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Brookings Symposium On Business Tax Reform
Brookings Seminar on Organisation Tax Reform: Alan Auerbach (UC-Berkeley), Demystifying the Destination-Based Money Circulation Tax Martin Feldstein (Harvard), Options for Corporate Tax Reform, 2017 Gita Gopinath (Harvard), A Macro Perspective on Border Taxes James Hines (Michigan), Company Tax Burdens and Tax Reform The United States corporate tax rate is among …
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Who Benefits From Corporate Tax Cuts?
FactCheck.org, Who Benefits From Corporate Tax Cut?: In promoting for a business tax cut, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin overemphasizes the consensus when he states “most economists believe that over 70 percent of business taxes are paid for by the employees.” In fact, who bears the impact of corporate taxes– …
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Bainbridge: Is Tax Avoidance Immoral? — A Catholic Perspective
Stephen Bainbridge (UCLA), Is Tax Avoidance Immoral? A Catholic Lay Viewpoint: My pal and UCLA colleague Steven Bank [presented] a really interesting paper … at a faculty colloquium, entitled When Did Tax Avoidance End up being Respectable? … I’m neither a tax attorney nor a theologian, but this got me to questioning …
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Law Grad’s GivnGo App Allows You To Round Up Your Purchases For Charity
Among my former tax students, Arian Behboodi (J.D & M.B.A. 2017, Pepperdine), has actually created an extremely cool app, GivnGo. The app permits a user to sign up a credit or debit card and the app assemble your purchases to the next dollar and distributes the modification to the charity …
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ABA Tax Section Releases 17th Annual Law Student Tax Challenge Problem
The ABA Tax Section has launched the J.D. Problem (rules; entry form) and LL.M. Problem (guidelines; entry kind) for the 17th Yearly Law Student Tax Obstacle: An alternative to standard moot court competitors, the Law Student Tax Difficulty asks two-person groups of students to fix an advanced and intricate business …
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The IRS Scandal, Day 1584: Trump’s DOJ Won’t Pursue Criminal Charges Against Lois Lerner
Letter from Stephen Boyd (Assistant Chief law officer, U.S. Department of Justice) to Kevin Brady (Chair, Home Ways & Means Committee) & Peter Roskan (Chair, House Ways & Way Committee, Subcommittee on Tax Policy) (Sept. 8, 2017) ABC News, Trump DOJ Declines to Charge Key Figure in Internal Revenue Service Scandal Breitbart, Jeff …
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Weekly SSRN Tax Article Review And Roundup
Today, Sloan Speck (Colorado) examines a new work by Lee Anne Fennell and Richard McAdams (Chicago), Inverted Theories. Since the early 1960s, the interdisciplinary turn in legal scholarship has been marked by academic attorneys’ engagement with, and adoption of, theoretical work from economics, anthropology, and approach, among other fields … TaxProf Blog site
Kleinbard: The Right Tax At The Right Time
Edward Kleinbard (USC), The Right Tax at the Correct time, 20 Fla. Tax Rev. ___(2017): The companion paper to this (Capital Tax in an Age of Inequality, 90 S. Cal. L. Rev. 593 (2017)) argues that a moderate flat-rate (proportional) earnings tax on capital enforced and gathered each year has …
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Hemel Presents In Defense Of The State And Local Tax Deduction Today At Boston College
Daniel Hemel (Chicago) provides Easy on the SALT: In Defense of the Reduction for State and Local Taxes at Boston College today as part of its Tax Policy Workshop Series hosted by Jim Repetti, Diane Ring, and Shu Yi Oei: Congressional Republicans and Trump administration authorities have stated that they …
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The 100 Most Influential People In Tax And Accounting
I am honored to be consisted of on the list of Accounting Today’s 100 Many Influential People in Tax and Accounting for the twelfth successive year: Not only is Caron’s blog site among the most essential in tax– it hit an alltime high of 1.5 million page views a month …
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