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Beverly I. Moran (Vanderbilt) presents Adam Smith and the Search for an ideal Tax System at Florida today as part of its Faculty Colloquia Series. Here is the abstract: Increasing inequalities in income and wealth undermine the capitalist promise of…
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The IRS announced today (Rev. Proc. 2008-19) that the U.S. median gross income is $61,500. Go here to compute the median family income for dozens of metropolitan areas (Cincinnati’s median family income is $66,212.85.) Here are charts showing the average…
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The IRS has released the Winter 2008 Statistics of Income Bulletin (Publication 1136): A History of the Tax-Exempt Sector: An SOI Perspective, by Paul Arnsberger, Melissa Ludlum, Margaret Riley & Mark Stanton Individual Income Tax Rates and Shares 2005, by…
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In our article, Ranking Law Schools: Using SSRN to Measure Scholarly Performance, 81 Ind. L.J. 83, 93 (2006), Bernie Black and I note that one of the problems with using citation count rankings is that they favor more senior faculty…
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The Tax Court yesterday held that the taxpayer could not deduct the $33,000 cost of obtaining a Harvard M.B.A. as an educational expense under Reg. § 1.162-5. Foster v. Commissioner, T.C. Summ. Op. 2008-22 (2/28/08). The court concluded that her…
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Race to the Bottom has ranked the 50 Most Influential Law Faculty Blogs for 2007: [T]here is no single metric for ranking the popularity and/or influence of blogs, much less law blogs. There are two principle ways of ranking blogs:…
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Queen’s University Faculty of Law hosts a symposium today on Globalization and the Impact of Tax on International Investments: National economies are increasingly tied together on a global and regional basis. In response to this process, governments throughout the world…
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The Tax Policy Center and American Tax Policy Institute host a conference today in Washington D.C. on Taxes and Health Insurance: Analysis and Policy: Health care promises to be a central issue in the 2008 Presidential campaign. Candidates of the…
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The Berkeley Electronic Press has published Vol. 2, Issue 2 of Basic Income Studies: Debate Basic Income and the Republican Ideal: Rethinking Material Independence in Contemporary Societies, by David Casassas A Republican Right to Basic Income?, by Philip Pettit Property…
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My former firm, Sullivan & Worcester (Boston), is providing office space free of charge or the next two years to the Boston Lawyers Group (BLG), a consortium of law firms and legal organizations promoting diversity in the Boston legal market….
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