Monday, March 31, 2008

Bringing Practical Awareness Into Law School Education

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My post last week, Why Law School Education Doesn't Mesh with Law Practice brought an affirmative and encouraging response from Andrew ...
Friday, March 28, 2008

"Taxing Lawyers" Taxes This Tax Lawyer's Brain

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Headlines, like soundbites, can be misleading. Sometimes, deliberately so. Consider the headline in this recent story out of California: Is...
Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Why Law School Education Doesn't Mesh with Law Practice

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An article in this month's ABA Journal, "Stuck in the Rut: It's Time to Stop Handling Cases as if You're in Law School...
Monday, March 24, 2008

So What Are YOU Going to Do With Your Tax Rebate?

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Several days ago, in response to an ABA-TAX listserve discussion concerning some technical issues presented by the tax rebate program, Glynn...
Friday, March 21, 2008

Blasted Partnership Taxation

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Several days ago, someone posted an inquiry to the ABA-TAX listserve concerning the tax consequences of a sale of a partnership interest. T...
Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Does It Make Sense to Overload the IRS and the Tax Code?

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Earlier this month, in Using Taxation for Non-Tax Purposes , I criticized the use of the tax code to compel, entice, or discourage activitie...
Monday, March 17, 2008

Peacetime Tax Policy While Waging War = Economic Mess

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The Congress appears to be on its way to approving a budget that contemplates a repeal of at least some of the tax cuts enacted at the urgin...
Friday, March 14, 2008

Why Some Politicians Fear the IRS?

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In the flurry of news reports, editorials, commentaries, and blog posts dealing with the latest adventures of New York's now ex-governor...
Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Are State Gasoline Taxes the Best Source of Highway Revenue?

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According to a recent Philadelphia Inquirer report , the controversy in Pennsylvania over how to fund highway and other infrastructure repai...
Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Finding Humor in a Bad User Fee Deal

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Yesterday's post, Bridge Motorists Easy Mark for Inflated User Fees , in which I criticized the DRPA's decision to use bridge tolls ...
Monday, March 10, 2008

Bridge Motorists Easy Mark for Inflated User Fees

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A week ago, in Soccer Franchise Socks It to Bridge Users , I noted the decision by the Delaware River Port Authority to divert some of its f...
Friday, March 07, 2008

Using Taxation for Non-Tax Purposes

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The editors at Blawg Review directed my attention to a post on Leesburg Tomorrow that suggested copyrights be taxed. The editors asked me ...
Wednesday, March 05, 2008

Supreme Court Gets Tax Issue Right, Ninth Circuit Didn't

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On Monday, the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Boulware v. United States . Though the outcome was good news to the taxpayer, for the Cou...
Monday, March 03, 2008

Soccer Franchise Socks It to Bridge Users

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So now that Chester, a small town southwest of Philadelphia, has been awarded a major league soccer franchise , the people who aren't da...
Friday, February 29, 2008

Medical Expense Deductions for Embryo and Cord Blood Storage

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Every once in a while, a tax question comes along that isn't easily answered. Nothing in the Internal Revenue Code, the Treasury Regulat...
Wednesday, February 27, 2008

The Artificiality of Mandatory Grading Curves

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Last fall, in Yet More Reasons to Dislike Grading Curves , I explained why I do not think grading curves are appropriate. The discussion aro...
Monday, February 25, 2008

Another Public Official Convicted of Failure to File Tax Returns

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Late Friday evening, a federal jury returned a verdict convicting Milton Street, brother of Philadelphia's former mayor, John Street, of...
Friday, February 22, 2008

Tax and Other Courses Ought Not Be Easy

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When I read Paul Caron's post on the publication of Attractiveness, Easiness and Other Issues: Student Evaluations of Professors on Rate...
Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Do the Tax Rebates Cheer You Up?

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Last week, in Can Tax Rebates Help Prove Malthus Wrong? , I responded to Joe Kristan's reaction, in GOOD MORNING! WE'RE ALL DOOMED! ...