Check out this Screw the IRS Card Game available on ebay.         

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For Tax Profs giving exams this semester: Is your exam Entirely essay Part essay/part objective (e.g., mulitple choice) Entirely objective    Free polls from Pollhost.com

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Check out the various tax items available from LegalTease.com:  Apparel and Merchandise for Lawyers and Law Students, including: Albert Einstein (right) Justice Cardozo in Welch v. Helvering Learned Hand Circular 230 (I) Circular 230 (2) (Hat Tip: Linda Galler.)

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Nothing says I love you more than IRS chocolates: Bite Back at the IRS Bar (left) Bite Back at the IRS Cookie IRS 1040 Bar (right) Mini IRS 1040 Bar (Hat Tip: Linda Galler.)

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Continuing a TaxProf Blog holiday tradition, we will offer this week some gift ideas for that special tax person in your life.  Today’s suggestion:  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

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Following InstaPundit Glenn Reynolds’ lead, I thought I would share the cause of my blog hiatus last Friday:  yielding to the demands of middle age, I submitted to a colonoscopy.  The procedure itself was not that bad, but the preparation was horrific:  I was forced to drink 96 ounces of TriLyte, the most disgusting concoction

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Check out this cool test of your Internet speed — my home network clocked in pretty well: Here are the results from the law school’s network: Like Michael Froomkin, the Internet connection in my office operates much more slowly than in my home — I’m not sure why that is, or why that is not

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Please indulge a proud father as I share the wonderful poem my 14-year old daughter read last night at our church’s art show: Dance of Love? We dance under black blankets of sky Hands on big hips full of potential That bruise soft flesh Far too close for comfort And I know this is not

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(Hat Tip:  Budgie’s Squawks and Pen-Elayne, via Feminst Law Professors.)

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This is a bittersweet day for me:  my wife and kids left San Diego this morning to return home to Cincinnati, so I will be celebrating my birthday alone as I teach my last Tax I class tonight at the University of San Diego School of Law.  It was a wonderful 7 weeks out here,

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Here is the July 4th post by Neil Buchanan (Rutgers-Newark) during his guest blogging stint here last year: I thought I would take another look at our oft-mentioned and seldom-read Declaration of Independence to see what it has to say about taxes and other issues of import. Herewith, a quick (and admittedly incomplete) summary of

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Reed, 16 years ago today you entered this world, enriching our lives beyond measure. The years have flown by, and my heart aches that we will never again play soccer in the basement, shoot baskets in the driveway, or hit baseballs in the park.  But the void is filled with a different kind of joy,

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Reader Anand Desai sent in this Circular 230 haiku: Revenue agents fear no paper armor so don’t boast of this scheme Comments are open for other tax poets out there!

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I am off to San Diego for the summer to teach Tax I at the University of San Diego School of Law.  It is a wonderful city and school, and we are looking forward to renewing acquaintances with the many friends we have made in our three previous summers there.  If there is sufficient interest,

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Over the weekend, we put down our wonderful family dog, Sandy.  Seven years ago, when our kids were in first and second grade, they pestered us to get a dog.  I researched various breeds and schlepped the family to several breeders trying to find the perfect dog for our family.  Then one Saturday we thought

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Over the weekend, we put down our wonderful family dog, Sandy.  Seven years ago, when our kids were in first and second grade, they pestered us to get a dog.  I researched various breeds and schlepped the family to several breeders trying to find the perfect dog for our family.  Then one Saturday we thought

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Last night, thanks to the Tax Guru, I stumbled across Ed Zollar’s web site, which has posted tax podcasts since July 2005.  Here are the three most recent tax podcasts available on the site:      By the Form—New IRS Schedule D Instructions (12/24): For our Christmas Eve edition of the podcast we look at

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For sale on eBay:  an I.R.S. action figure — Irwin R. Schyster The action figure is modeled after WWF wrestler Mike Rotunda: In the WWF, Rotunda became Irwin R. Shyster (I.R.S.) and he is perhaps best known for this role, more than any other role he has played during his career. Irwin R Shyster was

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In this holiday season, I want to share with you a heart-wrenching story about one of the true giants in the tax world, C. Eugene Steuerle.  As most readers of this blog know, Gene is a Senior Fellow at The Urban Institute, Co-director of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, columnist for Tax Notes, and the

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[click on image to enlarge] Check out this sticker for sale on eBay: Death, Taxes, and Prozack   

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[click on image to enlarge] For sale on eBay:  A print of Norman Rockwell’s Taxes 

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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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[click on image to enlarge] Check out this tee-shirt for sale on eBay: IRS:  We’ve got what it takes to take what you’ve got

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Jim Maule (Villanova) resurrects a story we ran in March (Paying the Tax Drummer) about the practice of tax authorities in India sending groups of drummers to play outside the homes of tax delinquents until they pay up what they owe.  Jim offers a tax version of The Little Drummer Boy.  Here’s the opening: Come

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