Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist has sent a letter and formal application to the Treasury Department requesting $700 billion from the TARP Capital Purchase Program to fund the following tax cuts: Cut the corporate income tax rate from…

John A. Swain (Arizona) & Walter Hellerstein (Georgia) have published Town Fair Tire and the Silliness of the Physical Presence Rule for Use Tax Collection Nexus, 50 State Tax Notes 447 (Nov. 17, 2008). Here is the Introduction: It is…

The New York State Bar Association has issued several tax reports: Good Faith Compliance with Section 409A (1170) Rev. Rul. 64-182 and the Endowment Size of Certain Public Charities (1169) Using a Private Trust Company as Trustee of Trusts with…

Rita de la Feria (Oxford University) presents The Pitfalls of Accepted VAT Wisdom: Lessons from the EU Experience at Connecticut today as part of its Tax Lecture Series. Here is the abstract: Initially spreading throughout Europe, VAT remained confined to…

The National Association of Women Lawyers today released the results of its third annual National Survey on the Status of Women in Law Firms. The report finds significant disparities between men and women in the number and compensation of partners…

Texas A&M International University Professor Loye Young was fired for this blog post. The Daily Texan Inside Higher Ed Mr. Young defends himself here, here, here, and here. (Hat Tip: Chaz Perin.)

As the United States awaits to see how President-elect Obama implements his campaign promise to increase the tax burden on those earning more than $250,000 per year, KPMG has released a new study (Individual Income Tax Rate Survey 2008) documenting…

Take this two-minute survey on how you think the recession will affect the legal profession. Results will be published in the January issue of the ABA Journal.

David Cay Johnston has published Taxes, Dividends, and Patriotism, 121 Tax Notes 865 (Nov. 17, 2008): There is a better way to solve our national financial crisis than Washington’s borrowing bender. A better solution lies in tax policy. … [W]here…