May 11, 2008

Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads

There is a bit of movement on this week's list of the Top 5 Recent Tax Paper Downloads, with new papers debuting on the list at #4 and #5:

1.  [390 Downloads]  Deduction Ad Absurdum: CEOs Donating Their Own Stock to Their Own Family Foundations, by David Yermack (NYU, Stern School of Business)  [blogged here]

2.  [249 Downloads]  Backdating, by Jeffrey L. Kwall (Loyola-Chicago) & Stuart Duhl (Harrison & Held, Chicago)  [blogged here]

3.  [124 Downloads]  Taxation as a Global Socio-Legal Phenomenon, by Allison Christians (Wisconsin), Steven Dean (Brooklyn), Diane M. Ring (Boston College) & Adam H. Rosenzweig (Washington University)  [blogged here]

4.  [123 Downloads]  Perpetuities, Taxes, and Asset Protection:  An Empirical Assessment of the Jurisdictional Competition for Trust Funds, by Robert H. Sitkoff (Harvard) & Max M. Schanzenbach (Northwestern)  [blogged here]

5.  [108 Downloads]  Where Does it Go? Spending by the Financially Constrained, by Shawn Allen Cole (Harvard Business School), John Thompson (H&R Block) & Peter Tufano (Harvard Business School)  [blogged here]

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May 4, 2008

Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads

There is a bit of movement on this week's list of the Top 5 Recent Tax Paper Downloads, with a new paper debuting on the list at #5:

1.  [367 Downloads]  Deduction Ad Absurdum: CEOs Donating Their Own Stock to Their Own Family Foundations, by David Yermack (NYU, Stern School of Business)  [blogged here]

2.  [220 Downloads]  Zappers: Tax Fraud, Technology and Terrorist Funding, by Richard Thompson Ainsworth (Boston University)  [blogged here]

3.  [208 Downloads]  Backdating, by Jeffrey L. Kwall (Loyola-Chicago) & Stuart Duhl (Harrison & Held, Chicago)  [blogged here]

4.  [113 Downloads]  Taxation as a Global Socio-Legal Phenomenon, by Allison Christians (Wisconsin), Steven Dean (Brooklyn), Diane M. Ring (Boston College) & Adam H. Rosenzweig (Washington University)  [blogged here]

5.  [104 Downloads]  Perpetuities, Taxes, and Asset Protection:  An Empirical Assessment of the Jurisdictional Competition for Trust Funds, by Robert H. Sitkoff (Harvard) & Max M. Schanzenbach (Northwestern)  [blogged here]

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April 27, 2008

Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads

There is a bit of movement on this week's list of the Top 5 Recent Tax Paper Downloads, with a new #1 paper and new papers debuting on the list at #4 and #5:

1.  [349 Downloads]  Deduction Ad Absurdum: CEOs Donating Their Own Stock to Their Own Family Foundations, by David Yermack (NYU, Stern School of Business)  [blogged here]

2.  [193 Downloads]  Backdating, by Jeffrey L. Kwall (Loyola-Chicago) & Stuart Duhl (Harrison & Held, Chicago)  [blogged here]

3.  [151 Downloads]  Empty Promises: Settlors' Intent, the Uniform Trust Code, and the Future of Trust Investment Law, by Jeffrey A. Cooper (Quinnipiac)  [blogged here]

4.  [108 Downloads]  Taxation as a Global Socio-Legal Phenomenon, by Allison Christians (Wisconsin), Steven Dean (Brooklyn), Diane M. Ring (Boston College) & Adam H. Rosenzweig (Washington University)  [blogged here]

5.  [107 Downloads]  Zappers: Tax Fraud, Technology and Terrorist Funding, by Richard Thompson Ainsworth (Boston University)  [blogged here]

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April 20, 2008

Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads

There is a bit of movement on this week's list of the Top 5 Recent Tax Paper Downloads, with new papers debuting on the list at #4 and #5.  The #1 paper has climbed to #139 on the all-time tax paper downloads list (out of 5,052 tax papers):

1.  [379 Downloads]  Tax Avoidance as a Legitimate Business Purpose, by Karen C. Burke (San Diego)  [blogged here]

2.  [327 Downloads]  Deduction Ad Absurdum: CEOs Donating Their Own Stock to Their Own Family Foundations, by David Yermack (NYU, Stern School of Business)  [blogged here]

3.  [254 Downloads]  Back to School:  The New Parameters of Funding a Grandchild's College Education, by Richard L Kaplan (Illinois)  [blogged here]

4.  [148 Downloads]  Backdating, by Jeffrey L. Kwall (Loyola-Chicago) & Stuart Duhl (Harrison & Held, Chicago)  [blogged here]

5.  [144 Downloads]  Empty Promises: Settlors' Intent, the Uniform Trust Code, and the Future of Trust Investment Law, by Jeffrey A. Cooper (Quinnipiac)  [blogged here]

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April 13, 2008

Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads

This week's list of the Top 5 Recent Tax Paper Downloads is the same as last week's list.  The #1 paper has climbed to #161 on the all-time tax paper downloads list (out of 5,036 tax papers):

1.  [351 Downloads]  Tax Avoidance as a Legitimate Business Purpose, by Karen C. Burke (San Diego)  [blogged here]

2.  [302 Downloads]  Deduction Ad Absurdum: CEOs Donating Their Own Stock to Their Own Family Foundations, by David Yermack (NYU, Stern School of Business)  [blogged here]

3.  [235 Downloads]  Back to School:  The New Parameters of Funding a Grandchild's College Education, by Richard L Kaplan (Illinois)  [blogged here]

4.  [179 Downloads]  Tax Expense Surprises and Future Returns, by Jacob K. Thomas & Frank Zhang (both of Yale University, School of Management)  [blogged here]

5.  [142 Downloads]  Golden Gate Restaurant Association: Employer Mandates and ERISA Preemption in the Ninth Circuit, by Edward A. Zelinsky (Cardozo)  [blogged here]

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April 6, 2008

Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads

This week's list of the Top 5 Recent Tax Paper Downloads is the same as last week's list.  The #1 paper is now the 178th most-downloaded paper out of 5,018 tax papers posted on SSRN:

1.  [331 Downloads]  Tax Avoidance as a Legitimate Business Purpose, by Karen C. Burke (San Diego)  [blogged here]

2.  [284 Downloads]  Deduction Ad Absurdum: CEOs Donating Their Own Stock to Their Own Family Foundations, by David Yermack (NYU, Stern School of Business)  [blogged here]

3.  [215 Downloads]  Back to School:  The New Parameters of Funding a Grandchild's College Education, by Richard L Kaplan (Illinois)  [blogged here]

4.  [171 Downloads]  Tax Expense Surprises and Future Returns, by Jacob K. Thomas & Frank Zhang (both of Yale University, School of Management)  [blogged here]

5.  [141 Downloads]  Golden Gate Restaurant Association: Employer Mandates and ERISA Preemption in the Ninth Circuit, by Edward A. Zelinsky (Cardozo)  [blogged here]

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March 30, 2008

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 #5:

1.  [298 Downloads]  Tax Avoidance as a Legitimate Business Purpose, by Karen C. Burke (San Diego)  [blogged here]

2.  [268 Downloads]  Deduction Ad Absurdum: CEOs Donating Their Own Stock to Their Own Family Foundations, by David Yermack (NYU, Stern School of Business)  [blogged here]

3.  [186 Downloads]  Back to School:  The New Parameters of Funding a Grandchild's College Education, by Richard L Kaplan (Illinois)  [blogged here]

4.  [161 Downloads]  Tax Expense Surprises and Future Returns, by Jacob K. Thomas & Frank Zhang (both of Yale University, School of Management)  [blogged here]

5.  [137 Downloads]  Golden Gate Restaurant Association: Employer Mandates and ERISA Preemption in the Ninth Circuit, by Edward A. Zelinsky (Cardozo)  [blogged here]

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March 23, 2008

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 #1 paper and new papers debuting on the list at #2 and #5:

1.  [258 Downloads]  Tax Avoidance as a Legitimate Business Purpose, by Karen C. Burke (San Diego)  [blogged here]

2.  [252 Downloads]  Deduction Ad Absurdum: CEOs Donating Their Own Stock to Their Own Family Foundations, by David Yermack (NYU, Stern School of Business)  [blogged here]

3.  [200 Downloads]  Financial and Tax Accounting: Transparency and "Truth," by Judith Freedman (Oxford University)  [blogged here]

4.  [166 Downloads]  Back to School:  The New Parameters of Funding a Grandchild's College Education, by Richard L Kaplan (Illinois)  [blogged here]

5.  [148 Downloads]  Tax Expense Surprises and Future Returns, by Jacob K. Thomas & Frank Zhang (both of Yale University, School of Management)  [blogged here]

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March 16, 2008

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 #1 paper and a new paper debuting on the list at #5:

1.  [263 Downloads]  Income Effectively Connected with U.S. Trade or Business: A Survey and Appraisal, by Lawrence Lokken (Florida)  [blogged here]

2.  [243 Downloads]  Double Tax Treaties: An Introduction, by Reuven S. Avi-Yonah (Michigan)  [blogged here]

3.  [228 Downloads]  Tax Avoidance as a Legitimate Business Purpose, by Karen C. Burke (San Diego)  [blogged here]

4.  [180 Downloads]  Financial and Tax Accounting: Transparency and "Truth," by Judith Freedman (Oxford University)  [blogged here]

5.  [144 Downloads]  Back to School:  The New Parameters of Funding a Grandchild's College Education, by Richard L Kaplan (Illinois)  [blogged here]

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March 9, 2008

Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads

This week's list of the Top 5 Recent Tax Paper Downloads is the same as last week's list:

1.  [268 Downloads]  Taxation of US Tax-Exempt Entities' Offshore Hedge Fund Investments -- Application of the Section 514 Debt-Financed Rules to Leveraged Hedge Funds and Derivatives and the Case for Equalization, by Summer Ayers LePree (Holland & Knight, Miami)  [blogged here]

2.  [249 Downloads]  Income Effectively Connected with U.S. Trade or Business: A Survey and Appraisal, by Lawrence Lokken (Florida)  [blogged here]

3.  [225 Downloads]  Double Tax Treaties: An Introduction, by Reuven S. Avi-Yonah (Michigan)  [blogged here]

4.  [193 Downloads]   Tax Avoidance as a Legitimate Business Purpose, by Karen C. Burke (San Diego) [blogged here]

5.  [164 Downloads]  Financial and Tax Accounting: Transparency and "Truth," by Judith Freedman (Oxford University)  [blogged here]

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March 2, 2008

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 the #4 and #5 papers swapping positions:

1.  [246 Downloads]  Taxation of US Tax-Exempt Entities' Offshore Hedge Fund Investments -- Application of the Section 514 Debt-Financed Rules to Leveraged Hedge Funds and Derivatives and the Case for Equalization, by Summer Ayers LePree (Holland & Knight, Miami)  [blogged here]

2.  [228 Downloads]  Income Effectively Connected with U.S. Trade or Business: A Survey and Appraisal, by Lawrence Lokken (Florida)  [blogged here]

3.  [205 Downloads]  Double Tax Treaties: An Introduction, by Reuven S. Avi-Yonah (Michigan)  [blogged here]

4.  [160 Downloads]   Tax Avoidance as a Legitimate Business Purpose, by Karen C. Burke (San Diego) [blogged here]

5.  [137 Downloads]  Financial and Tax Accounting: Transparency and "Truth," by Judith Freedman (Oxford University)  [blogged here]

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February 24, 2008

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 #5:

1.  [232 Downloads]  Taxation of US Tax-Exempt Entities' Offshore Hedge Fund Investments -- Application of the Section 514 Debt-Financed Rules to Leveraged Hedge Funds and Derivatives and the Case for Equalization, by Summer Ayers LePree (Holland & Knight, Miami)  [blogged here]

2.  [211 Downloads]  Income Effectively Connected with U.S. Trade or Business: A Survey and Appraisal, by Lawrence Lokken (Florida)  [blogged here]

3.  [197 Downloads]  Double Tax Treaties: An Introduction, by Reuven S. Avi-Yonah (Michigan)  [blogged here]

4.  [124 Downloads]  Financial and Tax Accounting: Transparency and "Truth," by Judith Freedman (Oxford University)  [blogged here]

5.  [107 Downloads]   Tax Avoidance as a Legitimate Business Purpose, by Karen C. Burke (San Diego) [blogged here]

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February 17, 2008

Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads

This week's list of the Top 5 Recent Tax Paper Downloads is the same as last week's:

1.  [200 Downloads]  Taxation of US Tax-Exempt Entities' Offshore Hedge Fund Investments -- Application of the Section 514 Debt-Financed Rules to Leveraged Hedge Funds and Derivatives and the Case for Equalization, by Summer Ayers LePree (Holland & Knight, Miami)  [blogged here]

2.  [185 Downloads]  Income Effectively Connected with U.S. Trade or Business: A Survey and Appraisal, by Lawrence Lokken (Florida)  [blogged here]

3.  [180 Downloads]  Double Tax Treaties: An Introduction, by Reuven S. Avi-Yonah (Michigan)  [blogged here]

4.  [100 Downloads]  Financial and Tax Accounting: Transparency and "Truth," by Judith Freedman (Oxford University)  [blogged here]

5.  [97 Downloads]  Conservation Easements: Perpetuity and Beyond, by Nancy A. McLaughlin (Utah)  [blogged here]

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February 10, 2008

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 at #5:

1.  [173 Downloads]  Taxation of US Tax-Exempt Entities' Offshore Hedge Fund Investments -- Application of the Section 514 Debt-Financed Rules to Leveraged Hedge Funds and Derivatives and the Case for Equalization, by Summer Ayers LePree (Holland & Knight, Miami)  [blogged here]

2.  [152 Downloads]  Income Effectively Connected with U.S. Trade or Business: A Survey and Appraisal, by Lawrence Lokken (Florida)  [blogged here]

3.  [140 Downloads]  Double Tax Treaties: An Introduction, by Reuven S. Avi-Yonah (Michigan)  [blogged here]

4.  [83 Downloads]  Conservation Easements: Perpetuity and Beyond, by Nancy A. McLaughlin (Utah)  [blogged here]

5.  [71 Downloads]  Financial and Tax Accounting: Transparency and "Truth," by Judith Freedman (Oxford University)  [blogged here]

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February 3, 2008

Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads

This week's list of the Top 5 Recent Tax Paper Downloads is the same as last week's list:

1.  [185 Downloads]  The Carried Interest Controversy: Let's Not Get Carried Away, by Noel B. Cunningham (NYU) & Mitchell L. Engler (Cardozo)  [blogged here]

2.  [158 Downloads]  Taxation of US Tax-Exempt Entities' Offshore Hedge Fund Investments -- Application of the Section 514 Debt-Financed Rules to Leveraged Hedge Funds and Derivatives and the Case for Equalization, by Summer Ayers LePree (Holland & Knight, Miami)  [blogged here]

3.  [127 Downloads]  Income Effectively Connected with U.S. Trade or Business: A Survey and Appraisal, by Lawrence Lokken (Florida)  [blogged here]

4.  [113 Downloads]  Double Tax Treaties: An Introduction, by Reuven S. Avi-Yonah (Michigan)  [blogged here]

5.  [78 Downloads]  Conservation Easements: Perpetuity and Beyond, by Nancy A. McLaughlin (Utah)  [blogged here]

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January 27, 2008

Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads

There is a lot of movement in this week's list of the Top 5 Recent Tax Paper Downloads, with a new #1 paper and new papers debuting on the list at #3, #4, and #5:

1.  [169 Downloads]  The Carried Interest Controversy: Let's Not Get Carried Away, by Noel B. Cunningham (NYU) & Mitchell L. Engler (Cardozo)  [blogged here]

2.  [138 Downloads]  Taxation of US Tax-Exempt Entities' Offshore Hedge Fund Investments -- Application of the Section 514 Debt-Financed Rules to Leveraged Hedge Funds and Derivatives and the Case for Equalization, by Summer Ayers LePree (Holland & Knight, Miami)  [blogged here]

3.  [97 Downloads]  Income Effectively Connected with U.S. Trade or Business: A Survey and Appraisal, by Lawrence Lokken (Florida)  [blogged here]

4.  [93 Downloads]  Double Tax Treaties: An Introduction, by Reuven S. Avi-Yonah (Michigan)  [blogged here]

5.  [63 Downloads]  Conservation Easements: Perpetuity and Beyond, by Nancy A. McLaughlin (Utah)  [blogged here]

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January 20, 2008

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 #5:

1.  [392 Downloads]  Tax Myopia, or Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Tax Lawyers, by Paul L. Caron (Cincinnati)  [blogged here]

2.  [198 Downloads]  Has Congress Stopped Executives from Raiding the Bank? A Critical Analysis of I.R.C. § 409A, by Michael J. Hussey (Widener)  [blogged here]

3.  [164 Downloads]  The Carried Interest Controversy: Let's Not Get Carried Away, by Noel B. Cunningham (NYU) & Mitchell L. Engler (Cardozo)  [blogged here]

4.  [123 Downloads]  Taxation of US Tax-Exempt Entities' Offshore Hedge Fund Investments -- Application of the Section 514 Debt-Financed Rules to Leveraged Hedge Funds and Derivatives and the Case for Equalization, by Summer Ayers LePree (Holland & Knight, Miami)  [blogged here]

5.  [87 Downloads]    Dealing with Postdeath Events, by Wendy C. Gerzog (Baltimore)  [blogged here]

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January 13, 2008

Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads

There is a lot of movement in this week's list of the Top 5 Recent Tax Paper Downloads, with a returning #1 paper and new papers debuting on the list at #2, #4, and #5:

1.  [374 Downloads]  Tax Myopia, or Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Tax Lawyers, by Paul L. Caron (Cincinnati)  [blogged here]

2.  [173 Downloads]  Has Congress Stopped Executives from Raiding the Bank? A Critical Analysis of I.R.C. § 409A, by Michael J. Hussey (Widener)  [blogged here]

3.  [149 Downloads]  The Carried Interest Controversy: Let's Not Get Carried Away, by Noel B. Cunningham (NYU) & Mitchell L. Engler (Cardozo)  [blogged here]

4.  [146 Downloads]  Shrinking Boomer Social Security Retirement Benefits, by Francine J. Lipman (Chapman)  [blogged here]

5.  [83 Downloads]  Taxation of US Tax-Exempt Entities' Offshore Hedge Fund Investments -- Application of the Section 514 Debt-Financed Rules to Leveraged Hedge Funds and Derivatives and the Case for Equalization, by Summer Ayers LePree (Holland & Knight, Miami)  [blogged here]

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December 30, 2007

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 #1 paper and a new paper debuting on the list at #5:

1.  [329 Downloads]  Federal Tax Update: Important Developments in Federal Income, Estate & Gift Taxation Affecting Individuals (Aug. 2006 - Aug. 2007), by Samuel A. Donaldson (Washington)  [blogged here]

2.  [328 Downloads]  Tax Myopia, or Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Tax Lawyers, by Paul L. Caron (Cincinnati)  [blogged here]

3.  [166 Downloads]  Principles of Efficient Tax Law: Apocrypha, by Terrance O'Reilly (Willamette)  [blogged here]

4.  [111 Downloads]  The Carried Interest Controversy: Let's Not Get Carried Away, by Noel B. Cunningham (NYU) & Mitchell L. Engler (Cardozo)  [blogged here]

5.  [83 Downloads]  Whistleblowers and Qui Tam for Tax, by Dennis J. Ventry (American)  [blogged here]

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December 23, 2007

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 #5:

1.  [310 Downloads]  Tax Myopia, or Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Tax Lawyers, by Paul L. Caron (Cincinnati)  [blogged here]

2.  [309 Downloads]  Federal Tax Update: Important Developments in Federal Income, Estate & Gift Taxation Affecting Individuals (Aug. 2006 - Aug. 2007), by Samuel A. Donaldson (Washington)  [blogged here]

3.  [162 Downloads]  Principles of Efficient Tax Law: Apocrypha, by Terrance O'Reilly (Willamette)  [blogged here]

4.  [124 Downloads]  A Chronology of Postwar U.S. Federal Income Tax Policy, by Shu-Chun Susan Yang (Academia Sinica - Institute of Economics)  [blogged here]

5.  [97 Downloads]  The Carried Interest Controversy: Let's Not Get Carried Away, by Noel B. Cunningham (NYU) & Mitchell L. Engler (Cardozo)  [blogged here]

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December 16, 2007

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 #5:

1.  [287 Downloads]  Tax Myopia, or Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Tax Lawyers, by Paul L. Caron (Cincinnati) [blogged here]

2.  [284 Downloads]  Federal Tax Update: Important Developments in Federal Income, Estate & Gift Taxation Affecting Individuals (Aug. 2006 - Aug. 2007), by Samuel A. Donaldson (Washington) [blogged here]

3.  [253 Downloads]  The Taxation of Carried Interests in Private Equity, by David A. Weisbach (Chicago)  [blogged here]

4.  [160 Downloads]  Principles of Efficient Tax Law: Apocrypha, by Terrance O'Reilly (Willamette)  [blogged here]

5.  [112 Downloads]   A Chronology of Postwar U.S. Federal Income Tax Policy, by Shu-Chun Susan Yang (Academia Sinica - Institute of Economics)  [blogged here]

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December 9, 2007

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 (and damn fine) #1 paper and a new paper debuting on the list at #5:

1.  [251 Downloads]  Tax Myopia, or Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Tax Lawyers, by Paul L. Caron (Cincinnati) [blogged here]

2.  [247 Downloads]  Federal Tax Update: Important Developments in Federal Income, Estate & Gift Taxation Affecting Individuals (Aug. 2006 - Aug. 2007), by Samuel A. Donaldson (Washington) [blogged here]

3.  [233 Downloads]  The Taxation of Carried Interests in Private Equity, by David A. Weisbach (Chicago)  [blogged here]

4.  [152 Downloads]  Principles of Efficient Tax Law: Apocrypha, by Terrance O'Reilly (Willamette)  [blogged here]

5.  [110 Downloads]  The Rise and Fall of Arm's Length: A Study in the Evolution of U.S. International Taxation, by Reuven S. Avi-Yonah (Michigan)  [blogged here]

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December 2, 2007

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 #4:

1.  [657 Downloads]  The Virtual Tax Library: A Comparison of Five Electronic Tax Research Platforms, by Katherine Pratt, Jennifer M. Kowal & Daniel Martin (all of Loyola-L.A.) 

2.  [221 Downloads]  The Taxation of Carried Interests in Private Equity, by David A. Weisbach (Chicago)  [blogged here]

3.  [212 Downloads]  Federal Tax Update: Important Developments in Federal Income, Estate & Gift Taxation Affecting Individuals (Aug. 2006 - Aug. 2007), by Samuel A. Donaldson (Washington) [blogged here]

4.  [199 Downloads]  Tax Myopia, or Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Tax Lawyers, by Paul L. Caron (Cincinnati) [blogged here]

5.  [141 Downloads]  Principles of Efficient Tax Law: Apocrypha, by Terrance O'Reilly (Willamette)  [blogged here]

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November 25, 2007

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 new papers debuting on the list at #4 and #5:

1.  [632 Downloads]  The Virtual Tax Library: A Comparison of Five Electronic Tax Research Platforms, by Katherine Pratt, Jennifer M. Kowal & Daniel Martin (all of Loyola-L.A.) 

2.  [250 Downloads]  The Optimal Relationship Between Taxable Income and Financial Accounting Income: Analysis and a Proposal, by Daniel N. Shaviro (NYU)  [blogged here]

3.  [197 Downloads]  The Taxation of Carried Interests in Private Equity, by David A. Weisbach (Chicago)  [blogged here]

4.  [168 Downloads]  Federal Tax Update: Important Developments in Federal Income, Estate & Gift Taxation Affecting Individuals (Aug. 2006 - Aug. 2007), by Samuel A. Donaldson (Washington) [blogged here]

5.  [133 Downloads]  Principles of Efficient Tax Law: Apocrypha, by Terrance O'Reilly (Willamette)  [blogged here]

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November 18, 2007

Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads

This week's list of the Top 5 Recent Tax Paper Downloads is the same as last week's:

1.  [610 Downloads]  The Virtual Tax Library: A Comparison of Five Electronic Tax Research Platforms, by Katherine Pratt, Jennifer M. Kowal & Daniel Martin (all of Loyola-L.A.)  [blogged here]

2.  [280 Downloads]  Taxing Blackstone, by Victor Fleischer (Illinois)  [blogged here]

3.  [239 Downloads]  The Optimal Relationship Between Taxable Income and Financial Accounting Income: Analysis and a Proposal, by Daniel N. Shaviro (NYU)  [blogged here]

4.  [189 Downloads]  The Taxation of Carried Interests in Private Equity, by David A. Weisbach (Chicago)  [blogged here]

5.  [159 Downloads]  Can Discriminatory State Taxation of Municipal Bonds Be Justified? Thoughts on the Davis Topside Briefs, by Brian D. Galle (Florida State) & Ethan Yale (Georgetown)  [blogged here]

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November 11, 2007

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 #4:

1.  [573 Downloads]  The Virtual Tax Library: A Comparison of Five Electronic Tax Research Platforms, by Katherine Pratt, Jennifer M. Kowal & Daniel Martin (all of Loyola-L.A.)  [blogged here]

2.  [268 Downloads]  Taxing Blackstone, by Victor Fleischer (Illinois)  [blogged here]

3.  [229 Downloads]  The Optimal Relationship Between Taxable Income and Financial Accounting Income: Analysis and a Proposal, by Daniel N. Shaviro (NYU)  [blogged here]

4.  [166 Downloads]  The Taxation of Carried Interests in Private Equity, by David A. Weisbach (Chicago)  [blogged