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DOJ Tax Division Seeks to Hire Appellate Tax Attorneys

Posted on March 11, 2008
The Tax Division of the U.S. Department of Justice is seeking experienced attorneys for its Criminal (application due 4/2/08) and Civil (application due 4/7/08) appellate sections.

Cowan on The Rise and Fall of Entity Isolation in Sales and Use Taxes

Posted on March 11, 2008
Mark J. Cowan (Boise State University, College of Business and Economics) has published Tax Planning Versus Business Strategy: The Rise and Fall of Entity Isolation in Sales and Use Taxes, 44 Idaho L. Rev. 63 (2007). Here is the abstract:...

Spitzer, Prostitute Liable for D.C. "Jockless Tax"?

Posted on March 11, 2008
Tax angles to the sordid Eliot Spitzer mess: Tax Foundation: Spitzer and Alleged Valentine Likely to Pay "Jock Tax" Governor Spitzer and his alleged valentine [Kristen] have more in common than you know. They'll both be filing personal income tax...

Call for Editors: ABA Annual Reports on Important Tax Developments

Posted on March 11, 2008
The ABA Tax Section produces an Annual Reports on Important Developments, which tracks the key legislative changes, regulations, cases, and rulings over the past year, as well as forecasts upcoming developments, in over thirty substantive areas of the tax law...

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WSJ: Obama Pastors' Sermons May Violate Tax Laws

Posted on March 11, 2008
Interesting front page story in the Wall Street Journal: Obama Pastors' Sermons May Violate Tax Laws, by Suzanne Sataline: Scholars and attorneys say that a growing number of congregations are delving into issue advocacy and partisan politics, a trend dating...

Chodorow on Biblical Tax Systems and the Case for Progressive Taxation

Posted on March 10, 2008
Adam S. Chodorow (Arizona State) has published Biblical Tax Systems and the Case for Progressive Taxation, 23 J.L. & Relig. 51 (2007). Here is the abstract: With the political rise of the religious right, American policymakers have increasingly looked to...

NY Times: Moneyball and Charitable Giving

Posted on March 10, 2008
Interesting article in the Sunday New York Times Magazine: What Makes People Give?, by David Leonhardt: What makes people give their money away? [John List and Dean Karlan] considered the usual answers (to make the world a better place, to...

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Posted on March 10, 2008
Saturday: Joint Tax Committee Releases Description of Tax Provisions of President's 2009 Budget Tax Cuts, Not the Clinton Tax Hike, Produced the 1990s Boom Encouraging Blood and Organ Donation Through Tax Credits The Effects of the Virginia Land Preservation Credit...

Low Income Taxpayer Clinic Grant Recipients

Posted on March 10, 2008
National Taxpayer Advocate Nina E. Olson announced today (IR-2008-38) that the IRS has awarded $9 million in matching grants to Low Income Taxpayer Clinics (LITCs) for the 2008 grant cycle (Jan. 1, 2008, through Dec. 31, 2008). Through the LITC...

Conway on Money for Nothing and the Stocks for Free: Taxing Executive Compensation

Posted on March 10, 2008
Meredith R. Conway (Texas Wesleyan) has posted Money for Nothing and the Stocks for Free: Taxing Executive Compensation, 18 Cornell J. L. & Pub. Pol'y ___ (2008), on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In the 1980s and 1990s, the public...

Individualized Law School Rankings

Posted on March 10, 2008
In our Moneyball article (What Law Schools Can Learn From Billy Beane and the Oakland Athletics, 82 Tex. L. Rev. 1483, 1519-20 (2004)), we discussed two web sites that allow users to rank law schools using various criteria: The Law...

The Effect of the Domestic Manufacturing Deduction on Corporate Payout Behavior

Posted on March 10, 2008
Jennifer L. Blouin (University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School), Linda K. Krull (University of Texas-Austin, McCombs School of Business) & Casey Schwab (University of Texas-Austin, McCombs School of Business) have posted The Effect of the Domestic Manufacturing Deduction on Corporate Payout...

WSJ: The Inequality Myth

Posted on March 10, 2008
Interesting op-ed in today's Wall Street Journal: The Inequality Myth, by Brad Schiller: The annual release of census data on household incomes provides the foundation for the "two Americas" thesis. The latest figures tracked changes in incomes all the way...

Chronicle: Highest-Paid Professors Are in Law and Business

Posted on March 10, 2008
From this week's Chronicle of Higher Education: Highest-Paid Professors Are in Law and Business, by Audrey Williams June: The average salary of college faculty members rose 4% this year, according to a survey by the College and University Professional Association...

Willfulness in Criminal Tax Cases

Posted on March 09, 2008
Michael Louis Minns (Minns Law, Houston) has published A Brief History of Willfulness as it Applies to the Body of American Criminal Tax Law, 49 S. Tex. L. Rev. 395 (2007). Here is part of the Conclusion: The Government has...

NY Times: An Open Letter to John McCain on Taxes

Posted on March 09, 2008
Interesting open letter to John McCain in the Sunday New York Times by Ben Stein: What McCain Could Do About Taxes: The problem, and it?s a killer, is that over the years we have obligated ourselves as a nation to...

Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads

Posted on March 09, 2008
This week's list of the Top 5 Recent Tax Paper Downloads is the same as last week's list: 1. [268 Downloads] Taxation of US Tax-Exempt Entities' Offshore Hedge Fund Investments -- Application of the Section 514 Debt-Financed Rules to Leveraged...

Why Universities are Fundamentally Racist

Posted on March 09, 2008
Boyce Watkins (Syracuse University, Whitman School of Management) has a provocative post on BlackProf: Why Universities are Fundamentally Racist: I recently spoke at my undergraduate alma mater, The University of Kentucky. ... The energy in the auditorium was off the...

Citizens for Tax Justice Releases State-by-State Estate Tax Data

Posted on March 09, 2008
Citizens for Tax Justice has released a new report with the latest (2005-2006) state-by-state estate tax data. 22,624 of decedents (0.9% of all estates) owed estate tax in 2006 (when the estate tax exemption was $2 million, so married couples...

Encouraging Blood and Organ Donation Through Tax Credits

Posted on March 08, 2008
Joseph B. Clamon (McDermott Will & Emery, Chicago) has published Tax Policy as a Lifeline: Encouraging Blood and Organ Donation Through Tax Credits, 17 Annals Health L. 67 (2008). Here is the Conclusion: The demand for blood and human organs...

The Effects of the Virginia Land Preservation Credit on Federal Taxable Income

Posted on March 08, 2008
W. Eugene Seago (Virginia Tech University, Pamplin College of Business) has published The Effects of the Virginia Land Preservation Credit on Federal Taxable Income: Should the Right Hand Take From What the Left Hand Gave?, 32 Wm. & Mary Envtl....

Joint Tax Committee Releases Description of Tax Provisions of President's 2009 Budget

Posted on March 08, 2008
The Joint Committee on Taxation yesterday released Description of Revenue Provisions Contained in the President's Fiscal Year 2009 Budget Proposal (JCS-1-08) (322 pages): This document ... provides a description and analysis of the revenue provisions modifying the Internal Revenue Code...

Tax Cuts, Not the Clinton Tax Hike, Produced the 1990s Boom

Posted on March 08, 2008
J.D. Foster (The Heritage Foundation) has posted Tax Cuts, Not the Clinton Tax Hike, Produced the 1990s Boom on The Heritage Foundation web site. Here is the Conclusion: Proponents of tax increases often reference the Clinton 1993 tax increase and...

Finance Committee Unanimously Approves Shulman to be IRS Commissioner

Posted on March 07, 2008
The Senate Finance Committee yesterday voted 21-0 to appprove the nomination of Douglas H. Shulman to be Commissioner of Internal Revenue. From the press release: The nomination now moves to the full Senate for approval. During his appearance before the...

Letting Go

Posted on March 07, 2008
I have written before of moments of special joy as a father to a 15-year old daughter -- our times together at two Fall Out Boy Concerts, a coming-of-age camp in Northern California, and various business trips and sports activities...

TRAC Notes Decline in IRS Criminal Referrals

Posted on March 07, 2008
The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) of Syracuse University yesterday issued a new report, based on 6.8 million Justice Department records over the past twenty years, showing that criminal referrals from several federal agencies -- including the IRS -- have...

Sitkoff & Schanzenbach on Perpetuities, Taxes, and Asset Protection: An Empirical Assessment of the Jurisdictional Competition for Trust Funds

Posted on March 07, 2008
Robert H. Sitkoff (Harvard) & Max M. Schanzenbach (Northwestern) have posted Perpetuities, Taxes, and Asset Protection: An Empirical Assessment of the Jurisdictional Competition for Trust Funds, 42 Heckerling Inst. Est. Plan. 12-1 (2008), on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This...

Hellerstein, Kofler & Mason on Constitutional Restraints on Corporate Tax Integration in the EU & U.S.

Posted on March 07, 2008
Walter Hellerstein (Georgia), Georg Kofler (NYU) & Ruth Mason (UConn) have posted Constitutional Restraints on Corporate Tax Integration in the EU and the U.S., 61 Tax L. Rev. ___ (2008), on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Economic double taxation occurs...

The Best Tax Lawyers in NY, NJ & CT

Posted on March 07, 2008
New York Magazine lists the best tax lawyers in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. For the methodology, see here. (Hat Tip: Above the Law.)

Papers Published from University of Chicago's 60th Annual Federal Tax Conference

Posted on March 07, 2008
The March 2008 issue of Taxes--The Tax Magazine is out with the papers from the University of Chicago Law School's 60th Annual Federal Tax Conference held November 9-10, 2007:

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