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Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
There is a bit of movement in this week’s list of the Top 5 Recent Tax Paper Downloads, with a new paper debuting on the list at #1: [246 Downloads] Why Corporate Tax Reform Can Happen, by Edward Kleinbard (USC) [170 Downloads] David Foster Wallace on Tax Policy, How to…
The IRS Scandal, Day 654
The American Spectator, The Real ‘Dirty Dozen’ at the IRS: For Some Reason, It Fails to Include Itself on its List of Abusers, Scammers, and Cheats: The IRS just released its “dirty dozen” list of tax scams and schemes for the American people to avoid. In addition to normal phishing…
Law School Survival Strategy From a Former Dean: Cut Tuition by 50%
Newsweek: Law Schools: Reform or Go Bust, by James Huffman (Former Dean, Lewis & Clark): Like it or not, law schools face real business challenges. Demand has declined every year since 2010—not just a little but by nearly 40 percent. The same number of law schools have 33,000 fewer prospective…
Vanguard Tax Whistleblower’s First Day in Court
Following up on my previous posts (links below): Philadelphia Inquirer, Vanguard Whistleblower’s First Day in Court: Last Friday Feb. 13, New York Superior Court Judge Joan Madden held a previously-delayed hearing, in Courtroom 351 of Manhattan’s state courthouse way downtown, so she could grill lawyers for both sides on Vanguard…
Uber, Lyft, and the IRS
San Francisco Chronicle, Here’s Why Uber and Lyft Send Drivers Such Confusing Tax Forms: Uber and Lyft say their drivers are independent contractors, not employees. But when it comes to income-tax reporting, they are treated as neither. Traditional employers send employees, and the Internal Revenue Service, Form W-2, which shows…
The IRS Scandal, Day 653
The Maddow Blog, GOP’s Gowdy Eyes New Conspiracy Theory Panel: [T]he notion that the Obama presidency has featured “six years of scandal” seems bizarre. David Axelrod boasted this week, accurately, “I’m proud of the fact that basically you have had an administration in this place for six years in which…
Burman Presents Taxes and Inequality in a Changing Economy Today at Florida
Leonard Burman (Director, Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center; Professor of Public Administration and International Affairs, Syracuse University Maxwell School), delivers the Fifth Annual Ellen Bellet Gelberg Tax Policy Lecture at Florida today on Taxes and Inequality in a Changing Economy: (webcast): Rising economic inequality is arguably the economic challenge that will…
Boosting Awareness, Citation, and Placement Of Your Next Law Review Article
Danielle Padula, Don’t Just Build It: How to Boost Awareness of Your Scholarly Publications: “People will come, Ray”—says Terence Man, played by James Earl Jones, when Kevin Costner’s character questions his decision to build a ball park in the middle of a cornfield in the 1989 film Field of Dreams….
Weekly Tax Roundup
Blog of the Legal Times, Suit Accuses Feds of Unlawfully Seizing Tax Refunds Bloomberg, Gay Couples’ Tax-Season Nightmares Continue Bureau of Economic Analysis, The Effects of Corporate Inversions on the International and National Economic Accounts BuzzFeed, These Professors Want Parents Who Don’t Vaccinate To Pay A Tax Chicago Now, Pets…
Weekly Legal Education Roundup
ABA Journal, ABA Committee Seeks More Detailed Data on Law School Attrition Above the Law, Lawyers, Do You Want To Get Rid Of Your Competition? Help Them Find A Job! Above the Law, Reggie Bush v. Emmitt Smith: Valuing Legal Vision Above All Else Above the Law, Top Litigation Firms…