Monday, November 20, 2006

Villanova Law Grad Hosts Blawg Review #84

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Jen Burke, who graduated from Villanova Law in 2004, is hosting Blawg Review #84 on her Transcending Gender blog. The editors of Blawg Rev...
Friday, November 17, 2006

Serious Tax Issues in PlayStation Craze

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It isn't difficult to find stories, such as this one , about the PlayStation3 craze, with people waiting in line for days for a chance t...

Every Which Way There are Tax Charts

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He's back. Again. With another forty-two tax charts. By my calculation, that brings TaxChartMan's output to 372. What's new this...
Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Will Losing a Tax Deduction Discourage Impulse Giving?

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The charitable contribution deduction presents more than a few snags for taxpayers. One, the restricted vehicle mileage allowance applicable...
Monday, November 13, 2006

Sometimes Tax Law Makes No Sense

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Tax is a strange thing. Students meeting it for the first time usually expect tax law to be nothing more than complicated, convoluted, and i...
Friday, November 10, 2006

Tax Carnival #6 Now Online

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Kay Bell shares with us Tax Carnival #6: Decision 1040 . Having done a roundup of tax information ( Blawg Review #53 ), I can appreciate the...

Charting the (New?) Path of Tax Legislation

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So, many people, especially those who are not tax experts, are asking me what I think will happen now that the Democrats control Congress. M...
Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Dr. Maule, I Presume?

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The Ethics column in the November issue of the American Bar Association Journal, "Lawyers Are Doctors Too," (no on-line version fo...
Monday, November 06, 2006

An Honor to be Taxed?

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Someone asked about the tax consequences of receiving an "honorary membership" in a private club. Specifically, the person wanted ...
Friday, November 03, 2006

Tax Subsidies for Exorbitant Salaries: Why?

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The Treasury Department has released its PRELIMINARY STATEMENT OF BUDGET RESULTS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2006 . Individual income taxes collected du...
Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Tax Books That We Just Cannot Put Down

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Six months ago, Paul Caron's TaxProf Blog reported on a statement made by John Cox, a radio talk show host who is running for President...
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,...