The ABA Tax Section continues its three-day Midyear Meeting today in San Diego.  Tax Profs speaking on panels today include:

• 7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.: Section Breakfast — Plenary Session
  • 2006 Pro Bono Award Recipient:  Janet Spragens (Washington)
  • Speaker: George K. Yin (Virginia):  The Evolving Legislative Process and What it May Portend for Budget Control and Tax Reform
  • 7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.:  Exempt Organizations Subcommittee on Political and Lobbying Oranizations and Activities
    • Chair: Miriam Galston (George Washington)
• 8:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.:  Affiliated and Related Corporations
  • 9:35 a.m.: Current Consolidated Return Developments
    • Panelist: Don Leatherman (Tennessee)
• 8:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.:  Banking and Savings Institutions
  • 10:45 a.m.:  Current Developments
    • Panelist: Ronald Blasi (Georgia State)
• 8:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.:  Domestic Relations
  • Chair:  Toni Robinson (Quinnipiac)
  • 8:45 a.m.:  Income Tax Planning for Married Same Sex Couples and Unmarried Domestic Partners – Part I
    • Moderator: Toni Robinson (Quinnipiac)
    • Panelists:
      • Patricia A. Cain (Iowa)
      • Mary Ferrari (Quinnipiac)
  • 10:15 a.m.:  Estate and Gift Tax Planning for Same Sex Couples
    • Moderator: Toni Robinson (Quinnipiac)
    • Panelists:
      • Patricia A. Cain (Iowa)
      • Mary Ferrari (Quinnipiac)
• 8:45 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.:  Exempt Organizations
  • 2:15 p.m.:  Section 501(c)(4) Social Welfare Organizations:  "Social Welfare" and Other Mysteries
    • Panelist:  Miriam Galston (George Washington)
• 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.:  2005 Law Student Tax Challenge
• 1:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.:  Employment Taxes
  • 3:30 p.m.:  Employment Taxes and the Mobile Domestic Workforce Post-Huckaby
    • Panelist:  Edward Zelinsky (Cardozo)
• 1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.:  Teaching Taxation: Perspectives on Taxing Same-Sex and Unmarried Couples.
  • Moderator:  Anthony C. Infanti (Pittsburgh)
  • Panelists:
    • Henry M. Ordower (Saint Louis)
    • Theodore P. Seto (Loyola-L.A.)
    • Patricia A. Cain (Iowa).
• 2:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.:  Closely Held Businesses and Business Cooperatives and Agriculture
  • 2:30p.m.:  Taxing Farmers: Income Averaging, Self- Employment (and some QPAI).
    • Panelist:  Edward A. Morse (Creighton)
• 2:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.:  Court Procedure and Practice
  • 4:25 p.m.:  Spotlight on Procedure: The Mailbox Rule
    • Moderator:  Christopher Pietruszkiewicz (LSU)
• 2:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.:  Partnerships and LLCs
  • 4:10 p.m.:  Contingent Liabilities and Deferred Income in Partnership Transactions
    • Moderator:   Howard E. Abrams (Emory)
• 4:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.:  Diversity Committee and Young Lawyers Forum
  • 4:00 p.m.:  Profiles in Diversity
    • Moderator:  Craig M. Boise (Case Western)
    • Panelist:  Alice Abreu (Temple)