Pittsburgh Hosts 2013 Tax Workshop Today

Pittsburgh hosts 2013 Tax Workshop today:

Panel #1:  Tax Regulation and Judicial Deference:

• Danshera Cords (Albany), “Let’s Get Together:” What Tax Should Learn About Collaborative Regulation Development
• Kristin E. Hickman (Minnesota), Précis: Treasury’s Retroactivity
• Steve R. Johnson (Florida), Auer/Seminole Rock Deference in the Tax Court
• Shannon McCormack (UC-Davis), Tax Abuse According to Whom?

Panel #2:  Tax Litigation, Lawyers & Ethics:

• Charlotte Crane (Northwestern), Maintaining Class Actions in Tax Cases: Why Have Federal Litigants Been So Much Less Successful?
• David J. Herzig (Valparaiso), Justice for All: The IRS Reimagined
• Heather M. Field (UC-Hastings), “Loophole” is Not a Four-Letter Word: Tax Planning and the Ethical Tax Lawyer
• Leandra Lederman (Indiana), Which Cases Settle? A Large-Scale Empirical Study of U.S. Tax Court Cases

Panel #3:  Tax Legislation and Tax Compliance:

• Michelle Drumbl (Washington & Lee), Those Who Know, Those Who Don’t, and Those Who Won’t: Balancing Complexity, Sophistication, and Accuracy on Tax Returns 
• William E. Foster (Washburn), Partisan Politics and Income Tax Rates
• Andy Grewal (Iowa), The Congressional Revenue Service
• Shu-Yi Oei (Tulane), Taxing in the Shadow of Bankruptcy Law: A Collections Defense of Tax Priority
• John Plecnik (Cleveland State), Officers under the Appointments Clause