoing, unresolved debate between carbon tax advocates and proponents of caps and standards could be resolved if...

Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads

Posted on July 13, 2008
There is a lot 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 #3: 1. [231 Downloads] Tax Shelters and Statutory Interpretation: A Much Needed...

European Ass'n of Tax Profs Annual Meeting

Posted on July 13, 2008
The European Association of Tax Law essors has concluded its three-day annual meeting on Cross Border Taxation of Employment at Cambridge (Queen's College). U.S. Tax Profs Bill Barker Penn State), Charlotte Crane (Northwestern), Cliff Fleming (BYU), Tracy Kaye (Seton Hall),...

Ford Sues IRS for $445m of Interest on Overpayment of Taxes

Posted on July 13, 2008
Detroit Free Press: Ford Sues to Collect Interest; $445 Million Is Sought from IRS, by Sarah A. Webster: Ford Motor Co. is suing the federal government, saying the Internal Revenue Service owes it nearly half a billion dollars in interest...

Khachaturian: Reforming U.S. Export Tax Policy

Posted on July 12, 2008
Alex Khachaturian (White & Case, Washington, D.C.) has published Reforming the United States Export Tax Policy: An Alternative to the American Trade War With the European Union, 14 U.C. Davis J. Int'l L. & Pol'y 185 (2008). Here is the...

Why Hasn't McCain Reported His Gambling Gains and Losses on His Tax Returns?

Posted on July 12, 2008
I previously blogged the release of John McCain's 2006 and 2007 tax returns. The Daily Kos asks why McCain has not reported any gambling gains on Line 21, or gambling losses on Line 28, Schedule A, of his Form 1040,...

Taking Back the U.S. News Rankings: Value-Added Law Schools

Posted on July 12, 2008
Jason Solomon (Georgia) has begun an intriguing series of posts on PrawsBlawg on taking back the U.S. News law school rankings and producing a "Voters' Guide" to assess the "value added" for students at different law schools: Preparing to Vote...for....

Knauer: The Paradox of Corporate Giving

Posted on July 11, 2008
Nancy J. Knauer (Temple) has posted The Paradox of Corporate Giving: Tax Expenditures, the Nature of the Corporation, and the Social Construction of Charity, 44 DePaul L. Rev. 1 (1004), on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Corporate charitable giving is...

ABC News: Obama's Proposed Tax Hikes Would Hit Blue States Hard

Posted on July 11, 2008
ABC News: How Politically Risky Are Obama's Proposed Tax Hikes?, by Jake Tapper: Anne Mathias, an economist of the Stanford Group Company, has an interesting analysis of just who the top wage earners in the U.S. are -- and where...

IRS Issues Proposed Rev. Rul. on Use of Private Trust Companies in Estate Planning

Posted on July 11, 2008
The IRS today issued an advance copy of Notice 2008-63, 2008-31 I.R.B. ___ (Aug. 4, 2008), which solicits comments on a proposed revenue ruling on the income, gift, estate, and generation-skipping transfer tax consequences in situations in which family members...

Guilty Plea in Tax Shelter Case

Posted on July 11, 2008
Douglas Steger, the former owner of American Financial Capital Corp., pleaded guilty to a tax shelter conspiracy on Thursday and agreed to cooperate in a federal investigation. Mr. Steger admitted that he and others helped sell 36 illegal tax shelters...

Hanna: The Real Value of Tax Deferral

Posted on July 11, 2008
Christopher H. Hanna (SMU) has posted The Real Value of Tax Deferral, 60 Fla. L. Rev. ___ (2008), on SSRN. Here is the abstract: A leading law professor wrote, almost 25 years ago, that Deferral of gain is not as...

WSJ: IRS Closes "Funds of Funds" Tax Loophole

Posted on July 11, 2008
Wall Street Journal: "Funds of Funds" Tax Loophole Closes, by Arden Dale: A tax loophole is closing for some hedge-fund investors. A recent ruling by the IRS makes it clear that management fees on so-called funds of funds, which invest...

IRS Issues Phishing Warning

Posted on July 11, 2008
The IRS yesterday warned taxpayers of the increasing number of scammers using the IRS's name in identity theft e-mails. From IR-2008-88 In May and June alone, taxpayers reported almost 700 separate phishing incidents to the IRS. In 2008 so far,...

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