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Murphy: Pragmatic Administrative Law and Tax Exceptionalism

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Richard Murphy, Pragmatic Administrative Law and Tax Exceptionalism, 64 Duke L.J. Online 21 (2014): This Essay responds to the 2014 Duke Law Journal Administrative Law Symposium. Its principal contention is that courts and other commentators should give due weight to the history and virtues of the evolution of administrative law…


Pierce: Which Institution Should Determine Whether an Agency’s Explanation of a Tax Decision is Adequate?

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Richard J. Pierce, Jr. (George Washington), Which Institution Should Determine Whether an Agency’s Explanation of a Tax Decision is Adequate?: A Response to Steve Johnson, 64 Duke L.J. Online 1 (2014): This Essay responds to Professor Steve Johnson’s Article for the 2014 Duke Law Journal Administrative Law Symposium, Reasoned Explanation…


The IRS Scandal, Day 630

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Bloomberg, Ted Cruz Leads the New Conservative Crusade Against the IRS: Though the first day of Loretta Lynch’s AG hearings went as well as Democrats might have wanted, Senator Ted Cruz managed to steal the spotlight on an issue near and dear to the hearts of many conservatives: reforming the…


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

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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….


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…


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

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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

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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…


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