Thursday, June 29, 2006

Cutting Through the Timber Tax Break

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A reader, responding to my criticism of the tax break for timber offered as a sweetener to "persuade" member of Congress to vote f...
Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Taxes the Highlight of This Year's Pennsylvania Gubernatorial Campaign?

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This morning's Philadelphia Inquirer story about Pennsylvania's governor signing into law the tax reform bill passed by the Pennsyl...
Monday, June 26, 2006

So What's the Problem with the Problem Method?

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For years, a few of us stood alone, teaching our law school classes in a way that resembles what students will do as practitioners: solving ...
Friday, June 23, 2006

A Tax Sweetener That Needs to be Cut Down and Turned to Mulch

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Earlier this week, in Tax Sweeteners Leave Sour Taste , I criticized the strategy laid out by Bill Frist and his House counterparts to push ...
Wednesday, June 21, 2006

The Rich Get Richer: The Tax Law's Role?

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A report that is just now making the rounds of various newspapers, such as the St Petersburg Times , the Richmond Times Dispatch , the Phila...
Monday, June 19, 2006

Tax Sweeteners Leave Sour Taste

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Though folks are usually told it's best not to tour the sausage factory before a meal, perhaps it's best that a feature of the feder...
Friday, June 16, 2006

New Pennsylvania Tax "Reform" Doesn't Add Up

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After dropping the property tax relief ball in December, and then side-stepping the issue in May of this year, the Pennsylvania legislatur...
Wednesday, June 14, 2006

Tax Stupidity? No, Tax Stupid Acts and Stupid Decisions

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After reading the news about Ben Roethlisberger's motorcycle accident , I particularly noticed the fact he was not wearing a helmet. Tho...
Monday, June 12, 2006

Lottery Winnings as Capital Gain? Don't Bet on It

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Gamblers are persistent. Those who lose continue to play thinking that they're overdue for a win. Those who win think they've got a ...
Friday, June 09, 2006

A Child's Milestone

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My pattern of posting regularly on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings, and irregularly on other days, has become so predictable that whe...
Wednesday, June 07, 2006

The Carnival of Taxes Has Arrived!

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Having had the fun experience of hosting a blog carnival back in April, Blawg Review #53 , that focused on taxes, I am delighted to report t...
Monday, June 05, 2006

Short But Not Sweet

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Short is not a word one finds being used in connection with taxation, other than in phrases such as "short tempered" tossed about ...
Friday, June 02, 2006

Does the Internal Revenue Code Use an Appropriate Inflation Measure?

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In his Philadelphia Inquirer column this morning , Andy Cassel draws our attention to some significant flaws in the way the nation measures ...
Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Team Teaching as a Component of Law School Curricular Change

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My musings a few weeks ago on "The Law School Curriculum: Ready for a Change?" brought a comment from a CPA practicing in Souther...
Monday, May 29, 2006

A Memorial Day Essay on War and Taxation

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Thinking about Memorial Day has me thinking about war, helped along by a steady dose of war movies on some of the cable channels this weeken...
Friday, May 26, 2006

FTC Report on "Shocking" Gasoline Prices Not a Shock

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Round and round we go. It spins and spins. Why? Back in May of 2004, in a Memorial Day post that focused on the relationship between gasoli...
Wednesday, May 24, 2006

Taxation Swann Song Should Be Tackled for Loss

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So what does a gubernatorial candidate do in Pennsylvania to respond to the public pressure for tax reform, something the state's politi...
Monday, May 22, 2006

There Are Some Things Tax Break Money Cannot (and Should Not) Buy

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Advocates of using the tax law to achieve social and other goals at best remotely connected with raising revenue have an excellent opportuni...
Friday, May 19, 2006

Another VUSL Graduation, Another Rainy Day

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Yes, it is graduation day at the Villanova University School of Law. In last year's graduation post, Far Less "Au Revoir" Than...