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May 17, 2013, 7:43 pm, 1095116
Terminating employees often brings angst to many company executives – fortunately it is an area where in-house counsel can provide guidance to decrease corporate risk and ensure that the process runs smoothly:
he decision to terminate an employee can give any employer anxiety, even if it is undoubtedly for the betterment ...
May 17, 2013, 3:44 pm, 1095017
AEI: The Tax Treatment of the Family, by Aspen Gorry & Sita Nataraj Slavov: In two recent cases, the U.S. Supreme Court considered constitutional challenges to the federal Defense of Marriage Act—which denies federal recognition of same-sex marriage—and to California’s Proposition 8, a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. Regardless of...
May 17, 2013, 3:44 pm, 1095016
Michael B. Lang (Chapman), Tax Malpractice: Issues and Avoidance, 54 Bloomberg BNA Tax Mgmt. Mem. ___ (2013): Despite considerable regulation of tax practitioners by both statutory rules and professional ethical standards, when a tax advisor mishandles a client’s tax work, whether because of incompetence, a conflict of interest or for...
May 17, 2013, 3:44 pm, 1095014
UC-Hastings hosts the Spring 2013 Northern California Tax Roundtable today with these papers: Heather Field (UC-Hastings), Tax Planning and the Ethical Tax Lawyer Commentator: Caroline Chen (Santa Clara) David Gamage (UC-Berkeley), On Double-Distortion Arguments, Distribution Policy, and the Optimal Tax Mix Commentator: Susie Morse (UC-Hastings) Stu Karlinsky (Pacific Rim Tax...
May 17, 2013, 3:44 pm, 1095015
Eric B. Rasmusen (Indiana University, Kelley School of Business), The Meaning of 'Value' for Gift and Estate Tax Donee Limitations in § 6324(B): An Amicus Brief for Marshall v. Commissioner: In 1995, J. Howard Marshall II made a gift to Elaine Marshall worth some $43 million at the time of...
May 17, 2013, 1:44 pm, 1094936
George K. Yin (Virginia), The Role of Nonpartisan Staff in the Legislative Process: This short paper explains why the value of nonpartisan staff in the legislative process may stem primarily from the staff’s responsibilities to serve a broad group of legislators with heterogeneous interests, rather than on the “nonpartisan” nature...
May 17, 2013, 1:43 pm, 1094935
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Ulrich Heimeshoff and Gordon J. Klein (both Heinrich-Heine-Universitat Dusseldorf) have a new paper on Bargaining power and local heroes. ABSTRACT: Bargaining Power of retailers is an important aspect of discourse in many industrialized countries, including...
May 17, 2013, 11:44 am, 1094858
Paul F. Kenney is a well-known Boston-area personal-injury lawyer and a partner in the law firm Kenney & Conley in Braintree, ...
May 17, 2013, 11:43 am, 1094856
Terminating employees often brings angst to many company executives – fortunately it is an area where in-house counsel can provide guidance to decrease corporate risk and ensure that the process runs smoothly:
he decision to terminate an employee can give any employer anxiety, even if it is undoubtedly for the betterment ...
May 17, 2013, 11:43 am, 1094857
Keeping up with e-discovery trends? Head over to CorpCounsel to read up on the latest from one of the market leaders:
Gabriela Baron, vice president for business development at Xerox Litigation Services, discusses big-picture e-discovery trends, including what clients are putting on their wish lists.
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May 17, 2013, 9:44 am, 1094791
for the 2014 AALS Annual Meeting to be held in New York, New York, January 2-5, 2014. Title of Program: The persistent societal habits of bullying, harassing, and excluding: Exploring the current legal and public policy issues at the forefront...
May 17, 2013, 9:43 am, 1094790
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Wanda Mimra (ETH Zurich, Switzerland), Alexander Rasch (Universitat zu Koln) and Christian Waibel (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) discuss Price competition and reputation in credence goods markets: Experimental evidence. ABSTRACT: In credence goods markets, experts have better...
May 17, 2013, 7:44 am, 1094716
The House Ways & Means Committee holds a hearing today on IRS Targeting of Conservative Groups: The hearing will focus on the IRS’s practice of discriminating against applicants for tax-exempt status based on the political leanings of the applicants. Steve Miller (Former Acting Commissioner, IRS) J. Russell George (Treasury Inspector...
May 17, 2013, 7:44 am, 1094714
White House Press Release: President Obama Appoints Daniel Werfel as Acting Commissioner of Internal Revenue White House Profile: Daniel Werfel IRS: Questions and Answers on 501(c) Organizations IRS: Approved Tax-Exempt Applications for Advocacy Organizations through May 9, 2013 Bloomberg: Ousted Acting IRS Head Faces Lawmaker Grilling in Scandal CNN: IRS...
May 17, 2013, 7:44 am, 1094715
New York Times Debate: Should 501(c)(4)’s Be Eliminated?: The IRS has been harshly criticized for singling out conservative organizations when it investigated which groups were legitimately applying for 501(c)(4) status, which makes them tax exempt, keeps donors confidential and allows some political activity. But should the 501(c)(4) status even exist?...
May 17, 2013, 5:44 am, 1094664
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May 17, 2013, 5:44 am, 1094663
New York Times DealBook: A Dickensian Delay at the IRS, by Victor Fleischer (Colorado; moving to San Diego): A plot device in Charles Dickens’s Bleak House follows the interminable case of Jarndyce v. Jarndyce through the English Court of Chancery. The litigation winds on for years until, finally, the costs...
May 17, 2013, 5:43 am, 1094662
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Dezso Szalay (University of Bonn) is Regulating a multiproduct and multitype monopolist. ABSTRACT: I study the optimal regulation of a firm producing two goods. The firm has private information about its cost of producing either...