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Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
There is a bit of movement in this week’s list of the Top 5 Recent Tax Paper Downloads on SSRN, with a new paper debuting on the list at #5: 1. [288 Downloads] James Couzens, Andrew Mellon, the ‘Greatest Tax Suit in the History of the World,’ and Creation of… Go to Source Author: Paul [...]
Gerzog: Valuation Discounting and the Lottery Cases
Wendy C. Gerzog (Baltimore), Valuation Discounting and the Lottery Cases, 137 Tax Notes 917 (Nov. 19, 2012): The article describes the valuation discounting in [Dickerson v. Commissioner, T.C. Memo. 2012-60] and contrasts it with the discounting by circuit courts [Negron v. United States, 553 F.3d 1013 (6th Cir. 2009); Anthony… Go to Source Author: Paul [...]
Top 5 Tax
There is a bit of movement in this week’s list of the Top 5 Recent Tax Paper Downloads on SSRN, with a new #1 paper and a new paper debuting on the list at #5: 1. [251 Downloads] James Couzens, Andrew Mellon, the ‘Greatest Tax Suit in the History of… Go to Source Author: Paul [...]
Morse: A Corporate Offshore Profits Transition Tax
Susan C. Morse (UC-Hastings), A Corporate Offshore Profits Transition Tax, 91 N.C. L. Rev. ___ (2013): Congress might repeal the residual U.S. tax imposed when non-U.S. subsidiaries repatriate earnings to U.S. parent corporations. Repeal would raise the transition issue of how to tax the $1 trillion to $2 trillion of… Go to Source Author: Paul [...]
Pepperdine/Tax Analysts Symposium: Tax Advice for the Second Obama Administration
Registration is now open for our January 18, 2013 symposium on Tax Advice for the Second Obana Administration in Malibu: Introduction and Welcome Deanell Tacha (Dean, Pepperdine) Chris Bergin (President, Tax Analysts) Keynote Address: Michael Graetz (Columbia) Occupy the Tax Code: The Buffett Rule, the 1%, and the Fairness/Growth Divide… Go to Source Author: Paul [...]
Perkins Presents Salience and Sin: Designing Taxes in the New Sin Era at Washington U.
Rachelle Holmes Perkins (George Mason) presented Salience and Sin: Designing Taxes in the New Sin Era at Washington University as part of its Tax Colloquium Series hosted by Adam Rosenzweig: Tax salience reflects the extent to which consumers take into account the after-tax cost of a good or service prior… Go to Source Author: Paul [...]
Osofsky Reviews Faulhaber's Hypersalience and the Charitable Deduction
Leigh Osofsky (Miami), Hypersalience and and Why Understanding Behavorial Tax Law and Economics Means Understanding Tax (Jotwell) (reviewing Lilian V. Faulhaber (Boston University), The Hidden Limits of the Charitable Deduction: An Introduction to Hypersalience, 92 B.U. L. Rev. 1307 (2012)): [S]alience recently has become a hot topic in tax scholarship…. Go to Source Author: Paul [...]
Pratt: A Critique of Anti-Obesity Soda Taxes and Food Taxes
Katherine Pratt (Loyola-L.A.), A Constructive Critique of Public Health Arguments for Anti-Obesity Soda Taxes and Food Taxes, 87 Tul. L. Rev. 73 (2012): This Article constructively critiques the two arguments that public health advocates have made in support of anti-obesity soda taxes or junk food taxes. Part II discusses and… Go to Source Author: Paul [...]
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