There is a bit of movement in this week’s list of the Top 5 Recent Tax Paper Downloads, with a new #1 paper and new papers debuting on the list at #2 and #5:
1. [258 Downloads] Tax Avoidance as a Legitimate Business Purpose, by Karen C. Burke (San Diego) [blogged here]
2. [252 Downloads] Deduction Ad Absurdum: CEOs Donating Their Own Stock to Their Own Family Foundations, by David Yermack (NYU, Stern School of Business) [blogged here]
3. [200 Downloads] Financial and Tax Accounting: Transparency and "Truth," by Judith Freedman (Oxford University) [blogged here]
4. [166 Downloads] Back to School: The New Parameters of Funding a Grandchild’s College Education, by Richard L Kaplan (Illinois) [blogged here]
5. [148 Downloads] Tax Expense Surprises and Future Returns, by Jacob K. Thomas & Frank Zhang (both of Yale University, School of Management) [blogged here]



