Can anyone be President?

Written by Kerry M. Kerstetter, MBA~CPA~ATP~ATA on June 30th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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Effect of Obama’s Tax Plan on Tiger Woods

Hank Adler (Chapman University, Argyros School of Business & Economics) has published an op-ed, Obama Wants Tiger-Size Tax Bite (Orange County Register): When Tiger Woods collected his $1,350,000 check for winning the U.S. Open golf championship this month, his federal…

Written by Paul Caron on June 30th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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IRS Agent Pleads Guilty to Soliciting a Bribe to Stop an Audit — $5,000 and a Free Lunch

The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York has announced that former IRS agent Robert Rosner has pleaded guilty today to soliciting a bribe from a taxpayer: On July 25, 2006, Rosner initiated an audit of a small…

Written by Paul Caron on June 30th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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Winchester: The Employment Tax Gap

Richard Winchester (Thomas Jefferson) has posted The Gap in the Tax Gap: What Congress Should Do About It on SSRN. Here is the abstract: According to the most recent official estimates, $54 billion in taxes go uncollected each year because…

Written by Paul Caron on June 30th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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Forman & Chen: Optimal Retirement Age

Jonathan Barry Forman (Oklahoma Law) and Bing Yung-Ping Chen (University of Massachusetts-Boston, Gerontology Institute) have posted Optimal Retirement Age on SSRN. Here is the abstract: What is the optimal retirement age? This paper looks at the optimal retirement age from…

Written by Paul Caron on June 30th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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Newsweek: Cindy McCain’s Tax Troubles

This week’s Newsweek reports that Cindy McCain has been late paying property taxes on a condo in La Jolla, California for the past four years. Apparently, an elderly aunt of Mrs. McCain lives in the condo, and Mrs. McCain is…

Written by Paul Caron on June 30th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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New Issue of Atax’s eJournal of Tax Research

Volume 6, Issue 1 (June 2008) of the eJournal of Tax Research, published by Atax (Australian Taxation Studies Program), University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, and edited by Binh Tran-Nam & Michael Walpole, is available on its web site:…

Written by Paul Caron on June 30th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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Black: Fringe Benefits and the Company Car: Aligning Tax and Environmental Policy

Celeste Black (University of Sydney, Faculty of Law) has posted Fringe Benefits Tax and the Company Car: Aligning the Tax with Environmental Policy, 25 Envtl & Plan. L.J. 182 (2008), on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Increasingly, environmental taxes have…

Written by Paul Caron on June 30th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday: Congratulations, Suja Thomas & Scott Bahr 2d Circuit Rejects Retroactivity Challenge to § 469 Passive Loss Rules Fear Factor: 30% of Lawyers Are Worried About Losing Their Jobs IRS Electronic Advisory Committee Delivers Report to Congress Sunday: Snipes Seeks…

Written by Paul Caron on June 30th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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Snipes Seeks Permission to Travel Overseas to Work on Two Movies Pending Appeal of Tax Evasion Conviction

Actor Wesley Snipes, who is free on bail pending the appeal of his conviction on three misdemeanor tax fraud counts, has filed a motion seeking permission to leave the country to go to (1) London help edit his new movie,…

Written by Paul Caron on June 29th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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