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Tax Court Judicial Conference

Posted on April 03, 2009
Here are the panels at today's concluding day of the 2009 Tax Court Judicial Conference in Galloway, New Jersey: E-Discovery and Other Discovery Issues: In April 2006 the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure were amended to address "Electronically Stored Information"...

Black: Climate Change and Tax Law

Posted on April 03, 2009
Celeste Black (University of Sydney - Faculty of Law) has posted Climate Change and Tax Law: Tax Policy and Emissions Trading on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The tax treatment of transactions under an emissions trading scheme is of critical...

AALS Section on Trusts and Estates Issues Call For Papers for 2010 Annual Meeting

Posted on April 03, 2009
The AALS Section on Trusts and Estates has issued a Call For Papers for the 2010 AALS Annual Meeting: Changing Times, Changing Law: Evaluating Legal Trends in Trusts and Estates Law: Trusts and Estates law was for centuries a fairly...

Critical Tax Conference

Posted on April 03, 2009
The two-day Criticial Tax Conference kicks off today at Indiana: The Critical Tax Conference is an annual gathering of tax law scholars who are interested in exploring tax issues from perspectives that go beyond conventional public economics analysis of taxation...

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Fleischer Presents Charitable Justice Today at Washington U.

Posted on April 03, 2009
Miranda Fleischer (Illinois; returning to Colorado) presents Charitable Justice at Washington University today as part of its Faculty Colloquia Series. Here is the abstract: Distributive justice scholars generally tell one of two stories about philanthropy...

Late Grades (> 100 Days After Exam)

Posted on April 03, 2009
Law student reactions to George Washington 1Ls waiting over 100 days (and counting) for their Criminal Law grades (in a course taught by the dean): The Blackbook Legal Blog The Shark Sua Sponte

Tax Implications of Today's Iowa Decision Outlawing Gay Marriage Ban

Posted on April 03, 2009
Iowa CPA Joe Kristan blogs the tax implications of today's unanimous decision of the Iowa Supreme Court outlawing the ban of gay marriages (Varnum v. Brien, No. 07-1499 (iowa Apr. 3, 2009)): Most same-sex couples will not see a difference...

WSJ: Obama's $163k Tax Bomb

Posted on April 03, 2009
Op-ed in today's Wall Street Journal: Obama's $163,000 Tax Bomb; Families Well Below the President's "No-Tax" Threshold Will Get a Six-Figure Bill, by Michael J. Boskin (Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution): Even ignoring his large energy taxes, ... Mr...

Gesikohas: Protection of Taxpayer Information in the Internet Age

Posted on April 03, 2009
Agnes Gesikohas (Foley & Lardner, San Diego) has published The Protection of Taxpayer's Federal Tax Return Information in the Internet Age?Is Tax Return Information Being Afforded Proper Confidentiality and Privacy Protections, 62 Tax Law. 175 (2008)...

Taylor: Laptops, Wi-Fi, Social Networks, Blogs, Email, and Podcasts in the Law School Classroom

Posted on April 03, 2009
Tax Prof Scott A. Taylor (University of St. Thomas) has posted Laptops, Wi-Fi, Social Networks, Blogs, Expert Daily Emails, and Podcasts: A Survey of Learning Enhancement on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Using a survey of students in an American...

Tax Court Judicial Conference

Posted on April 02, 2009
Here are the panels at today's first day of the 2009 Tax Court Judicial Conference in Galloway, New Jersey: Welcome Tax Court Chief Judge John O. Colvin Expert Data and Statistical Analysis Program Chai: Tax Court Judge James S. Halpern...

Laffer: Repeal the Estate Tax

Posted on April 02, 2009
Op-ed in today's Wall Street Journal: Spend It in Vegas or Die Paying Taxes, by Arthur B. Laffer (Laffer Associates, Nashville): In most cases, people who inherit wealth are lucky by an accident of birth and really don't "deserve" their...

O'Brien: Taxation and the Free Movement of Capital in EU Law

Posted on April 02, 2009
Martha O'Brien (Faculty of Law, University of Victoria) has posted Taxation and the Third Country Dimension of Free Movement of Capital in EU Law: The ECJ's Rulings and Unresolved Issues, 6 British Tax Rev. 628 (2008), on SSRN. Here is...

Tax Court Proposes Amendments to its Rules

Posted on April 02, 2009
The Tax Court has proposed amendments to its Rules of Practice and Procedure to conform the Tax Court?s Rules more closely with selected procedures from the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. In addition, amendments are proposed to Rule 202 (procedures...

Con Luv -- The 2009 Virginia Law Libel Show

Posted on April 02, 2009
(Hat Tip: Above the Law.)

Batchelder Presents Savings Incentives with Insurance Objectives Today at NYU

Posted on April 02, 2009
Lily Batchelder (NYU) presents Savings Incentives with Insurance Objectives: A Bankrupt Approach? at NYU today as part of its Colloquium Series on Tax Policy and Public Finance. The co-convenors are Daniel Shaviro (NYU) & Alan Auerbach (UC-Berkeley, Department of Economics)...

Boise & Morriss: Netherlands Antilles & Offshore Financial Intermediation

Posted on April 02, 2009
Craig M. Boise (Case Western; moving to DePaul) & Andrew P. Morriss (Illinois) have posted Change, Dependency, and Regime Plasticity in Offshore Financial Intermediation: The Saga of the Netherlands Antilles on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The legal regimes of...

Kahn Presents Understanding Spatial Variation in Tax Sheltering Today at UCLA

Posted on April 02, 2009
Matthew Kahn (UCLA, Department of Economics) presents Understanding Spatial Variation in Tax Sheltering: The Role of Demographics, Ideology and Taxes (with William M. Gentry (Williams College)) at UCLA today as part of its Tax Policy and Public Finance Colloquium Series...

Dodge Presents The Meaning of "Ability to Pay" in Tax System Design Today at Indiana

Posted on April 02, 2009
Joseph M. Dodge (Florida State) presents The Foundation, Role, and Meaning of "Ability to Pay" in Tax System Design at Indiana today as part of its Tax Policy Colloquium Series hosted by Leandra Lederman. Here is the part of the...

Brown: The Character of � 357(c) Gain

Posted on April 02, 2009
Fred B. Brown (Baltimore) has published Determining the Character of Section 357(c) Gain, 62 Tax Law. 117 (2008). Here is the abstract: Under � 351, a person transferring property to a controlled corporation generally recognizes no gain or loss on...

NY Times: It?s Time to Rethink Law School

Posted on April 02, 2009
New York Times: With the Downturn, It?s Time to Rethink the Legal Profession, by Adam Cohen: The economic downturn is hitting the legal world hard. American Lawyer is calling it ?the fire this time? and warning that big firms may...

Tax Planning for Professors on Visits and Sabbaticals

Posted on April 01, 2009
With today's expiration of the AALS deadline for accepting a visiting professorship for the 2009-10 academic year, I thought it would be a good time to re-post the article, Tax Planning for Professional Sabatticals, by Myron Hulen (Colorado State University,...

Tax Court Judicial Conference

Posted on April 01, 2009
The 2009 Tax Court Judicial Conference kicks off today at the Seaview Marriott in Galloway, New Jersey. Tax Prof speakers during the three-day conference include: Keith Fogg (Villanova) Kristin Hickman (Minnesota) Diana Leyden (UConn) Ted Sims (Boston University) Other notable...

Sharing TaxProf Blog

Posted on April 01, 2009
Continuing our series of enhancements to TaxProf Blog: in response to several requests, we have made it easier to share TaxProf Blog content through various social networking sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, and Twitter, and through services such as...

Waggoner: How and Why to Tax Carbon

Posted on April 01, 2009
Michael Waggoner (Colorado) has posted How and Why to Tax Carbon, 20 Col. J. Int'l Envtl L. & Pol'y ___ (2009), on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Increased concern about possible global warming due to rising levels of greenhouse gases...

Court Allows Wesley Snipes to Leave U.S. for 5 Months Pending Appeal of Tax Conviction

Posted on April 01, 2009
Following up on my recent posts (here and here), the federal district court in Ocala, Florida has granted Wesley Snipes' motion seeking permission to travel to Nambia from April 5 to April 29 (to film the movie Gallowwalker) and to...

Faculty Salary Data

Posted on April 01, 2009
The Society of American Law Teachers has published its 2008-09 Faculty Salary Survey, with median salaries of law faculty at the assistant, associate, and full professor levels at 95 law schools. Dan Filler (Drexel) today posted links to individual faculty...

Elkins & Hanna: Taxation of Supernormal Returns

Posted on April 01, 2009
David Elkins (SMU & Netanya School of Law) & Christopher H. Hanna (SMU) have published Taxation of Supernormal Returns, 62 Tax Law. 93 (2008). Here is part of the Introduction: In the last ten to fifteen years, a number of...

Joint Tax Committee Releases IRS Disclosures of Tax Return Information, 2008

Posted on April 01, 2009
The Joint Committee on Taxation today released Disclosure Report for Public Inspection Pursuant to Internal Revenue Code Section 6103(p)(3)(C) for Calendar Year 2008 (JCX-24-09): Section 6103(p)(3)(C) of the Internal Revenue Code provides that the Secretary of the Treasury shall, within...

Camp: Tax Formalists v. Tax Functionalists

Posted on April 01, 2009
Bryan Camp (Texas Tech) has posted The Never Ending Battle, 111 Tax Notes 373 (2006), on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In every era and area of law one finds a never-ending battle between two groups of legal thinkers: formalists...

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