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NY Times: Liechtenstein to Share Some Tax Secrets

Posted on December 05, 2008
New York Times: Liechtenstein to Share Some Tax Secrets, by Lynnley Browning: Liechtenstein, under increasing scrutiny for its role as a leading offshore tax haven, has promised to partially lift the veil of secrecy shrouding billions of dollars held there...

Tax Prof: Sarah Palin Is Not Trig's Mother

Posted on December 05, 2008
Tax Prof Jack Bogdanski (Lewis & Clark) has attracted a lot of attention in the blogosphere this week with his post, Sarah Palin's Fake Pregnancy Belly: The bloggers who have set out to prove that Sarah Palin did not give...

Racial Gaps in Faculty Job Satisfaction

Posted on December 05, 2008
The Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education, Tenure-Track Faculty Job Satisfaction Survey Chronicle of Higher Education, On the Road to Tenure, Minority Professors Report Frustrations, by Audrey Williams June Inside Higher Ed, Racial Gaps in Faculty Job Satisfaction, by...

Farmers Resist "Cow Tax"

Posted on December 05, 2008
Associated Press: Proposed Fee on Smelly Cows, Hogs Angers Farmers, by Bob Johnson: For farmers, this stinks: Belching and gaseous cows and hogs could start costing them money if a federal proposal to charge fees for air-polluting animals becomes law...

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Cornell Tops NY Bar Exam

Posted on December 05, 2008
New York Law Journal: Cornell Tops in Bar Exam Pass Rate; State Average Hits High of 91 Percent::

Memo to the President: Tax Reform?s Challenges and Opportunities

Posted on December 05, 2008
The Brookings Institution, Tax Analysts, and Tax Policy Center host a program today on Memo to the President: Tax Reform?s Challenges and Opportunities (webcast available here): The tax code is complex and hard to understand, riddled with loopholes, and widely...

Heritage Foundation Releases Tax Reports

Posted on December 05, 2008
The Heritage Foundation has published: Permanent Tax Relief?Not Tax ?Holidays??Stimulates Economic Growth, by Stuart M. Butler Cutting Taxes to Promote Growth and Restore Fairness: A Memo to President-elect Obama, by Alison Acosta Fraser & Curtis S Dubay Ensuring Access to...

ABA Tax Section's National Institute on Criminal Tax Fraud

Posted on December 05, 2008
The ABA Tax Section's two-day 25th Annual National Institute on Criminal Tax Fraud concludes today in San Francisco: This year the Institute will continue its focus on a number of important emerging areas: The IRS?s increased use of money laundering....

Stark Presents Rich States, Poor States Today at Harvard

Posted on December 04, 2008
Kirk J. Stark (UCLA) presents Rich States, Poor States at Harvard today as part of its Faculty Workshop Series. Here is the abstract: Unlike most of the world?s federations?including Australia, Canada and numerous other countries?the United States has no system...

Fleischer Presents A Theory of Taxing Sovereign Wealth Today at San Diego

Posted on December 04, 2008
Victor Fleischer (Illinois) presents A Theory of Taxing Sovereign Wealth, 84 N.Y.U. L. Rev. ___ (2009), at San Diego today as part of its Tax Law Speaker Series. Here is the abstract: Sovereign wealth funds enjoy an exemption from tax...

Fennell Presents Taxing Willpower Today at Columbia

Posted on December 04, 2008
Lee Anne Fennell (Chicago) presents Taxing Willpower at Columbia today as part of its Tax Policy Colloquium Series. Here is the Conclusion: Tax policy grapples with numerous dimensions of human heterogeneity. This paper has intentionally focused on just one narrow...

Indiana Gets $35m Gift, Renames School

Posted on December 04, 2008
From the Indiana Business Journal: Indianapolis attorney and businessman Michael Maurer is giving $35 million to the Indiana University School of Law in Bloomington, which has been renamed in his honor. The gift, the largest in the law school?s history...

Gerzog: FLP Sequence and Its Consequence

Posted on December 04, 2008
Wendy C. Gerzog (Baltimore) has published Gross: FLP Sequence and Its Consequence, 121 Tax Notes 1075 (Dec. 1, 2008). Here is the abstract: The author analyzes the recent Gross case [T.C. Memo. 2008-221] in which the taxpayer made gifts of...

NLJ on LSAT Surge

Posted on December 04, 2008
Following up on yesterday's post, Repeat LSAT Takers Surge Following Rule Change Permitting Reporting of Only Highest Score: the National Law Journal picks up the story today: Sam Stonefield, associate dean for external affairs and a professor of law at...

CTJ Calls on Obama to Scale Back Estate Tax Proposal

Posted on December 04, 2008
Citizens for Tax Justice yesterday issued a report calling on President-elect Obama to scale back his proposal to set the estate tax exemption at $3.5 million with a 45% top rate after new IRS data revealed that only 17,416 (0.7%)...

Bar Pass Rates Rise in Several States

Posted on December 04, 2008
The National Law Journal reports that the bar passage rate on the July 2008 exam rose in several large states, including California (5.6% -- 61.7% in 2008 v. 56.1% in 2007), Massachusetts (3.4% -- 86.4% v. 83.0%), and New York...

Rangel Disputes NY Times' Charge That He Provided Retroactive Tax Break to Corporation Whose CEO Donated $1m to His Charity

Posted on December 04, 2008
Last month, the New York Times published The Congressman, the Donor and the Tax Break, by David Kocieniewski, which chronicled House Ways & Means Chair Charlie Rangel's role in preserving a tax loophole for a corporation at the same time...

D.C. Bar Hosts Program on Application of the APA in the Tax World

Posted on December 04, 2008
The D.C. Bar Association Tax Section hosted a luncheon program yesterday on Application of the APA in the Tax World. The speakers were: Mark V. Holmes (Judge, U.S. Tax Court) Michael J. Desmond (McKee Nelson; former Tax Legislative Counsel) Kristin...

Tax LL.M. Grad: $150k Student Loans, 300 Letters to Law Firms, 1 Interview, 0 Job Offers

Posted on December 03, 2008
Scary news from CNN Money and the ABA Journal: Andrew Magdy (J.D. 2007, Michigan State; LL.M. (Tax) 2008, Washington University) has $150,000 in student loans and has been unsuccessful in his search for a law firm tax job. He has...

Raskolnikov Presents Beyond Deterrence: Targeting Tax Enforcement with a Penalty Default Today at Penn

Posted on December 03, 2008
Alex Raskolnikov (Columbia) presents Beyond Deterrence: Targeting Tax Enforcement with a Penalty Default, 108 Colum. L. Rev. ___ (2009), at Pennsylvania today as part of its Tax Law and Policy Seminar Series. Here is the abstract: People pay their taxes...

Cathy Koch Named Tax Chief of Senate Finance Committee

Posted on December 03, 2008
Senate Finance Committee Chair Max Baucus has named for the committee: Koch has served as Acting Cjhief since Hanuary. ... Koch formerly served as Senior Tax Policy Advisor and Staff Director of the Energy Tax Finance Subcommittee for Senator Jeff...

Repeat LSAT Takers Surge Following Rule Change Permitting Reporting of Only Highest Score

Posted on December 03, 2008
Following up on my prior post, ABA to Require Schools to Report Highest LSAT Scores from Multiple Tests, Rather Than Average Scores (6/14/06), Bill Henderson (Indiana) today reports that the predicted surge in students re-taking the LSAT has indeed occured:...

U.S. Expands Criminal Probe of Tax Avoidance by Foreign Banks

Posted on December 03, 2008
New York Times: U.S. Is Said to Expand Tax Inquiry, by Lynnley Browning: The Justice Department has expanded its criminal investigation into foreign banks that sell offshore private banking services to include Credit Suisse and HSBC, according to people briefed...

Tax Blogging for Fun and Profit

Posted on December 03, 2008
Billy Hamilton (Deputy Comptroller, Office of the Comptroller of Public Accounts (1990-2006) has published Tax Blogging for Fun and Profit, 50 State Tax Notes 595 (Dec. 1, 2008): Alan E. Sherman [is] ... the proprietor of the Texas State &...

ABA Tax Section Offers Webcast Today on New IRS Correction Procedures -- Life Insurance & Annuity Contracts

Posted on December 03, 2008
The ABA Tax Section offers a teleconference and webcast today on New IRS Correction Procedures -- Life Insurance and Annuity Contracts from 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. EST: On June 30, 2008, the IRS issued five revenue procedures that significantly changed...

NYSBA Releases Report on Proposed Removal of "Temporary Stay" Exception

Posted on December 03, 2008
The New York State Bar Association has issued a letter and report criticizing the proposed removal of the "temporary stay" exception from 20 NYCRR Section 105.20(e)(1) concerning the taxation of a New York state resident (1171).

Government Throws in Towel in KPMG Tax Shelter Case

Posted on December 02, 2008
From the Wall Street Journal's Law Blog: It?s over. The Justice Department declined to ask the Supreme Court to review the 2nd Circuit?s ruling in U.S. v Stein. That?s the case, once billed by the government as the largest tax-fraud...

Tax Policy for Low-Income Men

Posted on December 02, 2008
Adam Carasso, Harry Holzer, Elaine Maag & C. Eugene Steuerle have posted Encouraging Work and Family Formation Among Low-Income Men on the Tax Policy Center website. Here is the abstract: The Earned Income Tax Credit enjoyed marked success bringing low-income...

Local Governments Turn to "Crash Taxes" to Plug Revenue Shortfalls

Posted on December 02, 2008
Local governments in 24 states are turning to "crash taxes" to plug their revenue shortfalls. From MSN Money: "Crash Taxes" Add Heft Fees for Aid, by Peter Lewis: Imagine you're cruising down the road when you hit a patch of...

Johnston: Five Ways to Change the IRS

Posted on December 02, 2008
David Cay Johnston has published Change and the IRS, 121 Tax Notes 1067 (Dec. 1, 2008): The government needs revenue. President-elect Barack Obama promised voters change. How about combining change in how the tax burden is distributed with change in....

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