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Stanford Hosts Northern California Tax Roundtable Todaytag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c4eab53ef0120a6bb6ca8970b2009-11-20T15:30:00-05:002009-11-20T20:48:22Z2009-11-20T20:30:00ZStanford hosts the Fall 2009 Northern California Tax Roundtable today with these papers and commentary: David M. Hasen (Penn State), Financial Options in the Real World: An Economic and Tax Analysis Commentator: David S. Gamage (UC-Berkeley) David S. Gamage (UC-Davis) & Darien Shanske (UC-Hastings), Shedding Some Light on Hidden Taxes:...Paul CaronConferencesTaxLawsky Presents Declining Marginal Utility and Tax Policy Today at Virginiatag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c4eab53ef012875bd227b970c2009-11-20T15:15:00-05:002009-11-20T20:15:00Z2009-11-20T20:15:00ZSarah B. Lawsky (George Washington; visiting at Virginia) presents On the Edge: Declining Marginal Utility and Tax Policy at Virginia today as part of its Faculty Workshop Series. Here is the abstract: Tax policy and scholarship generally assume that income has declining marginal utility (that is, that the next dollar...Paul CaronColloquiaTaxConference on Empirical Legal Studies at USCtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c4eab53ef0120a6a56f2e970b2009-11-20T14:00:00-05:002009-11-20T19:00:00Z2009-11-20T19:00:00ZThe two-day Fourth Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies kicks off today at USC. The tax panel is chaired by Scott Altman (USC): Dhammika Dharmapala (University of Illinois College of Law), C. Fritz Foley (Harvard Business School) & Kristin J. Forbes (MIT, Sloan School of Management), Watch What I Do,...Paul CaronConferencesTaxThe 70% Discount on Goldman's $500m Gifttag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c4eab53ef0120a6bbdd8e970b2009-11-20T13:24:06-05:002009-11-20T18:24:43Z2009-11-20T18:24:06ZSmart Money, The 70% Discount on Goldman's $500M Gift, by Diana Ransom: It’s been dubbed the apology with a half-billion-dollar gift attached. In an attention-grabbing move this week, Goldman Sachs said it would launch a $500 million initiative to help small businesses with Warren Buffett as a key adviser, an announcement...Paul CaronNewsTaxTough Week for 'Girls Gone Wild' Founder Joe Francis: $34m Tax Lien, Mocked by Stanford Bandtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c4eab53ef0120a6bb3857970b2009-11-20T13:00:00-05:002009-11-20T18:00:00Z2009-11-20T18:00:00ZFollowing up on my prior post: the IRS has filed a $34 million tax lien against Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis', two weeks after U.S. District Judge S. James Otero sentenced Francis to 301 days time served following his guilty plea to two misdemeanor counts of filing false tax...Paul CaronGender Diversity in the Law Stories Seriestag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c4eab53ef0120a6b8b860970b2009-11-20T06:05:00-05:002009-11-20T13:31:42Z2009-11-20T11:05:00ZFollowing up on Wednesday's post, Foundation Press Publishes 30th Law Stories Book, in which I expressed my pride in serving as series editor and helping to recruit 50 incredibly talented faculty to edit books in the series: Tax Prof Bridget J. Crawford (Pace) highlights another point of pride in this...Paul CaronBook ClubLegal Education11th Circuit Hears Oral Argument Today in Wesley Snipes' Tax Appealtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c4eab53ef0120a6a7a496970c2009-11-20T06:00:00-05:002009-11-20T13:24:03Z2009-11-20T11:00:00ZThe 11th Circuit hears oral argument at 9:00 a,m, in actor Wesley Snipes' appeal of his conviction on three misdemeanor tax fraud counts. The panel is Judge Stanley Marcus (a "movie buff') and Senior Circuit Judges R. Lanier Anderson (a former tax lawyer) and Peter Fay.Paul CaronCelebrity Tax LoreNew CasesTaxSenate Finance Committee Meets Today on Brainard and Mundaca Nominationstag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c4eab53ef0120a6b8c3e2970b2009-11-20T05:12:00-05:002009-11-20T10:12:00Z2009-11-20T10:12:00ZFollowing up on Wednesday's post, Senate to Move Forward on Lael Brainard's Nomination Despite Tax Problems: the Senate Finance Committee meets today to vote on her nomination to be Undersecretary of the Treasury for International Affairs. Following up on Tuesday's post, Mundaca Responds to Senate Finance Committee Questions: the Senate...Paul CaronCongressional NewsTaxFishman: Stealth Preemption -- The IRS's Nonprofit Corporate Governance Initiativetag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c4eab53ef0120a6a69620970c2009-11-20T05:00:00-05:002009-11-20T10:00:00Z2009-11-20T10:00:00ZJames J. Fishman (Pace) has posted Stealth Preemption: The IRS's Nonprofit Corporate Governance Initiative, 29 Va. Tax Rev. ___ (2010), on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The IRS, the primary federal regulator of charities, has initiated a corporate governance initiative. The intervention by the IRS into an area traditionally the...Paul CaronScholarshipTaxTIGTA: 372,000 Taxpayers Erroneously Claimed Education Tax Creditstag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c4eab53ef0120a6b8956f970b2009-11-20T04:00:00-05:002009-11-20T09:00:00Z2009-11-20T09:00:00ZThe Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration yesterday reported that 372,000 taxpayers erroneously claimed education tax credits in 2006 and 2007, totaling $532 million (an average of over $1,400 improper credit per taxpayer). Improvements Are Needed in the Administration of Education Credits and Reporting Requirements for Educational Institutions (2009-30-141).Paul CaronIRS NewsTaxMore 'Fiscal Blood on the Tax Tracks'tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c4eab53ef0120a6b8a69e970b2009-11-20T00:40:00-05:002009-11-20T05:40:00Z2009-11-20T05:40:00ZFollowing up on my previous post, NY Times: LILOs & SILOSs Cause "Fiscal Blood on the Tracks": Business Week, Wall Street Plays Hardball: Across the nation, local governments and related public entities, already reeling from the recession, face another fiscal crisis: billions of dollars in fees owed to UBS, Goldman...Paul CaronNewsTaxGalle Receives Honorable Mention in AALS Scholarly Paper Competitiontag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c4eab53ef0120a6b7895e970b2009-11-19T16:02:00-05:002009-11-19T21:04:25Z2009-11-19T21:02:00ZBrian D. Galle (Florida State) received honorable mention in the 2010 AALS Scholarly Paper Competition for his paper, Foundation or Empire? The Role of Charity in a Federal System, 88 Tex. L. Rev. ___ (2010). Brian will present the paper at the AALS Annual Meeting on Friday, January 8, at...Paul CaronLegal EducationTaxTax ProfsDesai Presents Investor Taxation in Open Economies Today at Columbiatag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c4eab53ef012875aaf7a3970c2009-11-19T15:30:00-05:002009-11-19T20:30:00Z2009-11-19T20:30:00ZMihir A. Desai (Harvard Business School) presents Investor Taxation in Open Economies (with Dhammika Dharmapala (Illinois)) at Columbia today as part of its Tax Policy Colloquium Series. Here is the abstract: Despite the rise of foreign portfolio investment (FPI) as a dominant international capital flow, existing international tax policy norms...Paul CaronColloquiaTax17 Tax Increases in Senate Health Care Bill = $370.2 Billiontag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c4eab53ef0120a6b77467970b2009-11-19T14:49:06-05:002009-11-20T00:27:31Z2009-11-19T19:49:06ZThe Joint Committee on Taxation has published a list of the 17 tax increases in the Senate health care bill, which are estimated to raise $370.2 billion in revenues over ten years: 40% excise tax on health coverage in excess of $8,500/$23,000 ($149.1 billion) Employer W-2 reporting of value of...Paul CaronCongressional NewsTaxMadoff Presents Immortality and the Law: The Rising Power of the American Dead Today at BCtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c4eab53ef012875b90503970c2009-11-19T13:53:59-05:002009-11-19T21:09:19Z2009-11-19T18:53:59ZRay D. Madoff (Boston College) presents her forthcoming book, Immortality and the Law: The Rising Power of the American Dead (Yale University Press, 2010), at Boston College today as part of its Legal History Roundtable. Here is the publisher's description: This book takes a riveting look at how the law...Paul CaronBook ClubColloquiaScholarshipTax