Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Don't Get Lost Finding Your Tax Home: Use a Chart

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Andrew Mitchel has another tax chart for us. It's a flowchart covering the section 7701(b) individual income tax residency rules. He al...
Monday, August 28, 2006

A New Book on Taxation of Residence Sales: Don't Leave Home Without It

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Roughly six months ago I noted the publication of Julian Block's "MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE: Savvy Ways For Persons Marrying, Married Or...

What's More Valuable? Weighted Rankings or Underlying Information

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I doubt that Andy Cassel's column in yesterday's Philadelphia Inquirer, College Ratings' Critics Miss Point was in any way insp...
Friday, August 25, 2006

Tax Refund Anticipation Loans: Part II

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After posting my criticism of tax refund anticipation loan practices ( Should Tax Refund Anticipation Loans Be Blocked? ), I received emails...
Thursday, August 24, 2006

It Didn't Take Long: Negative Reaction to My Criticism of the Murphy Decision

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My post yesterday on the unnecessary declaration of unconstitutionality of section 104(a)(2) by the D.C. Circuit in the Murphy decision bro...
Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Why Hold Section 104(a)(2) Unconstitutional When There's No Need to Do So?

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The email from Paul Caron, carrying a link to his TaxProf Blog post on the news, put my tax brain on full alert. "D.C. Circuit Holds §...
Monday, August 21, 2006

Ranking Tax Faculty: What Really Matters?

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My posting the other day about ranking tax faculty by relying on SSRN downloads prompted some rapid and thought-provoking responses. Somewh...
Sunday, August 20, 2006

Maule on Legal Education, 2006 edition

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Paul Caron's post today of Advice for the Incoming Law School Class of 2009 on TaxProf Blog , and its reference to the columns in Villa...

Don't Do This Tax Stunt at Home

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Buried in a column in the Sports section of this morning's Philadelphia Inquirer is a story that offers all sorts of issues for examina...
Friday, August 18, 2006

Ranking Tax Faculty by Tax Management Portfolio Authorship

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As the latest trend of "ranking" law schools and law faculty by using the number of downloads of papers from the Social Science Re...
Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Should Tax Refund Anticipation Loans Be Blocked?

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While reading this morning's Philadelphia Inquirer, my eye caught a headline, H&R Block to discuss tax-refund lending , probably bec...
Monday, August 14, 2006

(Tax Credit) Money Cannot Buy Discipline and Respect

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The violence gripping Philadelphia has attracted a variety of proposals to deal with the problem of young people killing other young people,...
Friday, August 11, 2006

What Will Alaska Do? Cut. And Prepare to Sue?

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In my post on Wednesday addressing the impact of the Prudhoe Bay oil field shutdown on Alaska's revenues , I asked "What Will Alask...
Wednesday, August 09, 2006

Tax Revenue Leaks from Oil Field Shutdown: What Will Alaska Do?

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There's a tax angle to just about every news story that comes across the wires, or in this digital and wireless age, should I say every ...
Monday, August 07, 2006

Is Tax Simplification Complicated?

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Andrew Mitchel, who has contributed hundreds of tax charts to the toolboxes of tax practitioners throughout the nation, recently sent me a ...
Friday, August 04, 2006

Ding Dong the Estate Tax Witch Is Dead? I Surely Hope So But I Fear Not

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Last night, the Senate derailed the most recent attempt to reduce the estate tax. Technically, proponents of a bill that coupled estate tax...