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Why Do Developing Countries Tax So Little?

Posted on February 10, 2015 by webmaster in Scholarship, Tax Leave a comment

Timothy Besley (London School of Economics) & Torsten Persson (Stockholm University), Why Do Developing Countries Tax So Little?, 28 J. Econ. Perspectives 99 (Fall 2014): Low-income countries typically collect taxes of between 10 to 20 percent of GDP while the average for high-income countries is more like 40 percent. In…


NYU Hosts Book Discussion With Eugene Steuerle on How to Restore Fiscal Freedom and Rescue Our Future

Posted on February 9, 2015 by webmaster in Book Club, Colloquia, Scholarship, Tax Leave a comment

The NYU Graduate Tax Program hosts a discussion today with C. Eugene Steuerle (Urban Institute) on his book, Dead Men Ruling: How to Restore Fiscal Freedom and Rescue Our Future (2014): Eugene Steuerle argues that these seemingly separable economic and political problems are actually symptoms of a common disease, one…


Taylor: Diversity as a Law School Survival Strategy

Posted on February 9, 2015 by webmaster in Legal Education, Scholarship Leave a comment

Aaron N. Taylor (St. Louis), Diversity as a Law School Survival Strategy (press release): Over the past few years, law schools have been dealing with a drastic and, so far, unyielding decline in student interest. Between 2010 and 2013, student enrollments fell almost 25%, to levels not seen in 40…


The Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads

Posted on February 8, 2015 by webmaster in Scholarship, Tax, Top 5 Downloads Leave a comment

There is a bit of movement in this week’s list of the Top 5 Recent Tax Paper Downloads, with a new paper debuting on the list at #5: [282 Downloads] Important Developments in Federal Income Taxation (2014), by Edward A. Morse (Creighton) [178 Downloads] Thomas Piketty and Inequality: Legal Causes…


Weekly SSRN Tax Roundup

Posted on February 6, 2015 by webmaster in Scholarship, Tax, Weekly SSRN Roundup Leave a comment

Mikhail Bespalov et al., Conceptual Bases, Priorities of Modern Russian Tax Policy Yuri Biondi & Simone Righi, Inequality and the Financial Accumulation Process: A Computational Economic Analysis of Income and Wealth Dynamics Michael Donohoe (Illinois), Petro Lisowsky (Illinois) & Michael Mayberry (Florida), Competition, Taxes, and Organizational Form Ashish Karundi, The…


Weekly Student Tax Note Roundup

Posted on February 6, 2015 by webmaster in Scholarship, Tax, Weekly Student Tax Note Roundup Leave a comment

Haniya Mir (J.D. 2015, Duke), Note, Windsor and Its Discontents: State Income Tax Implications for Same-Sex Couples, 64 Duke L.J. 53 (2014) David Sessions (J.D. 2014, George Washington), Note, Reining in Tax-delinquent Contractors: How to Increase the Effectiveness of the Federal Acquisition Regulation and the Contracting Tax Accountability Act, 43…


Call for Papers: Citizenship and Taxation Symposium at Michigan

Posted on February 6, 2015 by webmaster in Conferences, Scholarship, Tax Leave a comment

Call for Papers: We invite paper proposals for a Citizenship and Taxation Symposium, to be held at the University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, on Friday, October 9, 2015. This symposium will focus on ongoing developments regarding the unique US practice of taxing citizens who live permanently overseas….


Raskolnikov Presents Rational Decisions Under Legal Uncertainty Today at Virginia

Posted on February 5, 2015 by webmaster in Colloquia, Scholarship, Tax Leave a comment

Alex Raskolnikov (Columbia) presents Rational Decisions Under Legal Uncertainty at Virginia today as part of its Law & Economics Workshop Series: Law is full of rules that are neither clear nor socially optimal. How do rational actors respond to these rules? What are the implications of these responses? These deceptively…


Morse Presents Safe Harbors, Sure Shipwrecks Today at UCLA

Posted on February 5, 2015 by webmaster in Colloquia, Scholarship, Tax Leave a comment

Susan C. Morse (Texas) presents Safe Harbors, Sure Shipwrecks at UCLA today as part of its Colloquium on Tax Policy and Public Finance hosted by Jason Oh and Alexander Wu: Safe harbors and sure shipwrecks are rule-standard hybrids that appear throughout statutory, regulatory and case law. Safe harbors guarantee compliance,…


Stark Presents Tax Policy in the Super Zips Today at Northwestern

Posted on February 5, 2015 by webmaster in Colloquia, Scholarship, Tax Leave a comment

Kirk Stark (UCLA) presents Tax Policy in the Super Zips at Northwestern today as part of its Tax Colloquium Series hosted by Lawrence Zelenak: As the distribution of income and wealth has grown more skewed, households have increasingly sorted into income homogenous neighborhoods. The rise of income segregation entails increased…


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