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House Holds Tax Simplification Hearing
Wednesday, June 16, 2004 The Subcommittee on Oversight of the House Ways and Means Committee on Tuesday held a public hearing on tax simplification. A…
Read MoreFino on State Constitutional Tax & Finance Provisions
Wednesday, June 16, 2004 Susan Fino (Wayne State – Political Science) has published A Cure Worse than the Disease? Taxation and Finance Provisio…
Read MoreIRS Names Stiff Deputy Commissioner of Small Business/Self-Employed Division
Tuesday, June 15, 2004 The IRS today announced the appointment of Linda E. Stiff as deputy commissioner of the Small Business/Self-Employed Division (…
Read MoreSenate Winners from Pending Tax Bill
Tuesday, June 15, 2004 Today’s Washington Post has a great piece on which Senators would benefit the most financially from the tax bill schedule…
Read MoreTwo-Month Anniversary of TaxProf Blog
Tuesday, June 15, 2004 Today marks the two-month anniversary of TaxProf Blog. We have been blown away by the number of visitors (50,000+) in such a sh…
Read MoreWhat Tax Profs Are Reading . . . Maule on Lost Christianities
Tuesday, June 15, 2004 This is the fifth installment of What Tax Profs Are Reading. The goal is to share with the broader tax community reviews of bot…
Read MoreTax Talk Today Webcast on IRS Collection Program Changes
Tuesday, June 15, 2004 The monthly Tax Talk Today program offers a free webcast today from 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. EST on IRS Collection Program C…
Read MoreSupreme Court Rules That State Taxes Can be Challenged in Federal Court
Monday, June 14, 2004 Likely lost among the hubub of the Supreme Court’s pledge of allegiance opinion issued today is its 5-4 ruling in Hibbs v.…
Read MoreSummer Associate Weekly Salaries Top $2,500
Monday, June 14, 2004 New York City summer associate weekly salaries top $2,500 this year (well in excess of median law professor weekly salaries, pro…
Read MoreTax Consequences of Cicada Invasion
Monday, June 14, 2004 For those of us living in cicada country (DC, Indiana, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvan…
Read MoreWeekend Roundup
Monday, June 14, 2004 This weekend’s TaxProf Blog posts: Saturday: • TaxProf Spotlight: Richard Pugh • Joint Committee Releases Description and …
Read MoreTop 5 Tax Paper Downloads
Sunday, June 13, 2004 There is a new paper on week’s list of the Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads on SSRN, debuting at #5: 1. Corporate Tax Avoidance a…
Read MoreJoint Committee Releases Description and Revenue Effects of Amendments to Jobs Creation Act
Sunday, June 13, 2004 The Joint Committee on Taxation has released a 10-page Description of the Chairman’s Amendment in the Nature of a Substitu…
Read MoreStill More on Intersection of Tax, Religion, and Politics
Sunday, June 13, 2004 Following up on this week’s posts on the intersection of tax, religion, and politics (here and here), the IRS has sent 3-p…
Read MoreTax Prof Spotlight: Richard Pugh
Saturday, June 12, 2004 Richard Pugh has led the consummate tax life, with high powered positions in private practice, public service, and legal educa…
Read MoreJoint Committee Releases Description and Revenue Effects of Jobs Creation Act
Saturday, June 12, 2004 The Joint Committee on Taxation has released a 261-page Description of H.R. 4520, the “American Jobs Creation Act of 200…
Read MoreGoldwater Institute Ties State Population Shifts to Relative Tax Burdens
Saturday, June 12, 2004 The Goldwater Institute has issued a report, The Tax Man and the Moving Van: Fiscal Policy and State Population Shifts, conclu…
Read MoreWho Am I?
Friday, June 11, 2004 Who is this non-tax professor at Harvard? • From Brian Leiter: “Harvard Law School’s best-known and least accomplish…
Read MoreLawyers Behaving Badly
Friday, June 11, 2004 Forgive the non-tax related nature of this post, but as one who has been to many law firm and law school retreats, the report of…
Read MoreTax Profs Remember Ronald Reagan
Friday, June 11, 2004 As Ronald Reagan is laid to rest today, Tax Profs offer their remembrances of our 40th President: • Ellen Aprill (Loyola-L.A.): …
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