Paul L. Caron
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Book Club
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Johnson Publishes Righteous Anger at the Wicked States
Calvin Johnson (Texas) has published Righteous Anger at the Wicked States: The Meaning of the Founders’ Constitution (Cambridge University Press, 2005): Righteous Anger at the Wicked States is a history of why the U.S. Constitution was adopted. The most pressing need was to allow the federal government to tax to pay off the debts of the common…
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What Tax Profs Are Reading . . . Ann Murphy
Ann Murphy (Gonzaga) is kind enough to share with us reviews of six books she has read (actually, listened to) recently: Founding Brothers, by Joseph J. Ellis A Short History of Nearly Everything, by Bill Bryson Mountains Beyond Mountains – The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World, by Tracy…
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Forbes Defends Flat Tax
Yesterday, we blogged Michael Kinsley’s Washingon Post column blasting Steve Forbes’s new book, Flat Tax Revolution: Using a Postcard to Abolish the IRS. Steve Forbes makes the flat tax case in an op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal, One Simple Rate: A major domestic battle looms this fall, when tax reform — a centerpiece of…
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Kinsley Blasts Forbes’s New Flat Tax Book
Michael Kinsley blasts Steve Forbes’s new book, Flat Tax Revolution: Using a Postcard to Abolish the IRS in a Washington Post column, Steve Forbes’s Flat Tire: The so-called flat tax is another hobby horse of the right that swept the nation, then got swept away. But someone forgot to tell Steve Forbes, the amiably blank-faced…
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Bogdanski Reviews Meet the Beatles
Jack Bogdanski (Lewis & Clark) reviews Meet the Beatles by Steven D. Stark here. Here’s a taste to whet your appetite (and convince you to click on the link to the full review): Stark’s angle on the much-told Beatles story is that of a cultural historian. His main purpose here is to put the Beatles…
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Dye Reviews Michigan at the Millennium: A Benchmark and Analysis of Its Fiscal and Economic Structure
Richard F. Dye (Lake Forest College, Department of Economics) has published Book Review: Michigan at the Millennium: A Benchmark and Analysis of Its Fiscal and Economic Structure, 58 National Tax Journal 327-30 (June 2005). Here is the abstract: Michigan at the Millennium: A Benchmark and Analysis of Its Fiscal and Economic Structure. Edited by Charles…
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McDaniel, Repetti & Caron Publish Family Limited Partnership Supplement to Wealth Transfer Taxation Casebook
Paul McDaniel, Jim Repetti, and I have prepared a 2005 Special Supplement on Family Limited Partnerships to accompany our Casebook and companion Study Problems Book on Federal Wealth Transfer Taxation (Foundation Press, 2003). (The 200-page Teacher’s Manual provides detailed answers to the 288 problems in the Study Problems Book as well as commentary on the…
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Bryan Publishes Midnight Assassin: A Murder in America’s Heartland
Patricia Bryan (North Carolina) and her husband, Thomas Wolf, a writer, have published Midnight Assassin: A Murder in America’s Heartland (Algonquin Books 2005). The book is a nonfiction account of the Iowa murder that inspired Susan Glaspell to write her classic 1917 short story, “A Jury of Her Peers,” a work that’s frequently assigned in…
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Braithwaite Publishes Markets in Vice, Markets in Virtue
John Braithwaite (Australian National University) has published Markets in Vice, Markets in Virtue (Oxford Univ. Press, 2005). Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan) sings the book’s praises: This outstanding book draws on a wide range of interviews to offer a compelling depiction of the growth of the tax shelter industry in both Australia and the United States, and…
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What Tax Profs Are Reading . . . Maule and More Maule
Jim Maule (Villanova) is kind enough to share with us reviews of nine books he has read recently: Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II, by Jennet Conant What If? 2, edited by Robert Cowley Adam’s Curse: A Future Without Men, by…
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Pollack Reviews Toward Fundamental Tax Reform
Sheldon Pollack (Delaware) has published a review of Toward Fundamental Tax Reform, a collection of nine essays on various aspects of tax reform, edited by Alan J. Auerbach (California-Berkeley) & Kevin A. Hassett (American Enterprise Institute) and published by AEI Press: [T]he authors of the essays in the collection under review, Toward Fundamental Tax Reform,…
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Urist to Publish Six Minutes in the City
Jacoba Urist, a former tax lawyer at O’Melveny & Myers (and daughter of Cardozo Tax Prof Edward Zelinsky) has obtained a publisher for her novel about life as a tax lawyer, Six Minutes in the City. The New York Post reports: Former Secretary of State Warren Christopher’s high-powered law firm is set to be the…
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Burke & McCouch Review The Fight Over Taxing Inherited Wealth
Karen C. Burke (San Diego) & Grayson M.P. McCouch (San Diego) have published a review of Death by a Thousand Cuts: The Fight Over Taxing Inherited Wealth, by Michael J. Graetz (Yale) & Ian Shapiro (Yale) (blogged here and here), 107 Tax Notes 1583 (June 20, 2005), also available on the Tax Analysts web site…
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Lederman & Mazza on Addressing Imperfections in the Tax System
Leandra Lederman (Indiana) & Stephen W. Mazza (Kansas) have published Addressing Imperfections in the Tax System: Procedural or Substantive Reform?, 103 Mich. L. Rev. 1432 (2005). Here is the abstract: In his book Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich — and Cheat Everybody Else, David Cay…
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Thorndike Reviews The Origins of the American Income Tax
Joseph J. Thorndike (Director of Tax History Project and Contributing Editor, Tax Analysts) has published The Origins of the American Income Tax: The Revenue Act of 1894 and Its Aftermath, 107 Tax Notes 1181 (2005), a review of a book of the same name, by Richard J. Joseph (University of Texas at Austin, McCombs School…
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Bank & Stark Publish Business Tax Stories
Steven A. Bank (UCLA) & Kirk J. Stark (UCLA) have published Business Tax Stories (Foundation Press, 2005) (ISBN # 1-58778-729-6), part of the Law Stories Series of books for which I serve as Series Editor. Unlike the other volumes in the Law Stories Series, Business Tax Stories does not deal solely with judicial opinions. In…
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Polito Reviews New Edition of Wolfman & Ring’s Corporate Tax Casebook
Anthony P. Polito (Suffolk) shares with the TaxProf Blog community this review of the new edition of Federal Income Taxation of Corporate Enterprise (Foundation Press, 4th ed. 2005) by Bernard Wolfman (Harvard) & Diane M. Ring (Boston College): Given the many casebooks available in any area of the law school curriculum, a new edition of…
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McDaniel, Ault & Repetti Publish New Edition of International Tax Student Guide
Paul R. McDaniel (Florida), Hugh J. Ault (Boston College) & James R. Repetti (Boston College) have published a new edition of Introduction to United States International Taxation (Aspen, 5th ed. 2005). Here is part of Aspen’s press release: Drawing on their collective experience as highly respected scholars and teachers, this author team has produced a…
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Brooks Posts Book Review of Tax Stories on SSRN
Kim Brooks (University of British Columbia) has posted a review of my Tax Stories book on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This piece is a book review of Tax Stories, a book edited by Paul L. Caron. It reviews the contributions of Tax Stories, and provides a summary of each of the book’s ten chapters,…
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Foundation Press to Publish Immigration Stories
Foundation Press has announced the forthcoming publication of Immigration Stories, edited by David A. Martin (Virginia) & Peter H. Schuck (Yale). The book is part of the Law Stories Series patterned after Tax Stories. Here are the cases and authors featured in Immigration Stories: Fong Yue Ting v. U.S., by Gabriel J. Chin (Arizona) Wong…
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Rostain on Travails in Tax: KPMG and the Tax-Shelter Controversy
Tanina Rostain (New York Law School) has posted on SSRN Travails in Tax: KPMG and the Tax-Shelter Controversy, a chapter in the forthcoming Legal Ethics: Law Stories book edited by Deborah L. Rhode (Stanford)& David J. Luban (Georgetown). The book will be published by Foundation Press later this year as part of the Law Stories…
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Gunn & Repetti Publish New Edition of Partnership Tax Student Guide
Alan Gunn (Notre Dame) & James R. Repetti (Boston College) have published a new edition of Partnership Income Taxation (Foundation Press, 2005). Here is part of the Preface: This book attempts the simplest possible introduction to an intricate body of law. Any “simplified” description of the rules of partnership taxation would be so misleading as…
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Newman Book Review of Perfectly Legal
Joel S. Newman (Wake Forest) has published a book review of David Cay Johnston, Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich–And Cheat Everybody Else, 24 Va. Tax Rev. 733 (2005). For other TaxProf Blog coverage of reviews of Johnston’s book, see: Neil Buchanan (Rutgers-Newark) Leandra Lederman (Indiana)…
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New Book: Turnier & McCouch’s Materials on Family Wealth Management
William J. Turnier (North Carolina) & Grayson M.P. McCouch (San Diego) have published an important new book that plugs a long-standing hole in the law school curriculum: Materials on Family Wealth Management (West Group, 2005): The process of accumulating, managing and transmitting wealth raises issues of central importance for individuals and families. Faced with an…
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New Book: Mason on Primer on EU Direct Tax Law
West has announced the forthcoming publication of Primer on Direct Taxation in the European Union by Ruth Mason (NYU): The Primer on EU Direct Tax Law covers all aspects of direct tax jurisprudence of the European Court of Justice (ECJ). The first half of the book includes an introduction to the history and institutions of…