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Slack Presents The Political Economy of Property Tax Reform Today at Toronto

Posted on January 28, 2015 by webmaster in Colloquia, Scholarship, Tax Leave a comment

Enid Slack (Toronto) presents The Political Economy of Property Tax Reform at Toronto today as part of its James Hausman Tax Law and Policy Workshop Series: Property taxes are generally considered by economists to be good taxes, and many countries are being advised to increase and improve their property taxes….


Charitable Donations to Colleges Reached All-Time High in 2014 ($38 Billion)

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Wall Street Journal, Harvard, Stanford Lead Record Year for College Gifts; $37.5 Billion Is 10.8% Jump; Top 10 Schools Bring in 18% of Donations: Colleges and universities received a record $37.5 billion in donations last year, led by massive gifts to Harvard University, Stanford University and other already-wealthy schools. The…


New Emmanuel Saez Data: Gains From Economic Recovery Still Limited to the Top 1%

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New York Times: Gains From Economic Recovery Still Limited to Top One Percent, by Justin Wolters: Emmanuel Saez, the economics professor who crunches these numbers based on data provided by the Internal Revenue Service, has just released preliminary estimates for 2013. The share of total income (excluding capital gains) going…


How Student Debt Harms the Economy

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Wall Street Journal op-ed: How Student Debt Harms the Economy, by Mitch Daniels (President, Purdue University): To the growing catalog of damage caused by the decades-long run-up in the cost of higher education, we may have to add another casualty. On top of the harm high tuition and other charges…


Fleming, Peroni & Shay: Formulary Apportionment in the U.S.

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J. Clifton Fleming (BYU), Robert J. Peroni (Texas) & Stephen E. Shay (Harvard), Formulary Apportionment in the U.S. International Income Tax System: Putting Lipstick on a Pig?, 36 Mich. J. Int’l L. ___ (2015): Perhaps surprisingly, this Article has shown that the debate over formulary apportionment is little more than…


Cockfield: David Foster Wallace on Tax Policy

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Arthur J. Cockfield (Queen’s University), David Foster Wallace on Tax Policy, How to Be an Adult, and Other Mysteries of the Universe, 15 Pitt. Tax Rev. ___ (2015): As one of the most highly acclaimed fiction writers of his generation, David Foster Wallace had many things to say on a…


SSRN Tax Faculty Rankings

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SSRN has updated its monthly rankings of 750 American and international law school faculties and 3,000 law professors by (among other things) the number of paper downloads from the SSRN database. Here is the new list (through January 1, 2015) of the Top 25 U.S. Tax Professors in two of…


The IRS Scandal, Day 629

Posted on January 28, 2015 by webmaster in IRS News, IRS Scandal, Tax Leave a comment

Power Line, Sharyl Attkisson to Testify on Lynch Confirmation, But Why?: Loretta Lynch, President Obama’s nominee for Attorney General, will testify tomorrow before the Senate Judiciary Committee. It should be an interesting day. … Its witness list includes Sharyl Attkisson and Catherine Engelbrecht. Both have grievances against the Obama administration….


Kamin Presents Designing Legislation That Responds to Fiscal Uncertainty Today at NYU

Posted on January 27, 2015 by webmaster in Colloquia, Scholarship, Tax Leave a comment

David Kamin (NYU) presents In Good Times and Bad: Designing Legislation That Responds to Fiscal Uncertainty at NYU today as part of its Tax Policy Colloquium Series hosted by Daniel Shaviro and Alan Viard: Congress often moves slowly to change tax and spending laws when circumstances change, but there are…


TPC Program on Dynamic Scoring: Now What?

Posted on January 27, 2015 by webmaster in Conferences, Congressional News, Tax Leave a comment

The Tax Policy Center hosted a program yesterday on Dynamic Scoring: Now What? (video here): On January 26, the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center and the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at Brookings took a close look at how dynamic scoring is done, the models that JCT and CBO…


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