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Small businesses and drive the economy?

Taxprofblog points to research suggesting a tipping point about the notion that small businesses drive the economy: Martin A. Sullivan (Tax Analysts), New Research Weakens Case for Small Business Tax…

Corporate Profits Soaring Thanks to Record Unemployment

…lows as gov’t payouts rise. http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/income/2010-05-24-income-shifts-fr… 13. New York Times. Economix blog. Catherine Rampell. Nov. 23, 2010. Visualizing Booming Profits. http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/23/visualizing-booming-profits/ 14. $262 billion in equipment and software investment, calculated…

Greg Mankiw’s anti-tax arguments

by Linda Beale crossposted with Ataxingmatter Greg Mankiw’s anti-tax arguments [edits 3:00 pm] When academics write about our own experiences in op-eds and blog posts, we risk making a common…

SILOs –more action needed?

…AWG SILO Tax Shelter Case, TaxProf Blog (May 28, 2008) (dealing with the Ohio court’s decision in 2008-1 USTC 50,370, in favor of the IRS in a SILO case involving…

Truth in earning and lending

…For various links to stories on the Liechtenstein matter, see this TaxProf Blog posting. Makes you want to run out and trust these guys some more with our well being….