Doron Narotzki (Akron; Google Scholar) & Melanie McCoskey (Akron; Google Scholar) received the Best Paper Award at last week's 33rd Annual American Taxation Association Midyear
Meeting for their article, Code Section 304: The Gift That Keeps on Giving, 17 ATA J. [...]
Leslie Book (Villanova), Tax Administration and Racial Justice: The Illegal Denial Of Tax Based Pandemic Relief To The Nation's Incarcerated, 72 S.C. L. Rev. ___ (2021) (Symposium
on Taxation, Finance, And Racial (in)Justice): In the midst of a devastating pandemic that would sicken millions, kill hundreds of thousands, and cause... [...]
Jeremy Bearer-Friend (George Washington) presents Tax Without Cash virtually at Duke today as part of its Tax Policy Workshop Series: This Article documents and evaluates tax
obligations paid without cash, referred to as “in-kind tax paying.” Such forms of tax paying include paying federal income taxes by remitting a used,... [...]
The winner of the International Fiscal Association's 2020 International Tax Student Writing Competition is Shay Moyal (S.J.D. 2020, Michigan; Davis Polk & Wardwell, New York),
Don’t Stop the Beat, 166 Tax Notes Fed. 721 (Feb. 3, 2020). Faculty Sponsor: Reuven Avi-Yonah The recent addition to the Internal Revenue Code, the... [...]
Post and Courier, Conflict Surrounds Charleston School of Law Land Deal, With Nearly $13M at Stake: When Charleston sold land to the for-profit Charleston School of Law 16
years ago, at a discount, the plan was for CSOL to build a school there, not flip the property to a hotel... [...]
Following up on my previous posts: NY Times: Economics, Dominated By White Men, Is Roiled By Black Lives Matter WSJ: Economics Profession Turns Attention To Its ‘Race Problem’
The ABA Section of Civil Rights and Social Justice hosts a free webinar today at 3:00 PM ET on #BlackEconomistsMatter: Economic Justice... [...]
Chronicle of Higher Education, Why Would Iowa Want to Kill Tenure?: Iowa’s Republican-controlled legislature is considering a bill to eliminate tenure at the state’s three
public universities — Iowa State University, the University of Iowa, and the University of Northern Iowa. [...]
Bloomberg, The Corporate Tax Revolution is Coming—Are We Ready?: Creating a global solution for the taxation of the digital economy is right up there with finding an instant
cure for climate change—seemingly impossible. Nonetheless, this has been a primary focus of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) for... [...]
From Leandra Lederman (Indiana) and Allison Christians (McGill): 1-liners are due on Twitter by this Sunday, February 28. Prior TaxProf Blog coverage: Allison Christians And
Lederman Start YouTube Series Break Into Tax (BiT) Christians & Lederman: Should You Get A Tax LLM? [...]
Brian Galle (Georgetown; Google Scholar) presents Making Money: Central Banks, Seigniorage, and the Fiscal System (with Yair Listokin (Yale; Google Scholar)) virtually at Toronto
today as part of its James Hausman Tax Law and Policy Workshop Series: Conventional economic wisdom holds that governments cannot pay their bills by printing money.... [...]
