This week’s list of the Top 5 Recent Tax Paper Downloads on SSRN is the same as last week’s list.  The #1 paper has climbed to #113 in all-time downloads among 3,953 tax papers.

1.  [309 Downloads]  The Case for For-Profit Charities, by Anup Malani (Chicago) & Eric A. Posner (Chicago)  [blogged here]

2.  [155 Downloads]  Jewish Perspecitves on the Ethics of Tax Evasion, by Robert W. McGee (Barry University, Andreas School of Business) & Gordon Cohn (City University of New York, Stan Ross Department of Accountancy)  [blogged here]

3.  [125 Downloads]  The Federal Income Tax Consequences of the Bobble Supreme Phenomenon, by Leandra Lederman (Indiana)  [blogged here]

4.  [94 Downloads]   Substance Over Form? Phantom Regulations and the Internal Revenue Code, by Andy Grewal (Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, Washington, D.C.)  [blogged here]

5.  [75 Downloads]  No Thanks, Uncle Sam, You Can Keep Your Tax Break, by James Edward Maule (Villanova)  [blogged here]