Tax law from an academic angle — law school life, legal education, and the path to becoming a tax attorney.
Charles J. Sigerseth just won an A… or at least a nice note to his professor. Charles’ entry on the statute of limitations issue is one of two winning entries in my legal writing contest. Charles received his paralegal cert of graduation this year from Blackstone Career Institute and is now studying to take the…
That’s right, I said ‘Win an A in Tax Law.’ My popular contest for law and paralegal students is back. So let’s get right to the good stuff… Here’s how it works: simply write a guest post to be posted on taxgirl for Forbes.com about any hot tax policy issue. And I don’t mean a…
Our next tax trivia question is: Cristina Warthen (née Cristina Schultz), now married to Ask Jeeves founder David Warthen, is a Stanford Law School grad who grossed more than $300,000 working as a hooker in California under the name “Brazil.” She escaped prosecution for prostitution but admitted to hiding money from the taxing authorities by stashing funds…
VITA is the acronym for the IRS Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program which provides free tax help for qualifying taxpayers across the country. The program began in 1969 and has since grown into a popular program: last year, there were over 12,000 VITA sites across the country. VITA volunteers receive training to prepare basic tax…
The ABA Section of Taxation has announced the winners of its 10th Annual Law Student Tax Challenge: Wes Hill and Sims Rhyne III of Samford University School of Law were awarded first place in the J.D. Division. Judson Bryant and John Goodell of Northwestern University School of Law were awarded first place in the LL.M….
I woke up this morning determined to go for a run… until I saw that the temps, according to Accuweather, “felt like 5 degrees.” The wimp in me won over. In fact, it’s cold across most of the nation this morning which makes it a pretty good day to grab a cup of coffee and…
I love a good challenge, don’t you? The University of New Hampshire School of Law (formerly Franklin Pierce Law Center) hopes that you do. They’re hosting their first ever Intellectual Property Tax Challenge. Here’s how it works. JD and LLM students are encouraged to register now for the challenge that will address a complex intellectual…
The week started with an offer to move my blog over to a network (no thank you) and ended with a marriage proposal (also no thank you) – all in all, not a bad week. The one complaint I had was that, by turning down the latter, I missed my potential suitor’s offer to “set…
Over the weekend, I had the opportunity to chat with Marjorie Kornhauser, a professor at the Sandra Day O’Connor School of Law at Arizona State University about her Tax Literacy Project. It’s an ambitious project, for sure. Her plan is to make tax law more accessible (!) to the general public through a series of…
The Internal Revenue Service invites proposals for original papers for the 2010 IRS Research Conference. Topics can include tax compliance, taxpayer burden, improving tax administration, and the nature and behavior of the taxpayer population. You don’t have to be a tax pro to enter. Proposals are welcome from government and non-government researchers. One author from…