Saturday: WSJ:  The Price of Taxing the Rich GOP Files FOIA Request to Get Wisconsin Prof’s Email Tax Incentives for Movies: A Losing Proposition for the States Tax Accrual Work Paper Discovery in the 11th Circuit After Textron Sunday: meChurch Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads Bogdanski:  Gift Tax Fiasco Buchanan:  Taxes, Information, and Democracy

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Saturday: Rethinking Taxes: Proud to Pay Tulane Tax Policy Roundtable Trade Secret Law as an Alternative to Tax Patents Sunday: Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads Judge’s Jokes Fall Flat in Hearing on Law Profs’ $5.2m Verdict v. West GAAP and the UCC The Tax-Exempt Status of Charities that Support Israeli Settlements

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Saturday: Federal Circuit Exacerbates Split on Overstatement of Basis and 6-Year SOL Tax Foundation:  On April 1, U.S. Is #1 (World’s Highest Corporate Tax Rate) Newman Presents A Comparative Study of Household Taxation at S. Illinois Stephen King:  ‘Why Am I Not Paying 50% Tax?’ Sunday: AIG Adopts Poison Pill to Preserve $65 Billion NOL…

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Saturday: Median Property Tax by County NY Times:  Software Is Replacing Lawyers, Accountants ITEP Guide to Fair State and Local Taxes IRS Releases 2011 Filing Season Statistics Sunday: WSJ:  Obama’s Budget Targets ‘Dynasty Trusts’ Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads Tax Foundation:  Who Benefits from Corporate Tax ‘Loopholes’? Zelinsky:  The Siren Song of State Amazon Laws

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Saturday: Taxability of Former Duke Lacrosse Players’ $60m (?) Settlement More on Tax Lawyers Who Make $1,000/Hour What Lawyers Earn (by County) WSJ:  Governors Get a Jump on Corporate Tax Reform Sunday: Oscar Swag Bags to Result in $100k Income to Celebrity Presenters Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads A-Rod Uses Loophole to Pay $1,200 Property…

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Saturday: FactCheck.org:  ObamaCare Requires the IRS to Hire 1,000 More Workers California Bar Asks U.S. News to Add Diversity Component to Rankings San Francisco to Impose 1.5% Tax on Stock Options Albany Law School to Shrink Class Size, Budget Sunday: WSJ:  Same-Sex Couples in CA, NV & WA Reap Big Federal Tax Bonuses Top 5…

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Saturday: Do Estate Planners Need to Find New Jobs? Do Congressmen Who Sleep in Their Offices Receive a Taxable Fringe Benefit? Critiquing the 3d & 7th Circuits’ Approval of the 2-Year SOL Innocent Spouse Reg ABA Tax Section Submits Comment Letters Sunday: NY Times:  Could Your Senator Conquer the 1040? Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads…

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Saturday: WSJ:  Is 1099 Repeal a Controlled Burn of ObamaCare or Uncontrollable Wildfire? 2L-CPA, on Leave Managing Hedge Fund, Denied Readmission to Law School for Not Adequately Disclosing Drug Conviction in Application University of Georgia Coach Sentenced for Not Reporting Income From Camps Municipal Bonds and the Erosion of Dormant Commerce Clause Scrutiny in Davis…

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Saturday: Clint Eastwood on the Flat Tax Bartlett:  Obama Walked Into Tax Reform Neutrality Trap The IRS Ban on Political Activity by Tax-Exempt Religious Organizations The Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act of 2007 Sunday: Dilbert Creator Scott Adams: How to Tax the Rich Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads Thorndike: The American Tax Tradition of ‘Soaking…

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Saturday: ABA Tax Section Names 2011 Nolan Fellows Fulbright & Jaworski Receives Janet Spragens Pro Bono Award LSAT Test-Takers Down 10%, Law School Applications Down 12% ABA Tax Section Midyear Meeting Sunday: Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads Caplin & Drysdale Shifts Tax-Exempt Guns to NASCAR-Rival Emory Conference on Aging as a Feminist Concern CTJ:  Tax…

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Saturday: NY Times:  A Pyrrhic Same-Sex Tax Victory CTJ:  Tax Justice Digest Tax-Exempt Status of Microfinance Hybrid Entities The Mind/Body Dualism of § 104(a)(2) Sunday: Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads Penn Law Prof Reuses Exam Questions From His Georgetown Days Illinois Corporate Tax Hike Inches U.S. Closer to #1 Global Tax Ranking The Constitutionality of…

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Saturday: Repetti & Schneider Elected to AALS Tax Section Leadership Roles The ‘Lord Voldemort’ of Legal Education Takes on Faculty Tenure Financial-Industry Tax Law Reforms in the Wake of the Financial Crisis ‘B-School Faculty Are the Big Winners in the Rankings Game’ Sunday: July 2010 California Bar Exam Results Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads The…

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New Year’s Eve: New Estate Tax Law Exposes 65,000 Small Businesses and Farms to Estate Tax Canada Drops Corporate Tax Rate to 16.5%, Less Than Half the U.S. Rate Journal of Taxation of Investments Publishes New Issue An Attorney-Client Privilege for Embattled Tax Practitioners New Year’s Day: Tax Reform Won’t Happen in 2011 (or 2012)…

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Christmas Eve: ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas (Legal Version) IRS Delays Start of Filing Season for Taxpayers With Itemized Deductions 2011-Inflation Adjusted Tax Tables Increasing Tax Rates on Top 1% Would Make Tax System Less Progressive Empirical Studies of Tax Perception Christmas Day: Christmas 2.0 In Hoc Anno Domini Sunday: Married Couple’s Guide to the…

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Saturday: Kleinbard:  The Health Care Law Is Constitutional (Still) IRS Agent Charged With Stealing $160k of Tax Refunds NYSBA Releases Tax Reports Virtual World, Real Taxes Sunday: Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads Tax Lawyer ‘Lap Dance Lou’ Disbarred for Promoting Prostitution at Strip Bar More on the Obama-GOP Tax Bill ABA Committee Meeting on Law…

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Saturday: More on the Obama-GOP Tax Compromise Bank Secrecy Law, Tax Evasion and UBS Allocation of Indirect Costs of Business Activities of Tax-Exempt Organizations Passive Losses and LLCs/LLPs Sunday: Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads Desai:  Tax U.S. Companies Into Spending Corporate Tax Evasion When Taxable and Accounting Earnings Coincide Offshore Tax Evasion, With a Focus…

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Saturday: Brown:  It’s (Past) Time to Kill the Mortgage Interest Deduction IRS Faces ‘Daunting’ Tax Filing Season, With Delayed Refunds, Unless Congress Acts by Dec. 31 The ‘Marriage Penalty’ of § 162(a)(2) Jesson:  Creating Health Policy Through the Tax Code Sunday: Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads IRS Releases 2011 Standard Mileage Rates Bill to Reinstate GST…

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Thursday: A Cincinnati (and India and South Africa) Thanksgiving Slate:  Guide to Your Thanksgiving Tax Argument Father of UBS Tax Whistleblower Makes Thanksgiving Day Plea for Son’s Clemency Friday: Changes at the Florida Tax Review Lawmakers Ask IRS to Treat Breastfeeding as a Medical Expense Cooper:  Applying the Benefit-the-Beneficiaries Rule to Trust Investment Directives Johnson: …

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Saturday: The 10 Highest State Income Tax Rates For 2011 Wesley Snipes Begins Serving 3-Year Sentence for Failure to File Tax Returns Do You Know Who Wrote Your Student’s Paper? Tax Gross-Ups in Discrimination Suits Sunday: Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads Consumption Taxes and Redistribution Has the IRS Usurped the Business Judgment of Tax-Exempt Organizations?…

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Saturday: WSJ:  IRS ‘Audits From Hell’ Target the ‘Rich’ Michael Mundaca Answers Your Tax Questions Tax-Exempt Credit Counseling Organizations Income Tax Claims in Chapter 13 Bankruptcies Sunday: Was Joe the Plumber Wrong? We’re Hardwired to ‘Spread the Wealth Around’ Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads Bartlett:  How Obama Misplayed the Tax Card Against Republicans The Case…

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Saturday: Canadian Couple Who Gave $11.2m Lottery Winnings to Charity Would Have U.S. Tax Problem Michael Mundaca Answers Your Tax Questions Goodwin: Using a Family Trust Company to Secure a Family Fortune IRS Looks Closely at Tax Issues of Closely Held Businesses Sunday: Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads Thaler:  Estate Tax Offers Quick Test for…

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Saturday: CRS: Cost of Extending Bush Tax Cuts = $5 Trillion Democratic National Committee Is D.C. Tax Deadbeat 9th Cir. Rejects Government’s Subpoena of Skadden Opinion Documents in Quellos Tax Shelter Case Taxation of Contingency Fees  Sunday: What Halloween Can Teach Your Kids About Taxes GOOOAAALLL!!! Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads Recasting State Tax Incentives…

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Saturday: Drive-Thru Tax Advice? Single-Funder Groups Skirt Campaign Finance Laws Mad Men Tax Planning Cuba Announces New ‘Small Business Friendly’ Tax Code Sunday: Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads MBAs More Uncouth Than JDs? CTJ:  Number of Decedents Subject to Estate Tax Continues to Drop CUI Posts Tax Papers on SSRN

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Saturday: Obama Attacks Republicans on Tax Policy Northeastern Seeks to Hire Faculty for Online Tax Program Tax Consequences of Georgetown’s Public Interest Stipend 85% of College Grads Move Back Into Their Parents’ Home Sunday: Dancing Tax Collectors Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads Memorial Service for Meade Emory Zelinsky:  Citizenship and Worldwide Taxation

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Saturday: Zero COLA Increase in Social Security Checks in 2011; Democrats Propose $250 Payments to Seniors Tax Presentations at Today’s Midwestern Law & Economics Association Conference at Colorado Gustafson Presents The Role of International Law in International Tax Today at Villanova Coercion, Taxation, and Voluntary Association Sunday: IRS: Tax Fix for ‘Flash Crash’ Gains Must…

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