Brad Borden (Brooklyn) has published a new piece, A Critical Analysis of Alternative Section 1031 Proximate-Exchange Structures, 22 UC Law SF Bus. L. J. 81 (2025):
Collin Cahill (J.D. 2025, Ohio State), Home Sweet Home Deduction, 25 U.C. Davis Bus. L.J. 29 (2025):
Fernando Loayza Jordán (Drexel-Kline, Yale) presented “International Tax Peace” on January 6 at the Junior International Law Scholars Association annual meeting at the University of Hawai’i in Honolulu. Here is the abstract:
David Elkins (Netanya), Embracing Tax Avoidance, 34 U. Fla. J.L. & Pub. Pol’y 327 (2024):
Nathaniel Swigart (J.D. 2025, North Carolina), Note, A New Age of Equity: Machine Learning and Equity in Tax Law, 29 Tex. Rev. L. & Pol. 145 (2024):
Doron Narotzki (Akron) & Tamir Shanan (Haim Striks Faculty of Law, College of Management, Israel), Taxing Morality: How Tax Law Defines Wealth, Justice, and Fairness, 41 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 943 (2025):
Mitt Romney, Opinion, “Tax the Rich, Like Me,” N.Y. Times (Dec. 19, 2025): Typically, Democrats insist on higher taxes, and Republicans insist on lower spending. But given the magnitude of our national debt as well as the proximity of the cliff, both are necessary.
Amy Howe, “How the Tariffs Could Be Refunded if the Court Sides Against Trump,” SCOTUSBlog (Dec. 18, 2025): It has been slightly over six weeks since the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the challenge to President Donald Trump’s power to impose sweeping tariffs in a series of executive orders earlier this year. During the…
Andrew Duehren, Big Businesses Are Cashing In on Trump’s Tax Cuts, N.Y. Times (Dec. 12, 2025): In the months since the passage [of the 2025 budget bill] in July, corporations like Walmart, Amazon, Verizon and Eli Lilly have all disclosed in securities filings that the law would reduce their cash tax payments in the near…
Ari Hawkins & Doug Palmer, Trump Administration Races to Finalize Tariff Payments — and Hamstring Possible Refunds, Politico (Dec. 14, 2025): The Trump administration is racing to deposit the money it’s raised from tariffs into the U.S. Treasury, a tactic that could make it harder for companies to get refunds for duties the Supreme Court…
The New York State Bar Association’s Tax Section has recently released three new reports concerning (1) the “signing date rule” found in the Treasury Regulations describing the continuity of interest requirement for tax-free reorganizations under section 368, (2) the impact of section 68 and its cap on the availability of itemized deductions for taxpayers in…
Shannon Weeks McCormack (University of Washington), America’s Failure to Rescue Parents: A Narrative of Inequitable Tax “Reform,” 76 U.C. L.J. 751 (2025):
The Florida Tax Review has published a new issue of volume 28. The articles are a part of its symposium issue, titled Moore, Loper Bright, Corner Post, and the Future of the Federal Tax System. Here are the articles in that issue:
Roger Colinvaux (Catholic University), Charitable Giving and Civil Rights: A Defense of Private Remedial Action, 135 Yale L.J. 549 (2025):
Tony Romm & Ana Swanson, Ahead of Tariff Ruling, Businesses Race to Secure Refunds, N.Y. Times (Dec. 3, 2025): From the buy-in-bulk retailer Costco to the canned-tuna company Bumble Bee Foods, some businesses are racing to get in line for tariff refunds, anticipating that the Supreme Court will soon rule against President Trump and force…
Shang-Jin Wei (Columbia Business School) & Yifan Zhou (Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University) have a new National Bureau of Economics Research working paper, “‘Captain Gains’ on Capitol Hill.” Here is the abstract:
University of Florida Levin College of Law is seeking to hire one or two visiting assistant professors in tax to begin in the fall of 2026. VAPs will spend one or two years in residence at the Levin College of Law and will teach one class per semester in the JD tax or LLM tax…
Doron Narotzki (Akron) has a new working paper on SSRN, Predicting Tariff Decisions from Oral Argument Transcripts with AI Models. Here is the abstract:
Walter Hellerstein (Georgia) & Andrew Appleby (Tennessee), A State Tax Perspective on Proposed Federal Cryptoasset Guidance, 189 Tax Notes Fed. 1285 (Nov. 24, 2025). In this article, Hellerstein and Appleby consider the state tax implications of proposed federal income tax guidance on the treatment of cryptoassets.
Andrew Duehren, The I.R.S. Tried to Stop This Tax Dodge. Scott Bessent Used It Anyway., N.Y. Times (Nov. 12, 2025) (quoting Walter D. Schwidetzky): It was an easy and, by all accounts, legal way to avoid paying thousands, and potentially millions, in federal taxes. Just set up an investment firm with the right legal structure,…
Kathleen Thomas (UNC) will present Taxing Attention at Missouri today as part of its Tax Policy Colloquium hosted by David Gamage, from 2:00 to 3:15 pm (CDT). The session will be open to guest participants via Zoom. Anyone who would like to join as a guest participant should email Professor Gamage directly for details, the Zoom…
Conor Clarke (Wash U) & Ari Glogower (Northwestern), Tariffs and the Taxing Power: Historical Lessons for Major Questions and Nondelegation, 103 Wash. U. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2026):
Alex Raskolnikov (Columbia), Taxes and Tournaments, 2024 Mich. St. L. Rev. 1123:
David Elkins (Netanya; Google Scholar) and Mirit Eyal (Alabama) will present Taxing Electronic Agency at Missouri today as part of its Tax Policy Colloquium hosted by David Gamage, from 2:00 to 3:15 pm (CDT). The session will be open to guest participants via Zoom. Anyone who would like to join as a guest participant should…
Alex Raskolnikov (Columbia) presented Formal Equality and the Tax Structure at Notre Dame on October 27, 2025, as part of its Law & Economics Seminar: Laws of affluent capitalist democracies share an important trait. With few notable but limited exceptions, these laws are formally equal—they make no formal distinctions between the rich and the poor.…