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TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• Lawyer Dog
• Income Inequality and Leisure Inequality:  Do the 1% Work Harder Than the 99%?
• Delgado:  The Happy Lawyer -- Making a Good Life in the Law
• State Inheritance and Estate Tax Rates and Exemptions

Sunday:

• NY Times:  How Apple Sidesteps Billions in Global Taxes
• WSJ:  Tax Court Blesses Tax-Free Technique for Parents to Transfer Family Business, Wealth to Their Children
• Johnston:  Tax Preparers, Not Working Poor, Defraud EITC Program
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• Tulane Tax Policy Roundtable
• Tax Court Denies Attorney's $72k 'Business Development' Deduction for Costs of Attending Son's Equestrian Events
• Top 14 Law Schools Need to Admit Applicants With <170 LSATs to Fill Their Incoming Classes
• Mitt Romney's Lessons for Your Tax Return

Sunday:

• WSJ:  Buffett Rule Would Reduce Federal Tax Revenues by $800 Billion
• Lawsuit Challenges IRS's Authority to Ban Contingent Fees in Tax Cases
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• WSJ:  The Tax War Against Women

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• ABA, NYSBA Propose Estate & Gift Tax Reforms
• Dorf:  A Game Theory Approach to Law Review Submissions -- A Two-Wave Strategy
• CTJ:  Who Pays Taxes in America?
• The Real Causes of Income Inequality

Sunday:

• Income Inequality Promotes Cheating
• WSJ:  There's Time for a 'Back-Door' Roth IRA Before April 17
• Hamilton Project:  The Truth about Taxes -- Just About Everyone Pays Them
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• The Big Winner in Last Night's Mega Millions Drawing:  The Tax Man
• 15th Annual Critical Tax Conference Concludes Today at Seton Hall
• Did Law Schools Underreport Student Debt?
• ABA Reverses Course, Grants Provisional Accreditation to La Verne

Sunday:

• Warren Buffett Issues Tax Mea Culpa, Launches 'Tax It Forward' Movement
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• The IRS Is Not Investigating SC Gov. Nikki Haley
• New Daytona Beach Law School Plans Fall 2013 Opening

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• IRS Increased Audit Rate of Richest Americans by 63% in 2011
• The Hunger Games:  Law Review Article Submission Edition
• More on IRS, Tea Party Groups, and § 501(c)(4) Tax-Exempt Status
• More on The Three Keys to Faculty Performance (and Satisfaction)

Sunday:

• Tamanaha:  The Quickly Exploding Law Student Debt Disaster
• CRS:  An Economic Analysis of Tax Base Broadening
• WSJ:  Estate Tax Repeal Momentum Builds in the States
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• Placement Data Controversy Hits Elite Law Schools
• GAO:  IRS Continues to Put Taxpayer Information at Risk; 89 of 105 Internal Control Weaknesses Remain
• Law School Targeted in Placement Data Litigation Responds
• WSJ:  Two New Tax Traps for Small Businesses

Sunday:

• WSJ 'Numbers Guy':  Law School Placement Data Reporting
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• NY Times:  Capital Gains vs. Ordinary Income
• Nichol:  Rankings, Economic Challenge, and the Future of Legal Education

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• CBS News:  Lean Times for Law School Grads
• NY Times Backs IRS Efforts to Out Donors to Tea Party, Other 501(c)(4) Groups
• Increasing Employment Discrimination Awards to Take Account of Adverse Tax Consequences
• Chris Christie Calls Rutgers Law Student an 'Idiot'

Sunday:

• Top 14 Law School Grads:  Too Good for BigLaw?
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• 56% Think America Is Overtaxed
• The World's Top Incomes Database

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• Treasury Department Defends Waiver of NOL Rules for AIG, GM
• The Real Reason Why Law School Tuition Keeps Rising
• IRS Releases Winter 2012 Statistics of Income Bulletin
• U.S. Companies Add $187 Billion to $1.2 Trillion Offshore Profits Stockpile

Sunday:

• 2011 Moot Court Rankings
• Johnston:  Let's Cut Corporate Tax, Increase Capital Gains and Dividend Taxes
• A Comparative Analysis of State Tax Costs on Business
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• The Economist:  Tax Reform -- The Devil's in the Details (and the Politics)
• Barack Obama and Mitt Romney:  Tax Emperors With No Clothes
• Poll:  Public Favors Obama's Millionaire's Tax, Spending Cuts over Tax Hikes to Cut Deficit
• 62 Colleges Meet 100% of Students' Financial Need

Sunday:

• Taxing the Oscars
• Forbes:  Estate Planning Issues in The Descendants
• Forbes:  Estate Planning for Illegal Assets
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• NY Times:  The Tax Rate of the 400 Richest Americans
• ABA Tax Section Midyear Meeting
• The Facts About Tax Progressivity
• Fair Share Tax Reform

Sunday:

• Candy Man (Tax Edition)
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• IRS Extends Deadline to File Estate Tax Portability Election ‎
• Low Income Taxpayer Grant Recipients

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• U.S. Income Taxes Are the Most Progressive in the World
• Moody's May Downgrade Law Schools' Credit Rating
• Dividend and Capital Gain Taxes: A Comparative View
• Corporate Income Taxes Have Biggest Impact on Economic Growth, Not Payroll Taxes

Sunday:

• Super Bowl Denouement
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• Gingrich's Tax Plan v. Romney's Tax Plan
• Pew, TPC:  Implications of Different Bases for a VAT

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• PBS:  What Do Tax Rates' Ups and Downs Mean for Economic Growth?
• Law School Offers Free 7th Semester If Students Postpone Taking July Bar Exam
• Law Schools Shrink Part-Time Programs After U.S. News Closed Rankings Loophole
• Monahan:  Fairness v. Welfare in Health Insurance Regulation

Sunday:

• NY Times:  The Man Who Pays a 102% Tax Rate
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• WSJ:  The Tax Treatment of Frequent Flier Miles
• Bll Proposed to Close John Edwards/Newt Gingrich Medicare Tax ‘Loophole’

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• Law School Applications Fall 15%
• Smith:  The APA's Reasoned-Explanation Rule and IRS Deficiency Notices
• O'Donnabhain:  Tax Policy and Gender Identity Disorder
• The Need for a Tax Subsidy for Bicycle Commuting Expenses

Sunday:

• Mankiw:  Four Steps to a Better Tax System
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• NFL Final Four:  Boston, New York, and San Francisco Trump Baltimore in Lower Taxes
• AEI:  Pro-Growth, Progressive Tax Reform

TaxProf Blog Holiday Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• While Law Schools Dither Over Reform, the Legal Profession May be Passing Them By
• 46th Annual Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning
• Buckles:  The Uniform Act, Federal Tax Law, and State Charity Law
• The Google Sandwich and Subpart F

Sunday:

• Johnston:  A Corporate Tax Code for a Different Century
• Chen:  The Better Angels of Our Profession
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• Buchanan:  Barack Obama Is the Best President of My Lifetime

Monday:

• Martin Luther King Jr. and Tax
• WSJ:  Should Accountants Have Term Limits?
• Tony Blair and the £8Million Tax 'Mystery'
• Likhovski:  Taxation Without a State: Jewish Taxes in Palestine, 1938-48

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• Judge Cabranes' Three-Part Prescription for Law Schools
• Chronicle:  Legal Educators Grapple With How to Meet a Changing Profession's Needs
• IRS:  Tax Gap Widens to $450 Billion
• AALS Adds Four New Members

Sunday:

• WSJ:  The Road Ahead for Taxes
• AALS Standing Committee on Law Libraries and Technology
• Tax Prof Dinner at AALS
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads

TaxProf Blog Holiday Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• What If the IRS Asked Website Visitors to 'Like' President Obama on Facebook?
• Illegal Immigrants Pay Social Security Tax, Won't Benefit
• The Best and Worst Commercial of 2011

Sunday:

• 53 Tax Breaks Expired Today (Jan. 1)
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• UK Uncut Challenges Sweetheart Tax Deals With Goldman Sachs, Others

Monday:

• Galle:  Looking for Clarity in the Taxing Power
• South Korea Passes 'Buffett Tax' on Those Earning >$259,000
• Greece's IRS Goes on Strike

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• Death of Larry Ribstein (1946-2011)
• 'Twas the Night Before Christmas (Legal Version)
• WSJ:  How to Dodge Last-Minute Tax Traps
• Tax Accrual Workpapers and Textron

Sunday:

• In Hoc Anno Domini
• World Giving Index 2011: U.S. Is #1 (Out of 153 Countries)
• Go Cincinnati Bengals! Watch the NFL Play of the Year!
• Santa Claus Arrested by the IRS
• California Releases Tax Data
• Law School Transparency:  Should Faculty Compensation Be Transparent?

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• Harvard Law Review on Nancy Staudt's How Courts Fund National Defense in Times of Crisis
• Should the University of Louisville Law Review Close its Doors?
• Christmas Gifts for that Special Tax Person
• An Argument for Expanding New York City’s Taxing Authority

Sunday:

• NY Times:  For Law Schools, a Price to Play the ABA's Way
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• Christmas Gifts for that Special Tax Person
• The IRS Moves Toward Income Tax Equality for Same-Sex Couples Despite DOMA

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• Johnston:  The EITC Worsens Poverty
• WSJ:  What's Next for Offshore Accounts?
• China Adopts 50% Tax Cut for Small Businesses

Sunday:

• I Believe in Tim Tebow!
• Taxes Make Lady Gaga Get 'Completely Wasted'
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• Charitable Deductions for Homes Demolished by Fire Department in Training Exercises

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• Venture Capitalist:  Taxing the Rich Leads to Job Creation
• Tax Exam Question:  $500,000 Found in Purchased Storage Unit
• Thorndike:  The Tragic Death of the Temporary Tax Cut
• Angry Taxpayer Dumps Snakes in Tax Office

Sunday:

• Johnston:  Income Inequality Increases as Bank Regulation, Prosecutions Decrease
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• Lipman & Williamson:  Social Security Benefits -- Windfall Elimination Provision
• Chen:  Is Law School Worth It? -- The Ratio of Educational Debt to Income

TaxProf Blog Holiday Weekend Roundup

Thursday:

• WKRP in Cincinnati Thanksgiving Turkey Drop
• What Tax Profs Are Thankful For
• 'Mentoring' versus 'Scamming' Law Students
• WSJ:  New MLB Rules Your Tax Lawyer Will Love
• Is Capital Gains Tax Law Biased Against Low Income Investors?

Friday:

• Ann Coulter:  Republicans Rightly Oppose Democrats' Spending Cuts/Tax Increase Ruse
• Does Apple Pay its Fair Share of U.S. Taxes?
• TIGTA:  82% Error Rate in Investment Theft Loss Deductions
• For First Time, Tax Court Approves Use of Geithner/Turbo Tax Defense
• Tyson:  Tackling Income Inequality
• Why Law Schools Are So Bad at Creating Lawyers (and How to Fix It)

Saturday:

• NY Times Editorial:  Legal Education Reform
• Think Long Committee for California Releases Tax Reform Report
• Grover Norquist:  The Anti-Tax Puppeteer Pulling Washington’s Strings
• Are Asian-American Lawyers Too Nerdy to Get to the Top?

Sunday:

• WSJ:  Year-End Tax Planning Amidst Political Chaos
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• Tax Court:  Glam Metal, Hair Bands, Ecdysiasts, and Deciduous Calisthenics
• Former AG Sues Five Additional Law Schools for Age Discrimination in Faculty Hiring

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• Some Billionaires Pay 1% Tax Rate
• Akhil Amar & Ian Ayres:  Law Schools Should Pay Students to Quit
• NTA Conference on Taxation
• Ectopia, Fictions, and Autopoiesis: Income Tax Law and Analytical Jurisprudence

Sunday:

• CTJ:  2009 Estate Tax Data
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• IRS Releases Fall 2011 SOI Bulletin
• A Mandatory Distribution Requirement for University Endowments

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• WSJ:  Special Tax Deductions for Special Education
• The 99% and the 1%:  Income Mobility and Income Inequality
• Jay Starkman Wins AICPA Award
• United States v. UBS and Executive Exhaustion

Sunday:

• Super Committee May Bail on Taxes
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• Dagan:  Dilemmas of Tax Policy in a Globalized World
• The Taxation of Damages for False Imprisonment

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• I Love Law Students and Law Professors
• Donaldson:  2011 Federal Tax Update
• Court Affirms Prof's $350k Award Against Law School for Fraud in Tenure Buyout
• The Farm Tax Subsidy

Sunday:

• Al Jazeera on U.S. Corporate Tax Reform
• The Numbers:  J.D. Degrees and Lawyer Employment
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• WSJ:  Corporate Tax Reform Is Supercommittee's Best Hope

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• Tax Papers at Today's Central States Law School Association Annual Conference
• Afield Presents Campaign Participation by Religious Organizations at Charleston
• WSJ:  Tax Benefits for Education
• A Theory of Inflation, Tax Evasion, and Redistribution

Sunday:

• Gutting Presents Public Benefit and the Charitable Deduction at Charleston
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• Landsburg:  How the Death Tax Hurts the Poor
• Shay:  Jobs, Deficit Reduction, Revenues, and Fundamental Tax Reform

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• Louisville Hosts Symposium Today on Federal Deficit Reduction
• Forbes:  Today's 25th Anniversary of the Tax Reform Act of 1986
• ABA Tax Section Midyear Meeting
• 61% of Recipients Receive EITC for Two Years or Less

Sunday:

• The Romney Rule v. The Buffett Rule
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• If Herman Cain Became Commissioner of Major League Baseball ...
• Joint Tax Returns for Gay and Lesbian Couples

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• Obama Lacks Capitol Hill Chops to Push Through Tax Reform
• WSJ:  State-Tax Deadbeats Face Tough New Measures
• CTJ:  Four Tax Changes to End the Occupy Wall Street Movement
• FactCheck.org on Kleinbard's Critique of Cain's 9-9-9 Tax Plan

Sunday:

• NY Times Debate:  Herman Cain's 9-9-9 Tax Plan
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• NY Review of Books:  Michael Graetz, The End of Energy
• The Coming U.S. - Canada Tax War

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• Obama Tax Policy v. Clinton Tax Policy
• Tamanaha:  The Coming Senate Hearing on Law School Reporting Malfeasance
• DiRusso:  American Nonprofit Law in Comparative Perspective
• Campaign Finance Disclosure Laws:  Hiding Behind the Tax Code

Sunday:

• Democrats' Millionaire Tax (49% Top Rate, 29% Capital Gains Rate): Smart Politics, Bad Tax Policy
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• Strand:  Tax Breaks for Child Care Income
• FIN 48 and Multistate Income Tax Uncertainty

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• Colbert on 501(c)(4) Groups
• 5th Circuit Rejects $1.1b Tax Losses Claimed by Andrew Beal in DAD Tax Shelter
• U.S. v. Textron and International Tax Accounting
• The Sale of Property Tax Liens to Private Investors

Sunday:

• 500 Pastors to Bait IRS Today on 'Pulpit Freedom Sunday'
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• NY Times:  Romney Aggressively Closed Corporate Tax Loopholes as Governor
• Reich:  The Case for a 'Super-Matching' Rule in the Tax Law

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• WSJ:  Write Off Your Job Hunt
• Jon Stewart:  Moneybrawl
• CCH Tax Briefing:  The Obama Tax Plan
• USA Today:  State Lawmaker Pensions

Sunday:

• Kysar Presents The Constitutionality of Tax Treaties at Notre Dame
• Tax Profs at ClassCrits IV:  Criminalizing Economic Inequality
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• NY Times:  Judges Compete for Law Clerks on a Lawless Terrain

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• Emory Conference:  Critical Perspectives on Tax Policy
• Midwest Law & Economics Association Annual Meeting at Indiana
• The Use of § 501(c)(4) to Dismantle Campaign Finance Reform
• The Preferential Treatment of Employer-Provided Health Care

Sunday:

• Obama to Propose 'Buffett Rule' -- Minimum Tax on Millionaires
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• WSJ:  9th Circuit Approves Charitable Freeze to Hedge Against IRS Valuation Fight
• Calvin Johnson Makes The Onion

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• WSJ:  Treasury Department Weighs Major International Tax Reform
• 'We Need More Dogs. We Don't Need No Cats'
• Sourcing Abatement Costs in an International Cap-and-Trade Regime
• Tax Provisions (and Their Hazards) in ObamaCare

Sunday:

• Barro:  Save the Economy by Replacing the Corporate Tax With a VAT
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• NY Times:  Special Breaks Provide Tax Dead Space for Video Game Companies
• Tax Sunset Provisions and the Renewable Energy Industry

TaxProf Blog Holiday Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• Obama's Close Ties to CEOs Whose Firms Dodge Taxes
• Tax Court Rejects DAT/DAD Tax Shelter
• WSJ:  How to Turn in Your Neighbor to the IRS
• Buchanan Tax Musings

Sunday:

• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• Maxine Waters Threatens to 'Tax Banks Out of Business'
• WSJ:  Unleashing Deductions for Your Pets
• Should Law Profs List Religious Affiliation on Their CVs?

Monday:

• Labor Day Report:   Law Professor as the Second Best Job in America
• Leviner Presents Normative Underpinnings of Tax Discourse at SLS Conference
• The Onion:  Tax Cuts as Fire Fighting Tool
• Graduate Law Program Rankings in Employee Benefits

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• Texas Supreme Court Upholds Constitutionality of $5 'Pole Tax'
• IRS Releases Summer 2011 SOI Bulletin
• The FATCA Provisions of the HIRE Act
• State Taxation of Indian Reservation Cigarette Sales to Non-Indians

Sunday:

• Steve Jobs' Advice on Life and Death
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• The IRS's UBS Settlement
• The Effect of the IRS's UBS Settlement on the Swiss Banking Industry

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• Anonymous Law Prof Behind Law School Scam Blog Outs Himself: Paul Campos
• Jon Stewart on Warren Buffett's NY Times Tax Op-Ed
• A Case for the IRS's Full Compliance with the APA
• Environmental Tax Leakage and Border Tax Adjustment Concessions

Sunday:

• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• Jon Stewart on Class Warfare
• Stewart:  It's Time to Equalize Capital Gain and Ordinary Income Tax Rates
• The Long Term Implications of Obama's International Tax Policy

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• More on 'Anonymous Law Prof' and 'The Law School Scam'
• Using the EITC and VITA to Stimulate Financial Planning in Poor Communities
• Judicial Deference to Retroactive Interpretative Treasury Regulations

Sunday:

• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• The Statutory Tax Practitioner Privilege: What Is Tax Shelter 'Promotion'?
• Protecting Consumers From Tax-Exclusive Pricing

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• Are You the Master of Your e-Mail Domain?
• New York Bar Tells ABA:  Make Law Schools Produce 'Practice-Ready' Lawyers
• WSJ:  Carried Interest in the Cross Heirs
• Michigan State Responds to Faculty Candidate's Age Discrimination Claim

Sunday:

• ABA, NALP Bury the Hatchet on Law School Placement Data Reporting
• IRS Issues Guidance for Estates of Decedents Dying in 2010
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• Vindicated Widener Law Prof Ordered to Undergo Psychiatric Evaluation

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• NY Times: Should You Pay Sales Tax on Amazon Purchases?
• Former AG Sues Michigan State, Files EEOC Complaints Against 100 Law Schools, for Age Discrimination in Hiring
• Taxation of Human Capital: Tax Discrimination on Educational Expenditures
• Remittances, the Charitable Deduction, and Development in Mexico

Sunday:

• NALP Objects to ABA Reform of Law School Placement Data Reporting
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• An International Perspective on the Role of Taxes in Deficit and Debt Reduction
• ABA Tax Section Submits Comments on 2011-12 Guidance Priority List

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• Could Tax Reform Make the Financial System Safer?
• Fractional Charitable Giving at the Intersection of Museology and Tax Policy
• A Pragmatic Approach to Combating Foreign-Effected Tax Evasion

Sunday:

• Grover Norquist, Taxes, and the Debt Ceiling
• Valuation of Charitable Contributions of Intellectual Property
• Do the New § 2032 Alternative Valuation Date Proposed Regs Go Too Far?

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• Johnston:  State Lotteries Replace Corporate Income Taxes as Revenue Source
• The Tax Lawyer's Dilemma
• Reforming the U.S. Taxation of Multinational Corporations

Sunday:

• Fact Check:  Does Washington Have a Spending Problem or a Tax Problem?
• NY Times:  Law School Economics -- Ka-Ching!
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• More on the Economic Effect of Reducing (or Raising) Taxes
• Tax Prof Dinner in San Diego
• Equalizing Tax Incentives for the Donation of Conservation Easements
• The Effectiveness of the Adoption Tax Credit

Sunday:

• GOOOAAALLL!!!
• WSJ:  The Gift and Generation-Skipping Taxes May Save John Edwards
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• Forbes:  Hawaii Adopts Obama-Style Tax Hike on the 'Rich'
• The New Rules of Estate Planning

TaxProf Blog Holiday Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• D.C. Cir.: IRS Can't Make Taxpayers Run 'Obstacle Course' to Get Refund
• Ohio Repeals its Estate Tax
• The Costs and Benefits of Housing Tax Subsidies

Sunday:

• Michele Bachmann Backs One-Year Income Tax Holiday
• Bill Clinton Backs Repatriation Tax Holiday
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads

Monday:

• Maule:  Freedom, Independence, Taxation, and Service
• WSJ:  The 25 Documents You Need Before You Die
• NY Times:  IRS Delays Refunds to Taxpayers Claiming Home Buyer Credit

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• Gale, Lawsky Present Today at Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum
• Activists Disrupt U2 Concert, Tell Bono: 'U Pay Your Tax 2'
• A Look into the Economic Substance Doctrine
• The Main Street Fairness Act and the Internet Sales Tax Problem

Sunday:

• WSJ:  Commodity ETFs: Extreme Tax Frustration
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• § 501(c)(3) Organizations That Discriminate Against LGBT Employees
• NYSBA Releases Tax Reports  

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• IRS Sets Trap at US Open, Seeks Slice of Foreign Golfers' Endorsement Income
• Update on Professor Charged With Peeing on Faculty Colleague's Office Door
• Tax Treatment of Gender Reassignment Surgery
• Monitoring Corporate Governance at Nonprofit Hospitals Through Form 990

Sunday:

• A Father's Day Lesson
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• UBS, Tax Fraud, and International Banking Law
• UBS, Tax Fraud, and International Cooperation

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• Sullivan:  Let's Tax Large Passthroughs as Corporations
• Zelinsky:  New York's Irrational Income Taxation of Nonresidents
• The Top Tax Rate on Corporate Profits, 1913-2011
• Death of Steve Gey

Sunday:

• ABA Reforms Law School Placement Data Reporting
• Did Michigan, George Washington University Lose Their Tax Exempt Status?
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• NY Times:  IRS Apologizes to 300 California Gay & Lesbian Taxpayers

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• Today's Law, Society & Taxation Panels
• Senior Manager Files $350m Gender Discrimination Class Action Against KPMG
• European Association of Tax Law Professors Annual Meeting
• IRS Responds to GOP Questions on Application of Gift Tax to 501(c)(4) Groups

Sunday:

• S.F. Exempts Stock Options From 1.5% Payroll Tax in Bid to Keep High Tech Firms
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• Schwidetzky:  Musings on Watson and the John Edwards Sub S Tax Shelter
• More on the 'John Edwards Sub S Tax Shelter' Case

TaxProf Blog Holiday Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• Who Made Blago Almost Flunk Out of Pepperdine: Alexander Hamilton or Farrah Fawcett?
• CBPP:  Misconceptions and Realities About Who Pays Taxes
• Tax Allocation Methods in Bankruptcy

Sunday:

• WSJ:  A New Push to Protect Innocent Spouses
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• CBPP:  Let's Return to 2009 Estate Tax Law in 2013

Monday:

• Judge Tacha's Memorial Day Challenge to Law Schools: Create Lawyer-Patriots
• Memorial Day Tax Resources for U.S. Armed Forces (and Their Families, Employers)
• Top Linklaters Partner in Leather Trouser Tax Shame

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• Forbes:  Estate Planning for Women (and the Men Who Love Them)
• Tax Papers at Today's American Law & Economics Association Annual Meeting
• TP Has $28k Income on Paying $45k on $20k Student Loan ($73k With Interest)
• 6th Cir:  IRS Tax Lien Has Priority Over Mortgage Lien Filed in Wrong County

Sunday:

• NY Times:  Job and Salary Prospects for Recent College Grads, by Major
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• No $120k Internet Poker Loss Deduction for Lawyer Denied BigLaw Partnership
• 2011 Building a Better Legal Profession Law Firm Rankings

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• New Tax Breaks for the Business Use of a Car
• Bartlett:  GOP 'No New Taxes' Position Is Rapidly Crumbling
• California Bar Confirms Disciplinary Proceedings Against 'Tax Lady' Roni Deutch
• IRS Oversight Board Releases 2010 Annual Report to Congress

Sunday:

• $100 Million Rule Against Perpetuities Bequest: Lives-in-Being + 21 Years = 92 Years
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• Federal Student Loan Forgiveness and Cancellation of Indebtedness Income
• United States v. Textron and Curbs on Corporate Power

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• Jerry Cohen Receives ABA Tax Section Distinguished Service Award
• ABA Tax Section May Meeting
• The Tax-Exempt Status of Nonprofit Hospitals
• Acting Like Lawyers

Sunday:

• Clarissa Potter to Leave IRS in June
• Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
• Orthodox Jewish Women and the Parsonage Exemption
• Tax Claims in Chapter 12 Bankruptcy Reorganizations