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Gamage Presents Analyzing the Optimal Choice of Tax Instruments Today at Northwestern

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David Gamage (UC-Berkeley) presents Analyzing the Optimal Choice of Tax Instruments: The Case for Levying (all of) Labor-Income Taxes, Value-Added Taxes, Capital-Income Taxes, and Wealth Taxes, 68 Tax L. Rev. ___ (2014), at Northwestern yesterday as part of its Tax Colloquium Series hosted by Lawrence Zelenak: Economics-oriented analyses of tax…


Winer Presents The Tension Between Tax Design and the Political Economy of Taxation Today at UCLA

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Stanley Winer (Carleton University) presents On the Tension Between Tax Design and the Political Economy of Taxation at UCLA today as part of its Colloquium on Tax Policy and Public Finance hosted by Jason Oh and Alexander Wu: Background paper: Wealth Transfer Taxation: An Empirical Investigation, 21 Int’l Tax &…


Council of Economic Advisers: Business Tax Reform and Economic Growth

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White House, Economic Report of the President (Together With the Annual Report of the Council of Economic Advisers (Feb. 2015) (419 pages): Chapter 5, Business Tax Reform and Economic Growth (39 pages): This chapter reviews the role of productivity in long-run growth and summarizes the international context for business tax…


Cauble: Taxing Publicly Traded Entities

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Emily Cauble (DePaul), Taxing Publicly Traded Entities: Publicly traded entities are generally treated as corporations for U.S. tax purposes. Under various exceptions, however, publicly traded entities may obtain special treatment if they earn predominately certain specified types of qualifying income. This Article examines potential rationales for granting special tax treatment…


North Carolina Board of Governors Committee Votes to Close Law School Poverty Center Founded by John Edwards

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Inside Higher Ed, Who Is Being Political?: There is wide agreement in North Carolina that Gene Nichol is an articulate and forceful advocate for the impoverished of his state, unafraid to criticize political leaders who in his opinion aren’t doing enough about poverty. Nichol does so from an academic perch….


Fleischer: 8 Tax Loopholes the Obama Administration Could Close

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New York Times Deal Book: 8 Tax Loopholes the Obama Administration Could Close, by Victor Fleischer (San Diego): President Obama’s State of the Union address revealed a streak of assertiveness and defiance that had been sorely lacking in the tax policy world. The budget proposal for the 2016 fiscal year…


Kerr: Senior Law Faculty Are Just as Productive as Junior Faculty

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The Volokh Conspiracy: Law Faculty Productivity Over Time, by Orin Kerr (George Washington): It’s generally understood that faculty productivity declines over time. The common wisdom is that professors write up a storm to get tenure; they then write somewhat less mid-career; and they don’t do much writing at all when…


Choi: Tax Commitment Devices

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Jonathan H. Choi (Wachtell, New York), Tax Commitment Devices, 15 J. Bus. & Sec. L. 1 (2015): Every line of the Internal Revenue Code is continually vulnerable to revision or repeal. With each new session of Congress, rates may rise or fall, transactions may become taxable or tax-free, and incentive…


Katz & Margolis: The Role of Leadership and Curricular Change in Transforming Legal Education

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Martin Katz (Dean, Denver) & Kenneth R. Margolis (Case Western), Transforming Legal Education as an Imperative in Today’s World: Leadership and Curricular Change: This article is a chapter in the new book, Building on Best Practices: Transforming Legal Education in a Changing World (Deborah Maranville, Lisa Radtke Bliss, Carolyn Wilkes…


Schmalbeck: Ending the Sweetheart Deal Between Big-Time College Sports and the Tax System

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Richard Schmalbeck (Duke), Ending the Sweetheart Deal between Big-Time College Sports and the Tax System: This paper was prepared for the annual conference of the National Center for Philanthropy and Law, held at the NYU Law School, held October 24-25, 2013. The overall topic was “Tax Issues Affecting Colleges and…


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