TaxProf Blog
Features news, information, and resources related to tax law primarily for law school tax professors.
Author: Paul L. Caron, a law professor and director of faculty projects at the University of Cincinnati College of Law, edits TaxProf Blog, which is part of the Law Professor Blogs Network, of which he is publisher and editor-in-chief. He also is on the board of advisers for Law School Innovation and contributes to MoneyLaw.
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Recent Posts from TaxProf Blog
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Stanford Hosts Northern California Tax Roundtable Today
Stanford hosts the Fall 2009 Northern California Tax Roundtable today with these papers and commentary: David M. Hasen (Penn State), Financial Options in the Real World: An Economic and Tax Analysis Commentator: David S. Gamage…
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Lawsky Presents Declining Marginal Utility and Tax Policy Today at Virginia
Sarah B. Lawsky (George Washington; visiting at Virginia) presents On the Edge: Declining Marginal Utility and Tax Policy at Virginia today as part of its Faculty Workshop Series. Here is the abstract: Tax policy and…
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Conference on Empirical Legal Studies at USC
The two-day Fourth Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies kicks off today at USC. The tax panel is chaired by Scott Altman (USC): Dhammika Dharmapala (University of Illinois College of Law), C. Fritz Foley (Harvard…
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The 70% Discount on Goldman's $500m Gift
Smart Money, The 70% Discount on Goldman's $500M Gift, by Diana Ransom: It’s been dubbed the apology with a half-billion-dollar gift attached. In an attention-grabbing move this week, Goldman Sachs said it would launch a…
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Tough Week for 'Girls Gone Wild' Founder Joe Francis: $34m Tax Lien, Mocked by Stanford Band
Following up on my prior post: the IRS has filed a $34 million tax lien against Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis', two weeks after U.S. District Judge S. James Otero sentenced Francis to 301…
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Gender Diversity in the Law Stories Series
Following up on Wednesday's post, Foundation Press Publishes 30th Law Stories Book, in which I expressed my pride in serving as series editor and helping to recruit 50 incredibly talented faculty to edit books in…
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11th Circuit Hears Oral Argument Today in Wesley Snipes' Tax Appeal
The 11th Circuit hears oral argument at 9:00 a,m, in actor Wesley Snipes' appeal of his conviction on three misdemeanor tax fraud counts. The panel is Judge Stanley Marcus (a "movie buff') and Senior Circuit…
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Senate Finance Committee Meets Today on Brainard and Mundaca Nominations
Following up on Wednesday's post, Senate to Move Forward on Lael Brainard's Nomination Despite Tax Problems: the Senate Finance Committee meets today to vote on her nomination to be Undersecretary of the Treasury for International…
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Fishman: Stealth Preemption -- The IRS's Nonprofit Corporate Governance Initiative
James J. Fishman (Pace) has posted Stealth Preemption: The IRS's Nonprofit Corporate Governance Initiative, 29 Va. Tax Rev. ___ (2010), on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The IRS, the primary federal regulator of charities, has…
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TIGTA: 372,000 Taxpayers Erroneously Claimed Education Tax Credits
The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration yesterday reported that 372,000 taxpayers erroneously claimed education tax credits in 2006 and 2007, totaling $532 million (an average of over $1,400 improper credit per taxpayer). Improvements Are…