Saturday: Tax Prof Profile:  New Professor Edition Is Google a Tax Evader? News Roundup on Yesterday’s Passage of H.R. 3996 Gerzog Posts Two Tax Notes Pieces on SSRN Harmful Tax Competition: Defeat or Victory? Sunday: Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads NLJ 250 Taylor on State Income Taxation of Non-Member Indians Moran & Schneider on The…

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Saturday: Tax Prof Profile:  Lisa Milot 3rd Circuit: Early Retirement Payments to Tenured Pitt Faculty Constitute Wages Subject to FICA Pomp Presents Humor in the High Court Today at California Tax Bar Annual Meeting Mann on How Tax Incentives Encourage Burning Coal and the Consequences for Global Warming WSJ: Is It Fair to Label Law…

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Saturday: Tax Prof Profile:  Adam Rosenzweig Giving Students Chocolate Increases Teaching Evaluation Ratings Buckles on Is the Ban on Participation in Political Campaigns by Charities Essential to Their Vitality and Democracy? A Reply to Donald Tobin The Supreme Court’s Upcoming Decision on Rule 10b-5 "Scheme Liability" and its Implications for Tax Shelter Fraud Litigation NYSBA…

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Saturday: Tax Prof Profile:  Edward Kofi Osei More on Dress Codes for Law Faculty Indiana Law Student Shoots Casebook with AK-47 Assault Rifle A Chronology of Postwar U.S. Federal Tax Policy Li on Tax Policy and Development: A Cases Study of China Sunday: Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads Motro Presents Labor, Luck, and Love: Reconsidering…

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Saturday: Tax Prof Profile:  Sarah Lawsky Web-Based Financial/Tax Calculators CTJ Publishes Weekly Tax Digest Clausing & Avi-Yonah on Business Income (Article 7 OECD MC) Hamill on A Tale of Two Alabamas Sunday: Al Gore and the Nobel Peace Prize: Avoiding an Inconvenient Tax Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads Michigan and New York Tax and Trusts…

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Saturday: Tax Prof Profile:  Kristin Balding Gutting Conor Granahan’s Advice for Erwin Chemerinsky: 1L "Life in the Law" Course Top 1% Pay More Income Tax Than Bottom 90% The Discharge of Tax Debts in Bankruptcy Loyola-L.A. Graduate Tax Program Publishes Newsletter Sunday: Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads A Tale of Two Academics: America’s Worst Law…

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Saturday: Tax Prof Profile:  David Gamage Sam Kamin’s Advice to Erwin Chemerinsky: Offer 2L Real-World Experiences, 3L Capstone Courses Tax Profs at ABA Tax Section Fall Meeting in Vancouver Levin Introduces the Ending Corporate Tax Favors for Stock Options Act Tax Panels at Today’s CLEA Meeting Sunday: Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads Mike Madison’s Advice…

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Saturday: Tax Prof Profile:  Keith Fogg MIT Drops in U.S. News Rankings After Correcting Mistake in Reporting Freshman SAT Scores CTJ Publishes Weekly Tax Digest New Issue of Pittsburgh Tax Review Gans on Estate Tax Exemption Portability Sunday: Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads Hoyt Dies in Federal Prison ABA Tax Section Submits Comments on §…

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Saturday: Tax Prof Profile:  Kim Brooks Ninth Circuit Rules for IRS in § 2036 FLP Case L.A. Times: UC-Irvine Trying to Rehire Chemerinsky Ainsworth on UK Car-Flipping: The VAT Fraud Market-Place and Certified Solutions UNLV Seeks Entry Level and Lateral Candidates Sunday: Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads Metrick & Yasuda on The Economics of Private…

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Saturday: Tax Prof Profile:  Pamela Champine Judge: Government Is Prosecuting Actor Wesley Snipes for Tax Fraud Because He’s Famous, Not Because He’s Black An End to Politically Motivated Audits of Churches? How Amendment to § 7217 Can Preserve Integrity of the Tax Investigation of Churches Under § 7611 Two Student Notes on Cuno Sunday: Tennessee…

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Saturday: Tax Prof Profile: Cheyañna Jaffke Bloomberg: Blackstone & KKR Are Winning Private Equity Tax Reform Battle TIGTA Releases Several Tax Reports A Comparative Survey of Enforcement Mechanisms for Tax Compliance Sunday: Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads Is the Future of Legal Scholarship in the Blogosphere? The American Tax Plan for the 21st Century Williams…

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Saturday: New Legal Scholarship Blog Tax Prof Profile:  Glenn Coven Dean on Extraterritorial Tax Information: End the Barter System 500 Tax Charts Sunday: Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads NY Times: Businessman Pleads Guilty to Engaging in Tax Fraud to Recoup Losses in Patent Case NY Times: CBS Agrees to Pick Up CEO’s NY Taxes CTJ…

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Saturday: Tax Prof Profile:  Brian Galle CTJ on Presidential Candidates’ Tax Positions Marton & Wildasin on Medicaid Expenditures and State Budgets Sunday: Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads Another Root Cause of Terrorism: U.S. Tax Law NY Times: Time to Raise Taxes & Spending Giertz & Papke on Public Pension Plans and State Budgets Brazilian Tax…

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Saturday: Tax Prof Profile:  Mona Hymel ABA Tax Section Publishes Summer 2007 Issue of News Quarterly Galle on Cognitive Biases, Fiscal Federalism, and § 164 Wood on Pious Politics: Political Speech Funded Through § 501(C)(3) Organizations Sunday: Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads SOI Publishes 2005 Individual Income Tax Return Data Prof Pleads Guilty to Tax…

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Saturday: Tax Prof Profile:  Heather Field Inspector General Finds Lax Computer Security by IRS Employees Brokeback Star’s Dad Is Tax Deadbeat Measuring Judicial Performance Sunday: Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads Weekend Tax News Roundup Missing Lawyer Admits Embezzlement in Confession to Lawyer-Son

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Saturday: Law Professor Blog Rankings Tax Prof Profile:  Karen Green Tax Panels at Today’s Law & Society Annual Meeting Sunday: Weekend Tax News Roundup Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads Advice for Aspiring Tax Profs Tax Panel at Today’s SEALS Annual Meeting Stiff Named Acting Commissioner of IRS

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Saturday: Tax Prof Profile:  Arthur Cockfield Law School Rankings News An Open Letter to Ave Maria Law School Levmore on Fines and Taxes Duress: A Perplexing Barrier to Relief from Joint and Several Liability Sunday: Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads L.A. Times on Private Equity Tax Bill How Big is Apple’s "Tax" on iPhone Users?…

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Saturday: Blackstone Denies NY Times Report That It Engaged in Unfair Tax Avoidance Tax Prof Profile:  Fred Brown 2d Circuit Chief Judge Dissents Without Reading Majority’s Opinion Scott on Private Pensions, the Tax Code, and the Erosion of Retirement Income Security Sunday: Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads Mankiw in NY Times: What Is a "Fair"…

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Saturday: Remembering Bernie Caron EU Tax Burden Greatly Exceeds U.S. & Japan Millar on Does a § 338(h)(10) Election Produce Business or Nonbusiness Income? Kaplan on Retirement Planning’s Greatest Gap: Funding Long-Term Care Kling on Methodological Frontiers of Public Finance Field Experiments Sunday: Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads Effects of After-Tax Pension and Social Security…

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Saturday: Tax Prof Profile:  Roger Groves IRS Tax Filing Software Can’t Handle Even Simple Returns Rosenzweig on Harnessing the Costs of International Tax Arbitrage Conference on Legal Education in Europe Sunday: Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads Tax News Roundup Danforth Named Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Washington & Lee Jolly-Ryan on Tax Exemptions and…

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Saturday: Tax Prof Profile:  Ben Alarie Tax News Roundup NY Times: Tax Angle of Tribune Deal ABA Tax Section Submits Comments to IRS Forman on Making America Work Sunday: Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads ABA Law School Statistics Now Available L.A. Civil Rights Attorney Yagman Convicted of Tax Evasion Head of U.S. News Law School…

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Saturday: Tax Prof Profile:  Janet Milne More on Senate’s Private Equity Tax Bill Chorvat on Tax Shelters, Dutch Books, and the Fundamental Theorem of Asset Pricing Sunday: Tax Consequences of Michigan’s Buyout of Coach Beilein’s West Virginia Contract NLJ on Lawyers-Fathers Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads WSJ: Kiddie Tax Changes Boost Appeal of 529 Plans…

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Saturday: Judge Holds Unconstitutional Pennsylvania’s Property Tax Assessment System Junior Tax Scholars Conference Concludes Today at BU Tax Prof Profile:  SMU Tax Faculty New Study: "Law School Has a Corrosive Effect on the Well-Being, Values, and Motivation of Students" Keinan on Rethinking the Role of the Judicial Step Transaction Principle and a Proposal for Codification…

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