Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Happy Halloween: Chocolate Math and Tax Arithmetic

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Very soon it will be time to answer the door and hand out packs of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. I couldn't find the 4-pack version th...
Monday, October 30, 2006

The Tax Consequences of Namesakes and Ghosts

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Every once in a while, Paul Caron enlightens the readers of the TaxProf Blog with something not really tax but too much fun to pass by. Such...
Friday, October 27, 2006

As Halloween Looms, Making Sure Dead Tax Ideas Stay Dead

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Early this month, in Ready It Was Not: The Demise of California's Government-Prepared Tax Return Experiment , I commented on the apparen...

Namibia: A Different Sort of Tax Haven?

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Recently I commented on the tax fraud indictment brought against Wesley Snipes. In The Tax Fraud Environment: Sniping at the Congress , I no...
Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Oh, Why Not? Let's Do the First-Year Tax Thing

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Jim Chen has posted on MoneyLaw , a blog to which he is one of several contributors, a thought-provoking response, "Wisdom from whateve...
Monday, October 23, 2006

All Harvard Law Needs is My Basic Tax Course in Its First-Year Curriculum

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As reported in the Harvard Law Bulletin , the Harvard Law School faculty unanimously approved revisions to the first-year curriculum. The ne...
Friday, October 20, 2006

What? Is It Celebrity Tax Mess Day?

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Thanks to Paul Caron and his TaxProf Blog for alerting me to this most recent saga in the world of celebrity tax crimes. On the heels of t...

The Tax Fraud Environment: Sniping at the Congress

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Most of the time, when someone is indicted for tax fraud the news doesn't travel far beyond the accused, the prosecutors, and friends an...
Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Animals, Fire, and the Tax Law

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Ten months ago, a house fire supposedly started by a burning mouse triggered four posts: Why Tax Law Can Fire Us Up Follow-Up Report Extingu...
Monday, October 16, 2006

En Banc Hearing in Murphy? Will It Happen? What Will Happen?

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The government has filed its Petition for Rehearing En Banc in the D.C. Circuit's Murphy decision , the one in which the D.C. Circuit h...
Friday, October 13, 2006

Perhaps the Educators Need Educating?

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I should not have been surprised when I read the story in Wednesday's Philadelphia Inquirer about the tent city that pops up in State C...
Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Tax Jobs Are Waiting, But for Whom?

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Not much competes with the job search to increase law student anxiety. Exams? Grades? Those surely would be much less worrisome if they didn...
Monday, October 09, 2006

Hopefully, International Airline Tax Proposal Will Fly Away

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Time to pick up on some news from last month that's been sitting in my "get around to blogging this" digital pile. Last month,...
Friday, October 06, 2006

Taxation by Decree Isn't American

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There is a gubernatorial race underway in Pennsylvania. Well, it's as much of a race as there would be if I tried to compete with Olympi...
Wednesday, October 04, 2006

Ready It Was Not: The Demise of California's Government-Prepared Tax Return Experiment

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About a year ago, in "Hi, I'm from the Government and I'm Here to Help You ..... Do Your Tax Return" , I criticized the Ca...
Monday, October 02, 2006

Food for Tax Thought?

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Oh, how twisted politics has become. In a story released on Friday , NBC News Producer Joel Seidman spotlighted the depth of the relationshi...
Friday, September 29, 2006

Reason #27,568 That Tax Law Is Complicated

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The question posted to the listserv was described by the person posing it as "obvious," but I immediately recognized it as a sympt...
Wednesday, September 27, 2006

So Explain Again What It Is That Taxes Are to Provide?

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In the great debate about taxation and its purposes, one of the justifications and explanations for the imposition of revenue collection by ...
Monday, September 25, 2006

No End to the Tax Charts

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It didn't take long for Andrew Mitchel to show that he is not going to rest on his laurels as the unchallenged champion of tax chart we...
Friday, September 22, 2006

Marian the Information Architect and Negative Profit Carryovers

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In this morning's Philadelphia Inquirer, Andy Cassel enlightened his readers on the Growing Market for Euphemisms . His column is a must...

Refund Anticipation Loans: Part III

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There's more news on the refund anticipation loan front, which I addressed last month in Should Tax Refund Anticipation Loans Be Blocked...

Tax Law Professors in the Congress: Part II

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Last week, in Tax Law Professor Aiming for the Senate , I asked whether any tax law professors had served in Congress before or after teachi...
Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Thanks to Tax, a Not So Simple Tip

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My post asking Should a Tip Be Excluded from Taxation as a Gift? , in which I concluded that answer is and should be "no", prompte...
Monday, September 18, 2006

More on Enlarging Law School First-Year Classes

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Rather than jamming five or six posts into one day's worth of blogging, I let the ideas line up and wait their turn. I juggle the sequen...