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July 23, 2008, 2:41 pm, 324257
Wall Street Journal: A Portrait of Art as a Tax Deduction, by Mike Spector: Jon and Mary Shirley used to give artwork by the likes of Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Alberto Giacometti to the Seattle Art Museum. No longer....
July 23, 2008, 2:31 pm, 324256
Joe Francis, founder of the Girls Gone Wild video series, pleaded not guilty to two counts of federal tax evasion, saying he was a victim by the IRS's whistleblower program. From Web CPA: "Girls Gone Wild" Founder Fights Tax Charges:...
July 23, 2008, 3:09 pm, 324254
I previously blogged (links below) the sordid tale of James Colliton, a former tax lawyer at Cravath who pled guilty to statutory rape and patronizing a prostitute. Mr. Colliton has sued American Express for $4 million in damages for divulging...
July 23, 2008, 2:30 pm, 324255
Wall Street Journal: Richest Americans See Their Income Share Grow, by Jesse Drucker: In a new sign of increasing inequality in the U.S., the richest 1% of Americans in 2006 garnered the highest share of the nation's adjusted gross income...
July 23, 2008, 12:42 pm, 324178
Wall Street Journal: Wiping Out Your Tax Debt Gets Tougher; IRS Tightens Rules, as Firm That Acts as Middleman Settles Cases With 18 States, by Tom Herman: It's getting harder for taxpayers in debt with the IRS to negotiate a...
July 23, 2008, 10:55 am, 324088
Op-ed in next week's National Law Journal: Say "Enough" to "U.S. News," by Gary J. Simson, Dean at Case Western (which fell ten places in the U.S. News overall rankings last year to #63): Many law school deans are upset...
July 23, 2008, 6:00 am, 323951
The Tax Policy Center hosts a lunchtime program today on Dueling Tax Plans: What Would McCain and Obama Do? Senior policy advisers Austan Goolsbee of the Obama campaign and Douglas Holtz-Eakin of the McCain campaign will make the case for...
July 23, 2008, 4:01 am, 323909
Nancy J. Knauer (Temple) has posted two tax papers on SSRN: How Charitable Organizations Influence Federal Tax Policy: "Rent-Seeking" Charities or Virtuous Politicians?, 1996 Wis. L. Rev. 971 Reinventing Government: The Promise of Institutional Choice and Government Created Charitable Corporations,...
July 23, 2008, 5:28 am, 323907
Wendy C. Gerzog (Baltimore) has published Tax Court FLP Confusion: Mirowski, 120 Tax Notes 263(7/21/08). Here is the abstract: The article critiques the Tax Court's latest family limited partnership case, Mirowski [T.C. Memo. 2008-74 (3/26/08)], as well as the court's...
July 23, 2008, 5:01 am, 323908
James Bamberg (Attorney-Adviser to U.S. Tax Court Judge Mary Ann Cohen) has published A Different Point of Venue: The Plainer Meaning of Section 7482(b)(1), 61 Tax Law. 445 (2008). (The Article won first prize in the 2007 Tannenwald Tax Writing...