Tuesday, May 11, 2004 David Case has published The Tax Court as a Conscientious Objector in Daubert’s War Against Bad Science. Here is part of t…

Tuesday, May 11, 2004 As noted earlier on TaxProf Blog, LawTV is running a poll to find “America’s 100 most influential law professors.&#8…

Tuesday, May 11, 2004 The IRS is accepting grant applications for low income taxpayer clinics. Non profit organizations (like law schools) providing f…

Tuesday, May 11, 2004 The Congressional Budget Office today released Tax-Deferred Retirement Savings in Long-Term Revenue Projections. Here is part of…

Tuesday, May 11, 2004 The monthly Tax Talk Today program offers a free webcast from 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. EST on IRS Examination Program Changes…

Monday, May 10, 2004 In its Form 10-Q filing on Friday, Merck disclosed that the IRS’s disallowance of various deductions may result in an addit…

Monday, May 10, 2004 Michelle Arnopol Cecil (Missouri-Columbia) has published Abandonments in Bankruptcy: Unifying Competing Tax and Bankruptcy Polici…

Monday. May 10, 2004 Guest Blogger Ellen Aprill (Loyola-L.A.) reports in from the ABA Tax Section meeting in Washington, D.C. on the Laurence Neal Woo…

Monday, May 10, 2004 This week’s Newsweek has a great article on the tax consequences of one of the hottest reality TV show crazes: the home-mak…

Sunday, May 9, 2004 Mitchell Kane (Virginia) has posted Strategy and Cooperation in National Responses to International Tax Arbitrage on SSRN. Here is…

Monday, May 10, 2004 The IRS is questioning two small Florida towns that have floated over $2 billion in tax-exempt bonds for projects like casinos bu…

Sunday, May 9, 2004 This week’s list of the Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads on SSRN represents the most dramatic change to date, with 2 new papers cra…

Sunday, May 9, 2004 Tax Prof Colleen Medill is moving from Tennessee to Nebraska, effective Fall 2004. For a complete list of 2004-05 Tax Prof moves, …

Sunday, May 9, 2004 Yariv Brauner (Northwestern) has published A Good Old Habit, or Just an Old One? Preferential Tax Treatment for Reorganizations, 2…

Saturday, May 8, 2004 After serving five years as Dean of Texas Wesleyan University School of Law, Tax Prof Richard Gershon is the inaugural Dean of t…

Saturday, May 8, 2004 Tax Profs have prominent roles in the ABA Tax Section meeting today at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Washington, D.C. For the complet…

Saturday, May 8, 2004 Alan Kennard (Ungaretti & Harris) has posted The Hedge Fund Versus the Mutual Fund on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In determ…

Friday, May 7, 2004 There was an interesting discussion today on the TaxProf Discussion Group about the tax issues raised in the NBC television show &…

Friday, May 7, 2004 The IRS has released Individual Income Tax Return Data by ZIP Code: Number of Returns (total and by income bracket) Exemptions AGI…

Friday, May 7, 2004 Victor Thuronyi (International Monetary Fund; Adjunct Professor at Georgetown) has posted What Can We Learn from Comparative Tax L…