Saturday: Financial Meltdown, SILO Tax Shelters Leave Transit Agencies Owing Billions to Banks Princeton Review Law School Rankings: Best (and Worst) Teaching Faculties Liss: Rationalizing the Taxation of Options in the Age of Derivatives Gerzog Posts Tax Papers on SSRN Progressive Taxation and Socialism Sunday: WSJ: The Obama & McCain Dueling Tax Plans Princeton Review…

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Saturday: Why Is the Media Focusing on Joe the Plumber’s Tax Problems, But Not Barack Obama’s? The Devil’s Dictionary of Taxation Michigan/Peking University Tax Conference on Comparative Tax Administration: Chinese and U.S. Perspectives Baistrocchi: The Transfer Pricing Problem: A Global Proposal for Simplification Donor Incentives for Fractional Gifts of Art Sunday: Top 5 Tax Paper…

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Saturday: McCain Proposes Suspension of Minimum Distribution Rules Temple: A Merit Pay Model? Galle & Seidenfeld: Admin Law’s Federalism: Preemption, Delegation, and Agencies at the Edge of Federal Power States Zero-in on Tax Cheats as Economy Sags Sunday: Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads The Law School Admissions Arms Race: Top 50 Median LSAT Up 2,…

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Saturday: Tax Papers at Today’s Midwest Law & Economics Association Annual Meeting Gov. Palin Releases Opinion Letter Justifying Not Reporting Per Diem Expense Reimbursements as Income McIntyre & Pomp: A Policy Analysis of Michigan’s Gross Receipts Tax The Qualified Privilege Against Discovery of Federal Income Tax Returns Sunday: Schadenfreude at the Hampton Inn Top 5…

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Saturday: Tax Papers at Today’s Canadian Law & Economics Ass’n Meeting Brother of Former Philadelphia Mayor Gets 30 Months for Failure to File Tax Returns Johnson: Use and Abuse of "Plain Meaning" What Is the Net Present Value of a J.D.? Churches, Campaign Intervention, and the IRS Sunday: Did § 121 Contribute to the Financial…

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Saturday: NY Times on Sarah Palin’s Tax Problem NLJ: Recent Law School Grads Moonlight to Repay Loans IRS Issues Updated FAQ on LILO/SILO Settlement Initiative Professor Obama Lessons from U.S. v. Stein: The Line Between Criminal and Civil Sanctions for Illegal Tax Shelters Sunday: Tax Motivation for Structure of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and AIG…

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Saturday: More on the Presidential Candidates’ Tax Plans An Overview of the AMT and its Expansion to the Middle Class ABA Tax Section Fall Meeting Sunday: Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads Proskauer Rose, Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell in DOJ Tax Shelter Crosshairs Cockfield Publishes Two Tax Papers and Receives Two Grants Obama’s Bill to…

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Saturday: Camp Awarded Endowed Professorship at Texas Tech Sokol Presents A Comparison of Teaching & Scholarship in Antitrust, Tax & IP at Florida The Taxation of Prediction Markets Estate Tax Deferral and Closely Held Business Owners Sunday: Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads Legal Education at the Crossroads Conference at University of Washington Buckles: The Separation…

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Saturday: Graetz:  A Multilateral Solution for the Income Tax Treatment of Interest Expenses Update on The Green Bag’s "Deadwood" Law School Rankings Gerzog:  The New Regs on Alternative Date Valuation Corporate Tax Planning and the Economic Substance Doctrine Sunday: Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads CB&PP:  Big Misconceptions About Small Business and Taxes ABA Tax Section…

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Saturday: 20 Reasons to Kill the Corporate Tax Lederman: A Proposal to Make the U.S. Tax Court More Judicial Leyden: Low Income Taxpayer Clinic Casebook Tax Planning in the Fight to Recognize Same-Sex Marriage Florida State University Business Law Review Publishes Two Tax Articles Sunday: AP: The Accountant Behind the Policyholders’ Win in "Demutualization" Case…

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Saturday: WSJ: Let’s Drill Our Way Out of the AMT "If You Want to Teach Tax and Have a Pulse in Excess of 50 … You’re Very Much in the Ballpark" SOI Releases 2004 Personal Wealth Data Slemrod:  The Economics of Tax Remittance Sherman:  Can Religious Influence Ever Be "Undue" Influence? Sunday: Top 5 Tax…

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Saturday: Burke: Collapsible Real Estate Partnership Proposal Congress Passes $60k Law School Loan Forgiveness Program for Prosecutors and Public Defenders Infanti: Tax As Urban Legend Cowan: Taxing and Regulating College and University Endowment Income Sunday: Nonpartisan Group Accuses McCain of Mulitple Distortions of Obama’s Tax Record Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads Jensen:  Law School Attire:…

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Saturday: SOI Releases 2006 State-by-State Income Data Tax Court Grants Widow of Former S.F. Mayor Innocent Spouse Relief Hamlet Was a Law Student Law.com: Has Law Review Been Hijacked by the Religious Right? Sunday: CTJ: Assessment of "Fair Share" of Tax Burden Must Include Payroll Taxes Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads UNLV Law School in…

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Saturday: Senate Passes Housing Tax Relief Bill Student Notes in ABA Tax Lawyer Tax Violations Sunday: WKRP TaxProf Blog in Cincinnati Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads Tax Foundation: More Tax Nonsense From McCain It Is Time to Oust Marriage From the Tax Code The Texas Margin Tax

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Saturday: The Data Are In: Clickers Work! Oregon Supreme Court Overturns Disbarment of Attorney for Hoyt Tax Shelters Western State Law School Sold for $5-$10 Million CBO: Long-Term Effects of Indexing AMT and Extending the 2001 & 2003 Tax Cuts CB&PP: Evidence Shows That Tax Cuts Lose Revenue Sunday: Study: Online Access to Articles Reduces…

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Saturday: Why Hasn’t McCain Reported His Gambling Gains and Losses on His Tax Returns? Taking Back the U.S. News Rankings: Value-Added Law Schools Khachaturian: Reforming U.S. Export Tax Policy Sunday: Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads European Ass’n of Tax Profs Annual Meeting Ford Sues IRS for $445m Interest on Overpayment of Taxes Johnson: A Consensus…

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Friday: Judge: Pringles Are Not Potato Chips, So Are Exempt From U.K. 17.5% Potato Chip Tax 7th Circuit Chides IRS For "Clearly Erroneous Proposition of Law" in Form Letter SOI Releases Updated Individual Income Tax Return Statistics NLJ: IRS Clarifies Rule on Taxing Forgiven Law Student Loans Saturday: Paul Hogan to Tax Man: "Come and…

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Saturday: Congratulations, Suja Thomas & Scott Bahr 2d Circuit Rejects Retroactivity Challenge to § 469 Passive Loss Rules Fear Factor: 30% of Lawyers Are Worried About Losing Their Jobs IRS Electronic Advisory Committee Delivers Report to Congress Sunday: Snipes Seeks Permission to Travel Overseas to Work on Two Movies Pending Appeal of Tax Evasion Conviction…

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Saturday: Tax Lawyers for Obama Updated Comparison of the McCain and Obama Tax Plans CTJ Applauds House AMT Patch Sunday: Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads Henderson Applauds Northwestern’s 2-Year J.D. You Might Be An Economist If…

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Saturday: Repetti: Democracy and Opportunity: A New Paradigm in Tax Equity McCain & Obama Release 2007 Financial Disclosure Forms Moran Posts Tax Papers on SSRN Sunday: Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads NLJ: Father’s Day and Young Lawyers Cords: Administrative Law and Judicial Review of Tax Collection Decisions Music, Movie, and Video Clips for Law School…

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Saturday: Is Keith Olbermann the Worst Taxpayer in the World? NYU Hosts 2008 Junior Tax Scholars Conference Tax Court:  NYC Psychiatrist Not in Trade or Business of Playing Video Poker Sunday: NY Times: Tax Laws Popularize the Small Foundation Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads Taxing Under the Influence? Corruption and U.S. State Beer Taxes Shaviro:…

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Saturday: Biggest Losers Under Obama’s Plan to Remove the Current $102k Wage Ceiling for Social Security Taxes From Human Capital to Capital Gains:  The Puzzle of Profits Interests Bassett:  Changing Perceptions of Private Religious Schools: Public Money and Public Trust in the Education of Children Sunday: Why Did Government Appeal Wesley Snipes’ Sentence? Should He…

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Saturday: IRS Releases Spring 2008 SOI Bulletin Bai: A New Prof’s Suggestion for Improving the Law Review System The EITC as an Incentive to Report: Engaging the Informal Economy Through Tax Policy Sunday: Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads Rabbi Offers Ten Commandments of Politics What Is a Progressive Tax Change?: Unmasking Hidden Values in Distributional…

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Saturday: Goodbye, Class of 2008 NTA Spring Symposium Blogging as a Feminist Legal Method The Great Tax Cut Delusion and the Decline of Good Government in America Sunday: Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads Tate: Marilyn Monroe’s Legacy: Taxation of Postmortem Publicity Rights Law School Commencement Speakers (Updated) Mirkay: Reevaluating the 501(C)(3) Exemption of Religious Organizations…

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Saturday: AP: Al Sharpton Owes $1.5 Million in Taxes ABA Tax Section May Meeting Student Notes in ABA Tax Lawyer New Issue of Real Property, Probate & Trust Journal Sunday: Pastors to Challenge Ban on Political Activity by Endorsing Candidates From Pulpit on Sept. 28 Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads Tax Prof Joins Wash. U.…

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