Saturday: Tax Lawyer Steve Carell More Moot Court Rankings More on the Future Ed Conference: Graduating 3Ls are 'Worthless' Providing Competitors With Standing to Challenge Favorable IRS Actions Transfer Pricing Methodology in the Wake of Roche Paying Taxes Improves the Quality of Government Sunday: Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads Tax Planning for the Obama Tax…

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Saturday: WaPo:  Five Myths About Your Taxes 2009-10 Moot Court Rankings Homemakers and Social Security The Disparate Treatment of Similarly Situated Taxpayers Under § 104(a)(2) Sunday: Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads WSJ:  Last-Minute Tax Help § 2703, Valuation Discounts in FLPs & Holman Elliffe Posts Tax Papers on SSRN

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Saturday: Tax Lawyer Staged Suicide to Look Like Murder Saturday at the IRS Tax Articles in The Urban Lawyer Court Rejects NYLS Grade Complaint New York's Amazon Tax and the Battle Over Affiliate Nexus Sunday: Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads President Obama Makes Two Tax Recess Appointments Students Who Visit College on a Cloudy Day…

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Saturday: David Hasen Leaves Penn State for Santa Clara AALS, ABA, SALT Support UC-Hastings Over CLS in Supreme Court Case The Strict Liability Penalty Standard in Noneconomic Substance Transactions The Constitutionality of the Texas Margin Tax Sunday: Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads IRS Invites Taxpayers to Apply for Membership on Taxpayer Advisory Panel The Tax…

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Saturday: TIGTA Is Investigating 70 Jokes/Inappropriate Statements About the Attack on the Austin IRS Office Amar & Johnson:  U.S. News Should Include Diversity in its Law School Rankings Corporate Mobility in the European Union and Exit Taxes Roe:  Delaware's Shrinking Half-Life Sunday: Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads A Colorful Anti-Lawyer (and Anti-Law Professor) Rant Two…

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Saturday: 3rd Circuit:  IRS and H&R Block Cannot Be Sued Over E-Filing Fees A Law Student's Life Via Google Search District Court Rules on Government's Challenge to Expert Testimony of David Weisbach & Ethan Yale in Son of BOSS Tax Shelter Case Lawsky:  Obama's Proposal to Limit Itemized Deductions to 28% Rate Charitable Donations by…

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Saturday: Mankiw:  Spreading the Wealth Around: Reflections Inspired by Joe the Plumber Oddball Tax Deductions Former Maryland Dean Asked to Return $60k Paid for Summer Research; AG to Decide Propriety of $350k Paid for Untaken Sabbatical Taxation, Economic Efficiency, and the Dormant Commerce Clause in Davis The International and Comparative Tax War Sunday: Hitler's Article…

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Saturday: Tax Extenders: The K Street Kickback Escape From New Jersey (Taxation) Anderson:  § 121 — A Real Estate Tax Swindle Carbon Tax:  The French Connection Alabama Prof Kills Three at Faculty Meeting After Being Denied Tenure Sunday: Nothing Says Happy Valentine's Day Like … Discounts on Tax Prep Software Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads…

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Saturday: Ohio State President: It's Time to Rethink Tenure Happiness Is . . . WSJ:  Pat Moynihan's Tax Lessons for the States Heritage Foundation Estate Tax Videos Redistributive Taxation and Personal Bankruptcy FIN 48 and the IRS-Taxpayer Relationship Sunday: IRS Silent Amidst Estate Tax Chaos Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads UMass, UC-San Diego, UNH Law…

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Saturday: Joint Tax Committee Releases List of Expiring Federal Tax Provisions, 2009-2020 Medical Residents and the Student FICA Exception GAO Issues Report on New Markets Tax Credit Aliens and 'Taxation Without Representation' Sunday: Publication Study of Faculty at Non-Top 50 Law Schools Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads Spicing Up the AALS Annual Meeting What's Worse…

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Saturday: It's Official:  IRS Designates Earthquake in Haiti a Qualified Disaster President Obama Signs Haiti Charitable Contribution Bill ABA Tax Section Midyear Meeting The NCAA, the IRS, and the 'New Amateurism' Sunday: Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads BigLaw Partners Charged With Tax Evasion NY Times:  Why Can't the IRS Provide Taxpayers With Pre-Filled Out Tax…

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Saturday: NY Times:  BigLaw Associates in "Existential Crisis" IRS's e-file and Free File Open for Business Clausing:  Multinational Firm Tax Avoidance and Tax Policy Iowa Combined Reporting Sunday: Law Prof Advice on 1L Grades Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads Gravelle:  Tax Havens: International Tax Avoidance and Evasion Taylor:  The Relevance of Faith Integration in Legal…

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Saturday: AALS Tax Section Program Today: Taxation for a Successful Economy Court Rejects 26 BOA SILO Tax Shelters Jones:  War on Wealth — Taxing Hedgies UBS Tax Whistleblower Begins Prison Term Sunday: Leadership Changes at AALS Annual Meeting Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads Tax Return Prep: There's an App for That Economics Blogger and Blog…

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Friday: Jan. 1: A Good Day to Die Kirsch:  The Role of Physical Presence in the Taxation of Cross-Border Personal Services Iran Wages War on its 'Star Students' How Regressive Is a Carbon Tax? Saturday: Economists in Favor of Estate Tax Repeal Bartlett:  Republican Rigidity Hurts Estate Tax Reform Tax Strategy Patents Indiana Tax Developments,…

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Friday: Our Christmas Dog In Hoc Anno Domini Pratt:  What I Want for Christmas Is . . . Saturday: The Secret for a Merry Christmas IRS Releases 10-Year Enforcement Data: Business Audits Down, Individual Audits Up CCH Summary of 2010 Estate Tax Quandary NYC Congestion Charge: A User Fee, Not a Tax Covered by Diplomatic…

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Saturday: Reid Adds "BoehTax" to Health Reform Bill 1L Exam Fiasco at NYU How § 195 Can Jump-Start the American Economy The Madness of State Film Tax Incentives Sunday: Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads CTJ:  Tax Justice Digest UC-Hastings Dean Finalists New York's 'Convenience of the Employer Test'

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Saturday: Another Tax Shoe Drops in Tiger Woods Affair(s) CCH Summary of Tax Extenders Act of 2009 Carbon Taxes and the WTO Waggoner: A Carbon Tax is Better Than Cap and Trade Sunday: Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads Mankiw:  Tax Cuts Work 2x Better Than Government Spending to Cure Recession IRS to do Joint Tax…

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Saturday: Total Tax Ratio as Percentage of GDP, 2008 1/3 of Tax Returns Filed Pay Zero Tax (and 1/2 of Those Get "Refunds") TIGTA Submits Semiannual Report to Congress Lahav:  Why Did Israeli Law Faculties Come to Resemble Elite U.S. Law Schools? Sunday: SNL on the White House Party Crashers Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads…

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Thursday: Thanksgiving Estate Planning What Tax Profs Are Thankful For Yale:  Investment Risk and the Tax Benefit of Deferred Compensation Lehavi:  The Taking/Taxing Taxonomy Friday: Sarah Palin, Bruce Bartlett & Joe Thorndike on the War Tax ABC News:  Tough Market for Law School Grads Michigan Coach Rodriguez and the Tax Man Walker & Fleischer:  Book/Tax…

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Saturday: Tax Notes to WaPo: "We Are Not an 'Obscure' Journal" Madoff:  Estate Tax Reform to Protect Family Farms and Business ($10m Exemption), Not Wealthy Heirs ($1-2m Exemption) IRS Issues Rules Implementing 5-Year NOL Carryback Federal Judicial Clerkship Applications Up 66% Closing the Tax Gap: Encouraging Voluntary Compliance Through Mass-Media Publication of High-Profile Tax Issues…

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Saturday: Afield Presents Reducing the Tax Gap Through Church-Government Partnerships Today at Stetson CTJ:  Judging Tax Expenditures Centrist Senators Consider 10-Year Estate Tax Phase-Down to $5m Exemption & 35% Rate NTA Annual Tax Conference Sunday: Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads America's Best College Teacher CTJ:  State-by-State Impact of House Health Care Bill's Millionaires’ Surcharge The…

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Saturday: President Obama Signs Worker, Homeownership, and Business Act WSJ:  27 Million Reasons to Leave New York The Good and the Bad in Sports Pauly:  Limiting the Tax Exclusion for Employment Based Health Insurance Ayers:  The Undertraining of Lawyers and its Effect on the Advancement of Women and Minorities Sunday: Texas Bar Exam Results Top…

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Saturday: Deductibility of Halloween Costumes State Death Taxes Pose Trap for Upper Middle Class as Federal Estate Tax Recedes Devereux & Fuest:  Is the Corporation Tax an Effective Automatic Stabilizer? Recasting Carried Interest: An Examination of Tax Reform Proposals The Constitutionality of Post-Davis Conduit Bonds Sunday: Chicago Property Taxes Increase 9.6%; Obama's Property Tax Increases…

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