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Tax Court: How to Deduct Expenses That Others Paid

Posted on February 5, 2015 by webmaster in Legal Education, Tax Leave a comment

Wall Street Journal, Strange but True: Deduct Expenses That Others Paid: In a 2010 decision that is worth reviewing this tax season, the U.S. Tax Court concluded that a daughter could deduct medical expenses and real-estate taxes on her Form 1040 even though they were covered by gifts from her…


NY Times Debate: Can Tax Policy Distinguish the Rich from the Middle Class?

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New York Times Room for Debate, Can Tax Policy Distinguish the Rich from the Middle Class?: President Obama’s plan to eliminate the tax breaks for college savings accounts known as 529s, which primarily benefit the 5 percent of households earning more than $200,000, was swiftly shot down as an affront…


Princeton/UCLA Study: It Is Time to Ban Laptops in Law School Classrooms

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Steven M. Eisenstat (Suffolk), A Game Changer: Assessing the Impact of the Princeton/UCLA Laptop Study on the Debate of Whether to Ban Law Student Use of Laptops During Class, 90 U. Det. Mercy L. Rev. ___ (2015): In this Article I discuss the impact on legal education of a recent…


The Tax Consequences of Tom Brady’s Gift of His Super Bowl MVP Truck to Malcolm Butler

Posted on February 5, 2015 by webmaster in Celebrity Tax Lore, Tax Leave a comment

Forbes, IRS Is Coming After Tom Brady’s Super Bowl MVP Truck, by Ryan Ellis: The world champion New England Patriots will celebrate with the city of Boston today in the now customary duck boat parade downtown. It would be fitting if an IRS agent was waiting for quarterback Tom Brady…


Faculty Status and Law School Effectiveness

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Deborah A. Maranville (University of Washington), Ruth Anne Robbins (Rutgers-Camden) & Kristen Konrad Tiscione (Georgetown), Faculty Status and Institutional Effectiveness: Legal education has expanded to incorporate practice-oriented topics and courses over the past several decades, and student academic support services have multiplied in response to changing student populations. As a…


The IRS Scandal, Day 637

Posted on February 5, 2015 by webmaster in IRS News, IRS Scandal, Tax Leave a comment

Bloomberg, IRS Chief: I Don’t Want to Be Seen As Influencing 2016: Rules from the Internal Revenue Service that would limit nonprofit groups’ involvement in politics may not be enforced before the 2016 election, IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said Tuesday. The tax agency’s first attempt at those rules—released in November…


Blanchard Presents The Tax Significance of Legal Personality at NYU

Posted on February 4, 2015 by webmaster in Colloquia, Scholarship, Tax Leave a comment

Kimberly Blanchard (Weil, Gotshal & Manges, New York) presented The Tax Significance of Legal Personality: A U.S. View at NYU yesterday as part of its Tax Policy Colloquium Series hosted by Daniel Shaviro and Alan Viard: Whereas the fiction of legal personality is often used outside the United States to…


Graetz Delivers Delivers Pugh Lecture Today at San Diego on Tax Reform Beyond the Headlines

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Michael J. Graetz (Columbia) delivers the annual Richard Crawford Pugh Lecture on Tax Law & Policy at San Diego today on Tax Reform Beyond the Headlines: The United States has traveled a unique tax policy path, avoiding value added taxes (VATs), which have now been adopted by every OECD country…


Sanchirico Presents International Tax and Ownership Nationality Today at Penn

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Chris William Sanchirico (Pennsylvania) presents As American as Apple Inc.: International Tax and Ownership Nationality, 68 Tax L. Rev. ___ (2014), at Pennsylvania today as part of its Tax Law and Policy Workshop Series hosted by Michael Knoll, Chris William Sanchirico, and Reed Shuldiner: The ownership nationality of large US…


Yackee: Law School Rankings, Not Skills Training, Drives J.D. Employment Outcomes

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Jason W. Yackee (Wisconsin), Does Experiential Learning Improve JD Employment Outcomes?: This short paper provides an empirical examination of the link between law school experiential (or “skills”) learning opportunities and JD employment outcomes. The current “law school crisis” poses a number of serious challenges to the legal academy, and how…


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