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What 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…
Read MoreIRS Says “Bling Bling” Not Deductible
Sunday, April 18, 2004 The Watley Review, which describes itself as being “dedicated to the production of articles completely without journalist…
Read MoreTop 5 Tax Paper Downloads
Sunday, April 18, 2004 The Social Science Research Network compiles a list of the most frequently downloaded tax papers over a rolling two-month perio…
Read MoreMore on Kerry’s 2003 Tax Return
Saturday, April 17, 2004 Jack Bodganski (Lewis & Clark) has a nice discussion on his blog of Kerry’s 2003 tax return. This follows up on th…
Read MoreTaxProf Blog Debuts on InstaPundit
Saturday, April 17, 2004 TaxProf Blog debuted on InstaPundit today on John Kerry’s 2003 tax return, noting how the curious $85 deduction for non…
Read MoreKahn on Estate Tax Apportionment Act
Saturday, April 17, 2004 Douglas Kahn (Michigan) has posted The 2003 Revised Uniform Estate Tax Aportionment Act on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This A…
Read MoreWarren on Taxation of Options On Issuer’s Stock
Saturday, April 17, 2004 Alvin Warren (Harvard) has posted Taxation of Options on Issuer’s Stock on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This paper recon…
Read MoreWestern New England To Offer Estate Planning LL.M.
Friday, April 16, 2004 Western New England College of Law announced that it will begin offering an Estate Planning LL.M. program in Fall 2005. Western…
Read MoreKerry’s 2003 Tax Return
Friday, April 16, 2004 Intersting post on JustOneMinute about John Kerry’s 2003 tax return, charging that David Cay Johnston’s story in th…
Read MoreHarris on Discriminatory Property Assessments
Friday, April 16, 2004 Lee Harris has posted “Assessing” Discrimination: The Influence of Race in Residential Property Assessments on SSRN…
Read MoreBoston College Symposium
Friday, April 16, 2004 Boston College Symposium on “The State of the Federal Income Tax: Rates, Progressivity, and Budget Processes” James…
Read MoreTaxProf Blog’s First Day
Friday, April 16, 2004 It was a whirlwind first day for TaxProf Blog! Thanks to the 2,500+ who visited the site yesterday. And special thanks to the f…
Read MoreBush & Cheney 2003 Tax Returns
Thursday, April 15, 2004 Jack Bogdanski’s (Lewis & Clark) blog has a great post about the Bush & Cheney 2003 tax returns released by t…
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