Paul L. Caron
Dean
Pepperdine Caruso
School of Law
Miscellaneous
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Christmas Gifts for that Special Tax Person
For Counsel (Products and Gifts for Lawyers) sells an exact reproduction of the original 1913 Form 1040: Four pages long, including one page of instructions. Impressively framed in classic mahogany with beaded edge and segmented mat of ivory. Brass plate mounted on the mat states: “1913 Inaugural Form 1040.” Framed dimensions are 30″ by 24″.…
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Christmas Gifts for that Special Tax Person
Form 1040 Toilet Paper ($3.49 per roll): Does it pain you to fill out a tax form each year? Does knowing that the IRS takes a large chunk of your salary give you the runs? This product isn’t deductible, but it’ll sure make you feel better. A collage of the 1040 IRS Form is printed…
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Christmas Gifts for that Special Tax Person
Continuing a TaxProf Blog holiday tradition, I will offer some gift ideas for that special tax person in your life. Today’s suggestion: a Death and Taxes poster (24″x36″):
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GOOOAAALLL!!!
Fatherly brag: my sophomore son yesterday scored his first collegiate goal with 90 seconds left to win his team’s final regular season game, 1-0 (and finish the season with a 7-2 league record). Now it’s on to the post-season conference tournament, where the team last year earned the school’s first-ever NCAA tournament bid.
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100 Most Influential People in Tax and Accounting
I am honored to be included on the list of Accounting Today's 100 Most Influential People for the fifth year in a row. The magazine contains one-sentence explanations of why each of the folks made the list; here is mine: Probably the most prolific blogger in the tax field, Caron has made his blog into a must-read,…
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Our Empty Nest
With my daughter's departure today for college, my wife and I become official empty nesters (with our son already away in his sophomore year at college). Jayne, my heart aches that I will no longer know the daily joy of living in the same house with you. But I am comforted by Ecclesiastes 3:1: There is a time…
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Sending Your Child Into a Hurricane
My son (who just completed his freshman year of college) got back last night from a one-month internship with Back2Back Ministries in Monterrey, Mexico. One of the joys of parenthood is watching your kids grow in abilities to do things that you could never do yourself. My son spent the past month serving in several orphanages, and…
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Graduation Day, Part II
Last year, I blogged my son Reed's graduation from high school. Last Friday, my daughter Jayne graduated from high school, which means my wife and I will be official "empty nesters" in two short months. Jayne, congratulations! I want you to know that it was one of the great joys of my life to watch you accept the awards…
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Back in San Diego
I am back in San Diego for my seventh summer teaching Tax I at the University of San Diego School of Law, my second as the Herzog Summer Visiting Professor in Taxation. San Diego is truly America's Finest City, with spectacular weather, natural beauty, and a dizzying array of things to do. But what is even more enjoyable is renewing…
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The End of an Era
Today marked my daughter's last day of high school — congratulations, Jayne! My wife has written Jayne a daily note of encouragement throughout high school; here is a portion of today's message: What a milestone day! Reflecting back on your past 4 years, I want you to know what an AMAZING!!! person you have become (and have always…
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Tax Prof Dancing Through the Years
I returned home yesterday from a week-long trip with my daughter visiting colleges for their "admitted student" days. We went to a father-daughter/mother-son dance at her high school last night. It was a great time, kicking up my heels for the first time in decades. (Luckily, dancing is apparently like riding a bicycle – once the muscle memory kicked in,…
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Farewell, Malibu
I am back in Cincinnati after spending spring break in Malibu, California, teaching a one-week course at Pepperdine University School of Law. It was a spectacular week in all respects. The course, Selected Advanced Topics in Federal Income Taxation, went very well. Although we designed our Tax Stories book to be used either as supplemental reading for the basic tax course or as the…
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Tax Stories in Paradise
I am thrilled to be spending Cincinnati's spring break in Mailbu, California, teaching a one-week course based on our Tax Stories book, Selected Advanced Topics in Federal Income Taxation, at Pepperdine University School of Law. I have long been a fan of Pepperdine, its faculty, and its distinctive mission in American legal education, particularly the integration…
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Welcome Home!
My wife returned home from the hospital today, twelve days after breaking her leg in a fall on the ice outside our back door — note the spiffy new railing that awaited her arrival today. We are grateful to the doctors, nurses, and therapists at Christ Hospital for their wonderful care. And thanks to the many friends who sent…
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Life Changes in an Instant
It was a typical Friday morning. My daughter had already left for high school. Despite waking up at 5:00 a.m., I was scrambling to get out of the house to a meeting. My wife was frantically getting ready for her weekly women's bible study. She stepped out the back door, slipped on some ice on the step, and broke her right leg…
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Airline Rankings
The Wall Street Journal has a great article on airline performance in 2009, including a ranking of the nine major airlines in five categories: On-time arrivals (percentage of flights arriving on-time) Canceled flights (percentage of flights canceled) Mishandled luggage (mishandled bag reports per 1,000 passengers) Consumer complaints (reports per million passengers) Bumped passengers (bumped passengers per 10,000)…
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‘Twas the Night Before Christmas, Legal Version
Check out the original and legal versions of the classic poem, 'Twas the Night Before Christmas [click on chart to enlarge]:
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Christmas Gifts for that Special Tax Person
Available on eBay: Mortimer Caplin IRS Commissioner Signed Autograph: This is an authentic hand signed item and is NOT a preprint. Buy It Now price: $9.99. From Wikipedia: First in his class at University of Virginia School of Law, and Editor-in-Chief of Virginia Law Review, Caplin served as a law clerk to U.S. Circuit Judge…
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Christmas Gifts for that Special Tax Person
IRS Logo Plaque: This solid mahogany wall plaque shows the Internal Revenue Service seal. Great government gift, government retirement gift, or government recognition award. This hand carved and hand painted wooden plaque is perfect as a wall plaque or podium plaque. Each IRS wall plaque is hand carved from solid mahogany then hand painted and…
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Christmas Gifts for that Special Tax Person
Geithner Tax Services Long Sleeve Tee Shirts. Other Geithner products: Baseball Jerseys Caps Hooded Sweatshirt Mug Short Sleeve Tee Shirts Travel Mug Women's Cap Sleeve Tee Shirts Women's Hooded Sweathshirts Women's Spaghetti Tank Tops Women's Tee Shirts
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Christmas Gifts for that Special Tax Person
Form 1040 Toilet Paper ($3.49 per roll): Does it pain you to fill out a tax form each year? Does knowing that the IRS takes a large chunk of your salary give you the runs? This product isn't deductible, but it'll sure make you feel better. A collage of the 1040 IRS Form is printed…
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Christmas Gifts for that Special Tax Person
Any of the three books I published in 2009 would make a great Christmas gift for that special tax person: Tax Stories (Foundation Press, 2d ed. 2009): This book explores the historical contexts of seminal federal income tax cases and the role they continue to play in our current tax law. Each of the chapters sets forth…