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The IRS Scandal, Day 626

Posted on January 25, 2015 by webmaster in IRS News, IRS Scandal, Tax Leave a comment

Commentary, Contentions Obama Administration Again Proves It Cannot Be Trusted with Your Data: Yesterday’s important ObamaCare revelation was the latest in a series of Obama-era developments in which big-government projects prove their conservative critics correct. This particular aspect of the administrative state is, however, worse than incompetence. It’s yet another…


It Is Time to End Tenure at Age 70

Posted on January 24, 2015 by webmaster in Legal Education Leave a comment

Dan Subotnik (Touro), Untenuring Tenure: A specter haunting the academy today is of an intellectually wizened white male professoriate refusing to step aside for au courant, energetic, ambitious, and of course diverse younger faculty. Part of a larger concern with tenure itself, the fear in question is that tenured old-timers,…


Maine Governor Proposes Taxing Large Charities

Posted on January 24, 2015 by webmaster in Tax Leave a comment

Wall Street Journal, Maine Gov. LePage Wants to Tax Big Nonprofits: A sweeping proposal to cut taxes for Maine families and businesses could upend one of the most widely accepted practices in the country: the property-tax exemption for nonprofit organizations. A recent budget plan by Republican Gov. Paul LePage calling…


Houston Hosts Moot Court National Championship This Weekend

Posted on January 24, 2015 by webmaster in Legal Education Leave a comment

The University of Houston Law Center hosts the Andrews Kurth Moot Court National Championship this weekend. The sixteen law schools with the most highly ranked moot court programs are competing over an international tax problem.


The IRS Scandal, Day 625

Posted on January 24, 2015 by webmaster in IRS News, IRS Scandal, Tax Leave a comment

OpenSecrets.org, In the Garden of Dark Money, the Thorny Case of Rosebush Corp.: Ever since news broke in 2013 that the IRS had targeted the exemption applications of tea party and some other politically-oriented groups for extra scrutiny, conventional wisdom had it that the agency throws up roadblocks for organizations…


80% of Provosts Favor Civility as Factor in Faculty Hiring and Tenure Decisions

Posted on January 23, 2015 by webmaster in Legal Education Leave a comment

Inside Higher Ed, 2015 Survey of Chief Academic Officers: A majority of provosts are concerned about declining faculty civility in American higher education. And a large majority of provosts believe that civility is a legitimate criterion in hiring and evaluating faculty members. Generally, the provosts are confident that faculty members…


Weekly Tax Roundup

Posted on January 23, 2015 by webmaster in Scholarship, Tax Leave a comment

Rosanne Altshuler (Rutgers), Stephen Shay (Harvard), Eric Toder (Tax Policy Center), Lessons the United States Can Learn From Other Countries’ Territorial Systems for Taxing Income of Multinational Corporations (more here) Bloomberg, Furman Defends Obama’s Repeal of College-Savings Tax Break Bloomberg, New Republican Math on Tax Cuts Doesn’t Equal Faster Growth…


Weekly Legal Education Roundup

Posted on January 23, 2015 by webmaster in Legal Education, Weekly Legal Education Roundup Leave a comment

David Barnhizer (Cleveland State), Law School 2020: Rise of the “Cyborg” Law Professors Bloomberg, BigLaw Associate’s Error Could Cost $1.5 Billion Boston Globe, Alan Dershowitz Gets Support of 36 Harvard Professors Bridget Crawford (Pace), Census of Law Professor Twitter Users Version 3.0 David Frakt, Some Thoughts on In-House Bar Prep…


Weekly SSRN Tax Roundup

Posted on January 23, 2015 by webmaster in Scholarship, Tax Leave a comment

Sean Cao (Georgia State) & Chi Wan (University of Massachusetts), Stock Liquidity and Tax Avoidance: Evidence from Natural Experiments Irina Filatova, Tax Policy in the Modernization of the Economy Diane Kraal (Monash University), A Reflection on Tax Teaching and Cultural Diversity Pat Oglesby (Center for New Revenue), Supplemental Thoughts About…


C-Span: Economic Inequality and the U.S. Tax System

Posted on January 23, 2015 by webmaster in Book Club, Tax Leave a comment

C-Span Washington Journal, Economic Inequality and the U.S. Tax System: Edward Kleinbard talked about his book, We are Better Than This: How Government Should Spend Our Money. He spoke about why the government should do more, including increasing the size of the tax system, to improve the economy and combat…


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