ataxingmatter
This blawg deals with tax (primarily the federal income tax) and economic issues from the perspective of democratic egalitarianism. Postings discuss current cases and administrative guidance as well as economic and tax issues in the news.
Author: Linda M. Beale is an associate professor at Wayne State University Law School.
Blawg Related Categories: Tax Law • Wayne State University • Law Professor • Economics
Recent Posts from ataxingmatter
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Obama's tax ideas, per McCain, checked by Factcheck
FactCheck.org has produced an analysis of a frequent claim of the McCain campaign that Obama has voted many times to raise taxes. In the process, they also did a fact check on the Obama campaign.…
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UBS (and some of its wealthy US clients) in the soup
UBS, one of the banks that took a huge hit from the subprime mortgage crisis, is in the news again, this time for what appears to be assistance to wealthy US clients in evading US…
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Center for Economic Progress "summit"
The Center for Economic Progress, through the National Community Tax Coalition and with Frontera Assets, is hosting a "summit" on financial independence for working families in Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, New Mexico, Nevado, Texas and…
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McCain's Tax Plans
Yesterday I received a fundraising mailing from John McCain's presidential campaign. I found it quite interesting, as much for what it didn't say as for what it did say. It presumed that McCain supporters would…
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Treasury, capital gains, and tax policy
Phillip Swagel, assistant treasury secretary for economic policy, spoke yesterday to the National Association of Publicly Traded Partnerships and, according to BNA RealTime, repeated two of the mantras of the tax-cuts-for-capital club. first, Swagel urged…
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Research & Development tax credit: an extension that should be cut off
As most everybody probably is aware, the fate of "extender" legislation--legislation to extend the term of various corporate tax breaks enacted as part of the huge Bush corporate tax break package--is at this point uncertain.…
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Tax Snitches--a big one revealed
This is a double gotcha moment. As Tax Prof reported this afternoon, Bloomberg.com reveals that UPS Lobbyist Secretly Spurred Ohio to Demand Taxes from FedEx. Kenneth Kies, the former chief of staff of the Joint…
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Addressing Poverty, Protecting the Environment: PEW religious survey and its implications for tax policies
PEW has released the second part of its major survey of religion in America in the twenty-first century (this part on religious beliefs and practices, social and political views), described in Neela Banerjee, Survey Shows…
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Tax Cuts and Loopholes
Womenstake, a blog network run by the National Women's Law Center, has an interesting post on recent Congressional votes on various bills. It's called "One Tax Loophole Gets Closed: Can We Make It a Trend?…
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bank secrecy and tax evasion by wealthy US clients
The US District Court for the Southern District of Florida today released a "statement of facts" Download birkenfeld. statement of facts. 061908.pdf in connection with the guilty plea of Bradley Birkenfeld, a UBS banker, for…