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Tuesday, February 21, 2017
Oei & Ring: Leak-Driven Tax Law
Shu-Yi Oei (Tulane; moving to Boston College) & Diane M. Ring (Boston College), Leak-Driven Law:
Over the past decade, a number of well-publicized data leaks have revealed the secret offshore holdings of high-net-worth individuals and multinational taxpayers, leading to a sea change in cross-border tax enforcement. Spurred by leaked data, tax authorities have prosecuted offshore tax cheats, attempted to recoup lost revenues, enacted new laws, and signed international agreements that promote "sunshine" and exchange of financial information between countries.
February 21, 2017 in Scholarship, Tax | Permalink | Comments (0)
Syracuse's Secret Sauce For Its Outperformance On NY Bar: Tougher 1L Curve And Readmit Policy, Mandatory Bar Courses
I previously have blogged Syracuse's over-performance on the New York State Bar Exam: although Syracuse is the seventh highest ranked of fifteen New York law schools, it ranked fourth (89.5%) in bar passage on the July 2016 bar exam, behind only Columbia, Cornell, and NYU (and above Fordham, Cardozo, St. John's, and Brooklyn); fifth (83.3%) in 2015; and fourth (87.0%) in 2014. Brian Leiter reprints a note from Syracuse professor Christian Day, who attributes the impressive results to the faculty's decision after much study to:
February 21, 2017 in Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (2)
2017 Tannenwald Tax Writing Competition
The Theodore Tannenwald, Jr. Foundation for Excellence in Tax Scholarship and American College of Tax Counsel are sponsoring the 2017 Tannenwald Tax Writing Competition:
Named for the late Tax Court Judge Theodore Tannenwald, Jr., and designed to perpetuate his dedication to legal scholarship of the highest quality, the Tannenwald Writing Competition is open to all full- or part-time law school students, undergraduate or graduate. Papers on any federal or state tax-related topic may be submitted in accordance with the Competition Rules.
- 1st Place: $5,000, and publication in the Florida Tax Review
- 2nd Place: $2,500
- 3rd Place: $1,500
February 21, 2017 in Legal Education, Tax, Teaching | Permalink | Comments (0)
Monday, February 20, 2017
Blank Presents The Timing Of Tax Transparency Today At Pepperdine
Joshua Blank (NYU) presents The Timing of Tax Transparency, 90 S. Cal. L. Rev. ___ (2017), at Pepperdine today as part of our Tax Policy Workshop Series funded in part by a generous gift from Scott Racine:
Fairness in the administration of the tax law is the subject of intense debate in the United States. As recent headlines reveal, the Internal Revenue Service has been accused of failing to enforce the tax law equitably in its review of tax-exempt status applications by political organizations, the international tax structures of multinational corporations, and the estate tax returns of millionaires, among other areas. Many have argued that greater "tax transparency" would better empower the public to hold the IRS accountable and the IRS to defend itself against accusations of malfeasance. Mandatory public disclosure of taxpayers' tax return information is often proposed as a way to achieve greater tax transparency. Yet, in addition to concerns regarding exposure of personal and proprietary information, broad public disclosure measures pose potential threats to the taxing authority's ability to enforce the tax law.
February 20, 2017 in Colloquia, Scholarship, Tax | Permalink | Comments (0)
Revenge Of The Tax Nerds
Weekly Standard, Revenge of the Nerds:
How the Prosperity Caucus and the Joint Economic Committee drove the tax reform debate.
If some sort of fundamental tax reform does occur this year—and the odds of its happening are looking good—the politicians, economists, tax lawyers, congressional staffers, trade associations, think tanks, academics, corporations, and others claiming credit for having influenced the legislation that finally becomes law will be legion.
But the critical impetus for reform has arguably come from a loose clique of policy wonks with ties to an inconsequential congressional committee—a group that came to be called the Prosperity Caucus. Its monthly meetings—which began 30 years ago, shortly after the last big tax reform passed in 1986—have been a regular abode for a long list of thinkers who have greatly influenced Republican thinking about tax reform. Its alumni now hold key positions in Congress and the Trump administration, and one happens to be the current speaker of the House. If any entity can rightly lay claim to credit for the reform, the Prosperity Caucus can.
February 20, 2017 in Congressional News, Tax | Permalink | Comments (2)
Ball & Viswanathan: From Business Tax Theory To Practice
Alina S. Ball (UC-Hastings) & Manoj Viswanathan (UC-Hastings), From Business Tax Theory to Practice:
The past decade has seen a dramatic increase in the number of business law clinics in legal academia. This increase in clinical transactional courses has not, however, resulted in a proliferation of transactional tax clinical offerings. Although tax issues, including federal, state, and local tax matters, are an integral consideration of nearly every business transaction, most business law clinics explicitly exclude tax representation from their client services. For clients of business law clinics that are social enterprises — companies that combine market-based business strategies and social mission — this lack of tax-focused representation is problematic for two reasons.
February 20, 2017 in Scholarship, Tax | Permalink | Comments (0)
Creighton Dean Lifts Law Prof's Suspension After Faculty Threaten Vote Of No Confidence
Omaha World-Herald, Creighton University Law Professor Reinstated After Brief Suspension:
A professor at Creighton University has agreed to return to the law school today after he was temporarily suspended by the school's dean.
Kenneth Melilli [right], who won the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Award for Teaching Achievement at Creighton last year, was suspended by the dean of law Wednesday evening, evidently after an argument this month with a senior associate dean of law.
Letters obtained by The World-Herald show Melilli had support from numerous faculty members who intimated they would push for a vote of no confidence against Paul McGreal, dean of law, and Nicholas Mirkay, associate dean of law [and tax professor]. ...
February 20, 2017 in Legal Education, Tax Profs | Permalink | Comments (6)
Sixth Circuit Reverses IRS, Tax Court: 'Citizens Can't Comply With Tax Laws They Can't See'
Summa Holdings v. Commissioner, No. 16-1712 (Feb. 16, 2017):
Caligula posted the tax laws in such fine print and so high that his subjects could not read them. Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars, bk. 4, para. 41 (Robert Graves, trans., 1957). That's not a good idea, we can all agree. How can citizens comply with what they can't see? And how can anyone assess the tax collector's exercise of power in that setting? The Internal Revenue Code improves matters in one sense, as it is accessible to everyone with the time and patience to pore over its provisions.
In today's case, however, the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service denied relief to a set of taxpayers who complied in full with the printed and accessible words of the tax laws. The Benenson family, to its good fortune, had the time and patience (and money) to understand how a complex set of tax provisions could lower its taxes.
February 20, 2017 in IRS News, New Cases, Tax | Permalink | Comments (11)
Hawaii Seeks To Hire A Tax Prof
The University of Hawaii Law School invites applications from entry level and lateral candidates for a tenure-track or tenured tax position beginning in the 2017-18 academic year:
We are seeking applicants with the ability and interest to teach in the area of federal taxation and preferably also trusts and estates. ...
February 20, 2017 in Legal Education, Tax, Tax Prof Moves | Permalink | Comments (0)
Florida Names Fred Murray Professor Of Tax Practice
Dean Laura Rosenbury has announced that Fred Murray will join the faculty of the University of Florida Levin College of Law as a full-time Professor of Tax Practice:
Since 2007, Professor Murray has been at Grant Thornton LLP, where he serves as a Managing Director, International Tax Services. In addition, he has taught International Tax as an adjunct Professor of Law in the LL.M. program at the Georgetown University Law Center since 2005. Professor Murray started his career as a tax lawyer at Chamberlain, Hrdlicka in Houston, Texas, where he was a partner, before he left to serve as Special Counsel (Legislation) to the Chief Counsel for the Internal Revenue Service from 1992 to 1996. Professor Murray also has served as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Tax Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, as General Counsel and Director of Tax Affairs of the Tax Executives Institute, and as Vice President for Tax Policy at the National Foreign Trade Council.
February 20, 2017 in Legal Education, Tax, Tax Prof Moves | Permalink | Comments (1)
TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup
- This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
- Michael Jackson Estate's $700 Million Tax Court Thriller Turns On Value Of Star's Name At Time Of Death
- IRS Suspends Guidance Due To Trump Executive Order
- Charlotte Law School Is Delinquent On Its $148k Property Tax Bill, Says Check Is In The Mail
- NY Times Special Tax Section
- University Of Washington Delays Launch Of New Law School In Tacoma Until At Least 2021 In Face Of Projected Annual $5.5 Million Deficits
- Bill Gates: Robots That Displace Workers Should Be Taxed
- Did Florida State President Violate Lobby Ban In Special $1 Million Annual Appropriation For Law School?
- Bob Jones University Regains Tax-Exempt Status 34 Years After It Was Stripped By IRS, Supreme Court Due To Interracial Dating Ban
- The Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
February 20, 2017 in Legal Education, Tax, Weekend Roundup | Permalink | Comments (0)
Sunday, February 19, 2017
University Of Washington Delays Launch Of New Law School In Tacoma Until At Least 2021 In Face Of Projected Annual $5.5 Million Deficits
Following up on my previous posts (links below): News Tribune, UW Tacoma Law School Vision Remains Years Away:
If you share the years-old vision of adding a law school to the growing University of Washington Tacoma campus, prepare to wait a few more years.
A newly released study has found trends in law school applications and available jobs that persuaded officials to wait a few years longer than they hoped to try to restore postgraduate legal education to the South Sound.
Because a UW Tacoma law school — like most public universities' graduate-school programs, including the UW law school in Seattle — wouldn't pay for itself, backers of the plan said they want to be sure the school will be sustainable enough to justify investing an estimated $62 million over a decade to get the school started, stabilized and accredited.
February 19, 2017 in Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (4)
Bill Gates: Robots That Displace Workers Should Be Taxed
Quartz, The Robot That Takes Your Job Should Pay Taxes, Says Bill Gates:
Robots are taking human jobs. But Bill Gates believes that governments should tax companies' use of them, as a way to at least temporarily slow the spread of automation and to fund other types of employment.
February 19, 2017 in Celebrity Tax Lore, Tax | Permalink | Comments (4)
Did Florida State President Violate Lobby Ban In Special $1 Million Annual Appropriation For Law School?
Tallahassee Democrat, Did FSU President John Thrasher Violate Lobby Ban?:
Florida State University President John Thrasher's push for a special law school appropriation includes a 2015 form with Thrasher named as the requester and dated before the former senator's ban on lobbying expired, records show.
Thrasher denies he unlawfully lobbied the Legislature for the $1 million a year, and said he's been careful to follow the rules as FSU president. ...
The $1 million, tucked away in this year's $82.3 billion state budget, is among the special lawmaker requests that have surfaced in a battle between House and Senate leaders over how to write the spending plan. ...
February 19, 2017 in Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (0)
Bob Jones University Regains Tax-Exempt Status 34 Years After It Was Stripped By IRS, Supreme Court Due To Interracial Dating Ban
Greenville News, Bob Jones University Regains Nonprofit Status 17 Years After It Dropped Discriminatory Policy:
In a move that's been more than two years in the making, Bob Jones University announced Wednesday it would regain its federal tax-exempt status on March 1, more than three decades after the IRS stripped its nonprofit status following a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling.
February 19, 2017 in Tax | Permalink | Comments (1)
The 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 #2:
- [2,131 Downloads] Problems with Destination-Based Corporate Taxes and the Ryan Blueprint, by Reuven S. Avi-Yonah (Michigan; moving to UC-Irvine) & Kimberly A. Clausing (Reed College)
- [1,019 Downloads] The Known Unknowns of the Business Tax Reforms Proposed in the House Republican Blueprint, by Michael J. Graetz (Columbia)
- [677 Downloads] A Guide to the GOP Tax Plan — The Way to a Better Way, by David A. Weisbach (Chicago)
- [326 Downloads] Accounting for Behavioral Considerations in Business Tax Reform: The Case of Expensing, by Lily L. Batchelder (NYU)
- [274 Downloads] How Donald Trump can Keep His Campaign Promises, Grow the Economy, Cut Tax Rates, Repatriate Offshore Earnings, Reduce Income Inequality, Keep Jobs in the United States, and Reduce the Deficit, by David S. Miller (Proskauer, New York)
February 19, 2017 in Scholarship, Tax, Top 5 Downloads | Permalink | Comments (0)
Saturday, February 18, 2017
This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
- Woman Sues Howard Stern For Airing Her Phone Call With IRS Agent Discussing Her Taxes
- NY Times: Haunted By Student Debt Past Age 50
- Syracuse Law Dean, Raised By Adoptive White Parents, Had To Learn To Be Black; He Foresaw Legal Ed Crisis 'Long Before Other Deans Knew What Hit Them'
- Two Prison Inmates Provide Link To Adelsons In Dan Markel's Murder
- The IRS Scandal, Day 1377: Republicans Still Want IRS Chief's Head
- California Law Deans Take Bar Exam Complaints To Lawmakers; State Bar Director Admits There Is 'No Good Answer' For High MBE Pass Score
- College Endowment Returns Sink To Their Lowest Level Since The Financial Crisis
- The Law School Lateral Hiring Network
- After Declines Of 40% In Enrollment And 10 Points In 25th LSAT Percentile, Does Hofstra's 100% Application Surge Signal Better Times Ahead For Law Schools?
- Siri For Tax Lawyers, Accountants, And Students
February 18, 2017 in About This Blog, Legal Education, Tax, Weekly Top 10 TaxProf Blog Posts | Permalink | Comments (0)
Michael Jackson Estate's $700 Million Tax Court Thriller Turns On Value Of Star's Name At Time Of Death
Wall Street Journal, Michael Jackson's Estate Faces Demand for Big Tax Payment: Dispute With IRS Centers on Valuation of the Singer's Name and Likeness Rights at Time of His Death:
When pop star Michael Jackson died in 2009, weeks before a planned comeback tour, how much was the man in the mirror worth? The answer is far from black and white.
After coming to agreements on the value of some of the King of Pop's more concrete assets in a legal fight that began four years ago, the estate's executors are facing off with the Internal Revenue Service in U.S. Tax Court on Monday, primarily over the valuation of the singer's name and likeness rights at the time of his death.
Depending on the outcome of the case, the estate could be on the hook for more than $500 million in taxes and $200 million in penalties, according to the IRS's notice to the estate of its deficiency.
February 18, 2017 in Celebrity Tax Lore, New Cases, Tax | Permalink | Comments (1)
IRS Suspends Guidance Due To Trump Executive Order
Sam Brunson (Loyola-Chicago), The (Near) Future of Treasury Regulations:
Today's Tax Notes reports [No Substantive IRS Guidance Coming for a While, Official Says] that the IRS has announced that it will not release pretty much any new formal guidance (including revenue rulings and revenue procedures) for the foreseeable future. [Fn: It will continue to release routine guidance, like updated interest rates and updated mileage allowances.]
Why not? A confluence of an Executive Order and a January 20 memorandum. The EO, Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Cost, requires that, for every new regulation issued, two existing regulations be eliminated.
February 18, 2017 in IRS News, Tax | Permalink | Comments (4)
Charlotte Law School Is Delinquent On Its $148k Property Tax Bill, Says Check Is In The Mail
Charlotte Business Journal, Charlotte Law Delinquent on $148K in Taxes; School Says Check Issued:
Charlotte School of Law is delinquent on its property taxes for its uptown campus.
A tax bill shows that the for-profit law school owes $148,227.63 as of Friday. Charlotte Law is located at 201 S. College St.
"A check for the outstanding Meck County property taxes has been cut. The county should receive full payment in the next few business days," spokeswoman Victoria Taylor told the Charlotte Business Journal Friday.
February 18, 2017 | Permalink | Comments (0)
NY Times Special Tax Section
New York Times, Special Tax Section:
- How to Fill Out Your Tax Return Like a Pro
- Tax Software: The Basics Work, but Peace of Mind Costs Extra
- Tips for Whittling Down Your Tax Bill
February 18, 2017 in Tax | Permalink | Comments (0)
Friday, February 17, 2017
Weekly Tax Highlight And Roundup
This week, Joe Kristan (CPA & Shareholder, Roth & Company (Des Moines, Iowa); Editor, Tax Update Blog) discusses how a dentist kept adequate records to beat the IRS's claim that he did not materially participate in his real estate business:
Part-time dentist, full-time record-keeper beats IRS.
Beyond Flossing. A California man seemed to have a pretty good deal going. He had a dental practice with his dentist wife and had a pretty good six-figure joint income. Yet somehow it didn't satisfy. He wanted a real estate career.
He still kept up a part-time dental practice, but he threw himself into real estate. He spent a lot of time on it. The couple owned for rental properties that he managed, and he also worked as a broker. The rental properties generated a taxable loss, and the IRS said that he couldn't deduct them under the "passive loss rules."
Rental real estate losses are automatically passive for most taxpayers, deductible only to the extent of other "passive" income or when the property is sold. A special rule applies to "real estate professionals." They get to determine whether rental losses are "passive" using the same "material participation" standards that apply to other businesses — primarily based on hours worked in the activity.
February 17, 2017 in Tax, Weekly Tax Roundup | Permalink | Comments (0)
Weekly SSRN Tax Article Review And Roundup
This week, David Gamage (Indiana) reviews a new piece by Michael Graetz (Columbia), The Known Unknowns of the Business Tax Reforms Proposed in the House Republican Blueprint, Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 557.
How should we evaluate the House Republicans' proposals for adopting a destination-based cash-flow tax ("DBCFT")? This is among the most important tax policy question currently facing the United States. Yet this question is difficult to analyze, in part, because of uncertainty about what the proposed DBCFT might turn out to be if implemented.
To survey this quagmire, Graetz offers what is essentially just a list of questions, presented on PowerPoint slides printed to PDF. Nevertheless, I found Graetz's work to be by far the most helpful document for understanding the House Republicans' DBCFT proposal that has been made available to date.
To highlight just a couple points raised by Graetz's list of questions:
February 17, 2017 in Scholarship, Tax, Weekly SSRN Roundup | Permalink | Comments (0)
Weekly Legal Education Roundup
- ABA Journal, Any LSAT Alternatives Must be Validated Through New Process, According to Proposed Rule Revision
- Above the Law, Charlotte Law School Excels at Making Enemies Everywhere
- Alina S. Ball (UC-Hastings) & Manoj Viswanathan (UC-Hastings), From Business Tax Theory to Practice
- Houston Chronicle, Law School Naming Feud Heads to Mediation
February 17, 2017 in Legal Education, Weekly Legal Education Roundup | Permalink | Comments (0)
Tax Policy In The Trump Administration
- Bloomberg, Analyst Warns That Bulls Are Bound to be Disappointed by Trump's Tax Plan
- Bloomberg, Republicans May Find Few Answers on Who Pays for Border Tax
- Bloomberg, Three Charts That Show Markets Aren't Betting on GOP Border Tax
- Bloomberg, Trump Tax Cuts Could Boost Profit $12 Billion at Big U.S. Banks
February 17, 2017 in Tax | Permalink | Comments (0)
Hickman Presents Restoring The Lost Anti-Injunction Act At BYU
Kristin Hickman (Minnesota) presented Restoring the Lost Anti-Injunction Act (with Gerald Kerska (J.D. 2017, Minnesota)) yesterday at BYU as part of its Faculty Workshop Series:
Should Treasury regulations be eligible for pre-enforcement review? The D.C. Circuit's recent decision in Florida Bankers Association puts its interpretation of the Anti-Injunction Act at odds with both general administrative law norms in favor of pre-enforcement review of final agency action and also the Supreme Court's interpretation of the nearly identical Tax Injunction Act in Direct Marketing Association v. Brohl. In fact, cases interpreting the Anti-Injunction Act more generally are fragmented and inconsistent.
February 17, 2017 in Colloquia, Scholarship, Tax | Permalink | Comments (0)
Anderson: Law School Scholarship Policies — Markets Or Social Engineering?
Robert A. Anderson (Pepperdine), Law School Scholarship Policies: Markets or Social Engineering?:
Quite a few law school commentators have been talking about the 2016 annual report of the Law School Survey of Student Engagement (LSSSE). The report provocatively calls law school merit scholarship policies "engines of inequity." In his Foreword, Frank Wu says that law school scholarships cause a "'reverse Robin Hood' revenue model in which the poorest students are being forced to subsidize their wealthier peers." Aaron Taylor parrots virtually the same line word-for-word in his "Director's Message." It's unclear who copied whom. The basic gist of the report is that law school scholarship policies favor students with higher LSATs who tend to have higher socioeconomic backgrounds, etc. The authors see this as a scandalous outcome.
It is true that many students come out of law school hopelessly indebted with poor prospects for financial independence. However, very few students are being "forced" to subsidize anyone, because of some basic facts that the report doesn't mention. The report makes it sound as if a student with a high LSAT will receive scholarships everywhere and a student with a low LSATs will not receive scholarships anywhere. In reality, however, most applicants with a given LSAT will receive a generous scholarship from some schools and will receive no scholarship (or not even be admitted) to other schools. It is the student's choice of whether to attend the higher-ranked school with no scholarship or the lower-ranked school with a scholarship that will determine whether he or she graduates with high debt. Of course, the more prestigious school is enticing, but there's a price to pay for attending it. ...
February 17, 2017 in Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (0)
Syracuse Law School Offers $20,000 Scholarships To New York Residents
Syracuse Post-Standard, New Law School Grant Will Make Syracuse University NY's Cheapest Private Option:
Syracuse University's College of Law will offer new tuition grants to New York state residents starting with the upcoming school year.
The Empire State Scholars Grant will offer $20,000 of tuition assistance to all admitted state residents. Qualified students in good standing will receive the grant for all three years of their program. The College of Law's tuition cost is $46,460 this year, and the grant will make tuition comparable to law schools in the SUNY system for residents. Currently, tuition at the law school at SUNY Buffalo is $26,997 for in-state residents.
February 17, 2017 in Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (1)
Is Donald Trump Making Law School Great Again?
Following up on my previous post, Will Donald Trump Solve The Law School Crisis?: Quartz, Trump's Disregard for the Judicial System Has Accidentally Made Law School Cool Again:
When US president Donald Trump signed his immigration ban on Jan. 27, law enforcement, customs officials, and airports were thrown into disarray. The executive order, which temporarily barred people from seven predominantly Muslim nations, as well as Syrian refugees, from entering the country, left people stranded in airports in the US and abroad. Families waited frantically for news of loved ones detained or were otherwise unaccounted for.
In this crucial time, lawyers from across the country stepped up to help. Many were immigration lawyers who work regularly on political asylum cases, but many others were not. Lawyers arrived at airports in drove over the weekend, carrying signs offering free legal assistance. They stayed there until the ACLU, representing plaintiffs affected by the order, won an emergency stay blocking parts of the executive order.
Suddenly, in the face of US president Trump's bold—albeit hastily planned—agenda, lawyers seem heroic. And for the first time in what feels like the better part of a decade, the legal profession is being talked about as something other than a soul-and-money sucking dead-end.
February 17, 2017 in Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (2)
Thursday, February 16, 2017
Hayashi Presents A Theory Of Facts And Circumstances Today At Duke
Andrew Hayashi (Virginia) presents A Theory of Facts and Circumstances at Duke today as part of its Tax Policy Workshop Series hosted by Lawrence Zelenak:
The legal consequences of an action often depend on information that only the actor knows, such as her intentions. This information is often inferred from the observable "facts and circumstances" attending the actor's conduct, which creates a seemingly unresolvable tension in legal design. On the one hand, the unstructured nature of these analyses gives free rein to the factfinder's judgment about which facts justify an inference to the hidden information. On the other hand, if the law were to specify in advance the facts that would be used to draw that inference it would provide a roadmap for actors to strategically adjust their conduct to manipulate the factfinder's conclusions. I argue that this tension can be resolved by applying insights from the economics literature on asymmetric information.
February 16, 2017 in Conferences | Permalink | Comments (0)
Book Presents Taxpayer Rights, Behavioral Economics And The EITC Today At Indiana
Leslie Book (Villanova) presents Thinking About Taxpayer Rights and Behavioral Economics to Improve Administration of the EITC (with David Williams (Chief Tax Officer, Intuit)) at Indiana-Bloomington today as part of its Tax Policy Colloquium Series hosted by Leandra Lederman:
The IRS is a reluctant but key player in delivering social benefits to the nation's working poor. Yet it administers one of the nation's largest anti-poverty programs: the earned income tax credit (EITC). The EITC is generally praised for its role in reducing poverty and incentivizing low-wage work. While the credit has generally received bipartisan support, the IRS continues to face strong criticism over EITC compliance issues.
The IRS has generally focused on tax return characteristics in identifying and preventing erroneous EITC claims. We believe that shifting the focus from tax return characteristics to taxpayer characteristics may offer additional opportunities to improve EITC compliance (and perhaps other areas where there is systemic noncompliance).
February 16, 2017 in Colloquia, Scholarship, Tax | Permalink | Comments (0)
Grewal: Can Congress Get President Trump's Tax Returns?
Following up on my previous post, George K. Yin (Virginia), Congress Already Has The Power To Obtain And Release Trump's Tax Returns: Andy Grewal (Iowa), Can Congress Get President Trump's Tax Returns?, Yale J. on Reg.: Notice & Comment (Feb. 13, 2017):
The statutory authority for any congressional requests would probably come from Sections 6103(f)(1) & (2) of the tax code. Under (f)(1), some committees of Congress can request disclosure of Trump's returns and can examine those returns privately. Under (f)(2), a non-partisan career official, the Chief of Staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT), may also request and privately examine those returns. Professor Yin argues that information obtained through Section 6103(f) can be subsequently disclosed to the public, when public disclosure serves a legitimate legislative purpose. ...
February 16, 2017 in Scholarship, Tax | Permalink | Comments (2)
IRS Stealth Attack On Obamacare Should Worry Both Conservatives And Liberals
Los Angeles Times: Trump's IRS Stages a Stealth Attack on Obamacare, by Michael Hiltzik:
The Internal Revenue Service has become the first agency to follow President Trump's directive to start undermining the Affordable Care Act.
In a quiet rule change, but an important one, the IRS has told tax preparers and software firms that it won't automatically reject tax returns that fail to state whether the tax filer had health insurance during the year. That effectively loosens enforcement of the ACA's individual mandate. It appears to be a direct response to Trump's Jan. 20 executive order requiring federal agencies "minimize...the economic and regulatory burdens of the Act."
National Review, Refusing to Enforce the Law Is the Wrong Way to Defeat Obamacare, by Charlie Cooke:
The IRS's willingness to ignore violations of the individual mandate should worry conservatives and liberals alike.
February 16, 2017 in IRS News | Permalink | Comments (3)
Woman Sues Howard Stern For Airing Her Phone Call With IRS Agent Discussing Her Taxes
Radio Ink, "Hello Howard, This Is the IRS …":
In a fact pattern worthy of a law school exam question, an IRS employee calls the Howard Stern Show and is put on hold. The IRS employee on a different line, apparently either using fat fingers on a conference call feature, or on a speakerphone, takes a call from a taxpayer while on hold with Stern. The Howard Stern Show then picks up, hears the IRS employee talking with the taxpayer and puts the nearly hour-long conversation on the air live. The law school question is … in how many ways might the Howard Stern Show be civilly and criminally liable?
The question will likely be answered by the courts. The taxpayer has sued both the IRS for violations of the Federal Tort Claims Act and unlawful disclosure of tax returns and personal information, the Howard Stern Production Company, and Stern individually, for negligence, invasion of privacy, and the intentional infliction of emotional distress.
February 16, 2017 in IRS News, Tax Analysts | Permalink | Comments (11)
Schizer: The Charitable Deduction And The Exemption For Endowment Income
David M. Schizer (Columbia), Subsidies and Nonprofit Governance: Comparing the Charitable Deduction with the Exemption for Endowment Income:
Charitable subsidies are supposed to encourage positive externalities from charity. In principle, the government can pursue this goal by evaluating specific charitable initiatives and deciding how much each should receive. But this Article focuses on two income tax rules that leave the government very little discretion about which charities to fund: the deduction for donations to charity ("the deduction") and the exemption of a charity's investment income ("the exemption"). Under each rule, as long as charities satisfy very general criteria, federal dollars flow automatically. While both of these sibling subsidies delegate key decisions to private individuals, they create very different incentives and effects. This Article breaks new ground by showing their different effects on the governance of nonprofits.
February 16, 2017 in Scholarship, Tax | Permalink | Comments (0)
ADR And International Law Curriculum Rankings (Pepperdine Earns A+, A- Grades)
ADR Curricular Leaders, 20 preLaw 48 (Winter 2017):
Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) specialty programs aren't easy to come by, but the 86 schools that do offer the specialty provide a wide range of options. We graded all schools on curricular offerings, and three earned an A+ — Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University; University of Missouri School of Law; and Pepperdine University School of Law. Their offerings include workplace conflict resolution training for the Los Angeles Police Department, participating in a dispute resolution journal and dispute resolution skills competitions. ...
February 16, 2017 in Law School Rankings, Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (1)
John Plecnik Discusses His Tax Scholarship
February 16, 2017 in Scholarship, Tax | Permalink | Comments (0)
Wednesday, February 15, 2017
WSJ: Universities, Facing Budget Cuts, Target Tenure
Wall Street Journal, Universities, Facing Budget Cuts, Target Tenure:
For decades, tenured professors held some of the most prestigious and secure jobs in the U.S. Now, their status is under attack at public and private colleges alike.
In states facing budget pressures such as Missouri, North Dakota and Iowa, Republican lawmakers have introduced bills for the current legislative sessions to eliminate tenure, cut back its protections or create added hoops that tenured faculty at public colleges must jump through to keep their jobs. University administrators, struggling to shave their costs, are trying to limit the ranks of tenured professors or make it easier to fire them. ...
February 15, 2017 in Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (1)
The Tax Lawyer Publishes New Issue
The Tax Lawyer has published Vol. 70, No. 1 (Fall 2016):
- Paul J. Sax (Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, San Francisco) & Lawrence B. Gibbs (Miller & Chevalier, Washington, D.C.), In Memoriam: Phillip L. Mann, 70 Tax Law. 1 (2016)
- J. Ross Macdonald (Baker & McKenzie, New York), "Time Present and Time Past:" U.S. Anti-Treaty Shopping History, Policy, and Rules, 70 Tax Law. 5 (2016)
- Allen D. Madison (South Dakota), The Legal Consequences of Noncompliance with Federal Tax Laws, 70 Tax Law. 367 (2016)
February 15, 2017 in ABA Tax Section, Scholarship, Tax | Permalink | Comments (0)
California Law Deans Take Bar Exam Complaints To Lawmakers; State Bar Director Admits There Is 'No Good Answer' For High MBE Pass Score
Following up on my previous coverage (links below): The Recorder, Frustrated Law Deans Take Bar-Exam Complaints to Lawmakers:
The head of California's state bar told lawmakers on Tuesday "there's no good answer" for why the state requires the second-highest bar exam passing score in the nation.
"For many years it was seen as a point of pride that it was such a rigorous exam but perhaps it's time now to look again," Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker said at an Assembly Judiciary Committee hearing. "Is it doing what we want? Is it a fair exam? Is the pass score effectively set where it is? When you ask why is [the multistate bar exam cut score] set at 144, I'm embarrassed to tell you there's no good answer."
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Proposed ABA Accreditation Rule Sets Process To Determine Validity Of GRE, Other LSAT Alternatives In Law School Admissions
Following up on my previous coverage (links below): ABA Journal, Any LSAT Alternatives Must be Validated Through New Process, According to Proposed Rule Revision:
There's still no official green light for ABA-accredited law schools to rely on entrance exams other than the Law School Admissions Test, but a recently proposed standards revision suggests how a validation process for LSAT alternatives should be developed.
Under the proposed revision to Standard 503, the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar would establish a process to determine the reliability and validity of other tests. That's a change from the current version, which directs law schools using alternate admissions tests to demonstrate that the exams are valid and reliable.
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Jones Day Is #1 U.S. Law Firm Brand, Supplanting Skadden
American Lawyer, Big Law Brand Survey Shows Client-Led Shakeup:
In a sign of a legal market where competition for work is stiffer than ever, a survey of legal buyers' preferred Big Law brands has a new No. 1 for the first time in its six-year history.
Jones Day topped the Acritas U.S. Law Firm Brand Index, released Monday, after finishing in second place for the previous five years to the same firm: Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. This year, Skadden ranked second and the top five was rounded out, in order, by the newly re-branded Baker McKenzie, Latham & Watkins and DLA Piper.
The survey, which had 765 in-house respondents at the senior level, tracks six metrics, such as consideration for top-level deals and litigation, aimed at ranking the firms viewed most favorably and hired most often by large company legal services purchasers.
Here are the Top 10 (the full Top 20 are here):
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Morse & Osofsky: Regulating By Example
Susan C. Morse (Texas) & Leigh Osofsky (Miami), Regulating by Example, 35 Yale J. on Reg. ___ (2017):
Agency regulations are full of examples. Regulated parties and their advisors parse the examples to develop an understanding of the applicable law and to determine how to conduct their affairs. However, neither the legal nor theoretical literature contains any study of regulatory examples or explains how they might be interpreted. This Article fills this gap.
February 15, 2017 in Scholarship, Tax | Permalink | Comments (0)
Two Prison Inmates Provide Link To Adelsons In Dan Markel's Murder
Forward, Accused Hitman Points Finger At Dan Markel In-Law In Jailhouse Confession:
Two prison inmates may have provided a long-awaited break in the mysterious slaying of Jewish law professor Dan Markel.
According to the Tallahassee Democrat, the alleged hit man charged with killing Markel confessed to a fellow inmate that Markel's ex-mother-in-law had ordered the murder.
The inmate told police that Sigfredo Garcia, claimed that his girlfriend, Katherine Magbanua, told him that "a mother-in-law or grandmother" wanted Markel killed to gain custody of their two children.
Garcia, who is awaiting trial in connection with Markel's killing, reportedly referred to the woman as "Don Adelson."
Markel's ex-wife's mother is named Donna Adleson. She and her son, Charlie Adelson, remain suspects in the murder, the paper said. They deny any involvement and have not been charged.
Magbanua is also awaiting trial. Garcia's alleged accomplice, who has pled guilty to second-degree murder, implicated Markel's ex-wife, Wendi Adelson, in the murder plot.
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Dean Michael Schwartz On Legal Education 2.0
Legal Tech News, How to Teach Tech: Dean Michael Schwartz on Law Education 2.0:
Preparing future generations of attorneys for what's to come in the evolution of law is no easy task. As technology continues to stretch the boundaries of legal reasoning and what is doable at law offices across the world, so too must legal education adapt to changing times.
Few have witnessed this adaptation as intimately as Michael Hunter Schwartz, who recently started the next chapter of his long legal career as dean of University of the Pacific's McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento. A California native, Schwartz is returning to his home state after serving as dean of the William H. Bowen School of Law at the University of Arkansas since 2013. ...
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Toder Presents Taxing Entrepreneurial Income Today At Georgetown
Eric Toder (Tax Policy Center) presents Taxing Entrepreneurial Income at Georgetown today as part of its Tax Law and Public Finance Workshop Series hosted by John Brooks and Itai Grinberg:
This paper applies the Schumpeterian view of entrepreneurship to estimate the tax rate on entrepreneurial income under alternative assumptions about the pattern of returns from innovations, the tax rules applied to different types of income (wages, interest, capital gains, dividends, corporate profits), and the effects of taxes on the market value of successful enterprises. We model the tax rate on entrepreneurial income as the tax burden on an individual who establishes a new firm and then sells her interest in the business once it becomes an established enterprise. The paper finds the effective tax rate on entrepreneurial income depends on both the tax rate imposed on the entrepreneur's income during the firm's growth phase and on the effects of the tax system on the price at which the entrepreneur can cash in her investment when the firm reaches maturity.
February 14, 2017 in Colloquia, Scholarship, Tax | Permalink | Comments (0)
Siri For Tax Lawyers, Accountants, And Students
Australian Business Review, Tax Agents' Future Questioned as AI Finds Answers in Seconds:
It's Siri for lawyers and accountants. Ask "Ailira" a question about Australian tax law and she will scan through millions of uploaded documents and use her artificial intelligence nous to deliver an answer.
Ailira, or "Artificially Intelligent Legal Information Resource Assistant" is so clever at tax that her creator believes she could help prompt the end of human tax agents. And within two months, she will answer questions in other areas of Australian law.
Ailira is the brainchild of Adelaide-based tax lawyer Adrian Cartland. The story goes that with no professional tax background, his girlfriend Sarah, a speech pathology student, scored 73 per cent on a first-year university tax exam with just 30 minutes' training and Ailira at her side.
"Your tax agents will probably be gone within five years," said a confident Mr Cartland, who added that their demise was already happening with the Australian Taxation Office pushing to automate tax returns, technology issues not withstanding.
February 14, 2017 in Legal Education, Tax | Permalink | Comments (0)
The Great Shame Of Higher Education
Chronicle of Higher Education op-ed: 'The Great Shame of Our Profession', by Kevin Birmingham (Instructor, Harvard College Writing Program):
[T]o talk about adjuncts is to talk about the centerpiece of higher education. Tenured faculty represent only 17 percent of college instructors. Part-time adjuncts are now the majority of the professoriate and its fastest-growing segment. From 1975 to 2011, the number of part-time adjuncts quadrupled. And the so-called part-time designation is misleading because most of them are piecing together teaching jobs at multiple institutions simultaneously. A 2014 congressional report suggests that 89 percent of adjuncts work at more than one institution; 13 percent work at four or more. The need for several appointments becomes obvious when we realize how little any one of them pays. In 2013, The Chronicle began collecting data on salary and benefits from adjuncts across the country. An English-department adjunct at Berkeley, for example, received $6,500 to teach a full-semester course. It's easy to lose sight of all the people struggling beneath the data points. $7,000 at Duke. $6,000 at Columbia. $5,950 at the University of Iowa.
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Call For Business Tax Papers: Oxford University Symposium
The Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation has issued a call for papers for its annual symposium:
The 11th Annual Academic Symposium will take place between 26 and 28 June 2017. A call for papers will be issued in due course. The symposium will be held at Saïd Business School, Park End Street, Oxford.
The call for papers is now live. If you wish to make a submission the deadline is Monday 27 February 2017. Papers will be selected, and invitations extended, by Monday 27 March 2017.
February 14, 2017 in Conferences, Scholarship, Tax | Permalink | Comments (0)
The Law School Lateral Hiring Network
Ryan Whalen (Dalhousie), Law School Lateral Hiring:
The network contains data on 245 schools, with 912 directed, weighted hiring links between them. The top 10 schools by laterals hired are:
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The yield on 10-year US Treasuries rose as high as 1.87 per cent overnight, the highest since late May, after stronger-than-expected UK economic figures sparked a selloff in global bond markets. The US Dollar Index climbed as much as 0.3 per cent and in New Zealand, the two-year swap rate rose to 2.12 per cent, a three-month high.
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Turn old bottles into a chic outdoor decoration with this green pendant wind chime from Diamond Tech. These easy craft ideas a the perfect marriage of eco-friendly and stylish.
- Generation Green (g2) bottle cutter
- 3 Glass Bottles in varying sizes: small, medium and large
- 8 Large Glass Beads (ranging in size from ¾-1" a little larger than the openings of the bottles)
- 36" cotton cord
- Cover the work area with craft or newspaper.
- Collect three bottles that will nest one inside of the other: large, medium and small.
- Measure 6" down from the top of the large bottle, 5" on the medium and 4" on the small bottle and mark using a Sharpie™.
- Using the bottle cutter, score and separate where indicated.
- Smooth the rough edges as instructed in the bottle cutter manual.
- Measure and cut a 34" length of cord. Make a knot on one end of the cord large enough to hold a 3/4" bead.
- Thread a bead onto the cord until it rests against the knot. Tie another knot 3" from the first and thread another bead onto the cord until it stops at the second knot.
- Thread the cord up from the bottom of the smallest bottle and through the neck, until the bead is snug against the opening in the neck of the bottle. Tie another knot and slip on a third bead.
- Measure 1 ½" above the third bead and make a knot. Add a fourth bead, make a knot, pull the cord through the bottom of the medium bottle and up through the neck.
- Add a fifth bead and another knot. Slide sixth bead onto the cord and make yet another knot.
- Thread the cord through the bottom of the largest bottle and up through the neck. Knot the cord above the lip of the last bottle, add 1" bead to the cord, and knot again.
- Measure 9" and make a knot in the cord. Create a loop by inserting a ¾" bead onto the cord, inserting the end back into the bead opening to create a loop. Secure the loop with a double knot to hold the bead in place.
- Hang the retro chime where a breeze can gently blow them and create a relaxing, peaceful, soothing sound.
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I couldn't decide if I wanted to buy a glass cuter when I was reading thru another project and after seeing this one I am going ahead and do it. i love this idea too. it's really simple once you get all the parts together. I need to start collecting bottles so I can make up these as Christmas gifts.
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Beads you can get from craft store online or box store ex: Micheals...Hobby Lobby...etc Bottles are sold at crafts stores and online ex: Amazon.
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where do I buy the beads?
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Good question.
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where can you get a bottle cutter
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First trip to this buffet and it was just ok. Typical Chinese Buffett. Try had a decent variety of food but a lot of it did not seem real fresh. The salt n pepper shrimp must have been on the bar all day because it almost tasted like powder. It was horrible. The sushi was pretty good but they only...
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The third round of African World Cup qualifying continues this coming weekend, as the second set of matches see 20 teams from the continent left with a chance of securing one of the five spots allocated to the African continent. This weekend 10 fixtures will be played around the continent in the group stages. Here are 10 African World Cup qualifying matches to look out for this coming weekend.
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