Saturday: This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts The IRS Tried To Crack Down On Rich People Using An 'Abusive' Tax Deduction. It Hasn’t Gone So Well. Harvard Law
Students Avoid Applying For Clerkships With Trump-Appointed Judges Certified Professional Employer Organizations And Tax Liability Shifting: Assessing The First Two... [...]
January 18, 2020 was Darren Bush Day in Houston Texas, in honor of the University of Houston law professor's third degree black belt in Northern Shaolin/Northern Praying Mantis
King Fu: [...]
I teach my students this rule: “always take the reimbursement.” Last week’s case of Daniel Alan Near and Denise Frances Mayhugh v. Commissioner, T.C. Memo. 2020-10 (Jan.
14, 2020) (Judge Kerrigan) reinforces the soundness of that rule. There, the Tax Court held that Mr. [...]
Wall Street Journal, In Florida, Homeowners Come for the Weather and Stay for the Tax Relief: There’s a way for rich homeowners to potentially shave tens of thousands of
dollars from their tax bills. They can get that same savings the next year and the following years as well. [...]
Bloomberg Businessweek, Why MBAs Are Thriving Everywhere but America: At a glance the MBA might appear to be in trouble. Applications worldwide to advanced business programs
dropped 6.9% this year, according to the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), which administers the GMAT test, a key benchmark for prospective students. [...]
Chronicle of Higher Education op-ed: Why I Won’t Let My Classes Be Recorded, by John Villasenor (UCLA): In early January, I received an email message from an audio-visual
coordinator at the UCLA School of Law asking whether I wanted my spring-semester class to be recorded. [...]
Bloomberg, PG&E’s $1.7 Billion Fire Settlement Could Mean Big Tax Break: PG&E’s $1.68 billion settlement agreement with California over wildfires sparked by its power lines
could save the bankrupt utility about $470 million in taxes. Nearly all the wildfire recovery and prevention work included in the agreement should be deductible... [...]
Wall Street Journal op-ed: The Leadership Case for Saving High-School Football, by Sam Walker (author, The Captain Class: The Hidden Force That Creates the World’s Greatest
Teams (2018)): For the first time in 30 years, high-school sports participation declined. [...]
There is a bit of movement in this week's list of the Top 5 Recent Tax Paper Downloads, with a new papers debuting on the list at #5: [689 Downloads] Double Counting Accounting:
How Much Profit of Multinational Enterprises Is Really in Tax Havens?, by Jennifer Blouin (Penn) & Leslie... [...]
Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: A Practical Interpretation Of The Penalty Approval Statute § 6751 Tallahassee Democrat, Florida Bill Would Stop Adelson
Family From Preventing Dan Markel's Parents’ Access To Their Grandchildren Mary Bowman (Arizona State), Legal Writing Faculty Bear A Disproportionate Share Of 'Office [...]
