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The Little Tax Drummer Boy

December 19, 2005

Jim Maule (Villanova) resurrects a story we ran in March (Paying the Tax Drummer) about the practice of tax authorities in India sending groups of drummers to play outside the homes of tax delinquents until they pay up what they owe. Jim offers a tax version of The Little Drummer Boy. Here’s the opening:

Come they told me
Pa rum pum pum pum
A new tax cheat to see
Pa rum pum pum pum

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Paul Caron

Paul Caron was named Duane and Kelly Roberts Dean of Pepperdine University School of Law on June 1, 2017. Dean Caron joined the Pepperdine faculty in 2013 after serving as the Dorothy and Leonard Straus Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law in the spring semesters of 2010 through 2013. He served as Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development at Pepperdine in 2015-2017. Before coming to Pepperdine, he was Associate Dean of Faculty and Charles Hartsock Professor of Law at the University of Cincinnati College of Law.