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The IRS Scandal, Day 644

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American Thinker, Administration Stonewalling on Releasing IRS Docs Breitbart, Obama Administration Stonewalls Release of 500 IRS Tea Party Targeting Documents Hot Air, Obama Administration Stonewalls FOIA Request on IRS Targeting Scandal Investor’s Business Daily, Apparently Obama’s ‘Anger’ Has Faded Over IRS Abuse News Max, Obama Administration Refuses to Release IRS…


Kleinbard: Why Corporate Tax Reform Can Happen

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Edward Kleinbard (USC), Why Corporate Tax Reform Can Happen: This brief essay explains in an informal way to nonspecialists what the stakes are for corporate tax reform and why such reform is more politically feasible than most observers believe. The essay emphasizes the central importance of international tax design as…


ABA ‘Encourages’ Law Schools to Offer Debt Counseling to Students

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ABA Journal, Counsel Young Lawyers About Debt, ABA Policymakers Urge Law Schools and Bar Groups: The ABA House of Delegates unanimously adopted a resolution on Monday urging law schools and bar associations to counsel young attorneys on student loan debt. Resolution 106 urges law schools to provide “comprehensive debt counseling…


Givati: A Theory of Line Drawing in Tax Law

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Yehonatan Givati (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Law), Walking a Fine Line: A Theory of Line Drawing in Tax Law, 34 Va. Tax Rev. ___ (2015): In many contexts, U.S. tax law grants a favorable tax treatment to transactions of one type and an adverse treatment to transactions of…


FactCheck.org: Obama’s Loophole Logic

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FactCheck.org, Obama’s Loophole Logic: The White House is claiming that the top 1 percent of all earners would pay 99 percent of the capital gains tax increase proposed by the president. But that claim rests on some debatable logic. According to the Obama administration’s way of figuring, a lot of…


Mormann: Beyond Tax Credits — Smarter Tax Policy

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Felix Mormann (Miami), Beyond Tax Credits – Smarter Tax Policy for a Cleaner, More Democratic Energy Future, 31 Yale J. on Reg. 303 (2014): Solar, wind, and other renewable energy technologies have the potential to mitigate climate change, secure America’s energy independence, and create millions of green jobs. In the…


Law Graduate Overproduction and Lawyers Per Capita by State

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Matt Leichter has updated the data in his two ongoing research projects: Law Graduate Overproduction: This page tracks law graduate overproduction as of 2013 by contrasting state government lawyer job creation projections with ABA graduate data from the Law School Admissions Council. … Here’s a chart of the results. The…


Philanthropist, 98, Sues Chapman for Return of $12 million Gift

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Orange County Register, Philanthropist, 98, Sues Chapman for the Return of His $12 million Gift: A 98-year-old man says Chapman University took advantage of his age to get him him to donate $12 million for an engineering building – and he is suing to get his money back. Corona del…


Postlewaite: The Omnipresence of Subchapter K in the International Arena?

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Philip Postlewaite (Northwestern), The Omnipresence of Subchapter K in the International Arena?, 93 Taxes ___ (2015): The purpose of Subchapter K is to provide certainty as to the appropriate focal point for making tax determinations, i.e., at the partner level or the partnership level, dictating which level is determinative for…


The IRS Scandal, Day 643

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The Hill, Obama Administration Won’t Release IRS Targeting Documents: The Obama administration is refusing to publicly release more than 500 documents on the IRS’s targeting of Tea Party groups. Twenty months after the IRS scandal broke, there are still many unanswered questions about who was spearheading the agency’s scrutiny of…


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