7th Annual Junior Tax Scholars Workshop Begins Today at UC-Hastings

The Seventh Annual Junior Tax Scholars Workshop kicks off today at UC-Hastings with these papers:

Tax Entities

David Herzig (Valparaiso), Foreign Investors, REITS, and Net Return: An Elective Tax on Inbound Real Estate Investment
Commenters: Itai Grinberg (Georgetown), Jennifer Bird-Pollan (Kentucky)

Samuel Brunson (Loyola-Chicago), Mutual Funds, Fairness, and the Wealth Gap
Commenters: Jake Brooks (Georgetown), Leigh Osofsky (Miami)

Tracey Roberts (Louisville), Building a Better Tax Expenditure for the Alternative Energy Industry 
Commenters: Phil Hackney (LSU), David Gamage (UC-Berkeley)

Gender, Families & Taxation

Stephanie McMahon (Cincinnati), What Innocent Spouse Relief Says About Women: And Why We Need a Ruled Exception to Joint and Several Tax Liability
Commenters: Phil Hackney (LSU), Lily Faulhaber (Boston University)

Morgan Holcomb (Hamline), Taxing Anxiety
Commenters: Gary Lucas (Texas-Wesleyan), Leigh Osofsky (Miami)

Grace Lee (Alabama), Home is Where the Heart Is (Unless You're the IRS)
Commenters: Andy Haile (Elon), Stephanie McMahon (Cincinnati)

Tax Planning / Efficiency

Leigh Osofsky (Miami), Meaningful and Meaningless Frictions on Social Waste
Commenters: John R. Brooks (Georgetown), Samuel Brunson (Loyola-Chicago)

Gary Lucas (Texas-Wesleyan), Paternalistic Sin Taxes and Psychic Taxes
Commenters: Ben Leff (American), Tracey Roberts (Louisville)

Jason Oh (UCLA), The Social Cost of Fundamental Tax Reform, 65 Tax L. Rev. ___ (2013)
Commenters: Randle Pollard (Indiana University, Business School), Itai Grinberg (Georgetown)

Tax Exempts

Philip T. Hackney (LSU), On Corporations, Honey Badgers, and the Rationale for Exempting Organizations from the Federal Income Tax
Commenters: Randle Pollard (Indiana University, Business School), Tracey Roberts (Louisvile)

Benjamin Leff (American), Tranche Investing in "Hybrid" Social Enterprises and Private Inurement
Commenters: Jason Oh (UCLA), Morgan Holcomb (Hamline)

Prior Junior Tax Scholars Workshops

• 2006 (Colorado) (Day 1, Day 2)
• 2007 (Boston University) (Day 1, Day 2)
• 2008 (NYU) (Day 1, Day 2)
• 2009 (Brooklyn) (Day 1, Day 2)
• 2010 (Notre Dame) (Day 1, Day 2)
• 2011 (UC-Irvine) (Day 1, Day 2)