Tuesday, May 18, 2004 The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities today released an 8-page report, Who Would Pay for the House’s “Free Lunch” Tax Cuts?…

Tuesday, May 18, 2004 The Washington Post has an interesting article on the Senate-approved legislation to privatize tax collections. Not surpisingly,…

Tuesday, May 18, 2004 Kirk Stark (UCLA) has posted Fiscal Federalism and Tax Progressivity: Should the Federal Income Tax Encourage State and Local Re…

Tuesday, May 18, 2004 The Tax Court announced in a press release that it will open its new electronic courtroom on June 1. The accompanying 5-page Gui…

Tuesday, May 18, 2004 The IRS announced new resources for small businesses: IR-2004-69: Two new tools to help small businesses keep their employee ret…

Monday, May 17, 2004 The TaxProf Discussion Group today had an interesting thread on whether gay and lesbian couples married in Massachusetts can file…

Monday, May 17, 2004 Citizens for Tax Justice has released a helpful one-page chart, Top Federal Income Tax Rates on Regular Income and Capital Gains …

Monday, May 17, 2004 Lily Kahng (Seattle) has published Innocent Spouses: A Critique of the New Tax Laws Governing Joint and Several Tax Liability, 49…

Monday, May 17, 2004 Donald Tobin (Ohio State) raises the interesting question of whether the Bishop of Colorado placed his diocese’s tax exempt…

Monday, May 17, 2004 The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has released A Hand Up: How State Earned Income Tax Credits Help Working Families Esca…

Monday, May 17, 2004 The Edward Bennett Williams Library at Georgetown University Law Center has an extraordinarily helpful on-line Federal Tax Resear…

Monday, May 17, 2004 Robert Paine has published The Tax Treatment of International Philanthropy and Public Policy, 19 Akron Tax J. 1 (2004). Here is p…

Monday, May 17, 2004 The 58th Annual Penn State Tax Conference is being held today and tomorrow in State College, Pennsylvania. Tax Prof Kathy Mandelb…

Sunday, May 16, 2004 This week’s list of the Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads on SSRN is unchanged from last week: 1. Corporations, Society and the Sta…

Sunday, May 16, 2004 The Senate Finance Committee staff has prepared a very helpful 10-page summary of the National Employee Savings and Trust Equity …

Sunday, May 16, 2004 The White House sent to the Senate its request to reappoint Tax Court Judge John O. Colvin for another 15-year term. Originally a…

Saturday, May 15, 2004 According to today’s L.A. Times, Gov. Schwarzenegger has proposed a 75% tax on punitive damage awards to help close Calif…

Saturday, May 15, 2004 George Yin, Howard W. Smith Professor of Law at Virginia, was appointed in February 2003 to be the new Chief of Staff of the U.…

Saturday, May 15, 2004 Today is National Transparency Day, dedicated to encouraging financial transparency among charitable organizations. U.S. Rep. S…

Saturday, May 15, 2004 Today marks the one-month anniversary of TaxProf Blog. It looks like we are here to stay, as we have been blown away by the num…