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Thanks to a tip from Victor Fleischer, i just came across the following link to Senator Carl Levin's newly proposed Ending Corporate Fa...

My new article, The Optimal Relationship between Taxable Income and Financial Accounting Income: Analysis and a Proposal, is now available o...

This evening I attended the annual Tillinghast Lecture on international taxation at NYU Law School. The speaker was John Samuels of General...

Today at NYU I gave a lunchtime presentation, at one of our in-house faculty seminars, of my newly completed paper draft, "The Optimal ...

I just received a new variant of the various credit card scams (often claiming to be from Paypal or various banks) that arrive through e-mai...

An earlier post is largely critical of Senator Obama's new tax plan. But it's only fair to hold other candidates to a common standar...

The other day, playing tennis at Roosevelt Island, I was trying to close out a tough set on my serve. Trailing 3-5, I had gone up 6-5 and n...

Dick Cheney has an op-ed in today's WSJ, ostensibly rebutting Greenspan's criticism of the Bush budget record. The entire column is ...

I admittedly have a hard time getting interested in politically hypothetical tax reform plans, such as those announced by candidates who app...

Today I was merely in the audience (a question I asked aside) as 100 or so (!) NYU law students attended a panel on carried interests. Pane...

One alarming thing about being an academic is that so much of one's retirement saving is in the hands of the mega-organization, TIAA-CRE...

It was some months in the making, but I have finally completed a draft of my article, "The Optimal Relationship Between Taxable Income ...

Back to the carried interest panel in D.C. last Friday. An interesting starting point for me was the suggestion, made by a good friend ther...

Apparently, left-handed shootings by people with reddish hair, occurring between 7:30 and 11:15 in the morning, and where the bullet path su...

Okay. fine. Here is the bit where I was quoted in today's N.Y. Times about the carried interest issue: "'One of the funny thin...

I will be very briefly in D.C. this Friday (September 7), participating in an Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center-sponsored hearing on taxing ...

Upon reflection, I think I'm genuinely done with squash. Tennis is just much easier on my various joints and limbs. "It's okay...

The title of this post is a Captain Beefheart reference - let's see who's the first to identify it. I spent most of the last 4 days ...

Who will be named to replace Gonzalez? A friend e-mailed the suggestion that perhaps it will be Harriet Miers. But I have an even better i...

Not in Iraq, of course. But it's doing really well in Washington.