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Tax Foundation: Obama’s Plan to Abolish the Social Security Wage Ceiling: A State-by-State Breakdown, by Gerald Prante: It is commonly observed that the policy ideas of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are almost identical, but Obama does have one major…
Written by Paul Caron on May 31st, 2008 with comments disabled.
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Sarah Pendergraft (McKee Nelson, Washington, D.C.; J.D. 2007, Virginia) has published From Human Capital to Capital Gains: The Puzzle of Profits Interests, 27 Va. Tax Rev. 709 (2008). Here is the abstract: This note discusses the tax treatment of a…
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William W. Bassett (San Francisco) has posted Changing Perceptions of Private Religious Schools: Public Money and Public Trust in the Education of Children, 2008 BYU L. Rev. ___ (2008), on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Private religious schools were originally…
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The Seventh Circuit yesterday affirmed the district court’s grant of summary judgment to J.K. Harris & Co. in a disgruntled client’s suit alleging that the tax services firm breached its contract or comitted fraud in pursuing internal IRS appeals of…
Written by Paul Caron on May 30th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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In today’s Fortune: Blowing the Whistle on Unethical Lawyers; Legal Professor William Simon Aims to Shame Colleagues Who Sell Their Opinions for the Right Price, by Roger Parloff: In a forthcoming Stanford Law Review article titled The Market for Bad…
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In Bussell v. Commissioner, 130 T.C. No. 13 (5/29/08), the Tax Court yesterday held that the IRS did not abuse its discretion in excepting the unpaid tax liabilities of a surviving spouse and her husband’s estate from a bankruptcy discharge…
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From next week’s National Law Journal: A Deluge of Law Schools: As Many as 10 Are in the Works — But Are They Needed?, by Leigh Jones: As many as 10 new law schools are in the works, with the…
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From today’s Cincinnati Enquirer: Did IRS Worker Snoop? Charges Say He Looked at 197 Celebrity Tax Records, by Jim Hannah: An IRS tax examiner in Northern Kentucky was arrested Thursday on charges that he illegally looked up the personal information…
Written by Paul Caron on May 30th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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Here are the Tax Profs with speaking roles at the three-day Law & Society Annual Meeting in Montreal: Law, Society, and Taxation #1 — Tax and Budget Issues Facing the Next U.S. President Lisa Philipps (York University) (Chair/Discussant) Cheryl Block…
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The IRS announced yesterday (IR-2008-75) that the Advisory Committee on Tax Exempt and Government Entities (ACT) will hold a public meeting on June 11 to present recommendations on ways to improve operations regarding employee retirement plans, tax-exempt organizations, tax-exempt bonds…
Written by Paul Caron on May 30th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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