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Mayo on Restricted Stock Notes
Friday, April 23, 2004 David Mayo (Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher) has posted Restricted Stock Notes on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The 1990s saw an inc…
Read MoreBush-Kerry Tax Policy Debate
Friday, April 23, 2004 Representatives of the Bush and Kerry campaigns square off today in Washington, D.C. at a conference sponsored by Tax Analysts,…
Read MoreDesai & Dharmapala on Corporate Tax Avoidance and Incentives
Friday, April 23, 2004 Mihir Desai (Harvard) & Dhammika Dharmapala (Connecticut) have posted Corporate Tax Avoidance and High Powered Incentives …
Read MoreSchlunk to Visit at NYU
Thursday, April 22, 2004 Herwig Schlunk (Vanderbilt) will be visiting at NYU in the Spring 2005 semester. For a complete list of 2004-05 Tax Prof move…
Read MoreWeisbach & Nussim on Integration of Tax & Spending Programs
Thursday, April 22, 2004 David Weisbach (Chicago) & Jacob Nussim (Chicago) have published The Integration of Tax And Spending Programs, 113 Yale …
Read MoreBrown on FIRPTA
Thursday, April 22, 2004 Fred Brown (Baltimore) has posted Whither FIPTA? on SSRN. Here is the abstract: It is commonly understood that the tax law is…
Read More1-Week Anniversary of TaxProf Blog
Thursday, April 22, 2004 Today marks the one-week anniversary of TaxProf Blog. It looks like we are here to stay, as we have been blown away by the nu…
Read MoreYin on Effective Tax Rates of Fortune 500
Wednesday, April 21, 2004 Non-TaxProfer Gordon Smith (Wisconsin) blogs How Much Tax Do Large Corporations Pay? Estimating the Effective Tax Rates of t…
Read MoreVote For Your Favorite Tax Prof
Wednesday, April 21, 2004 LawTV is running a poll to find “America’s 100 most influential law professors.” According to the site: &#…
Read MoreKerry’s Pre-Campaign Charitable Giving
Wednesday, April 21, 2004 In my prior post comparing Pres. Bush and Sen. Kerry’s respective charitable giving as reported on their recent tax re…
Read MoreAsofsky on Business Bankruptcy Filings
Wednesday, April 21, 2004 Paul Asofsky (Weil Gotshal & Manges) has posted A Guide to Common Tax Issues Incident to Filing Business Bankruptcy on …
Read MoreBush v. Kerry: Charitable Deductions
Wednesday, April 21, 2004 One element of the dueling analyzes of the Bush-Kerry tax returns that has been under-blogged is the relative amounts of the…
Read MoreWhat Tax Profs Are Reading . . . Newman on Perfectly Legal
Tuesday, April 20, 2004 Joel Newman (Wake Forest) kicks off a new feature of TaxProf Blog: What Tax Profs Are Reading. The goal is to share with the b…
Read MoreBurke on Exculpatory Liabilities and Partnership Allocations
Tuesday, April 20, 2004 Karen Burke (San Diego) has posted Exculpatory Liabilities and Nonrecourse Partnership Allocations on SSRN. Here is the abstra…
Read MoreRasmussen Enters Kerry Tax Return Fray
Tuesday, April 20, 2004 Eric Rasmussen (Indiana-Bloomington) questions Sen. Kerry’s treatment of the 175k capital gain on the sale of a painting…
Read MoreMore on Bush-Cheney-Kerry Tax Returns
Monday, April 19, 2004 Jim Maule (Villanova) has an interesting take on the recently released Bush-Cheney-Kerry tax returns (recently blogged on TaxPr…
Read MoreEstate Planning for Pets
Monday, April 19, 2004 Interesting story via TaxGuru about a Charlton, NY widow who left $500,000 at her death to care for her pets: a horse, a dog, a…
Read MoreGerzog on Annuity Tables and Ithaca Trust
Monday, April 19, 2004 Wendy Gerzog (Baltimore) has posted Annuity Tables Versus Factually-Based Estate Tax Valuation: Ithaca Trust Revisited on SSRN.…
Read MoreBankman Colloquium on Tax Compliance Costs at NYU
Monday, April 19, 2004 Joe Bankman (Stanford) presents Should the Government Bear (Some) Tax Compliance Costs? at the NYU Colloquium on Tax Policy and…
Read MoreBush-Cheney Tax Returns and Athenian Democracy
Sunday, April 18, 2004 David Cay Johnston has a nice piece today in the NY Times on how the 2003 Bush and Cheney tax returns “demonstrate how fa…
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