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How Student Debt Harms the Economy

January 28th, 2015 (No Comments)

Wall Street Journal op-ed: How Student Debt Harms the Economy, by Mitch Daniels (President, Purdue University): To the growing catalog of damage caused by the decades-long run-up in the cost of higher education, we may have to add another casualty. On top of the harm high tuition and other charges…

Fleming, Peroni & Shay: Formulary Apportionment in the U.S.

January 28th, 2015 (No Comments)

J. Clifton Fleming (BYU), Robert J. Peroni (Texas) & Stephen E. Shay (Harvard), Formulary Apportionment in the U.S. International Income Tax System: Putting Lipstick on a Pig?, 36 Mich. J. Int’l L. ___ (2015): Perhaps surprisingly, this Article has shown that the debate over formulary apportionment is little more than…

Cockfield: David Foster Wallace on Tax Policy

January 28th, 2015 (No Comments)

Arthur J. Cockfield (Queen’s University), David Foster Wallace on Tax Policy, How to Be an Adult, and Other Mysteries of the Universe, 15 Pitt. Tax Rev. ___ (2015): As one of the most highly acclaimed fiction writers of his generation, David Foster Wallace had many things to say on a…

SSRN Tax Faculty Rankings

January 28th, 2015 (No Comments)

SSRN has updated its monthly rankings of 750 American and international law school faculties and 3,000 law professors by (among other things) the number of paper downloads from the SSRN database. Here is the new list (through January 1, 2015) of the Top 25 U.S. Tax Professors in two of…

The IRS Scandal, Day 629

January 28th, 2015 (No Comments)

Power Line, Sharyl Attkisson to Testify on Lynch Confirmation, But Why?: Loretta Lynch, President Obama’s nominee for Attorney General, will testify tomorrow before the Senate Judiciary Committee. It should be an interesting day. … Its witness list includes Sharyl Attkisson and Catherine Engelbrecht. Both have grievances against the Obama administration….

Kamin Presents Designing Legislation That Responds to Fiscal Uncertainty Today at NYU

January 27th, 2015 (No Comments)

David Kamin (NYU) presents In Good Times and Bad: Designing Legislation That Responds to Fiscal Uncertainty at NYU today as part of its Tax Policy Colloquium Series hosted by Daniel Shaviro and Alan Viard: Congress often moves slowly to change tax and spending laws when circumstances change, but there are…

TPC Program on Dynamic Scoring: Now What?

January 27th, 2015 (No Comments)

The Tax Policy Center hosted a program yesterday on Dynamic Scoring: Now What? (video here): On January 26, the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center and the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at Brookings took a close look at how dynamic scoring is done, the models that JCT and CBO…

CBO Projects Tepid Economic Growth, Rising Deficits Despite Rising Revenues

January 27th, 2015 (No Comments)

Congressional Budget Office, The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2015 to 2025 Congressional Budget Office, The Economic Outlook for 2015 to 2025 in 17 Slides Congressional Budget Office, Presentation with the Release of the Budget and Economic Outlook New York Times, Budget Forecast Sees End to Sharp Deficit Declines Wall Street…

McCormack: (Over-)Taxing the Working Family

January 27th, 2015 (No Comments)

Shannon Weeks McCormack (University of Washington), Uncle Sam and the Childcare Squeeze: (Over-)Taxing the Working Family: Today, it is more common for families to consist of two earners than one, and parents increasingly report that they require two incomes to make ends meet. But parents lucky enough to find themselves…

Cutbacks Are Looming for Law School Income-Based Repayment Programs

January 27th, 2015 (No Comments)

Following up on this morning’s post, NY Times: Has IBR Solved the Student Loan Crisis?: New York Times, A Quiet Revolution in Helping Lift the Burden of Student Debt: The change in college financing has a potentially serious drawback when it comes to college pricing. Income-based repayment programs in Australia…

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