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TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• Sense and Sensibility: Estate Planning Lessons From Jane Austen
• WSJ:  Tax Court Slaps Down IRAs Holding 'Alternative Assets'
• The IRS Scandal, Day 9
• FATCA:  Toward a Multilateral Automatic Information Reporting Regime

Sunday:

• SNL on the IRS Scandal
• The IRS Scandal, Day 10
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• Benefit Corporations and the Business Expense Deduction

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• WaPo and WSJ Agree: IRS Targeting of Conservatives Is Appalling
• ABA Tax Section May Meeting
• College Advice From The Daily Show
• State Beer Taxes

Sunday:

• Happy Mother's Day:  Tax Attorney Son Tries to Deduct $1.2 Million for Caring for Infirm Mother
• Schmalbeck on the IRS 'Targeting' of Conservative Groups
• A Cincinnati Lawyer's Rise, Fall, and Redemption ... in Hawaii (Thanks to a Tax Prof)
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• NY Times:  The Corporate Tax Game
• Hastings Business Law Journal Publishes New Issue
• State Inheritance and Estate Tax Rates and Exemptions
• The Enigma of Sales Taxation Through 'Amazon' Laws

Sunday:

• Self-Congratulation and Faculty Scholarship
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• Zelinsky:  The California Secure Choice Retirement Savings Trust Act
• The First Circuit Sides With IRS, Not Tax Court, in Collection Due Process Standard of Review

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• Rapoport:  U.S. News Rankings Management, Law Schools Gone Wild, and Enron
• GAO:  IRS Collected $5.5 Billion in 2007-10 From Offshore Bank Cheats, But May be Missing Billions More
• Du Pont:  Make Government Less Taxing
• Why FATCA Will Not Stand

Sunday:

• President Obama and Conan O'Brien at Last Night's White House Correspondents' Dinner
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• Mother (and Father) and Child Reunion
• Radical Reformation and the IRS

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• Kleinbard:  Three Ways to Relieve Our Tax Hangovers
• From South Bend to Southern California: The World's Biggest Law Firm CEO's Journey for Sun (and Beer)
• Talking Taxes With California Beach Goers
• Online Advertising and Source-Based Taxation

Sunday:

• Martinez:  Structural Impediments to Tax Reform
• House Questions IRS Decision to Send Employees to Union Conference in Vegas in Wake of Furloughs
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• Rethinking § 104(a)(2)

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• Raj Chetty Named Best American Economist Under 40
• NY Times Debate:  Offshore Tax Havens -- Global Tax Dodge or Economic Boon?
• 16th Annual Critical Tax Theory Conference Concludes Today at UC-Hastings
• More on the Obama and Biden Tax Returns

Sunday:

• Horwitz:  What Ails the Law Schools?
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• Public Opinions on Taxes:  1937 to Today
• Vance:  Why Your Tax Return Isn't Safe

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• WSJ:  More Than 50% of Law Graduates Aren’t Making a Living
• Obama Won't Take Charitable Deduction for Contribution of $20,000 of His Salary to Feds
• Obama Budget to Limit IRAs to $3 Million
• Dartmouth Grad:  Find a Man Today, Graduate Tomorrow

Sunday:

• Posner:  The Real Problem With Law Schools (They Train Too Many Lawyers)
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• The Guardian:  Law Students Face Uncertain Future With Jobs Scarce and Debt High
• 12th Annual Conducting Empirical Legal Scholarship Workshop

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• TaxProf Blog Draws #2 Seed in Law Blog Bracket; Tax Draws #3 Seed in Law Course Bracket
• NY Times:  Is the Estate Tax Doomed?
• Barry Currier Named Managing Director of Accreditation and Legal Education at ABA
• WSJ:  Tax Reform Splits Big Business Into Three Groups

Sunday:

• WSJ:  Last-Minute Tax Tips
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• Court of Appeals Dismisses Placement Data Lawsuit Against New York Law School
• Tax Analysts:  The 100th Anniversary of the Federal Income Tax

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• New York Uses 'Jimmy Fallon Tax Credit' to Lure The Tonight Show From L.A.
• IRS Admits Spending $60k on Star Trek Parody Training Video Was a Mistake
• Federal District Court Allows Placement Data Lawsuit to Proceed Against Widener Law School
• After Rejection of 75% Tax Rate on Wealthy, France Considers 66% Rate

Sunday:

• NY Times:  The Ethics of Being a Tax Lawyer
• WSJ:  China Creates $800 Million Tax-Free Zone for Art
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• State to Pay 90% of Law School Tuition for 16 Graduates Who Work in Underserved Areas

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• WSJ:  Tax Tips for Life's Big Changes
• Is Law School Worth It?
• Golfer Sergio Garcia Loses Tax Court Case on Allocation of Endorsement Income
• NY Times:  Younger Generations Lag Parents in Wealth-Building

Sunday:

• Law School Rankings by Salary of Recent Graduates
• Miller:  An Economic Model for the Taxation of Derivatives
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• The Economist:  Tax Havens -- A Modest Proposal

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• Minnesota Department of Revenue Warns Taxpayers:  Don't Use TurboTax
• NLJ:  Two Law Schools Offer Money-Back Guarantee to Students
• 312,000 Federal Workers Owe $3.5 Billion in Back Taxes, Up 11.5% From Prior Year
• Infanti Presents LGBT Families, Tax Nothings at Iowa

Sunday:

• Cassidy:  Strategic Austerity May Save Law Schools and Improve Learning Outcomes
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• Replacing the Corporate Income Tax With a Value-Added Tax
• Survey for Contracts Professors

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• Florida State Hosts Symposium Today on One-Hundred Years of the Federal Income Tax
• Ex-Jenkens & Gilchrist Partner Gets 8 Years in Tax Shelter Case
• Davidoff:  Beware the Unintended Consequences of a Financial Transactions Tax
• House Creates Email Address for Tax Reform

Sunday:

• Estate Planning Lessons From 'Downton Abbey'
• The Shrinking Law Faculty Lateral Market
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• Ernst & Young Pays $123 Million to Avoid Tax Shelter Prosecution

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• American Taxation Association Midyear Meeting
• Dean Calls for Charter Law Schools
• Ex-Dean:  The Problem With Legal Education: The ABA
• ABA May Pull Florida A&M's Accreditation

Sunday:

• Reynolds:  The Hollywood Tax Story They Won't Tell at the Oscars
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• Law Prof:  I May File Law School Ethics Charges
• Harry Reid Hires G.E. Lawyer as Chief Tax Adviser

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• CBO Rejects GOP Charge That It Slanted Report on Taxing U.S. Multinational Corporations
• Julie Sullivan, USD Provost and Former Tax Prof, Named President of University of St. Thomas
• National Jurist Backtracks on Use of RateMyProfessors.com in Law School Rankings
• 2013 State and Local Tax Rates

Sunday:

• Should Law Reviews Take Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation of Authors Into Account When Selecting Articles?
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• NY Times:  The Myth of the Rich Who Flee From Taxes
• Manny Pacquiao KO'd by 39.6% Tax Rate, Refuses to Fight in U.S.

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• A Genius Bar for Law
• Tax Hikes Backfire, Greece’s Revenues Plummet
• NY Times:  Time to Revive the Financial Transactions Tax
• Kadet:  Letter to OECD on BEPS (Base Erosion and Profit-Shifting)

Sunday:

• WSJ:  As Parents Live Longer, Children Create 'Upward Trusts' to Help Them
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• WSJ:  Ben Carson on the Flat Tax
• The Need for a New Law Review Ranking System

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• Georgetown Refused to Hire 62-Year Faculty Candidate Due to Lack of Scholarship, Unwillingness to Teach Tax
• Brown Presents Addressing International Inequality Through Tax Law at San Diego
• A Dean's Advice on Downsizing Legal Education
• WSJ:  Step 1, Include Health Insurance Cost on W-2. Step 2, Tax It?

Sunday:

• Louisiana Tax Man to Ravens, 49ers: Pay Up
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• Illinois Proposes 25-Cent Sneaker Tax
• 'You'd Be a Fool Not to Leave California'

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• What's FATCA Got To Do With It? Tina Turner Renounces U.S. Citizenship
• Financial Times:  U.S. Taxes: Certain as Death, Complicated as Hell
• 2013 Undergraduate Accounting Program Rankings by Tax Hiring Authorities
• Bloomberg Law:  Should Deans be Disciplined for Deceitful Marketing to Students?

Sunday:

• ABA Tax Section Midyear Meeting
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• Tax Prof Amicus Brief in PPL Corp. v. Commissioner
• Tax Strategy Patents After the America Invents Act

TaxProf Blog Holiday Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• WSJ:  Can You Trust Your Kid With $5.25 Million?
• Plummeting Law School Enrollments Portend Widespread Faculty Layoffs
• Court Says IRS Lacks Authority to Regulate Tax Preparers
• Deans Oppose Canada's First Christian Law School

Sunday:

• WSJ:  Corporate Inversions Yield Big Shareholder Tax Bills
• NY Times:  Is Technological Inequality Exacerbating Income Inequality?
• Congress Extends 100k Deduction for IRA Contributions to Charity
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads

Monday:

• Martin Luther King Jr. and Tax
• Golfer Phil Mickelson Plans 'Drastic Changes' in Response to His 63% Marginal Tax Rate
• Dell Is 'Hoisted on its Own Tax Petard' in Proposed LBO
• Henderson:  A Blueprint for Law School Change: The 12% Faculty Solution

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• 9th Circuit:  Lawyer Can't Keep Tax Records from IRS
• Joint Tax Committee Releases List of Expiring Federal Tax Provisions, 2013-2023
• Percentage of Tax Returns With AGI Over $500,000
• Customer Leaves Anti-Tax Note Rather Than Tip

Sunday:

• New England Law Dean's $867,000 Salary Draws Scrutiny Amidst Soaring Tuition, Bleak Job Prospects for Grads
• NY Times:  The Tax Code and the Very Rich
• NPR:  A Tale of Four Tax Returns
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• Today's AALS Annual Meeting Highlights
• NY Times:  Senate Inquiry Into Tech Giants’ Tax Strategies Nears End
• 6th Circuit Revives IRS Employee's Retaliation Claim
• The ABA Should Allow Attorney-Accountant Partnerships

Sunday:

• Today's AALS Annual Meeting Highlights
• WSJ:  Who Pays More Tax in 2013?
• NY Times:  Tax Code May Be the Most Progressive Since 1979
• GAO:  IRS Could Significantly Increase Revenues by Better Targeting Enforcement Resources

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• Freakonomics:  An Economist’s Guide to Year-End Charitable Giving
• Cato:  Six Reasons To Keep Capital Gains Tax Rates Low
• The Deductibility of Payments to Whistleblowers Under the False Claims Act

Sunday:

• Law School Transparency Files Complaint Against Rutgers-Camden Over Student Recruiting
• French Court: 75% Tax Rate on Millionaires Is Unconstitutional
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• UCLA Law Prof Lets Needy Strangers Live Rent-Free in His House: Cool or Crazy?
• WSJ:  Two Fiscal Cliff Tax Debacles: Reduced Tax-Home Pay, No Tax Filing Until March 31
• ABA:  Law Schools Admit More Non-J.D. Students to Offset Decline in J.D. Enrollment
• NY Times:  Congress Must Preserve the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit

Sunday:

• Our Christmas Gift
• Deconstruction Deduction: Home Disassembly and Charitable Donation Rather Than Demolition Yields Big Tax Savings
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• Excess Profits Taxes and § 901

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• Valparaiso Hosts Tax Roundtable Today in Chicago
• Sex Reassignment Surgery as a Tax Deductible Medical Expense
• California and New York as Potential Regulators of Elite Law Schools
• Supreme Court Grants Cert to Decide Whether Estate Tax Marital Deduction Applies to Same-Sex Couple
• 25th Annual George Washington International Tax Institute

Sunday:

• Organ:  Stealth Restructuring in Legal Education -- Revenues Are Down $200 Million in Two Years
• WSJ:  Fiscal Cliff Talks Spur Year-End Charitable Giving
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• NY Times:  Many Families Earning >$250,000 Would Escape Obama's Tax Hike
• Harvard Economics Department Holiday Video

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• Deductibility of 'Scholarship' Payments to Student Escorts
• Hesch:  The Financial Danger of Maximizing Taxable Gifts in 2012
• The Most Dangerous Colleges in America
• NY Times:  Tax Burden Is Lower for Most Americans Than in the 1980s
• Criticism of Case Western Dean's NY Times op-ed, Law School Is Worth the Money

Sunday:

• Estate Planning for Illegal Assets:  The Final Chapter
• Will the Mortgage Interest Deduction Go Off the Fiscal Cliff?
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• Should Law Students be Allowed to Take the Bar in February of Their Third Year?
• Bartlett:  Tax Reform That Works -- The Case for a VAT

TaxProf Blog Holiday Weekend Roundup

Thursday:

• What Tax Profs Are Thankful For
• WKRP in Cincinnati Thanksgiving Turkey Drop
• Penn State to Operate Separate Law Schools (Like Rutgers, Arkansas)
• Estrich:  I Did Not Vote for Obama to Raise My Taxes

Friday:

• The New Yorker:  Why We Pay Taxes
• NY Times:  LSAT Takers and Law School Enrollments Plunge Amidst Poor Placement Prospects
• IRS Releases Fall 2012 SOI Bulletin
• IRS Releases 2013 Standard Mileage Rates

Saturday:

• Fleischer:  A Tax Crackdown Is Not Needed on Mortgage-Backed Securities
• Should the Top Marginal Income Tax Rate Be 73 Percent?
• Jurors Agree:  University of Iowa Law School Discriminated Against Faculty Applicant Due to Her Conservative Views
• NY Times:  Walmart's Acceleration of Dividend by Six Days Will Save Walton Family $180 Million in Taxes

Sunday:

• WSJ:  Year-End Tax Moves
• NY Times:  Politics Complicates the Math in Ending Tax Breaks for Rich
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• College Cuts Adjunct Faculty Hours to Avoid ObamaCare

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• Tax Consequences of Janeane Garofalo's Forgotten Marriage
• Group Sues IRS for Not Enforcing Electioneering Restrictions on Churches
• NY Times:  Charity’s Role in America
• U.S. News Releases FAQ on Defrocking of George Washington

Sunday:

• PrawfsBlawg Debate:  Reforming Legal Education's Finances
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• Tax Foundation:  State-by-State Impact of the Fiscal Cliff
• TIGTA:  Tax Preparers and IRS Agents May be Stealing Taxpayer Direct Deposit Refunds

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• Rankings Scandal at George Washington
• CCH Tax Briefing:  Post-Election Tax Policy
• Chronicle:  America's Longest-Serving Law Dean Defends the Value of a Law Degree
• Tax Foundation:  The Fiscal Cliff: A Primer

Sunday:

• IRS 'Turbocharges' Donation of Unused Vacation Days to Aid Hurricane Sandy Victims
• Colbert on NY Court Ruling: Lap Dances Are Not 'Art' and Thus Not Exempt From Sales Tax
• WSJ:  Tax Twist -- Cutting Corporate Tax Rates May Cost Billions
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• The Last Game
• Hurricane Sandy and Taxes
• O'Donnabhain and the IRS's Understanding of Transgender Medical Care
• The U.S. Expatriate Inheritance Tax

Sunday:

• WSJ:  Tax Breaks Under Fire
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• The Unconstitutional Taxation of Out-of-State Corporations that do Instate Business Over the Internet
• Two Stories of Taxation of Capital

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• Tax Papers at Central States Law Schools Association Annual Conference
• Posner, Becker on Luck, Wealth, and Taxation
• 2011-2012 Law Review Diversity Report
• WSJ:  Romney's Tax Deduction Cap: Good Tax Policy, Better Politics

Sunday:

• Advice to the Wealthy:  SELL!
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• The Inequality of Federal Tax Incentives for Conservation Easement Donations
• The Tax Benefits and Revenue Costs of Tax Deferral

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• ABA Tax Section Seeks Nominations for Janet R. Spragens Pro Bono Award
• Joint Tax Committee:  Repealing Deductions Pays for 4% Tax Rate Cut (Not 20% Claimed by Romney)
• Designing Commodity Taxes for Inattentive Consumers
• Freakonomics:  Income Inequality, Monkey-Style

Sunday:

• SNL on the Biden-Ryan VP Debate
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• How Battles Over Collection of Sales Taxes on Online Sales Will Affect Small Businesses
• Starnes and the Resurrection of the General Utilities Doctrine

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• Hollywood: Special Tax Breaks For Us, Tax Increases on Everyone Else
• Hamilton Project:  Lifetime Earnings Bump for College Grads Trumps Higher Costs
• Law School Litigation and the Law School Transparency Movement
• Mitigating the Unintended Consequences of Biofuel Tax Credits

Sunday:

• 1,400 Pastors to Bait IRS Today on 'Pulpit Freedom Sunday'
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• Kane Posts Tax Papers on SSRN
• Tax Prof Cuts a Rug

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• Staudt Presents The Supercharged IPO and Is Gender-Based Policymaking Necessary in the 21st Century?
• Dalhousie University Conference Today on The Carter Commission 50 Years Later
• Conference Today to Honor Hugh Ault
• Intellectual Property and the Income Tax
• Caron Presents The Jones Polynominal of Spherical Virtual Knots Today at Grinnell College

Sunday:

• WSJ:  Is Your Political Donation Deductible?
• International Tax Research Symposium
• Tax Papers at Canadian Law & Economics Association Annual Meeting
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• Textron, Tax Accrual Papers, and the Shrinking Work Product Privilege

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• Carnage in 1L Law School Enrollments
• WSJ:  Obama's 100% Capital Gains Tax Increase Won't Raise Revenue, But Will Hurt Economy, Jobs & Wages
• 2012 Corporate Tax Competitiveness Rankings
• FactCheck.org:  Do Five Economic Studies Support Romney's Tax Plan?

Sunday:

• Johnson & Waggoner:  Congress Should Curb Perpetual Trusts
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• The Double Irish Sandwich: Reforming Overseas Tax Havens
• Measures of R&D Tax Incentives for OECD Countries

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• University of Washington Hosts 2d Annual Critical Perspectives on Tax Policy Workshop
• Europe Considers Taxing Catholic Church to Raise Revenue
• ABA Tax Section Fall Meeting
• Should Credit Unions Continue to be Tax Exempt?

Sunday:

• John Yoo Tortures Moneyball Analogy in Defending His Citation Count Study
• Why Progressives Should Want to End the Estate Tax, Too
• Oregon Is Latest State to Consider Estate Tax Repeal
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• A Tale of Two (California) Law Schools:  La Verne and UC-Irvine
• John Marshall Center for Tax Law Seeks to Hire Associate Director
• More on the Phillips & Yoo 'Better Faculty Citation Rankings System'

Sunday:

• Johnston:  Who Pays the Top Income Tax Rate?
• LSAT Scores at Top Schools Are Dropping Like Flies
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads

TaxProf Blog Holiday Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• Harvard Prof: 'I Give Out 120 A's. Class Attendance Is Not Mandatory'
• WSJ:  Countdown to a Tax Hike
• Tax Information Sharing Between the United States and China

Sunday:

• NY Times:  NY AG Investigates Tax Treatment of Bain Capital Management Fees
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• Schedule UTP Impinges on the Work-Product Privilege

Monday:

• WaPo:  Mitt Romney Exited Bain Capital With Rare Tax Benefits in Retirement
• NY Times:  Debtors Struggle to Prove 'Undue Hardship' to Discharge Student Loans
• Froomkin:  Will the IRS Revoke Tax-Exempt Status of Karl Rove's Crossroads GPS After the Election?

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• WSJ:  A Clue Emerges to Romney’s Gift-Tax Mystery
• Johnson:  Settle Withholding by the Dollars, Not Control
• The Five Keys to Faculty Job Satisfaction
• Taxpayers as Victims: Taxpayer Harm & Criminalization

Sunday:

• NY Times:  Two-and-Twenty Tax Dodges
• NY Times:  Tax Credits Shed Light on Romney
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• Reviving the American University With an 80% Rule

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• Janna Ryan, Tax Lawyer
• Are Law Professors Greedy?
• NY Times:  Tax Returns of Richest 400 Americans Provide Clues to Romney's Unreleased Tax Returns
• Deterring Transfer Pricing Abuse Through Tax Court Reform

Sunday:

• Romney, Ryan, and Taxes
• St. Louis Prof Addresses Turmoil at Her Law School
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• Tax Reform Is Coming, No Matter Who Wins the Presidential Election

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• Amar:  Why Law Students and Faculty Should Care About Citation Rankings
• Plenary Session on Coping with Changes in Legal Education Today at SEALS
• NLJ:  Law School — Still a Dodgy Investment
• The Tax Treatment of Intercollegiate Athletics

Sunday:

• How Equity Investment Could Spur Legal Employment
• The Onion:  Speculation About Romney's Taxes
• More on the 55 Year Old CPA's Age Discrimination Suit Over Baylor's Admissions Denial Despite His 169 LSAT
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• California Court Allows Fraud Cases Against Golden Gate, USF Law Schools to Proceed
• Romneys Have Tax Deduction With Olympic Hopes Riding on Rafalca
• Brown:  Law Faculty Blogs and Disruptive Innovation -- The Data
• Social Businesses and Tax-Exempt Status

Sunday:

• A Tax Lesson From Chief Justice Roberts
• Gamage Participates in Health Care Reform Panel Discussion Today at SEALS
• The New Lawyer Infographic
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• Smith: The APA's Arbitrary and Capricious Standard and IRS Regulations
• Court Dismisses Fraud Lawsuit Against Second Law School: ABA Placement Data Are 'So Vague and Incomplete as to be Meaningless and Could Not Reasonably be Relied Upon'
• O’Donnabhain and the Tax Treatment of Gender Reassignment Surgery
• State Approaches to Increasing Use-Tax Revenue

Sunday:

• A Taxing British Open
• NALP: New Lawyer Salaries, 1991-2011
• Tax Consequences of Chevrolet's 'Love It Or Return It' Promotion
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday: 

• Argentine President: Criticize Me, the Taxman Will Punish You
• IRS Stops Companies From Evading Repatriation Tax
• CBPP:  A Federal Renters’ Tax Credit

Sunday:

• IRS Bogarts Medical Marijuana Pharmacy's Deductions, Drives Founder Into Bankruptcy
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• Mechanics of President Obama's Proposal to Raise Taxes on the 'Rich'

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• Motro:  Men Pay Alimony, Why Not Preligmony?
• More on the Roberts Tax Increase Kicking in on Jan. 1, 2013
• NY Times:  Wealthy Turn to Family Limited Partnerships

Sunday:

• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• Advice from a Man on His 30th Wedding Anniversary
• A Short History of Congress's Power to Tax

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• United Nations Considers Global Internet Tax on Apple, Facebook, Google, etc.
• More on The Affordable Care Act and the Taxing Power
• Factual Distortions Derail Productive Debate on Tax Reform

Sunday:

• The Pedigree Problem: Are Law School Rankings Choking the Profession?
• Tax Aspects of the Tom Cruise-Katie Holmes Divorce
• Tax Analysts Conversation With David Gamage

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• How to Use a Roth IRA Conversion to Profit from the Presidential Election
• Prospective Students Tell Law Schools: 'Show Me The Money'
• Johnston:  Why 35,000 High-Income Americans Pay No Federal Income Tax

Sunday:

• Winners of 'Dinner With Barack' Will Face a $560 Tax Bill
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• The Constitutionality of Retroactive Estate Tax Legislation

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• ABA: Only 55.2% of the Class of 2011 Have Full-Time Long-Term Legal Jobs
• Tax Panel at Today's ISNIE Annual Conference at USC
• Taxpayers Pay $1.2 Million for Lunch with Warren Buffett
• CBO & JCT:  New Evidence on the Tax Elasticity of Capital Gains

Sunday:

• Tax Implications for U.S. Multinationals if Greece Drops Euro
• State Income Tax Collections Per Capita
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• Independent Contractor v. Employee

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• Bloomberg:  Job Market Gets Even Worse for Law Grads
• CBPP:  Beware the 'Tax Reform' Scam
• Tax Expenditure Theory in France

Sunday:

• NLJ:  Judge Rejects Thomas Cooley Law School's Nuremberg Defense in Placement Data Fraud Lawsuit
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• The Deductibility of Gender-Specific Medical Expenses

TaxProf Blog Holiday Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• State Trend:  Independent Tax Courts
• Mitt Romney, David Petraeus, and Tax Lawyers: 'Incredibly Boring White Guys'
• IRS Releases Spring 2012 SOI Bulletin

Sunday:

• WSJ:  New Taxes for 'Renouncers'?
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• Block:  A Continuum Approach to Systemic Risk

Monday:

• Memorial Day at Exit 149
• Memorial Day Tax Resources for U.S. Armed Forces (and Their Families, Employers)
• June-December 2012:  A Golden Time of Gift Giving

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• Estate & Gift Tax Savings From Facebook Co-Founder's Renunciation of U.S. Citizenship Dwarf Income Tax Savings
• 64% of Recent Law Grads Do Not Work as Lawyers
• Tax Exceptionalism and Tax Reform
• The Tax Treatment of Carried Interest

Sunday:

• Should You Renounce Your U.S. Citizenship Like Facebook Co-Founder Eduardo Saverin?
• David Cay Johnston v. Grover Norquist on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• California and the Amazon Tax

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• Will President Obama's Views on Tax Reform Also 'Evolve'?
• Will Facebook Co-Founder's Renunciation of U.S. Citizenship Increase His U.S. Tax Bill?
• ABA Tax Section May Meeting
• Americans Like the Rich, and the Rich Benefit America

Sunday:

• Mother's Day
• Seto, Kleinbard Explain Tax Consequences of Facebook Co-Founder's Renunciation of U.S. Citizenship
• Law Firm Demand Rose Modestly in 2012 First Quarter
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads