There is a lot of movement in this week’s list of the Top 5 Recent Tax Paper Downloads on SSRN, with a new paper assuming the #1 spot and new papers debuting at #4 and #5:   

1.  [204 Downloads]  An Evaluation of Federal Tax Policy Based on Judeo-Christian Ethics, by Susan Pace Hamill (Alabama) [blogged here]

2.  [104 Downloads]  The Problem of Tax Law Uncertainty and the Role of Tax Insurance, by Kyle D. Logue (Michigan) [blogged here]

3.  [97 Downloads]  Three Views on the Ethics of Tax Evasion, by Robert W. McGee (Barry University, Andreas School of Business) [blogged here]

4.  [76 downloads]  Income Taxation and Optimal Government Policy, by Louis Kaplow (Harvard) [blogged here]

5.  [59 downloads]  Crime and Punishment in Taxation: Deceit, Deterrence, and the Self-Adjusting Penalty, by Alex Raskolnikov (Columbia) [blogged here]