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Vote for your favorite Tax Prof in The Blackbook Legal Blog’s second annual Top Law Prof Competition: Last year’s competition was a major success with hundreds of different voters from different schools casting their ballot. In the end, Professor Peter Smith of The George Washington University Law School emerged victorious….
Written by Paul Caron on March 19th, 2010 with comments disabled.
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Zhonglan Dai (University of Texas-Dallas), Douglas A. Shackleford (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) & Harold H. Zhang (University of Texas-Dallas) have posted Capital Gains Taxes and the Risk-Return Tradeoff on SSRN. Here is the abstract: We derive cross-sectional implications of a capital gains tax rate change on the risk-return tradeoff…
Written by Paul Caron on March 19th, 2010 with comments disabled.
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President Obama today signed H.R. 2847, the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment (HIRE) Act: Statutory Language IRS, IR-2010-33, Two New Tax Benefits Aid Employers Who Hire and Retain Unemployed Workers Associated Press, Obama Signs Jobs Bill The Atlantic, President Signs $18 Billion Jobs Bill. And Nobody Cares CCH, Special Tax…
Written by Paul Caron on March 18th, 2010 with comments disabled.
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Following up on my prior posts (President Obama’s Health Care Tax Increases, WSJ: Obama’s ‘Sneaky’ New Tax on Investments, ObamaCare’s Worst Tax Hike: For the First Time, Payroll Levies Will Hit Investment Income): the House Health Care bill unveiled today includes a 3.8% Medicare tax on investment income (interest, dividends,…
Written by Paul Caron on March 18th, 2010 with comments disabled.
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Howard A. Chernick (Hunter College, Department of Economics) presents Federal-State Tax Interactions in the U.S. and Canada, 40 Publius ___ (2010) (with Jennifer Tennant) at UCLA today as part of its Tax Policy and Public Finance Colloquium Series hosted by Steven Bank and Kirk Stark. Here is the abstract: Canadian…
Written by Paul Caron on March 18th, 2010 with comments disabled.
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The House yesterday voted 386-33 to approve H.R. 946, the Plain Writing Act of 2010, which would require the IRS and other government agencies to write public documents in “plain writing,” defined as “writing that the intended audience can readily understand and use because that writing is clear, concise, well-organized,…
Written by Paul Caron on March 18th, 2010 with comments disabled.
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News & Observer: Tax Preparers Face Lean Times in Triangle: The down economy is hurting yet another industry: tax preparers. A number of independent tax services and accountants, as well as national firms such as H&R Block and Jackson Hewitt, report that business is flat or down from last year….
Written by Paul Caron on March 18th, 2010 with comments disabled.
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National Law Journal, Northwestern Offers Foreign Students a Fast Track LL.M.: Who says you need a year to earn a Master of Laws degree? Northwestern University School of Law on Tuesday announced a new program through which foreign lawyers can complete an LL.M. in just 15 weeks — the shortest…
Written by Paul Caron on March 18th, 2010 with comments disabled.
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Following up on my prior post: Dan Markel (Florida State) & Gregg Polsky (Florida State; moving to North Carolina) have posted Taxing Punitive Damages, 96 Va. L. Rev. ___ (2010), on SSRN. Here is the abstract: There is a curious anomaly in the law of punitive damages. Jurors assess punitive…
Written by Paul Caron on March 18th, 2010 with comments disabled.
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Following up on my post, College Rankings by Median Salary of Graduates: PayScale.com has applied its ranking of colleges by their graduates’ salaries to determine the outcome of the NCAA Men’s College Basketball Tournament, with a final four of Cornell, Duke, Georgetown, and Vanderbilt: The full 65-team bracket by graduates’…
Written by Paul Caron on March 18th, 2010 with comments disabled.
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