Saturday: CBO Rejects GOP Charge That It Slanted Report on Taxing U.S. Multinational Corporations Julie Sullivan, USD Provost and Former Tax Prof, Named President of University of St. Thomas National Jurist Backtracks on Use of RateMyProfessors.com in Law School Rankings 2013 State and Local Tax Rates Sunday: Should Law Reviews Take Race, Gender, and Sexual…

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Saturday: A Genius Bar for Law Tax Hikes Backfire, Greece’s Revenues Plummet NY Times:  Time to Revive the Financial Transactions Tax Kadet:  Letter to OECD on BEPS (Base Erosion and Profit-Shifting) Sunday: WSJ:  As Parents Live Longer, Children Create 'Upward Trusts' to Help Them Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads WSJ:  Ben Carson on the Flat…

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Saturday: Georgetown Refused to Hire 62-Year Faculty Candidate Due to Lack of Scholarship, Unwillingness to Teach Tax Brown Presents Addressing International Inequality Through Tax Law at San Diego A Dean's Advice on Downsizing Legal Education WSJ:  Step 1, Include Health Insurance Cost on W-2. Step 2, Tax It? Sunday: Louisiana Tax Man to Ravens, 49ers:…

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Saturday: What's FATCA Got To Do With It? Tina Turner Renounces U.S. Citizenship Financial Times:  U.S. Taxes: Certain as Death, Complicated as Hell 2013 Undergraduate Accounting Program Rankings by Tax Hiring Authorities Bloomberg Law:  Should Deans be Disciplined for Deceitful Marketing to Students? Sunday: ABA Tax Section Midyear Meeting Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads Tax…

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Saturday: WSJ:  Can You Trust Your Kid With $5.25 Million? Plummeting Law School Enrollments Portend Widespread Faculty Layoffs Court Says IRS Lacks Authority to Regulate Tax Preparers Deans Oppose Canada's First Christian Law School Sunday: WSJ:  Corporate Inversions Yield Big Shareholder Tax Bills NY Times:  Is Technological Inequality Exacerbating Income Inequality? Congress Extends 100k Deduction…

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Saturday: 9th Circuit:  Lawyer Can't Keep Tax Records from IRS Joint Tax Committee Releases List of Expiring Federal Tax Provisions, 2013-2023 Percentage of Tax Returns With AGI Over $500,000 Customer Leaves Anti-Tax Note Rather Than Tip Sunday: New England Law Dean's $867,000 Salary Draws Scrutiny Amidst Soaring Tuition, Bleak Job Prospects for Grads NY Times: …

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Saturday: Today's AALS Annual Meeting Highlights NY Times:  Senate Inquiry Into Tech Giants’ Tax Strategies Nears End 6th Circuit Revives IRS Employee's Retaliation Claim The ABA Should Allow Attorney-Accountant Partnerships Sunday: Today's AALS Annual Meeting Highlights WSJ:  Who Pays More Tax in 2013? NY Times:  Tax Code May Be the Most Progressive Since 1979 GAO: …

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Saturday: Freakonomics:  An Economist’s Guide to Year-End Charitable Giving Cato:  Six Reasons To Keep Capital Gains Tax Rates Low The Deductibility of Payments to Whistleblowers Under the False Claims Act Sunday: Law School Transparency Files Complaint Against Rutgers-Camden Over Student Recruiting French Court: 75% Tax Rate on Millionaires Is Unconstitutional Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads

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Saturday: UCLA Law Prof Lets Needy Strangers Live Rent-Free in His House: Cool or Crazy? WSJ:  Two Fiscal Cliff Tax Debacles: Reduced Tax-Home Pay, No Tax Filing Until March 31 ABA:  Law Schools Admit More Non-J.D. Students to Offset Decline in J.D. Enrollment NY Times:  Congress Must Preserve the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Sunday: Our…

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Saturday: Valparaiso Hosts Tax Roundtable Today in Chicago Sex Reassignment Surgery as a Tax Deductible Medical Expense California and New York as Potential Regulators of Elite Law Schools Supreme Court Grants Cert to Decide Whether Estate Tax Marital Deduction Applies to Same-Sex Couple 25th Annual George Washington International Tax Institute Sunday: Organ:  Stealth Restructuring in…

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Saturday: Deductibility of 'Scholarship' Payments to Student Escorts Hesch:  The Financial Danger of Maximizing Taxable Gifts in 2012 The Most Dangerous Colleges in America NY Times:  Tax Burden Is Lower for Most Americans Than in the 1980s Criticism of Case Western Dean's NY Times op-ed, Law School Is Worth the Money Sunday: Estate Planning for…

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Thursday: What Tax Profs Are Thankful For WKRP in Cincinnati Thanksgiving Turkey Drop Penn State to Operate Separate Law Schools (Like Rutgers, Arkansas) Estrich:  I Did Not Vote for Obama to Raise My Taxes Friday: The New Yorker:  Why We Pay Taxes NY Times:  LSAT Takers and Law School Enrollments Plunge Amidst Poor Placement Prospects…

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Saturday: Tax Consequences of Janeane Garofalo's Forgotten Marriage Group Sues IRS for Not Enforcing Electioneering Restrictions on Churches NY Times:  Charity’s Role in America U.S. News Releases FAQ on Defrocking of George Washington Sunday: PrawfsBlawg Debate:  Reforming Legal Education's Finances Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads Tax Foundation:  State-by-State Impact of the Fiscal Cliff TIGTA:  Tax…

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Saturday: Rankings Scandal at George Washington CCH Tax Briefing:  Post-Election Tax Policy Chronicle:  America's Longest-Serving Law Dean Defends the Value of a Law Degree Tax Foundation:  The Fiscal Cliff: A Primer Sunday: IRS 'Turbocharges' Donation of Unused Vacation Days to Aid Hurricane Sandy Victims Colbert on NY Court Ruling: Lap Dances Are Not 'Art' and…

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Saturday: The Last Game Hurricane Sandy and Taxes O'Donnabhain and the IRS's Understanding of Transgender Medical Care The U.S. Expatriate Inheritance Tax Sunday: WSJ:  Tax Breaks Under Fire Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads The Unconstitutional Taxation of Out-of-State Corporations that do Instate Business Over the Internet Two Stories of Taxation of Capital

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Saturday: IRS = Income Redistribution Service NY Times:  Who Really Benefits From the Mortgage Interest Deduction IRS Pays $38 Million in Whistleblower Case More on the Thomas Jefferson Law School Lawsuit Sunday: College Football Season Ticket Tax Break Costs $1 Billion/Year WSJ:  When Severance Pay Is Subject to Payroll Tax Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads…

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Saturday: Tax Papers at Central States Law Schools Association Annual Conference Posner, Becker on Luck, Wealth, and Taxation 2011-2012 Law Review Diversity Report WSJ:  Romney's Tax Deduction Cap: Good Tax Policy, Better Politics Sunday: Advice to the Wealthy:  SELL! Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads The Inequality of Federal Tax Incentives for Conservation Easement Donations The…

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Saturday: ABA Tax Section Seeks Nominations for Janet R. Spragens Pro Bono Award Joint Tax Committee:  Repealing Deductions Pays for 4% Tax Rate Cut (Not 20% Claimed by Romney) Designing Commodity Taxes for Inattentive Consumers Freakonomics:  Income Inequality, Monkey-Style Sunday: SNL on the Biden-Ryan VP Debate Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads How Battles Over Collection…

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Saturday: Hollywood: Special Tax Breaks For Us, Tax Increases on Everyone Else Hamilton Project:  Lifetime Earnings Bump for College Grads Trumps Higher Costs Law School Litigation and the Law School Transparency Movement Mitigating the Unintended Consequences of Biofuel Tax Credits Sunday: 1,400 Pastors to Bait IRS Today on 'Pulpit Freedom Sunday' Top 5 Tax Paper…

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Saturday: Staudt Presents The Supercharged IPO and Is Gender-Based Policymaking Necessary in the 21st Century? Dalhousie University Conference Today on The Carter Commission 50 Years Later Conference Today to Honor Hugh Ault Intellectual Property and the Income Tax Caron Presents The Jones Polynominal of Spherical Virtual Knots Today at Grinnell College Sunday: WSJ:  Is Your…

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Saturday: Carnage in 1L Law School Enrollments WSJ:  Obama's 100% Capital Gains Tax Increase Won't Raise Revenue, But Will Hurt Economy, Jobs & Wages 2012 Corporate Tax Competitiveness Rankings FactCheck.org:  Do Five Economic Studies Support Romney's Tax Plan? Sunday: Johnson & Waggoner:  Congress Should Curb Perpetual Trusts Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads The Double Irish…

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Saturday: University of Washington Hosts 2d Annual Critical Perspectives on Tax Policy Workshop Europe Considers Taxing Catholic Church to Raise Revenue ABA Tax Section Fall Meeting Should Credit Unions Continue to be Tax Exempt? Sunday: John Yoo Tortures Moneyball Analogy in Defending His Citation Count Study Why Progressives Should Want to End the Estate Tax,…

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Saturday: A Tale of Two (California) Law Schools:  La Verne and UC-Irvine John Marshall Center for Tax Law Seeks to Hire Associate Director More on the Phillips & Yoo 'Better Faculty Citation Rankings System' Sunday: Johnston:  Who Pays the Top Income Tax Rate? LSAT Scores at Top Schools Are Dropping Like Flies Top 5 Tax…

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Saturday: Harvard Prof: 'I Give Out 120 A's. Class Attendance Is Not Mandatory' WSJ:  Countdown to a Tax Hike Tax Information Sharing Between the United States and China Sunday: NY Times:  NY AG Investigates Tax Treatment of Bain Capital Management Fees Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads Schedule UTP Impinges on the Work-Product Privilege Monday: WaPo: …

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