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Written by Kerry M. Kerstetter, MBA~CPA~ATP~ATA on October 31st, 2007 with comments disabled.
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Halloween and Taxes

Continuing a TaxProf Blog tradition, here are this year’s Halloween and taxes items: Associated Press: Tax Law: Are You Eating Those Pumpkins? Don’t Mess with Taxes: Tax Treats from Washington, D.C. Greg Mankiw’s Blog: The Deadweight Loss of Halloween Trick…

Written by Paul Caron on October 31st, 2007 with comments disabled.
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Politico: Victor Fleischer — “Academic It Boy”

Check out the cool video and article on Politico on Victor Fleischer’s role in sparking the private equity tax debate: Here is the beginning of the article (Professor’s Proposal Angers Wall Street, by Lisa Lerer): With a shock of spiky…

Written by Paul Caron on October 31st, 2007 with comments disabled.
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Staudt Presents The Ideological Component of Judging in the Taxation Context Today at Penn

Nancy Staudt (Northwestern) presents The Ideological Component of Judging in the Taxation Context, 84 Wash. U. L. Rev. ___ (2007) (with Lee Epstein (Northwestern) & Peter Wiedenback (Washington University)), at Penn today as part of its Center for Tax Law…

Written by Paul Caron on October 31st, 2007 with comments disabled.
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Distance Learning in Law Schools

Interesting article in today’s Inside Higher Ed: Legal Education at a Distance, by Scott Jaschik: As online education has become more and more popular, law schools have largely been on the sidelines. The ABA will not accredit distance programs, and…

Written by Paul Caron on October 31st, 2007 with comments disabled.
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Google Law School Rankings

Harvard Stanford Yale Michigan Columbia Chicago Cornell Brooklyn Vanderbilt NYU North Dakota Wisconsin Pennsylvania Suffolk New York Law School UC-Berkeley Minnesota Notre Dame Tulane George Washington Vermont Indiana-Bloomington Texas Widener University of Washington John Marshall (IL) Washington University Santa Clara…

Written by Paul Caron on October 31st, 2007 with comments disabled.
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Tax News Roundup

Associated Press: Beenie Man Fces Tax Evasion Charges Bush Signs 7-Year Internet Tax Ban Chicago Tribune: “Count Rangula” Just in Time for Halloween (op-ed), by Cal Thomas CNN Money: Tax Break Tug-of-War on Tap; Despite Pressure to Pass AMT Relief,…

Written by Paul Caron on October 31st, 2007 with comments disabled.
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Another attack on Sec. 121 exclusion?

Written by Kerry M. Kerstetter, MBA~CPA~ATP~ATA on October 31st, 2007 with comments disabled.
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Camp on Proceduralist Reflections on Tax Consequences of Home Mortgage Foreclosures

Bryan Camp (Texas Tech) has posted Proceduralist Reflections on Tax Consequences of Home Mortgage Foreclosures, 117 Tax Notes 483 (10/29/07), on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In tax law and theory, procedure gets short shrift. Yet sometimes, procedure makes all…

Written by Paul Caron on October 31st, 2007 with comments disabled.
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Tax Court: Chicago Lawyer Does Not Have Reasonable Cause to Avoid Penalties for Failure to Pay Tax on Yearly Income of $103,000 - $214,000

The Tax Court yesterday ruled against Carl R. Klein, who joined the Chicago law firm of Defrees & Fisk as a partner in March 2006. According to his firm bio, Mr. Klein (who got his J.D. from Indiana in 1970)…

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