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Student Gets Two Points For Writing "F*** Off* on Exam

Posted on July 02, 2008
The Times: Markers Award Students for Writing Obscenities on GCSE Papers: Write ?f*** Off? on a GCSE Paper and You?ll Get 7.5%. Add an Exclamation Mark and It?ll Go Up to 11%, by Joanna Sugden: Pupils are being rewarded for...

New Deanships at Michigan State and Minnesota

Posted on July 02, 2008
July 1 marked the beginniing of new deanships at Michigan State (Joan Howarth) and Minnesota (David Wippman).

IRS's 2008 Nationwide Tax Forum Kicks Off Today in Atlanta

Posted on July 01, 2008
The IRS's 2008 Nationwide Tax Forum tour kicks off today in Atlanta: 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....

Today Is Deadline For 2008 Tannenwald Tax Writing Competition

Posted on July 01, 2008
Today is the deadline for the 2008 Tannenwald Writing Competition sponsored by the Theodore Tannenwald, Jr. Foundation for Excellence in Tax Scholarship and American College of Tax Counsel. Named for the late Tax Court Judge Theodore Tannenwald, Jr., and designed...

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Today's WSJ Tax Editorials

Posted on July 01, 2008
Corporate Tax Cut Windfall: For those who still claim that tax rates don't matter to economic decisions or U.S. competitiveness, we present Exhibit A: the 2004 American Jobs Creation Act. This law gave American companies a one-year window in 2005...

Leiter and Solove Criticize Proposed Change to U.S. News Rankings Methodology

Posted on July 01, 2008
I previously blogged the announcement by Robert Morse, Director of Data Research at U.S. News & World Report, that the magazine is "seriously studying" two changes to its law school rankings methodology that would affect 24.5% of the overall ranking:...

Khachaturian: Educating Immigrants About the U.S. Tax System

Posted on July 01, 2008
Alex Khachaturian (White & Case, Washington, D.C.) has published Meeting Uncle Sam the Hard Way: Educating Immigrants About the U.S. Tax System, 50 Tax Notes Int?l 1105 (6/30/08). Here is the Introduction: There is predictable misunderstanding within the immigrant population...

Leiter on Northwestern's Two-Year J.D. Program

Posted on July 01, 2008
I previously blogged (here and here) Northwestern's new two-year J.D. program. Brian Leiter today offers a detailed analysis of the pros and cons. He compares Northwestern's in-city rivalry with Chicago to NYU-Columbia and concludes: [T]his may be the riskiest aspect...

Desai, Dharmapala & Singhal: Investable Tax Credits: The Case of the Low Income Housing Tax Credit

Posted on July 01, 2008
Mihir A. Desai (Harvard Business School), Dhammika Dharmapala (UConn, Department of Economics) & Monica Singhal (Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government) have posted Investable Tax Credits: The Case of the Low Income Housing Tax Credit on SSRN...

DOJ Seeks John Doe Summons Against UBS to Get Tax Records of U.S. Clients

Posted on July 01, 2008
DOJ Press Release IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman's Statement Bloomberg CNN Financial Times New York Times Wall Street Journal

Western State Seeks Spring 2009 Tax Visitor

Posted on July 01, 2008
From Cheyanna Jaffke: Western State University College of Law in beautiful and sunny Southern California (Orange County) needs a spring semester visitor to teach basic tax and maybe one upper division course while I am on sabbatical. You can surf...

Dodge: The Constitutionality of Federal Taxes

Posted on July 01, 2008
Joseph M. Dodge (Florida State) has published The Constitutionality of Federal Taxes and Federal Tax Provisions, 8 Fla. Tax Rev. 369 (2007). Here is the abstract: A recent case, Murphy v. IRS, 460 F.3d 79 (Aug. 22, 2006), has stimulated...

Black: Fringe Benefits Tax and the Company Car: Aligning the Tax with Environmental Policy

Posted on June 30, 2008
Celeste Black (University of Sydney, Faculty of Law) has posted Fringe Benefits Tax and the Company Car: Aligning the Tax with Environmental Policy, 25 Envtl & Plan. L.J. 182 (2008), on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Increasingly, environmental taxes have...

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Posted on June 30, 2008
Saturday: Congratulations, Suja Thomas & Scott Bahr 2d Circuit Rejects Retroactivity Challenge to � 469 Passive Loss Rules Fear Factor: 30% of Lawyers Are Worried About Losing Their Jobs IRS Electronic Advisory Committee Delivers Report to Congress Sunday: Snipes Seeks...

Effect of Obama's Tax Plan on Tiger Woods

Posted on June 30, 2008
Hank Adler (Chapman University, Argyros School of Business & Economics) has published an op-ed, Obama Wants Tiger-Size Tax Bite (Orange County Register): When Tiger Woods collected his $1,350,000 check for winning the U.S. Open golf championship this month, his federal...

IRS Agent Pleads Guilty to Soliciting a Bribe to Stop an Audit -- $5,000 and a Free Lunch

Posted on June 30, 2008
The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York has announced that former IRS agent Robert Rosner has pleaded guilty today to soliciting a bribe from a taxpayer: On July 25, 2006, Rosner initiated an audit of a small...

Winchester: The Employment Tax Gap

Posted on June 30, 2008
Richard Winchester (Thomas Jefferson) has posted The Gap in the Tax Gap: What Congress Should Do About It on SSRN. Here is the abstract: According to the most recent official estimates, $54 billion in taxes go uncollected each year because...

Forman & Chen: Optimal Retirement Age

Posted on June 30, 2008
Jonathan Barry Forman (Oklahoma Law) and Bing Yung-Ping Chen (University of Massachusetts-Boston, Gerontology Institute) have posted Optimal Retirement Age on SSRN. Here is the abstract: What is the optimal retirement age? This paper looks at the optimal retirement age from...

Newsweek: Cindy McCain's Tax Troubles

Posted on June 30, 2008
This week's Newsweek reports that Cindy McCain has been late paying property taxes on a condo in La Jolla, California for the past four years. Apparently, an elderly aunt of Mrs. McCain lives in the condo, and Mrs. McCain is...

New Issue of Atax's eJournal of Tax Research

Posted on June 30, 2008
Volume 6, Issue 1 (June 2008) of the eJournal of Tax Research, published by Atax (Australian Taxation Studies Program), University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, and edited by Binh Tran-Nam & Michael Walpole, is available on its web site:...

Bogdanski: The "Quid" and the "Quo" of Charitable Contributions

Posted on June 29, 2008
Jack Bogdanski (Lewis & Clark) has published The "Quid" and the "Quo": Valuing Firm Goodwill and Executive Perks, 35 Est. Plan. 37 (June 2008). Here is the Introduction: As the headlines remind one from time to time, the U.S. tax...

Vallario: Living Trusts in the Unauthorized Practice of Law

Posted on June 29, 2008
Angela M. Vallario (Baltimore) has posted Living Trusts in the Unauthorized Practice of Law: A Good Thing Gone Bad, 59 Md. L. Rev. 101 (2000), on SSRN. Here is the abstract: An elderly man recently lost his wife and visits...

Snipes Seeks Permission to Travel Overseas to Work on Two Movies Pending Appeal of Tax Evasion Conviction

Posted on June 29, 2008
Actor Wesley Snipes, who is free on bail pending the appeal of his conviction on three misdemeanor tax fraud counts, has filed a motion seeking permission to leave the country to go to (1) London help edit his new movie,...

Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads

Posted on June 29, 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 #5: 1. [348 Downloads] Recent Developments in Federal Income Taxation: The Year 2007,...

IRS Electronic Advisory Committee Delivers Report to Congress

Posted on June 28, 2008
The IRS announced yesterday (IR-2008-83) that the Electronic Tax Administration Advisory Committee has delivered its 2008 Annual Report to Congress. The report includes 21 recommendations on a wide range of issues that pertain to individual filers and business, such as...

Congratulations, Suja Thomas & Scott Bahr

Posted on June 28, 2008
Congratulations to Suja Thomas and Scott Bahr, who tied the knot today. Suja has been a dear friend and colleague since joining the Cincinnati faculty eight years ago. She is that rare person who embodies incredible generosity, service to others,...

2d Circuit Rejects Retroactivity Challenge to � 469 Passive Loss Rules

Posted on June 28, 2008
The Second Circuit on Thursday rejected a taxpayer's constitutional challenge to the � 469 passive loss rules on retroactivity grounds. Ziegler v. Commissioner, No. 07-4206-ag (2d Cir. 6/26/08): We find no constitutional violation here. We agree with the Tax Court...

Fear Factor: 30% of Lawyers Are Worried About Losing Their Jobs

Posted on June 28, 2008
ABA Journal, Nearly 30% of Lawyers Surveyed Fear Firing Above the Law, Associate Life Survey: Feeling Sluggish?

Diversity Meets Data at George Mason Law

Posted on June 27, 2008
Inside Higher Ed: Diversity Meets Data at George Mason Law, by Andy Guess: The ABA considers, as part of its accreditation requirements, a law school?s commitment to a diverse student population. For top-ranking institutions, that usually means some combination of...

More Analysis of McCain & Obama Tax Plans

Posted on June 27, 2008
Heritage Foundation, European Levels of Taxation: Barack Obama's Tax Plan National Review, Taxing Issues: An Opening for Republicans in November Tax Foundation, First Hard Numbers on Obama Tax Plan Show Dramatic Tax Redistribution Think Progress, McCain Would Give America?s 200...

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