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Apinunmahakul & Devlin on Charitable Gaming
Tuesday, May 4, 2004 Amornrat Apinunmahakul (Lakehead-Dep’t of Economics) & Rose Anne Devlin (Ottawa-Dep’t of Economics) have posted …
Read MoreSOI Releases Projections of 2004-2010 Tax Returns
Tuesday, May 4, 2004 The just-released Statistics of Income Bulletin (Winter 2003-04) includes Projections of Returns That Will Be Filed in Calendar Y…
Read MoreDeath of Georgia Tax Prof Larry Blount
Tuesday, May 4, 2004 Georgia tax professor Larry Blount died Sunday. He was only 53 years old. Professor Blount earned his B.A. from Michigan (1972), …
Read MoreWhat Tax Profs Are Reading . . . Caron on Legal Essays on the New York Yankees
Tuesday, May 4, 2004 This is the second installment of What Tax Profs Are Reading. The goal is to share with the broader tax community reviews of both…
Read MoreGraetz Named Fellow of American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Tuesday, May 4, 2004 Michael Graetz (Yale) has been named one of 178 new fellows of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Here’s the ope…
Read MoreTax Protester Richard Simkanin Sentenced to 7 Years in Prison
Tuesday, May 4, 2004 TaxProf Blog typically does not comment on tax protester litigation, but “Tax Honesty” leader Richard Simkanin’…
Read MoreAura on Optimal Income & Estate Taxes
Tuesday, May 4, 2004 Saku Aura (Missouri-Columbia Dep’t of Economics) has posted Estate and Capital Gains Taxation: Efficiency and Political Eco…
Read MoreJohnson Takes Temperature of Tax System
Monday, May 3, 2004 Calvin Johnson (Texas) has posted A Thermometer for the Tax System: The Overall Health of the Tax System as Measured by Implicit T…
Read MoreIRS Attorney Directory by Code Section & Subject Matter
Monday, May 3, 2004 The monthly update of the 121-page directory of attorneys in the IRS Chief Counsel’s Office, arranged by Internal Revenue Co…
Read MoreSummer 2004 Graduate Tax Courses
Monday, May 3, 2004 Several tax LL.M. programs have released their Summer 2004 schedule of classes, including Baltimore Denver Florida
Read MoreIRS Releases Criminal Statistics
Monday, May 3, 2004 The IRS has released criminal investigation statistics for the October 1, 2003 – March 30, 2004 period: …………
Read MoreSOI Releases 1990-2001 Itemized Deduction Data
Monday, May 3, 2004 The just-released Statistics of Income Bulletin (Winter 2003-04) includes Selected Itemized Deductions, Schedule A, 1990–2001 by J…
Read MoreTobin on Human Capital Investment in Children
Monday, May 3, 2004 Donald Tobin (Ohio State) has posted Investing in Our Children: A Not So Radical Proposal on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The Unite…
Read MoreNames of Tax-Raising Republican Legislators in Virginia “Etched in Stone”
Sunday, May 2, 2004 In a story that reveals a growing fault line in the Republican Party, the names of Republican legislators in Virginia who voted to…
Read MoreTop 5 Tax Paper Downloads
Sunday, May 2, 2004 This week’s list of the Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads on SSRN is basically unchanged from last week, with #3 and #4 switching po…
Read More10 Tax Questions Bush & Kerry Don’t Want You To Ask
Sunday, May 2, 2004 John Fox has published 10 Questions The Candidates Don’t Want You To Ask. Here is an exceprt from the preface: There are two…
Read MoreSales & Use Tax Simplification
Saturday, May 1, 2004 Gary Cornia (BYU), David Sjoquist (Georgia State) & Lawrence Walters (George Mason) have posted Sales and Use Tax Simplific…
Read MoreShay on Alternatives to Subpart F
Saturday, May 1, 2004 Stephen Shay (Ropes & Gray) has posted Exploring Alternatives to Subpart F on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This paper consid…
Read MoreUpdate on NY Times Article on New Technology in Tax Teaching
Friday, April 30, 2004 A follow-up on yesterday’s post about the New York Times article on the new “clicker” technology that I use i…
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