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TPC Program on Dynamic Scoring: Now What?

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The Tax Policy Center hosted a program yesterday on Dynamic Scoring: Now What? (video here): On January 26, the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center and the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at Brookings took a close look at how dynamic scoring is done, the models that JCT and CBO…


CBO Projects Tepid Economic Growth, Rising Deficits Despite Rising Revenues

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Congressional Budget Office, The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2015 to 2025 Congressional Budget Office, The Economic Outlook for 2015 to 2025 in 17 Slides Congressional Budget Office, Presentation with the Release of the Budget and Economic Outlook New York Times, Budget Forecast Sees End to Sharp Deficit Declines Wall Street…


McCormack: (Over-)Taxing the Working Family

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Shannon Weeks McCormack (University of Washington), Uncle Sam and the Childcare Squeeze: (Over-)Taxing the Working Family: Today, it is more common for families to consist of two earners than one, and parents increasingly report that they require two incomes to make ends meet. But parents lucky enough to find themselves…


Blair-Stanek: Intellectual Property Law Solutions to Tax Avoidance

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Andrew Blair-Stanek (Maryland), Intellectual Property Law Solutions to Tax Avoidance, 62 UCLA L. Rev. 2 (2015): Multinational corporations use intellectual property (IP) to avoid taxes on a massive scale, by transferring their IP offshore for artificially low prices. Economists estimate that this abuse costs the U.S. Treasury as much as…


NY Times: Middle Class Continues to Shrink Under President Obama

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New York Times, Middle Class Shrinks Further as More Fall Out Instead of Climbing Up: The middle class that President Obama identified in his State of the Union speech last week as the foundation of the American economy has been shrinking for almost half a century. In the late 1960s,…


How Yahoo Might Sell Billions in Alibaba Stock and Pay No Taxes

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Bloomberg, How Yahoo Might Sell Billions in Alibaba Stock and Pay No Taxes, by Jesse Drucker: Yahoo! on Tuesday is expected to reveal something most companies usually try to keep secret: how it plans to avoid a multibillion-dollar tax bill. The Web portal has spent more than a year figuring…


FBA Tax Section Hosts Tax Practice & Procedure Monthly Roundtable Today

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The Federal Bar Association Tax Section hosts its free Tax Practice & Procedure Monthly Roundtable today from 1:00-2:00 p.m. EST (dial-in number: 866-690-2070; Password: 3008455329): Auditing of Large Partnerships Monte Jackel, Jackel Tax Law The GAO recently issued a report on the audit of large partnerships. There was also a…


Reynolds: Obama’s Proposed Tax Increases Target the Middle Class

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USA Today op-ed: Middle-class Savings Like Blood in the Water, by Glenn Reynolds (Tennessee): Bank robber Willie Sutton is said to have explained his career this way: “That’s where the money is.” Whether Sutton ever really said that, it’s an aphorism that, according to Bloomberg’s Megan McArdle, explains President Obama’s…


The IRS Scandal, Day 627

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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…


TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

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Saturday: It Is Time to End Tenure at Age 70 Maine Governor Proposes Taxing Large Charities Houston Hosts Moot Court National Championship This Weekend The IRS Scandal, Day 625 Sunday: CBS News: Are Law School Admission Standards Slipping? Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads Bainbridge: Solve the Law School Crisis by…


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