Saturday: Tax Prof Profile:  Joshua Tate IRS Asked to Investigate Florida Evangelist’s Sermon: "If You Vote for Mitt Romney, You Are Voting for Satan" IRS Issues Guidance on Transfer of Partnership Property in Satisfaction of Guaranteed Payment Colombo on Federal and State Tax Exemption Policy, Medical Debt and Healthcare for the Poor Sunday: Top 5…

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Saturday: Internet Taxes Are Coming Tax Prof Profile:  John Mylan Tax Policy Center Reports Ordower on Demystifying Hedge Funds: A Design Primer Sunday: Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads NY Times & WSJ on FIN 48 and Disclosure of Potential Tax Liabilities McGeorge Confers Order of the Pacific on Retiring Tax Prof Wile The Rise and…

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Saturday: Tax Prof Profile:  Hank Lischer WSJ on Tax Increase in New Federal Budget Sheppard & McMahon on Recent Developments in Federal Income Taxation Related-Party Like-Kind Exchanges Sunday: Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads 1031 Tax Group LLC Files for Bankruptcy NTA Holds Spring Symposium & State-Local Program CBO Releases Changes in the Economic Resources of…

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Saturday: Tax Prof Profile:  Christopher Hanna Happy 50th Birthday, Dan Shaviro ABA Tax Section May Meeting Camic on Earmarked Taxes Sunday: The Tax Prof Circle of Life Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads Thompson on The Missing Link in Sarbanes-Oxley Constitutional Problems with PA’s Property Tax Assessment Appeals System

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Saturday: Tax Prof Profile:  Regis Campfield Northwestern Hosts Conference Today on The Thunder of History: Taxation in Comparative and Historical Perspective NY Times: Do Lower-Income Taxpayers Cheat More on Capital Gains Than the Rich? Tax Havens: Myth Versus Reality Richards on The Supreme Court and "Boring" Cases Sunday: Call for Tax Papers: Conglomerate Junior Scholars…

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Saturday: Tax Prof Profile:  Patricia Bradford Krugman: Gilded Once More Bloomberg: Congress Wrangles Over Bush’s Expiring Tax Cuts Chalmers on Systematic Risk and the Muni Puzzle House & Shapiro on Temporary Investment Tax Incentives: Theory With Evidence from Bonus Depreciation Sunday: Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads WSJ Tax Articles Treasury & IRS Seek Public Comment…

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Saturday: Nanny Tax Criminal Conviction Tax Prof Profile:  Janice Kay McClendon More on Tax Treatment of Law School Public Interest Loan Forgiveness Programs BNA Tax Management Advisory Board Meets on U.S. Income Gerzog on Recent Cases on Equitable Apportionment Sunday: Moneyball Redux: The Tax Prof Exchange Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads NY Times on Taxing…

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Saturday: Winner of TurboTax Tax Rap Contest Tax Prof Profile:  Vada Lindsey Atlanta Hopes Lawyers Just Say No to Tax Refunds WSJ Tax Articles GAO Releases Report on Telephone Excise Tax Refund Requests Millar on Electronic Transfers of Prewritten Computer Software Sunday: Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads CBPP Releases Several Tax Reports Death, Taxes, and…

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Saturday: Tax Prof Profile:  José M. Gabilondo Trusts & Estates Lecture Spoof WSJ: How to Avoid Getting Audited Blackburn on Constitutional Limits on State Taxation of a Nonresident Trustee Another TurboTax Tax Rap Entry Sunday: Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads TIGTA: Number of IRS Audits Increasing, But Still Below 1990s Levels Laptops v. Learning Borden…

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Saturday: Tax Prof Profile:  Christian Johnson Minnesota Senate Votes for Country’s Highest Income Tax Rate — 9.7% CBO Releases Utilization of Tax Incentives for Retirement Saving SOI Releases 2002-05 Estate Tax Data The Qualified Privilege Against Discovery of Federal Income Tax Returns Sunday: SSRN Joins Forces with YouTube in Comprehensive Measure of Faculty Downloads Top…

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Saturday: Chairman of World’s Largest Accounting Firm Does Not Do His Own Taxes House Ways & Means Committee to Investigate Private Tax Collection, Requests Halt in New Contracts NY Times: Foreign Companies Get Tax Cut Denied to U.S. Firms Hellwig on A Contribution to the Theory of Optimal Utilitarian Income Taxation ABA Tax Section Submits…

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Saturday: Tax Prof Profile:  Robert Keller Newsweek: What Tax Lawyers in NY Times/Boston Globe & Chicago Tribune/L.A. Times Acquisitions Could Have Learned from McClatchy/Minneapolis Star "Double Dummy" Structure TIGTA: 100,000 Taxpayers Claimed $1.8 Billion in Improper Noncash Charitable Contributions Hellerstein & Swain on The Streamlined Sales and Use Tax: Overview of Current Status Sunday: Top…

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Saturday: Tax Prof Profile:  Kathryn Moore GAO Issues Report on Law School Accreditation SOI Releases International Boycott Return Data ABA Tax Section Comments Likhovski on Two Horwitzian Journeys Sunday: Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads Recent Tax Policy Center Publications Recent Tax Foundation Reports Alton & Borden on Section 1031 Alchemy: Transforming Personal Tangible and Intangible…

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Saturday: TaxProf Blog Crosses 2,500,000-Visitor Mark Tax Prof Profile:  Randall Roth CBO Releases Analysis of President’s 2008 Budget Anthony on International Charitable Grantmaking After 9/11 Friday at the IRS Sunday: Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads NY Times: AMT is Neither "Alternative" Nor "Minimum" Tax News Roundup NY Times: Tax Policy Decreed by Merry Men in…

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Saturday: Tax Prof Profile:  Stephen Mazza WSJ Tax Articles Borden & Keator on Tax Opinions in TIC Offerings and Reverse TIC Exchanges Friday at the IRS Sunday: Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads Mankiw’s Advice to Junior Faculty: Do Not Blog Gerzog on Davis and Whiting: QTIP Income Interests and Intent ABA Tax Section Comments

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Saturday: Tax Prof Profile:  Jeffrey Maine Tax News Roundup Tax Foundation Podcast with Arthur Rosen Mombrun on The Relevance of Federal Income Tax Courses in the Law School Curriculum and in Law Practice Implementing Disaster Relief Through Tax Expenditures: An Assessment of the Katrina Emergency Tax Relief Measures Sunday: Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads Tax…

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Saturday: Tax Prof Profile:  Anne-Marie Rhodes Prominent NY Lawyer Arrested for Tax Evasion After Using Tax Amnesty Tax News Roundup Hymel on Tax Incentives for Renewable Energy Taxing International Athletes Through Multilateral Tax Treaties Sunday: Frustrated Law School Applicant Arrested for Trying to Bribe LSAC for Copy of LSAT Test Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads…

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Saturday: Tax Prof Profile:  Martin Dickinson What Tax Profs Are Reading … Jim Maule WSJ: Number of Millionaires Up, Estate Tax Returns Down Borden on The Federal Definition of Tax Partnership Sunday: Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads NY Times: Ballard, Kanter & Lisle to Appeal Tax Court Decision WSJ:President Bush Faces Difficult Task in Balancing…

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Saturday: Tax Prof Profile:  Myron Grauer Law Prof Consultants IRS Computer Tapes with Sensitive Taxpayer Information Are Missing American Accounting Association Meeting Papers Available on SSRN Sunday: Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads WSJ: Charities Love IRA Rollovers IRS Oversight Board Releases 2006 Annual Report WSJ: Law School Should Be More Like Medical School Pozen on…

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Saturday: Tax Prof Profile:  Boston University Tax Faculty Death of Richard Musgrave Bell on Law Prof Diversity, Hiring, and Tenure Tax Policy Center Releases Options to Fix the AMT Sugin on Encouraging Corporate Charity ABA Tax Section Mid-Year Meeting Concludes Today in Florida Sunday: Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads WSJ: How Railroads Stopped IRS In…

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Saturday: Tax Prof Profile:  David Walker WSJ: No New Taxes CTJ Publishes Four Tax Reports IRS e-File Program Opened Jan. 12 (Feb. 3 for Returns Affected by Extender Legislation) Sunday: Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads NY Times: Swiss Tax Deals Lure the Superrich Panel on the Nonprofit Sector Invites Comments on Draft Principles on Self-Regulation…

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Saturday: Building and Marketing Your Scholarly "Brand" Tax Prof Profile:  Ted Sims Tax Editorials Aprill on Tax Strategy Patents Sunday: Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads Lateral Hires Are More Productive Scholars Than Home-Grown Faculty Corporate Charitable Giving Increases Profits Henderson: Law Schools Game Rankings by Increasing 1L Attrition and 2L Transfers WSJ: House’s "Pay-Go" Rule…

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Saturday: Tax Prof Profile:  Rusty Park The Downward Trend in Law Prof Blogging Nussim on Unjust Enrichment and the Refund of Overpaid Taxes Sunday: Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads WaPo: The Tax Man Behind D.C.’s Glitziest New Year’s Parties NY Times: The Condo and Co-op Tax Bargain Lipman on Economic Injustices of Undocumented Immigrant Families…

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Saturday: Tax Prof Profile:  Ern Haddad Year-End Law School Check-Up Christmas Gifts for that Special Tax Person Wells on Holding Charities Accountable: Some Thoughts from an Ex-Regulator Sunday: Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads Christmas Gifts for that Special Tax Person IRS Announces Processing Delays in Accommodating New Tax Law Changes Illinois’ Response to Rising Residential…

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Saturday: Tax Prof Profile:  Alan Feld NY Times: Fallout from KPMG Tax Shelter Case District Court Enjoins Marketer of Phony Health Care Reimbursement Plans Beck on Deductibility of Treble Damages Paid for Breach of National Helath Service Corps Scholarship Contracts 14 of 15 New York Law Schools Improve Bar Passage Results Sunday: Top 5 Tax…

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