Friday, September 28, 2007

Maule on Legal Education, 2007 Edition

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This is about a month late, but fortunately I remembered it when it popped up when I googled my full name the other night. So it was moved t...
Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Property Tax Assessments: Really That Difficult?

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Few people like to pay taxes, even if they're receiving more from the government than they're contributing, and even fewer like to e...
Monday, September 24, 2007

Coming to Class?

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The National Law Journal, in Law Profs Debate Mandatory Attendance Policies , picks up on an issue that has resurfaced recently, as evidence...
Friday, September 21, 2007

Passing the Buck, Congressional Style

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Thanks to this item on Paul Caron’s TaxProf Blog , I learned that three members of the Senate Finance Committee sent a letter to the Secr...
Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Football Fines Deductible?

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While most fans of professional football, NFL-style, have been debating the appropriateness of the fines imposed on the New England Patriots...
Monday, September 17, 2007

Greed, Stupidity, Poor Judgment, and Taxes Part 4

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In my last post , I asserted that "It doesn't matter to most sellers whether the potential buyer needs the product or service or wh...
Friday, September 14, 2007

Greed, Stupidity, Poor Judgment, and Taxes Part 3

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If I thought my criticism of people pushing other people into making bad money decisions was harsh or called for too severe of a penalty, ...
Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Greed, Stupidity, Poor Judgment, and Taxes Part 2

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A friend, who had not yet read this morning's post , send me an email with the title "you've gotta see this.." Had it not ...

Greed, Stupidity, Poor Judgment, and Taxes

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What a mess greed, stupidity, and poor judgment can make, alone or together. It would be bad enough if those greedy, stupid, or careless eno...
Monday, September 10, 2007

Tax Chart Production Heats Up

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The last time I posted about Andrew Mitchel's new tax charts, I titled my comments "It's Sleeting Tax Charts," a spin-off...
Friday, September 07, 2007

Tax Travels and Tax Moves: Book It with Block

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It seems I wasn't the only person who did some tax writing over the summer, though I don't think Julian Block tapped on a keyboard w...
Thursday, September 06, 2007

Compensation is Compensation

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Joe Kristan responds to my analysis of the special low tax rates on hedge fund manager compensation with two concerns. Both are valid but ...
Wednesday, September 05, 2007

Taxing Compensation Of a Select Few at Special Low Rates Is Wrong

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Now that the summer sojourn is over, and I've returned from journeys in places where Internet access is neither as available or as inexp...
Monday, September 03, 2007

Structuring the Basic Tax Course: Part XL

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The course concludes with a study of the assignment of income doctrine. Actually, the course concludes with my ten-minute summary that proje...