The Internal Revenue Service's Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) announced today a settlement agreement with Michael C. Ormsby and David O. Thompson, in connection with a $31 million municipal bond issuance involving River Park Square in Spokane, Washington in 1998...
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Wills Trusts & Estates Prof Blog Self-Help Estate Planning: "In Get Yourself a Will: Here's a Way, USA Weekend, Nov. 30-Dec. 2, 2007, at 28, Sharon Epperson tauts the benefits of self-help estate planning techniques." (See also the post regarding...
The Treasury issued OTA Paper 100 on November 1, 2007. The paper, authored by David Joulfaian, claims to "shed light on the inner workings of the gift tax," by detailing its history, structure, and revenue effects. The Paper also points...
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Wall Street Journal Blogs Master the Universe? First Master the Tax Code. For those young associates and law students out there interested in rising to the top ranks of an elite investment banks, we just want to say two words...
The IRS released the fall 2007 issue of the Statistics of Income Bulletin on Friday, November 30, featuring data from 134.4 million individual income tax returns filed for tax year 2005. U.S. taxpayers reported $7.4 trillion of adjusted gross income...
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