There is a bit of movement on this week’s list of the Top 5 Recent Tax Paper Downloads, with a new paper debuting on the list at #5:
1. [413 Downloads] Deduction Ad Absurdum: CEOs Donating Their Own Stock to Their Own Family Foundations, by David Yermack (NYU, Stern School of Business) [blogged here]
2. [273 Downloads] Backdating, by Jeffrey L. Kwall (Loyola-Chicago) & Stuart Duhl (Harrison & Held, Chicago) [blogged here]
3. [142 Downloads] Perpetuities, Taxes, and Asset Protection: An Empirical Assessment of the Jurisdictional Competition for Trust Funds, by Robert H. Sitkoff (Harvard) & Max M. Schanzenbach (Northwestern) [blogged here]
4. [135 Downloads] Taxation as a Global Socio-Legal Phenomenon, by Allison Christians (Wisconsin), Steven Dean (Brooklyn), Diane M. Ring (Boston College) & Adam H. Rosenzweig (Washington University) [blogged here]
5. [115 Downloads] Recent Developments in Federal Income Taxation: The Year 2007, by Martin J. McMahon, Jr. (Florida), Ira B. Shepard (Houston) & Daniel L. Simmons (UC-Davis) [blogged here]
