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Proudly Cincinnati

Posted on October 31, 2008
My wife and I attended the kick-off event for the University of Cincinnati's Proudly Cincinnati $1 billion capital campaign, where they unveiled this awesome video:

Freakonomics: Why Do Americans Whine So Much About Taxes?

Posted on October 31, 2008
Freakonomics asks: Why Is Everyone Whining About Taxes?: We are a low-tax country; our average tax rate, counting all taxes, hovers above 30%. Why do we hear so many more complaints about high taxes than I hear in the European...

WSJ: Falling Real Estate Prices Make QPRTs Especially Attractive

Posted on October 31, 2008
Wall Street Journal: Gifting Your House and Living in It, Too, by Mike Spector: Plunging real-estate values have made it an opportune time for older homeowners to give property to their children, while realizing big savings on gift and estate...

Aprill: Bilski Means More Uncertainty for Tax Strategy Patents

Posted on October 30, 2008
Ellen P. Apill (Loyola-L.A.), the nation's leading authority on tax strategy patents (here, here, here, here, here, here, here), offers her thoughts on the tax implications of today's decision in In re Bilski, No. 2007-1130 (Fed. Cir. Oct. 30, 2008)....

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Federal Circuit Overrules Tax Strategy Patent Linchpin

Posted on October 30, 2008
The Federal Circuit today issued its long awaited decision in In re Bilski, No. 2007-1130 (Fed. Cir. Oct. 30, 2008), rejecting the patentability test (State Street Bank & Trust Co. v. Signature Financial Group, 149 F.3d 1368 (Fed. Cir. 1998))...

Tax Court Requires House Counsel to Include Forgiven Law Student Loan in Income

Posted on October 30, 2008
The Tax Court yesterday required David Plotinsky, Assistant Counsel in the Office of General Counsel of the U.S. House of Representatives, to include in income $3,043 of law school and college student loans that were forgiven when he consolidated his...

WSJ: NFL Teams Rush to Avoid Obama's Tax Increase

Posted on October 30, 2008
Wall Street Journal editorial: Taxing the Dolphins: Another NFL Team Faces Obama's Tax Rush: Don't think tax rates matter to business decisions? Ask H. Wayne Huizenga, the owner of the Miami Dolphins, who declared earlier this week that he intends...

The U.S. Capital Gains Tax Rate: An International Perspective

Posted on October 30, 2008
A new report by Ernst & Young, commissioned by the American Council for Capital Formation, compares individual long-term capital gains taxes among 25 major economies of the world as well as major trading partners of the U.S: The U.S. capital...

Kaplow Presents Optimal Policy with Heterogeneous Preferences Today at Columbia

Posted on October 30, 2008
Louis Kaplow (Harvard) presents Optimal Policy with Heterogeneous Preferences at Columbia today as part of its Tax Policy Colloquium Series. Here is the abstract: Optimal policy rules - including those regarding income taxation, commodity taxation, public goods, and externalities -...

WSJ: Bailout Tax Break Worth $5.1 Billion to PNC Bank in Purchase of National City

Posted on October 30, 2008
Wall Street Journal: PNC Stands to Gain From Tax Ruling; Acquisition of National City Will Bring Billions in Deductions, Experts Say, by Jesse Drucker: PNC Financial Services Group Inc. will receive several billion dollars in federal tax savings stemming from...

Guide to Tax Policy: The 2008 Presidential Election

Posted on October 30, 2008
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget yesterday published Guide to Tax Policy: The 2008 Presidential Election.

Law Prof Blog Rankings

Posted on October 30, 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 (October 1, 2007 - September 30, 2008) [click on chart...

CB&PP: The Impact of State Income Taxes on Low-Income Families in 2007

Posted on October 30, 2008
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities yesterday published The Impact of State Income Taxes on Low-Income Families in 2007, by Jason A. Levitis & Andrew C. Nicholas: Eighteen states, out of the 42 with an income tax, taxed working-poor,...

Johnson: Substance and Form in State Taxation

Posted on October 30, 2008
Steve R. Johnson (UNLV) has published Substance and Form in State Taxation, 50 State Tax Notes 239 (Oct. 27, 2008). Here is the abstract: In the interpretation of tax statutes, a venerable principle is that "taxation should move in an...

Monahan & Hall: Section 125 Plans for Individual Insurance and HIPAA's Group Insurance Provisions

Posted on October 30, 2008
Amy B. Monahan (Missouri) & Mark A. Hall (Wake Forest) have posted Section 125 Plans for Individual Insurance and HIPAA's Group Insurance Provisions on SSRN. Here is the abstract:Several states have either passed or proposed legislation requiring employers to offer...

Ken Hirsh Named Director of Law Library at Cincinnati

Posted on October 29, 2008
I am delighted to share the news that Kenneth J. Hirsh of the Duke Law Library has been named Director of Law Library and Information Technology and Clinical Professor of Law at the University of Cincinnati College of Law, effective...

Yin Presents Temporary-Effect Tax Legislation Today at Penn

Posted on October 29, 2008
George K. Yin (Virginia) presents Temporary-Effect Legislation, Political Accountability, and Fiscal Restraint, 84 NYU L. Rev. ___ (2009), at Pennsylvania today as part of its Tax Law and Policy Seminar Series. Here is the abstract: We examine the measurement of...

NY Times: In Bleak Times, the IRS Looks Good

Posted on October 29, 2008
New York Times: In Bleak Times, the IRS Looks Good, by James Barron: Benjamin Franklin said that nothing in this world is certain except death and taxes. When death is not an option and the world is maximizing the uncertainty,...

Leviner Presents A New Era of Tax Enforcement Today at Toronto

Posted on October 29, 2008
Sagit Leviner (Tel Aviv University, Buckmann Faculty of Law) presents A New Era of Tax Enforcement: From "Big Stick" to Responsive Regulation, 2 Reg. & Governance 360 (2008), at the University of Toronto today as part of the James Hausman...

Students Comments & Notes in ABA Tax Lawyer

Posted on October 29, 2008
Here are the student comments and notes in the latest issue of The Tax Lawyer (Vol. 61, No. 3): Jared H. Binstock, Comment, Transactions of Interest: Are They ?Interesting? Enough To Warrant the New Obligations?, 61 Tax Law. 949 (2008)...

More McCain, Obama Tax News

Posted on October 29, 2008
ABC News: Obama Outmanuevers McCain on Taxes American Thinker: Senator Obama's Four tax Increases for People Earning Under $250k, by Ned Barnett The Atlantic: McCain on Taxes, by Clive Crook Bloomberg: McCain Economic Plan a Winner, Even If He Loses,...

Tax Video Contest Winner

Posted on October 29, 2008
Here is the winner of the $5,000 first prize in the Tax Foundation's Compete USA video contest: Tax Attack, by Andrew Patterson: For the second ($1,000) and third ($500) place finishers, see here.

Why No Competition for the LSAT?

Posted on October 29, 2008
Inside Higher Ed: GRE vs. GMAT, by Scott Jaschik: The Educational Testing Service, which had and lost the lucrative market for admissions testing for those aspiring to earn M.B.A.?s, is increasing its efforts to gain back a good share of...

House Holds Hearing Today on Economic Recovery, Job Creation and Investment In America

Posted on October 29, 2008
The House Ways & Means Committee holds a hearing at 10:00 a.m. today on Economic Recovery, Job Creation and Investment In America. From the hearing announcement: The hearing will focus on challenges facing American families and State and local governments...

A Voter's Guide to the U.S. News Law School Rankings

Posted on October 29, 2008
From Race to the Top in Legal Education (David Fagundes (Southwestern) & Jerry Solomon (Georgia)): A Voter's Guide to the U.S. News Law School Rankings: Each year, hundreds of law professors, lawyers and judges complete the survey that makes up...

ABA Tax Section Offers Teleconference & Webcast Today on Hot Topics for Public Charities

Posted on October 29, 2008
The ABA Tax Section offers a teleconference and webcast today on Hot Topics for Public Charities: Election Year Activities and Foundation Classification Issues from 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. EST: The first part of this program will provide an overview of...

Atolia: Public Investment, Tax Evasion, and the Welfare Effects of a Tariff Reform

Posted on October 29, 2008
Manoj Atolia (Florida State University, Department of Economics) has posted Public Investment, Tax Evasion, and the Welfare Effects of a Tariff Reform on SSRN. Here is the abstract:Contrary to the case considered in literature, the experience of developing countries indicates...

Top 100 Most Influential People in Tax and Accounting

Posted on October 28, 2008
I am honored (and surprised) to be included on the list of Accounting Today's Top 100 Most Inluential People for the third year in a row. The magazine contains one-sentence explanations of why each of the folks made the list;...

Tax Lawyer Sinks His Teeth Into Dracula

Posted on October 28, 2008
Wall Street Journal: What a Tax Lawyer Dug Up on 'Dracula,' by John J. Miller: [The challenge for a lot of classic books is that [t]he stories are so familiar that their twists and turns fail to shock or awe....

Mankiw: True Marginal Rate Is 93% Under Obama (83% Under McCain)

Posted on October 28, 2008
Greg Mankiw (Harvard University, Department of Economics), My Personal Work Incentives: Here is a question that you may have been thinking about: How do the different candidates' tax plans affect Greg Mankiw's incentive to work? ... Let me try to...

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