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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…


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…


Yin Presents Protecting Taxpayers from Congressional Lawbreaking Today at Georgetown

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George K. Yin (Virginia) presents Protecting Taxpayers from Congressional Lawbreaking at Georgetown today as part of its Tax Law and Public Finance Workshop Series hosted by John Brooks, Itai Grinberg, and David Schizer: This paper describes how the U.S. House Ways & Means Committee broke the law in 2014 when…


Toder Presents U.S. Lessons From Other Countries’ Taxation of Multinational Corporations Today at NYU

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Eric Toder (Tax Policy Center) presents Lessons the United States Can Learn From Other Countries’ Territorial Systems for Taxing Income of Multinational Corporations (with Rosanne Altshuler (Rutgers) & Stephen Shay (Harvard)) at NYU today as part of its Tax Policy Colloquium Series hosted by Daniel Shaviro and Alan Viard: The…


Number of Americans Renouncing Their U.S. Citizenship Hit All-Time High in 2014

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International Tax Blog, 2014 – More Expatriations Than Ever: Today the Treasury Department published the names of individuals who renounced their U.S. citizenship or terminated their long-term U.S. residency (“expatriated”) during the fourth quarter of 2014. …. The [3,415] total for the year breaks last year’s record number of 2,999…


Senate Holds Hearing Today On Lessons From The 1986 Tax Reform

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The Senate Finance Committee holds a hearing today on Getting to Yes on Tax Reform: What Lessons Can Congress Learn from the Tax Reform Act of 1986?: Orrin Hatch (R-UT) Ron Wyden (D-OR) Bob Packwood (Former Chair, Senate Finance Committee) Bill Bradley (Former Member, Senate Finance Committee) Press and blogosphere…


WSJ: Avoid These 12 Tax Traps This Filing Season

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Wall Street Journal Tax Report: Don’t Fall Into a Tax Trap: These Hidden Hazards Can Cost Taxpayers Money—or Get Them in Trouble With the IRS, by Laura Saunders: With taxes, what you don’t know can hurt you. … These errors aren’t the obvious bloopers that cause trouble, such as entering…


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